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And its all thanks to that little circle of buffering doom. so that prep, I thought Id just turn on Max and re-watchMad Max:Fury Road. This was not it. When Frozen freezes mid-stream… © Disney And still it didnt sound quite right. I knew that as a parent, Id have to get used to more home entertainment than before. And that goes for TV shows as well. A scene fromBluey‘s “Dad Baby” episode....

Watch out Moo Deng, theres a new baby pygmy hippo in town. The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia just announced the arrival of a healthy-looking female calf born earlier this month. The successful birth is an especially important event because pygmy hippos are anendangered speciesin the wild. The zoo’s latest addition: a healthy and fast-growing baby pygmy hippo.© Metro Richmond Zoo As their name implies, pygmy hippos aremuch smallerthan their cousins....

The team can now rest easy knowing that themissions most daunting questwas successful. At that distance, the solar probe broke its own record for closest solar approach by a spacecraft. The Parker Solar Probe launched in August 2018 with a mission to touch the Sun. An artist’s impression of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun.NASA With each approach, the solar probe inched its way closer to the surface of the Sun....

As a show about time travel,Doctor Whohas never been unafraid to incorporate contemporary moments into its stories. She died on Christmas day. OnChristmas day, and I said goodbye on an iPad because of the rules she yells at him. © BBC/Disney I think it was something else in the very first draft, I cant remember what. And I thought, Well, oh my God, thats it! But for Moffat, incorporating that anger, and incorporating the pandemic specifically, felt natural....

It was previously scheduled for releaseOctober 2, 2026 as well as October 2025. The release date news, reported byDeadline, also came with a few non-DC tidbits. As forThe Batman Part IIthough, the writing had kind of been on the wall for a while. The Bat and the Cat have another year to wait.Image: Warner Bros. So whats happening withThe Batman Part II? Thats speculative and unconfirmed but, its out there....

This article aims to correct that oversight. A Shop for Killers Korean dramas are immensely popular, andA Shop for Killersis no exception. Its so unhinged, delightfully gross, and endearing for a show thats 30 years old. © Toei, Netflix, Production IG, Disney+ It still holds up and is so easily binge-able. Which we seea lotin sci-fi and genre films. Its everything you loved about the franchise, but updated in smart, exciting ways....

The old saying goes that, with tech, you should never buy the first generation of anything new. Wait for the devs to work out the kinks, then check back. Were now two years into the AI revolution, and were being dragged into the third. © Google Its not there yet. This year was big on AI, butnext yearwill show the true promise of on-equipment artificial intelligence come alive. Where have we heard that one before?...

What is a internet State? Srinivasan has gone to great lengths to make his concept as straightforward as possible. What separates it from a bunch of nerds in a chatroom? © Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg Thats the idea, anyway. As you might expect, there are plenty of critics of this agenda. The idea, at a meta-level, is lets try alternatives, said Friedman, during arecent interviewwith Reason. The point, in Friedmans formulation, is to give people options....

But we didnt quite think about what, exactly, that would entail. Its not like these games are publicized. It was, in a way, his very ownSquid Game. Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun in Squid Game season two. Photo: No Ju-han/Netflix A big citywide game of needle in a haystack. Finally, killing off the Salesman illustrates that anything can, and will, happen on the show. Hes ruthless, hes diabolical, and hes hilarious and charming as he does it....

There are so many fakes spreading online these days that it can be hard to keep track. Here at Gizmodo, weve been fact-checking fake images that go viral for well over a decade now. But that doesnt mean everything in 2024 was AI-generated. © Gizmodo In fact, the images that actually tricked people in 2024 were often more traditional photoshop-style fakes. AI is abundant, but people have also developed an eye for when AI has been used....

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is making a comeback that no one asked for. Thats a fivefold increase from the tally recorded in 2023, which only saw around 6,500 cases. There are several factors to blame for the surge, experts say, including declining vaccination rates. A 3D illustration of pertussis bacteria.© Dan Higgins/Science Photo Library via Getty Pertussisis resulting from the bacteriumBordetellapertussis. Since 2000, the U.S. has had tens of thousands of annually reported pertussis cases....

Hundreds of stargazers reported fireballs over the southeastern U.S. earlier this week. But this was no natural phenomenonjust another case of dead satellites littering Earths orbit. ET on December 22, but dismissed the event as not a true fireball. The American Meteor Society received more than 150 reports of fireballs in the night sky.Bethany T./The American Meteor Society The two satellites were Chinas first high-resolution Earth imaging satellites, according toSpace.com....