Erik Wernquist is recognized, and rightly blamed, for unleashing the animated sensation Crazy Frog to an unsuspecting world in 2009. A frenetic frog zipping through cityscapes has become an iconic visual of that time (how was that 14 years ago!?), …
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Lees meerIt’s been a tumultuous decade but Rick Riordan is finally all in again on Percy Jackson and Hollywood. The creator of the popular book franchise was famously unimpressed about how Fox treated his characters with its two movie adaptations, 2010's Per…
Lees meerA sweeping analysis of European and Asian genomes over the last 40,000 years reveals when and how some genetic exchange occurred between Homo sapiens and our closest cousins, Homo neanderthalensis. It also shows how the Neanderthals’ genetic footpri…
Lees meerYouTube introduced a dedicated news-watching experience to help viewers across 40 countries find the latest stories from reputable sources, the company announced on Wednesday. The aim is to make reliable news more readily accessible with two added f…
Lees meerThe Internal Revenue Service will offer a pilot run of its free, electronic tax filing service, called Direct File, in thirteen states for the 2024 tax season.Read more...
Lees meerWhen The Hunger Games movie came out in 2012, the world was set on fire. Jennifer Lawrence became a superstar, the books stayed on bestseller lists for months, and another three films were quickly announced. The prequel story based on the newly rele…
Lees meerAfter rumors began to swirl that Sam Altman’s OpenAI tapped Jony Ive on a secret piece of hardware, the company’s wunderkind CEO says he has no plans to compete with the smartphone market.Read more...
Lees meerAn experimental gene therapy that uses a modified herpes virus shows promise as a brain cancer treatment, according to new research. The Phase I study found evidence that the virus could safely induce an immune response that attacked the often-fata…
Lees meerThe best time-travel movie you haven’t seen yet is coming in early 2024. io9 can confirm that the North American rights to River, Junta Yamaguchi’s follow-up to the 2021 hit Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, have been picked up by Cineverse with the …
Lees meerEarlier this year Netflix revealed that the second season of Dead End: Paranormal Park—the long-in-the-works adaptation of Hamish Steele’s supernatural comic series DeadEndia—would be its last, leaving the story of Barney, Norma, and their friends a…
Lees meerEveryone knows (or may have had experience being) the colleague or classmate who’s taken the easy route on an assignment knowing someone else will swoop in to save the day. New research suggests that the same phenomena, which psychologists call “so…
Lees meerOur quickly warming world is losing many signs of winter—once snowy mountain tops aren’t as frosty tipped, glaciers are disappearing, and sea ice at the poles is melting at alarming rates. But new research outlines a small reason for optimism. Scien…
Lees meerThose hoping to see some of Activision Blizzard’s biggest titles make their way to Xbox Game Pass will have to wait just a little while longer.Read more...
Lees meerAn Austin-based startup called Blackdot wants to bring modern robotics to an ancient practice: Tattooing. The company plans to begin piercing customers’ skin with ink soon using what they are calling the “world’s first automatic tattooing device.” T…
Lees meerNvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Foxconn CEO Young Liu unveiled AI factories at the fourth annual Hon Hai Tech Day Tuesday. These data centers will not only build Foxconn’s newest electric vehicles but also design the software that powers the fleet of se…
Lees meerOne of the most exciting aspects of a new Indiana Jones film being released was the realization there would be new merch. Over the years, Indy has had plenty of merch, from toys and props to sleeping bags and bed sheets, but he hasn’t had anything m…
Lees meerAccording to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a new, higher-end iMac with a mini-LED 32-inch display is likely going to be released in 2025.Read more...
Lees meerNew research appears to provide a long-sought answer about the mysterious cicadas that emerge after years in the ground: do they eat during the brief time they spend as adults before dying? The study found evidence of plant DNA in the guts of some a…
Lees meerX, formerly called Twitter, launched its “Not a Bot” beta Tuesday, which charges new accounts a $1 annual fee to tweet and retweet. The initial test applies to new accounts created in New Zealand and the Philippines to allegedly “combat bots and sca…
Lees meerThe marketplace of the internet has turned into a game of Russian roulette as platforms providing everything from household goods to airline tickets are becoming less trustworthy with the rise of fake reviews. Now, the heavy hitters of online commer…
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