Meta AI is getting a massive upgrade. On Thursday, the social media giant announced two new Llama 3 artificial intelligence (AI) models, the Llama 3 8B and 70B, which are said to offer improved capabilities compared to the predecessor. Alongside, the company also upgraded its native AI assistant with Llama 3 models. Meta AI can now
WASHINGTON — Slovenia signed the Artemis Accords outlining best practices for sustainable space exploration April 19, the third European country to do so in five days. Matevž Frangež, state secretary of the ministry of the economy, tourism and sport in the Slovenian government, signed the Accords in a ceremony in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It took place
Updated with a fresh clutch of chill-vibe, relaxing Switch games. Enjoy! But what if you’re looking to soothe the soul rather than cleave it from a corpse; to combat stress with some old-fashioned R&R? What are the most relaxing games on Switch? Fortunately, the console’s huge library has you covered, so if you’re looking for
Writing saved Janet Frame’s life. In 1951, the 27-year-old writer was scheduled for a lobotomy. She’d spent her adulthood in psychiatric facilities, and the extremely damaging practice was in its heyday. But after Frame’s debut book won a literary award, a doctor called off the procedure. Frame is one of many authors Suzanne Scanlon references
Nathan Zellner and David Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset is stomping into circa 850 theaters this weekend after debuting in 9 with a solid opening for a film many could find weird. A tribe of Sasquatch, possibly the last of their kind, live and love in the woods of northern California, where it was shot. “We are
Brad Dourif has been doing movies for nearly 50 years. Now it seems he is walking away from the industry at 74 to enjoy his golden years. Except, there is a caveat. Recently, digital entertainment publication JoBlo’s Tyler Nichols talked to some of the Chucky television series cast members. During the interview, Dourif made an
Record Store Day has returned for its 17th year today (April 20), with fans queuing since the early hours to get their hands on special edition releases from their local independent record shops. Some of the big names putting out special one-off collectable vinyl and cassettes for the annual event include The 1975, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Talking
Apple’s offer to open its tap-and-go mobile payments system to rivals is set to be approved by EU antitrust regulators as soon as next month after it tweaked some of the terms, people familiar with the matter said. Apple’s bid to settle the four-year investigation would help it dodge a finding of wrongdoing and stave
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. Now an AI neural network has identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn’t actually painted by Raphael. The face in question belongs to St Joseph, seen in the top left of the painting known
An intrepid The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has spent around 870 hours exploring every inch of Hyrule including the shrines and has produced an eerily beautiful footprint map which you can view down below. You may notice that a couple of parts of the map are fairly empty and that’s because
Today the trailer for the upcoming Transformers movie TRANSFORMERS ONE was released, taking us back to the when Optimus Prime was Orion Pax and Megatron was D16. In addition to the new trailer, Hasbro has also revealed the first toys based on the highly-anticipated film. Fans can look forward to adding the following TRANSFORMERS ONE products to their
Mad Max: Fury Road may have focused on Tom Hardy’s incarnation of the title character, but it was Charlize Theron’s Furiosa who stole the show in the 2015 movie, so much so that a prequel about the character was greenlit. We’re now just a month away from the Anya Taylor-Joy-led and George Miller-directed Furiosa: A
Bloody Disgusting and Cineverse are raising the dead with celebrated zombie drama The Funeral, acquired out of Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) for North America with plans to release the film this fall across all platforms, including its Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX streaming service. The news was first reported by Variety this morning. The Funeral stars popular
Taylor Swift has released her first Tortured Poets Department music video. The visual is for the album’s opener, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone. Watch the new video, written and directed by Swift and co-starring the musicians with Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, below. Just two hours after Swift released The Tortured Poets Department, she surprised fans
Samsung launched its Galaxy S24 series with Galaxy AI, a suite of AI-based features and utilities for performing day-to-day activities and enhancing productivity earlier this year. In the last few months, we have seen OnePlus and Google jumping on the AI bandwagon by announcing new tools for their handsets. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi now seems
While details are understandably slim today, life on Earth is thought to have arisen about 4 billion years ago from a fateful blend of organic compounds popularly known as primordial soup. Just how – and where – the ingredients for this proto-biological entree were generated is still a field of debate, given the timeline and
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Jenna Fisher reveals the moments in Mean Girls where she was hiding her injury. Mean Girls (2024) was released in theaters earlier this year, and the film is now available to stream on Paramount+. The new film is a hybrid of both the original movie and the Broadway musical and sees a lot of fan-favorite actors stepping
By Howard Bloom We have reached a dire moment. At 2 am Sunday morning, March 14, Iran launched a swarm of between 300 and 350 suicide drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles at Israel. Israel’s Stunner missiles, Arrow missiles, and Iron Dome missiles, with help from the French and Americans, knocked 99% of these weapons out
FRIDAY MIDDAY: Mish mosh at the box office with A24’s weekend two of Civil War at $3.5M today/$11M+ and Universal’s Radio Silence R-rated vampire pic, Abigail with $4M today (that includes $1M previews)/$11M vying for No. 1. Lionsgate’s Guy Ritchie WWII period action pic, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is eyeing $3.9M-$4.3M Friday (including $1.45M
The highly anticipated third film in the hugely successful horror franchise “Clown Motel” has just launched an Indiegogo Campaign that is now LIVE!! “Clown Motel: Three Ways To Hell” is sure to be the biggest “Clown” movie in history!! “In “Clown Motel: 3 Ways to Hell” a year after a military squad vanishes, a daring
As of late, we are getting even more reimaginings, remakes, or new entries in long-dormant franchises. This brings me through a nostalgic trip of its own, not necessarily tied to movies but to games licensed by the franchise. But there is almost another echelon of games that just try to blatantly copy the films without
Brian Eno has spoken about his “powerful” David Bowie collaboration ‘Get Real’ which he is now reworking as part of a new climate change album project. The record, titled ‘Sounds Right’, has been developed by Eno in conjunction with the Museum for the United Nations, in the lead-up to Earth Day on April 22. Aurora
Samsung Galaxy S24 series is likely to offer satellite communication support, according to details reportedly shared by a company executive. According to a Sisa Journal-E report (translated from Korean), Samsung Electronics System LSI Business Head Yong-In Park stated during a recent presentation that the South Korean tech conglomerate was preparing to offer support for satellite communication on
Antarctica is a wonderland of stardust. There, amid the pristine whiteness of the ice and snow, scientists have retrieved more than 48,000 meteorites that have fallen to Earth over perhaps millions of years. But the reservoir isn’t going to last forever. New analysis suggests that warming temperatures are making the ice softer, resulting in meteorites
Picture this. You’re mythic raiding in World of Warcraft, and it’s all on the line. Your DPS is good and your ability rotation is damn near perfect. This is the run. Your hard work is about to be rewarded with the post-boss logs showing you’re a top tier player – one of the best, perhaps?
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Home Funko Funko’s Pop! Yourself Introduces 2-Packs Funko, the leading pop culture lifestyle brand, is doubling the fun of its Pop! Yourself line with 2-packs! The made-for-two addition is perfect for commemorating every dynamic duo in your life, and Funko shared a few ideas on its Instagram page. Funko also has new options and accessories
What’s the first thing you think of when it comes to Disney movies? Whether it’s the best Pixar films out there, or the best animated films, or maybe even the Star Wars universe, there are a lot of movies that have truly made the Disney name as big as it is. But what about the
Good spider films are a theme this year. First, we had Sting and then there was Infested. The former is still in theaters and the latter is coming to Shudder starting April 26. Infested has been getting some good reviews. People are saying that it’s not only a great creature feature but also a social