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Oh, and thats not all. The newMagic KeyboardandApple Pencilcould push the iPads versatility far beyondeven a MacBook Air. Why is that significant? With what may be Apple’s best display yet, the iPad plus Magic Keyboard might have all the functions ‘just like a MacBook.’Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo Because OLED screens are notoriously some of the best for great contrast and deep, deep blacks. On HDR, Apple says youll manage to get 1,600 nits of peak brightness....

By the time we got to actually do Furiosa, best part of a decade had gone by. And particularly I saw Gemini Manand its just, all I was looking at was the technology. I wasnt looking at the performance. Image: Warner Bros. I thought, We cant do this, guys. This is someone who goes from 10 to 18, he said. [This format worked for the story] I wanted to tell because it was different than Fury Road....

You officially know everything there is to know about the Pixel 8aand this time, itsnot based on rumors! Google revealed the details behind its next mid-tier smartphone, the $500Pixel 8a. Now, take a look at thePixel 8a. The Pixel 8a in Aloe.Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo I went hands-on with the machine at Google HQ. Here are my first impressions of Googles mid-range release. Its practically everything you could want in an affordable smartphone, provided what you want comes directly from Google....

A new Magic Keyboard case will seal the deal on the tablet-as-a-laptop experience. News from the future, delivered to your present. Meta Pissed Off Everyone With Poorly Redacted Docs Meta is being very transparent on accident. Gif: Apple Apple, Are You Okay? I need Apple to blink once for yes and twice for no, because it’s getting weird.

Living creatures dont live forever but ideas can. Apes as they are wouldnt exist without Caesarbut in Kingdom, most dont even know who Caesar was. It was that idea of ideas and beliefs being carried across generations thatwas crucial to the films director. Noa and Raka in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.Image: Fox That was the interesting idea because of the time jump, Kingdom director Wes Ball told io9....

Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. Thefindingswere published this week in the journal Nature. Venus and Mars are two possible ends of the spectrum of planetary habitability. An artist’s impression of the hydrogen atoms, orange, escaping into space while leaving behind carbon monoxide molecules, blue and purple.Illustration: Aurore Simonnet/LASP/CU Boulder Early on in Venus history, the planet may have lost a lot of its water through atmospheric escape....

An undisclosed number of years later, she has had the chance to live and grow older. Instead of doing this by violence, lets do it by changing people hearts and minds and showing compassion. Its a shift in perspective that gives Barriss an opportunity to be explored further in Star Wars future. Screenshot: Lucasfilm Star Wars: Tales of the Empire isstreaming on Disney+. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present....

Microsoftdeployed a generative AI model on Thursday forU.S. intelligence agenciesto analyze top-secret information,Bloomberg reports. You dont want it to learn on the questions that youre asking and then somehow reveal that information. Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP (Getty Images) While most AI models learn from files uploaded into them, this GPT-4 spy model will not. Last year, the Central Intelligence Agencyrolled out its own ChatGPT-style AI toolto sift through mounds of public information....

NASAplays nicely with privately ownedSpaceX, but is that something to be concerned about? And so I have no concerns. This isnt the first time the NASA director and former Florida senator has expressed similar sentiments. Elon Musk, multi millionaire, rocket scientist, Tesla and Space X founder and the man who inspired Tony Stark’s character in Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man” at his desk March 19, 2004 in El Segundo, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPhoto: Paul Harris (Getty Images)...

TheNintendo Switch 2is real. But Nintendo Japans big boss has finally offered us the measliest of official morsels. In an overnight tweet, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa spilled the beans on the next switch. The next Nintendo Switch could be slightly bigger and more powerful, but that’s all been based on rumors, leaks, and speculation.Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo Before you get too excited, Nintendo ends its fiscal year in March....

But now, there are two: im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot and im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot. These models exhibited the same GPT-4 level capabilities, with some saying theyre even better than the original. These models are even more fleeting than the first gpt2-chatbot. Photo: Steve Jennings (Getty Images) Most AI models on LMSYS you’re free to select from a dropdown menu. However, the only way to access im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot and im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot is by navigating toLMSYS Chatbot Arena (battle). There you could enter a prompt and hope one of the chatbots comes up randomly....

Those aforementioned specials broadcast simultaneously on the Disney streamer alongside their terrestrial broadcast on the BBC in the UK. This shouldnt be a surprise to anyone. But thats me, thats unashamedly me! Image: BBC I was excited by the chance to work at this level, which I never had done before. Ive worked with America, Ive worked with HBO. Ive worked with American producers. Image: BBC So, I have the experience to come in and take that work, but it was all exciting....

The Big Four are the beneficiaries in this new normal. American consumers are the long-term losers. Originally, Spirit had beentargeted by fellow low-cost airline Frontier, but shareholders went withJetBlues takeover offerinstead. A Spirit Airlines corporate signPhoto: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Christie had something to say about that, too. But our shareholders did not listen. But now that thats over, this is a chance for us to really move things along quickly....