For as revered a British filmmaking institution as it is, there isnt actually that muchWallace & Gromit. Its a challenge thatVengeance Most Fowlis constantly reckoning withand one it only ever partially overcomes. It is on this return thatVengeance Most Fowlhangs all of its biggest successes and its toughest struggles. © Netflix It was good then, right? Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowlbegins streaming worldwide on Netflix starting January 3, 2025....

In the buzzy world of AI, boring things like definitions often get overlooked. But when it comes to regulating emerging technologies, clear and precise definitions are important. They also outright prohibit uses that might violate various laws or cause harm. Meta has claimed its Llama models are open source, but they don’t meet the Open Source Initiative’s definition.© Anadolu/Getty Images Meta has alsonot fully disclosedthe training data for its Llama models....

Most people probably knowWickedis a musical. Yes, there is singing. And, in fact, the singing was done live on set. Director Jon M. Chu, with co-stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, on the set of Wicked.Image: Universal Check out the new video below. Not only is there singing inWicked, it looks like its going to be damned good signing. As for why Universal seemingly held this aspect of the movie back, there are a few potential reasons....

After the AP reached out to Palmer, the accountwas deactivated. The AP contacted an open-source investigation company that helped tie the email address to a phone number. Even more mysteriously, Palmer claimed that he worked as a researcher for a broader group. © KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP We did that with big people. National people, he told the newspaper. I have no comment on anything else regarding that. © X/DocNetyoutube/screenshot...

The teampublishedits proposed black hole structure in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The 2022 image of the black hole depicts a four-million-solar-mass behemoth called Sagittarius A*. The EHTs first black hole imagethe first-everdepicted the black hole Messier 87 (M87), andpublished in 2019. The first-ever image of Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.Image: EHT Collaboration* That distance is the black holes event horizon....

[Hes] truly lost at this particular moment, said Soule. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. © Lucasfilm/Marvel Comics © Lucasfilm/Marvel © Lucasfilm/Marvel © Lucasfilm/Marvel © Lucasfilm/Marvel © Lucasfilm/Marvel

This weekend marks the end of an era and closes out the story of SonysVenom. And audiences have responded to it with a bit of an ehhhhhh… Venom basically has next weekend all to himself, as far as big genre movies are concerned. Things truly kick in on week two with A24s religious horror flickHereticand the post-apocalyptic flickElevationon November 8. © Sony/Marve Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present....

For almost 900 years, the massive space explosion that caused this weed to bloom was a mystery. Now, a cutting edge telescope is providing our best look yet at the results. After six months, it was gone, but not forgotten. In this artist’s conception of Pa 30 Nebula, the odd filaments can be seen shooting away from its core.© W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko But not all nebulas are alike. Some are composed of the remnants of stars, which die in massive explosions....

Every episode ofAgatha All Alonghas gotten people talking, and this weeks was no exception. In Schaeffers words, simply because it was just so sexy. We were just like, Who is the perfect ex-lover of Agatha Harkness? © Marvel Studios It was just so obviously Lady Death. It felt so right. Speaking of Lupone, Schaffer said the episode had to be spectacular once the actor was cast. I think her process was finding when the pulling around really starts to trigger her vulnerability....

Throughout the year, Paramounts upcomingRunning Manrebootfrom Edgar Wright has been picking up stars. Filming will take place in London at the start of 2025 before its release later in the year. Well find out how the two films differ when WrightsThe Running Manhits theaters on November 21, 2025. © Warner Bros. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Pacific Rims TV Show Drifts to Prime Video Good news for giant robot fans....

More than 20% of the United States population may be using H20 thats been contaminated by toxic chemicals. However, United States Geological Survey scientists found gaps in the data collected by the EPA. Groundwater is what it sounds like: water thats found in underground pores, such as aquifers. A map showing possible areas in the U.S. at risk of PFA-contaminated groundwater.© USGS The USGS results were based on over 1,200 groundwater samples taken by the agency between 2019 and 2022....

While light can bounce off of axions, this process is extremely rare. Hence their nameaxionswhich comes from a cleaning product brand. The authors deserve a lot of credit for pointing this out. A neutron star at the heart of the Crab Nebula.Image: ESA/Hubble / Wikimedia Commons So how can we detect and identify dark matter? But the state-of-the-art telescopes in spaceare not radio telescopes. Work like this could thus easily pop pop the pathway towards discovery....

TorrentFreakhas been following the strange taleof nHentai and PCR Distributing. nHentai is a popular website that provides free scans of hentai from big publishers. It got 80 million visitors in June. PGW Paris Games Week, the video game presentation event at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris, France, on October 23, 2024.© Photo by RICCARDO MILANI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images PCR Distributing is a company that published a lot of the filth that ends up on nHentai....