The model is dubbed the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS). Traditional weather prediction models make forecasts by solving physics equations. A limitation of these models is that they are approximations of atmospheric dynamics. A view of a sailing boat during cloudy weather and sunset in San Francisco, California, United States on August 17, 2024.Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images GenCast outperformedENS, the ECMWFs leading weather prediction model, on 97.2% of targets across different weather variables....

Tin Toys main character went on to appear in a key scene inToy Story 4homaging the studios history. Today, io9 can exclusively reveal that Tin Toy will be Funkos featuredDisneyrelease atWonderCon 2025. Loungefly will also be debuting a romantic new mini-backpack inspired by Disney AnimationsBeauty and the Beast. Tin Toy Funko and Tin Toy Pixar.© Funko/Pixar Take your first looks in the gallery below! Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present....

We know where were headed to with the larger story, Safran said. So James makes sure that those building blocks are going to be put in place. And then around that, theres a tremendous amount of latitude in terms of what we do. James Gunn at San Diego Comic-Con in 2022.Photo: Jesse Grant (Getty Images) For an example of why that is, Gunn took from personal experience at Marvel. [Post-credits scenes] can be a real nightmare, he said....

Clocking in at overthree feetin length once built the set will take the prehistoric crown as Legos biggest-everJurassicset. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego © Lego

Now, however, that all may be coming to an end. io9 reached out to Lucasfilm for comment but hadnt heard back as of publication. In the years since, Kennedy brought the franchise back in ways both good and bad. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy.Christopher Jue (Getty Images) So no, it was not always smooth sailing. Because even when she missed, Kennedy was doing what she felt the fans wanted. If Kennedyisretiring, the question becomes, who steps in?...

Now, however, a new crypto platform claims to be monetizing our very experience of temporality itself. The Blockreports ona company dubbed Time.fun, which is described as a tokenized time platform. What the hell does that mean? © Credit: Dado Ruvic (Reuters) Its a lot simpler and dopier than you might initially think. Time Is Money the site reads. Content creators can charge platform users their own rates for their services....

And yet, thats exactly what happened. Their research is detailed in astudypublished February 12 inProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. In doing so, these wolves required less adrenaline, i.e. A Eurasian wolf.© Mas3cf via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en were less aggressive or apprehensive, which increased their tolerance and preference to living close to early humans. These wolves then colonized the human-occupied environments and, from this group, emerged the first primitive dogs....

He was 51 years old. Orci is best known for his work with fellow writer and creator Alex Kurtzman. But even with their own newer, individual successes, their names will forever be connected. Roberto Orci behind the scenes of Star Trek Into Darkness.Image: Paramount Orci and his partner basically defined an era when nerdy wasnt quite that cool yet. That started in the late 1990s with jobs writing onHercules: The Legendary JourneysandXena: Warrior Princess....

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology led the study,publishedlast week in the journalCell. In 2006, researchers in Hong Kongidentifieda coronavirus in pipistrelle bats that became known as HKU5-CoV. In the lab, the researchers found evidence that HKU5-CoV-2 could potentially infect a wide range of mammals. An illustration of coronaviruses.© JBArt via Shutterstock It does so by interacting with a protein receptor found in many types of cells, called ACE2....

There are also often restrictions, too. The old adage You will own nothing, and you will like it applies here. Media companies do not even really want consumers buying their content at all. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon wants companies to inform customers of their ownership rights when they buy digital media.Singha Songsak P/Shutterstock But other grassroots movements like right-to-repair have seen success ingiving consumers more controlover the products they purchase....

Darth Vader may havefamously screamedNooooooo but youll be screaming Yessssss April 25. And, this time, you could watch it in 4DX. Get us a full release on this one. Matt Ferguson has created a new Revenge of the Sith poster for its 20th anniversary.Image: Lucasfilm Its a great poster. Bring onAttack of the Clones! No word if there will be a charred smell accompanying the final battle on Mustafar. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sithposter by Matt Ferguson...

The upper stage Starship spacecraft experienced a stronger-than-expected harmonic response, according to astatementfrom SpaceX. By harmonic response, engineers mean vibrations amplified by resonance. The upper stage ignited its own Raptor engines as it separated from the booster. Debris from a Starship rocket over Turks & Caicos.© The Independent/YouTube Things didnt go as swimmingly for the Starships second stage. Sensors in the attic detected a pressure rise indicative of a leak after the flash was seen....

In almost all cases, the trackers went to a landfill or an incinerator rather than a recycling center. But it is unclear where such infrastructure exists. KW Plastics did not respond to Grists request for comment. Plastic cups aren’t recyclable, according to environmentalists.© Yellyana/Shutterstock That leaves roughly 0 percent for recycling: a negligible amount, as the Environmental Protection Agency puts it. Dell said the high-profile investigations embarrassed Starbucks and may have contributed to its move away from polypropylene cups....