Last yearsspooky-themed MacBook releasebrought us theultra-dark MacBook Pro with M3. Took them long enough. Apple revealed the new slate of MacBook Pro models, all with the new M4 silicon. © Image: Apple The base 14-inch MacBook Pro only has options for the regular M4 chip. The 16-inch MacBook Pro comes in M4 Pro and M4 Max flavors. The M4 first debuted with this yearsiPad Pro. © Image: Apple Meanwhile, the M4 Pro models of the 14-inch range from $2,000 to $3,200 without extra add-ons....

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Gordon Jackson, io9: How did you get involved withVenom? Peggy Lu: [In 2018] I got an audition notice from my manager. Mrs. Chen and Eddie in Vegas. © Sony It didnt look any different than the othersit didnt specifically say Venom. Oh, I think it did, actually, because I had to researchVenom. io9: Do you have much of a history with comic books or sci-fi?...

Overall, patients have maintained an average 20% weight loss, the researchers found. There was also a 54% sustained reduction in cases of high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Plenty of other studies have found that bariatric surgery can havelong-term benefitsfor adult patients, too. © Iryna Veklich via Getty That suggests, Ryder said, that successfully treating obesity with surgery sooner in the lifespan has its advantages. Like any medical treatment, bariatric surgery has its risks and potential negatives....

Lets run it down. So lets go beat by beat here. Next isYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manwhich is mostly about that old-school comic book animated style. Daredevil and Kingpin showing down in Daredevil: Born Again.Disney+ Thats followed byIronheart, which basically no one outside of D23 Expo had seen much of. Her flying through the streets, throwing punches, it all looks like big-screen movie stuff. No one anywhere has seen any footage of Wonder Manstarring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II....

Marvel has finally revealed whenDeadpool & Wolverineis coming to Disney+. Maximum effort, indeed. In it, fans can listen to audio commentary from director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds. © Marvel Well keep you posted if it goes for a hat trick on streaming service records as well. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present.

Were living in a world where most every piece of software is now part of a subscription service. It even expands beyond just software. Groceries can be on a subscription service, workout out plans for equipment you already own. © StackSocial Heck, my toothbrush is on a subscription plan. So when you might find a software product that you might just pay for once, savor it. They are far and few....

As in, they died. Ghost forests occur when large groups of trees are killed, often by saltwater. It may not sound like much, but its three times faster than the global average. A ghost forest on the banks of North Carolina’s Croatan Sound.Image: NASA Earth Observatory / Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Marshes shift locations over time as sea levels rise, but theres nowhere for cypress forests to go....

These are the only areas that saw a change following the co-creation. The specs and features on this version are the same as the original edition released back in July 2024. The co-created edition for Nothings flagship phone retains the companys identity, which came through on the original version. Photo: Nothing Theres some glow-in-the-dark activity going on on the phones new packaging, too. The new design features some reflective elements to suit the phones new design....

Records show you voted, the mysterious messages read. The message included a link to a legitimate state government website with polling information. However, the campaign was actually the work of an organization called AllVote, the Inquirer reports. © Kena Betancur / AFP On Tuesday, a Texas news outletreported thatsimilar texts had popped up in Dallas County. Weirdly, in that case, the text messages seem to have been telling voters whohadvoted that they hadnt....

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has constructed a fusion reactor from parts it 3D-printed and bought off the shelf. It fits on a kitchen table. IEEE Spectrumpublished the storyof the miraculous reactor, which PPPL built last year. A mockup of the planar coil stellarator, which was first developed at PPPL.© Art via PPPL Facebook. Plasma-based nuclear fusion reactors have been around for a while, but theyve long been unwieldy. PPPLs reactor is a glass vacuum tube coated in a 3D-printed nylon shell....

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In itspress releaseon Wednesday, the White House touted its success in that area. Many of the most important goals laid out in the 2023 executive order, however, require long-term efforts. Of course, those long-term plans could change based on the outcome of next months presidential election. President Joe Biden signed his executive order on artificial intelligence on October 20, 2023.© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump has madekilling the AI executive orderpart of his campaign platform....

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