When I first watchedCobra Kai, I stopped it five minutes in. This is a true story. There was no way this show was this good. Cobra Kai, starring Ralph Macchio, comes to an end this month.Image: Netflix To double-check I wasnt only watching through nostalgia-colored glasses. Because, to me, this show was something miraculous. Something Id never seen before. Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) returns on a quest for redemption inCobra Kai....

Oppo has been atrendsetteron the smartphone stage, especiallyamong foldable smartphones. Well know more details when the folding phone debuts globally in about two weeks. Sadly, this is one svelte smartphone we wont see coming to the States anytime soon. © Oppo /Weibo Oppos upcoming Find N5 flagship foldable is making the rounds on Chinese social media. Oppos Find series product manager, Zhou Yibao, has beenteasing the devicesince last month. Another photo shows its thickness relative to a stack of physical credit cards....

When we first saw Sam Wilson, he was a counselor. He was a veteran. Theres no more question, he is Captain America. © Marvel Studios And that fact is something that should be normalized despite the current political climate. You know what I mean? Like its important for my sons to watch theWonder Womanmovie. Its important for my sons friends to see a Black dude as Captain America. It changes your perspective....

Video games have come such a long way. Games likeThe Last of Us Part IIorGod of War: Ragnarokare stunning marvels of technological progress. Completely realistically designed characters with lifelike animations and the ability to showcase subtle emotions like an actor would. © Atari Its easy to forget video game characters used to be drawn only a few pixels high. Just because games have come so far, doesnt mean they are inherently better than what came before....

Tony Todd will posthumously appear inFinal Destination: Bloodlines. Mason Gooding teasesScream 7s most brutal Ghostface yet. Plus, Plankton gets his time to shine in the nextSpongebob Squarepantsmovie. © Bandai Namco Filmworks/Legendary The book, if found and read by the vampires enemies, threatens their vampire realm. If that manifests, which were gonna try, I think it will probably be somebody from canon. Who that is, is early days. This is the most brutal Ghostface I think theres ever been from an anatomically logistical standpoint....

The original plan was for director Denis Villeneuve to take a break fromDune. But, eventually, those feelings changed andnow it seems likelyVilleneuve is going to make threeDunemovies in a row. Well, in a new interview, Villeneuve says its because of you. Denis Villeneuve and Timothée Chalamet could soon reteam for Dune Messiah.Image: Warner Bros. The person reading this. The person who, we are inferring, is a fan ofDune: Part Two....

The days of Disney+ growing like gangbusters seem well and finally over. Analysts on Wall Street had expected earnings of $1.43 per share on $24.55 billion in revenue. Netflix has only continued to grow and maintain its lead as the clear winner in streaming. Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers in the final three months of 2024.Disney Netflix gets richer and richer while the rest of the streaming industry is looking like has-beens....

It is likely that the agency will soon be shuttered and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department. Publicly available information about that probe is still online. Its unclear what the Starlink probes status is right now. © Kenny Holston/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images The litigation alleges that DOGE may beviolating a federal privacy lawby allowing Musks stooges to access certain systems. While the agency dispenses aid to foreign countries, it has often been entangled inscandals....

Every year, more of gaming history is lost. Basements flood, papers dissolve, and the video games industry titans sadly pass away. The Video Game History Foundation is offering what is now themost comprehensive and searchable libraryof video game documentation. The VGHF archive includes scans of magazines ranging from the official Xbox mag to Game Informer, along with trade publications few regular customers have had access to before now.© Image: VGHF...

Googles Gemini Live can talk to you, but I wouldnt call the human-sounding AI chatbot a stimulating conversationalist. Despite that, Google wants you toat the very leastimagine Gemini Live as a true companion. Its a small change, but it helps exemplify how Google will position its AI in 2025. © Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Eventually, Google wants to add vision capabilities from GoogleDeepMinds Project Astraassistant. One question is whether or not Googles latest model is as good as it claims....

Google dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons and surveillance systems onTuesday. Well, all that stuff about not using AI for weapons and surveillance is just gone. Instead, there are three principles listed, with the top being Bold Innovation. © Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images That last part is likely a nod to Republicans who so frequently whine that AI is biased against conservatives. Other changes are more subtle....

If there is too much noise in the system, the quantum operation falls apart. What we want is really both of these. The mechanism predicts the dynamics and defects in a system ramping up at a finite rate. Credit: Google Quantum AI Next, the team plans to trigger the same simulations on Willow, and the results could prove interesting. Google is approaching its third milestone in the companys six-step quantum roadmap toward an error-corrected quantum computer....

Bennu is a relatively small near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. An impact from Bennu would be very destructive, but Earth has seen worse. Medium-sized asteroids like Bennu are more common in the solar system. An illustration of asteroid Bennu.NASA/JPL-Caltech (A different teamposited a similar scenariofor the aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs.) This would likely cause massive disruptions in global food security....