FDA Approves Potentially Groundbreaking Schizophrenia Drug

People living with schizophrenia will soon have a new and potentially groundbreaking treatment available. With its approval, theres new hope for better managing this challenging condition. This drug takes the first new approach to schizophrenia treatment in decades. © Bristol Myers Squibb In the large-scaleclinical trialsreviewed by the FDA, Cobenfy appeared to work as intended. Compared to placebo, people on Cobenfy saw a significant improvement in their schizophrenia symptoms. But the simple virtue of being the first in a novel drug class cant be overstated....

September 27, 2024 · 1 min · 134 words · Jose Taylor

Gary Dauberman onSalem’s Lot, Stephen King, and Horror Adaptations

Cheryl Eddy, io9:Salems Lotwas originally meant to be a theatrical release. And the car was on a bumpy road. io9: The original book is doorstop-sized. © New Line Cinema/Max Dauberman:As you said, the books really dense in a great way. I think the biggest challenge I had is really decidingOk, cant tell his story. Cant tell her story. © New Line Cinema/Max Who do I need to focus on to make this into a digestible, one-sitting piece of entertainment?...

September 27, 2024 · 4 min · 725 words · Vincent Yang

Human Feedback Makes AI Better at Deceiving Humans, Study Shows

News from the future, delivered to your present. Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers. New research shows that using humans to provide feedback on AI responses teaches the AI how to better deceive humans.New research shows that using humans to provide feedback on AI responses teaches the AI how to better deceive humans. © Nacho Kamenov & Humans in the Loop/Better Images of AI

September 27, 2024 · 1 min · 70 words · Kim Joyce

James Gunn’sSupermanStill Has a Surprise Addition to Its Cast

Anthony Mackie and Morena Baccarin fight Rocky Mountain monsters inElevation. Get a new look atMoana 2. Plus, whats coming onThe Penguin. © Warner Bros. Superman Deadlinereports that Alan Tudyk will play an undisclosed role in James GunnsSupermanmovie. Tudyk already voicesCreature Commandos Doctor Phosphorus in Gunns DCU. The Life of Chuck Varietyalso reports Neon has acquired the distribution rights toThe Life of Chuck. The crew arrives somewhere that seems too good to be true, and it just might be....

September 27, 2024 · 1 min · 104 words · Marisa Henderson

Last Day: Get 3 Months of Disney+ for $2 Each And Attempt to Binge Every Disney Movie and Show Before You Cancel

This offer ends on 9/27, do not miss and enjoy your upcoming holidays with Disney+. See at Disney + Theres tons of great stuff. Theyve built an empire on beloved movies and characters. © Disney The backlog is incredible, letting you step right inside the Disney Vault. Watch every single one of the universally adored 2D animated films of the 1990s Disney Renaissance. you’re able to also tune into all the latest projects coming fromStar Warsand Marvel....

September 27, 2024 · 2 min · 227 words · Robert Marsh

Microsoft Details All the Ways You Can Ignore Recall on Copilot+ PCs

Windows beta users are stillwaiting to get their hands on the featurein October. With Recall on, users can pause saving screenshots with an icon in the system tray. Recall is further limited by content filtering. © Image: Microsoft The system looks for keywords in the screengrabs and then deletes them, but it still might miss something. you’re free to also list specific apps and websites to block from screengrabs. Non-Chrome Chromium-based browsers will block private browsing, but they dont allow you to block specific websites....

September 27, 2024 · 2 min · 310 words · Matthew Smith

Rings of Power‘ Crew on One Weird Trick to Make Night Battles Visible

And it was just… a very, very boring field. I just stare at it and I say My god, were going to have to… I meaneverything, we have to create everything from scratch here.' © Prime Video We created our own problems in a way. We needed this riverbank that drained the river, so everything was meant to be muddy. So whenever we moved the equipment around, I mean it was just not carried around....

September 27, 2024 · 2 min · 237 words · Dustin Gonzalez

Robert Aramayo Talks Elrond’s Surprise Big Moment onRings of Power

He doesnt want this to be the last time. Thats the last sort of hope, that hes able to act on there. It shocked me when I read [that moment]. © Prime Video Whereas in the first season, I had the feeling that hes always been very much the herald. Well, hes not there! Aramayo joked of filming the sequence. Yeah, thats a big problem. It was a big sandbag foot thing....

September 27, 2024 · 2 min · 286 words · John Lee

Satellite Images Capture Huge Atmospheric River Sweeping Over Alaska and Canada

In other words, roughly a river shape, but in the air. However, this particular river was uncommonly strong, according to an Earth Observatoryrelease. Towns in southeast Alaska experienced similar amounts of rainfall. A huge atmospheric river over the Gulf of Alaska.Image: Michala Garrison, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership and data from DSCOVR EPIC. Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 storm and is causing devastating flooding across the American southeast....

September 27, 2024 · 1 min · 141 words · Peter Tran

The Leaked Nvidia RTX 5090 Has So Many Cores It Actually Scares Me

Compare that to the RTX 4090, which demanded a 450W base. The 50-series GPUs include an RTX 5080 with 10,752 CUDA cores and 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM. The RTX 5090 contains a ludicrous 21,760 FP32 CUDA cores and 32 GB of VRAM on a 512-bit bus. With how big Nvidia’s current 40-series GPUs are, I’m not looking forward to the mammoth size of the rumored 5090.© Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo...

September 27, 2024 · 2 min · 241 words · Mrs. Alexandra Horne MD

The World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Is Getting a Huge Upgrade

you might read a full breakdown ofhow LCLS worksandsee inside the particle accelerator here. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory designed the undulators that wobble the electrons to produce the X-rays. Michigan State Universitys Facility for Rare Isotope Beams was also a partner on the major upgrade. A St. Patrick’s Day-decorated cryomodule arriving at SLAC.Photo: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory I hope youre ready for the futureits coming soon....

September 27, 2024 · 1 min · 80 words · Jason Oliver

There May Never Be Another Game Developer as Successful and Chaotic as Blizzard

Schreier took on the task of writing about Blizzard just before Microsoft announced its intent to buy Activision Blizzard. Since the deal closed,sweeping layoffs have rocked theentire company. During the mid-to-late 2000s, the in-game world Azeroth boasted more residents than several small nations. © Photo: Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainmentis out Oct. 8. Preorders are available now. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity....

September 27, 2024 · 6 min · 1150 words · Hannah Jenkins

Trump Says He’ll Prosecute Google If He Retakes Power

And in any other political era, this kind of bizarre screed would be front-page news for weeks. Here in 2024, its just another Friday. The DOJ issuingover Googles alleged ad tech monopoly. Donald Trump at an even on September 23, 2024 in Smithton, Pennsylvania.© Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images That part isnt entirely clear. But this isnt the first time Trump has accused Google of being manipulated to work against him....

September 27, 2024 · 1 min · 164 words · Roberto Davis MD