The big main thing you want to do in Donkey Kong Bananza is smash everything, but even as you shatter various layers of the planet into thousands of tiny voxels, you may realize there’s more to life than smashing. On your quest to reaching the surface (and getting more bananas), you should know there are […]

If you know anything about the process of shooting an effects-heavy, big-budget movie like 2025’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake, you’d probably think the hardest part of the job would be the performance: trying to have convincing emotional relationships with characters that’ll be added digitally later. Or maybe it’d be all the stunts, […]

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI models  —  Industry moves away from paying gig economy workers in Africa and Asia in push to build ‘smarter’ models

“THAT person?!?!?” It’s natural for fans to have strong reactions to casting news when a beloved franchise scores a  big-screen adaptation. People have cheered and booed in equal measure for the casting of Pedro Pascal as Joel in The Last of Us, or Robert Pattinson as Batman. Some performers have won stubborn fans over. When […]

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Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro  —  When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.