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10 TV characters who only appear in the first and last episode

Talk about bookending a story. Trump's latest 'unhinged' attack on a female journalist is 'quite alarming,' experts say US marshals join search for Timothy Busfield on arrest warrant: report This ...
Gizmodo

Scientists Make Material That Can Morph Into Anything With the Pull of a String

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into any 3D structure you'd like. Reading time 2 minutes There’s a very thin ...
Page Six

Dua Lipa soaks up the sun in tiny string bikinis on vacation with Callum Turner

Dua Lipa shared a vacation photo dump from Mexico on Sunday, following the conclusion of her Radical Optimism Tour earlier this month. Dua Lipa/Instagram Dua Lipa traded the stage for the sand this ...
InfoWorld

High-performance programming with Java streams

Learn how to use advanced techniques like short-circuiting, parallel execution, virtual threads, and stream gatherers to maximize Java stream performance. My recent Java Stream API tutorial introduced ...
The New York Times

Dutch Return ‘Java Man’ Bones, With 40,000 Fossils Set to Follow

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...
TechCrunch

First Voyage raises $2.5M for its AI companion that helps you build habits

In a world that’s rapidly filling up with AI-generated content, a startup called First Voyage wants to help people avoid all the AI slop blasted their way and instead build the habits they want. And ...
The New York Times

A Gift That Gets Children Reading

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. This is part of an ...
Variety

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist Letter

Google has removed dozens of AI-generated videos that depicted Disney-owned characters after receiving a cease and desist letter from the studio on Wednesday. Disney flagged the YouTube links to the ...
Cinema Blend

First Street Fighter Trailer Delivers A Cavalcade Of Characters And Some Ridiculous Action

In recent weeks, we've seen a number of exciting new trailers arrive online – from our first real look at Toy Story 5 to the debut extended look at Supergirl – and they've given us reason to ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Disney Licenses Characters to OpenAI, Takes $1 Billion Stake

Walt Disney Co. is licensing iconic characters including Mickey Mouse and Cinderella to OpenAI for use on its artificial intelligence video platform and has agreed to take a $1 billion stake in the ...
New York Post

Disney to let users make AI videos featuring beloved characters in $1B deal with OpenAI; accuses Google of copyright infringement

May the slop be with you? The Walt Disney Company said Thursday it will invest $1 billion in OpenAI in a deal that will allow users to churn out AI videos with copyrighted characters from “Star Wars” ...
Newsweek

Disney Characters Coming to Sora: What OpenAI Users Will Be Able to Do

The Walt Disney Company said it has signed a $1 billion deal with OpenAI to allow users of its AI video generation platform Sora to create content featuring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and ...