If you’ve been to the cinema in the past few months, specifically to watch a horror film, you might have seen an intriguing teaser for Zach Cregger’s sophomore film, Weapons, in which a child’s voice recalls the night that 17 children – all from the same third grade class – disappeared in the small town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania. At 2.17am, they silently...
During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing — and perhaps funniest — snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.” One of the new features...
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Tesla is breaking up the team behind its Dojo supercomputer, ending the automaker’s play at developing in-house chips for driverless technology, according to Bloomberg. Dojo’s lead, Peter Bannon, is leaving the company, and the remaining team members will be reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla, per Bloomberg’s reporting, which cited anonymous sources. The disbanding of Tesla’s...
A glimpse of a planet in its star’s habitable zone — the ‘just right’ region where life could flourish — has astronomers reeling. The smudgy-looking gas planet is circling Alpha Centauri A, the brightest member of a triplet of stars strewn just 4 light years, or 1.4 parsecs, from Earth. And it could be orbiting at a record-breaking proximity to...
Timothy White/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty ImagesDean Cain starred in Superman TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman between 1993 and 1997Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain has announced he is planning to join the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE.In an interview on Wednesday, Cain, who is already a sworn law enforcement officer, said,...
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- 8News got a visit from a special guest on Thursday to talk about the upcoming 7th Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament hosted by a local sorority chapter. 8News anchors Autumn Childress and Delaney Hall were joined by Annette McFarland, president of the Chesterfield Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. to talk about the event....
(RNS) — Awdah Hathaleen, a well-known West Bank Palestinian activist shot and killed by an Israeli settler on July 28, was buried Thursday (Aug. 7), after 10 days of negotiations between the family and the Israeli army and police over funeral arrangements. Only about 200 people were able to attend the early morning funeral, after the military closed off Hathaleen’s...
Astronomers have observed an explosion in space that is pushing back against and influencing the baby star which triggered the explosion in the first place. If explosions like this one are common around young stars, then the young stars and their planets are exposed to a harsher environment than previously thought. Stars and their associated planetary systems are formed from...
University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in fact the remnant of two stars merging -- a rare stellar discovery revealed through Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet observations of carbon in the star's hot atmosphere. White dwarfs are the dense cores left behind when stars exhaust their fuel and collapse. They are Earth-sized stellar...
