Early Reviewers of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed

Its an expensive gear, to be sure, even for something Humane describes as your second brain. Thats limited to T-Mobile, though Humane does promise more telecom connectivity overseas with SK Telecom and SoftBank. The gadget itself is powered with its own OS, dubbed Cosmos. Humane’s AI Pin is reportedly a well-built and sturdy device, but its software is nowhere near what was initially promised.Image: Humane Humane has pledged that some AI works on-gadget while more processing is handled in the cloud....

April 11, 2024 · 2 min · 426 words · Emily Pennington

Edgar Wright Will Direct Glen Powell in Stephen King AdaptationThe Running Man

The announcement was made at CinemaCon 2024. Though this projectwas first announced in 2021, the timing for the update is spot-on. King publishedThe Running Manin 1982 under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. The suddenly ubiquitous Glen Powell, promoting Twisters at CinemaCon 2024.Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for CinemaCon (Getty Images) Theres a tempting cash prize… if he can survive being hunted by a team of assassins. Are you excited to see what Wright and Powell do with The Running Man?...

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 106 words · Michael Evans

HeroesCould Be Making a Comeback

David Lynch is trying to find a new home for his mysterious animated movie Snootworld. Youre gonna have to wait a lot longer for Saw XI. Plus: Somehow, Velma returned! Image: NBC To me, my Spoilers! I got together with Caroline and we worked on a script. Snootworld is kind of an old fashioned story and animation today is more about surface jokes. Photo: CBS Old fashioned fairytales are considered groaners: apparently people dont want to see them....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 167 words · Erin Schmidt

Instagram Will Blur Out Nudes in DMs to Fight ‘Financial Sextortion’

This story originally appeared onQuartz. According to the FBI,victims are usually teenage boysbetween 14 and 17. The agency said theres been analarming number of suicides identified in male victims of financially motivated sextortion. An example of Instagram’s new “nudity protection” feature in action.Image: Meta (Other) Meta already reports sextortion after it happens and removes perpetrators accounts. But its new tool takes steps to prevent intimate image abuse from happening in the first place....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 186 words · Robert Castaneda

New Jersey Library Apologizes After Handing Out Knockoff Eclipse Glasses

The library advised people against using the eclipse glasses and apologized for the error. I called a testing lab to see about having my glasses tested for safety. The lab wanted $1200-$1500, one comment read on Moorestown Librarys Facebook post. Millions of people were in the path of totality for the solar eclipse on April 8.Photo: LM Otero (AP) Ill just have to wait and see whether I eventually go blind....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 126 words · Dr. Nathan Bishop

Physicists Capture First-Ever Image of an Electron Crystal

Electrons are mutually repulsed: they like to steer clear of one another. But that experiment was stuck in the classical realm. But it would only happen in very cold temperatures and in low-density conditions. A never-before seen Wigner crystal, visualized with a scanning tunneling microscope.Image:Yen-Chen Tsui and team, Princeton University In the new experiment, the team put electrons between two graphene sheets exhaustively purged of material imperfections. Then, they chilled the samples and applied a magnetic field perpendicular to it....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 174 words · Ashley Navarro

Robert Eggers’NosferatuLooks Scary as Hell

We could see why. Theres a person riding a horse across a field. A man running down a crowded street. The first trailer for Nosferatu screened.Image: Focus A woman asks Does evil come from within us? A camera flies across a landscape toward a massive castle. We see a naked man. Rats running across the street. He is coming, several people say while one of them bites the head off a pigeon....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 155 words · Mary Collins

Russia’s First Post-Cold War Rocket Lifts Off from Remote Eastern Launch Site

ET this morning,accordingto Russian space agency Roscosmos. The mission went as planned, with the Angara A5 successfully delivering a test payload to low Earth orbit. The heavy-lift rocket, first launched in December 2014, has now flown on four occasions. The Angara-A5 rocket lifting off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia, April 11, 2024.Photo: Sergey Bobylev (AP) Todays launch was Russias third attempt at flying this particular rocket. For more spaceflight in your life, follow us onXand bookmark Gizmodos dedicatedSpaceflight page....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 90 words · William Keller

Star Trek: DiscoveryWouldReallyLike You to Know What It’s About

Sometimes, its more subtle about reminding us of this than others. This week was definitely one of the others. Bad news: Trill dont live for 800 years, and Jinaal is very, very dead. Image: Paramount If all this sounds like its going at an alarming pace, it is and it isnt. Jinaal then is not a bad episode. Want more io9 news? Image: Paramount News from the future, delivered to your present....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 87 words · Samantha Thomas

Stunningly Dumb Viral Video Doesn’t Show Where the Pacific Ocean and North Sea ‘Meet’

The beauty of the oceans, another X user wrote in a tweet thats been seen over12 million times. Why is this video so dumb? The closest major ocean is the Atlantic and its nowhere near the Pacific. Screenshot: TikTok / X Simply put, the North Sea and the Pacific Ocean never meet. These videos can be particularly deceiving when a wide river meets the ocean. And that idea seems particularly common among people who want to insist science doesnt understand why oceans dont mix....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 137 words · Amy Pittman

The Ancient Egyptians May Have Seen the Milky Way as a Celestial Deity

In doing so, they believed that they were bringing some form of divine energy to Earth. The new study explores the idea that the sky goddess was a celestial manifestation of the Milky Way. News from the future, delivered to your present. The Milky Way galaxy stretches across 100,000 lightyears.Image: NASA A Double Sunblast Could Mean Auroras Over the U.S. Image: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images (Getty Images)

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 68 words · David Thomas

This Might Be the Best Time of Day to Exercise

There has been along-running debateover whether physical activity can be more beneficial at certain times of the day. The scientific verdict has been mixed, though. As part of the original study, these volunteers had agreed to wear activity trackers for a week. Image: AlexMaster (Shutterstock) They used these measurements as a proxy for peoples typical level of physical activity. The volunteers were tracked for nearly eight years on average. Timing of physical activity may play a role in the future of obesity and T2D management, they wrote....

April 11, 2024 · 1 min · 95 words · Jon Coleman

Transformers OneDoes Not Look Like What You’re Expecting

Theyre called Orion Pax and D-16, respectively. So how did it look? I have to say, I was disappointed on multiple levels. Optimus Prime in the 1986 Transformers movie.Image: Hasbro The tone seemed aimed at a very, very young audience. And any hints of this promised feud and betrayal are completely missing. Obviously, Transformers is based on toys so, at its core, its a kid franchise. Not totally serious, but a balance of humor with gravitas....

April 11, 2024 · 2 min · 271 words · Donald Mckinney