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With the news of four adjoining biopics, one for each member of The Beatles, announced this week, it seems clear that biographical films are fast becoming the new superhero movies in terms of quantity and share of Hollywood’s current offerings. With Oppenheimer surprising film execs by making just shy of a billion dollars at the box office, as well as becoming the (perhaps more expected) hot favorite to win Best Picture at the 2024 Academy Awards, it’s clear that there’s a market for biopics that audiences are highly…

Florida lawmakers have fast-tracked legislation that forces social media companies to keep most minors off their platforms. The legislation, which passed the state House Thursday after earlier being approved by the Senate, now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) desk, though he says he’s not quite ready to sign on. DeSantis told reporters Friday that he thinks there needs to be a “proper balance” between government regulations and parental input on the social media issue. “We’ll be wrestling with that,” he…

Denis Villeneuve got deadly serious when io9 mentioned the Dune Lego set to him. “I’ll be honest with you,” the director of Dune: Part Two said. “Probably I’m making movies because first I was a hardcore Lego player. I’m from that first generation where it was just bricks, right? I went to a lot of places with those Lego spaceships, boats, or whatever. And when I learned that Lego was doing an Ornithopter, I was like, ‘Wow.’ That blew my mind.”Lego first announced it was releasing the Atreides Royal Ornithopter from…

The European Union’s member states have finally approved the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation. Ambassadors from all 27 countries reached a deal on the landmark AI Act today. The final text on the harmonised rules was agreed after lengthy negotiations between representations of the European Council, European Parliament, and European Commission. France, Germany, and Italy had all expressed late reservations about the plans. The trio had called for limited regulation of foundation…

At age 19, Joe Tsogbe underwent his first hip replacement. In his 20s, he averaged about nine hospitalizations a year. By his 30s, that rose to more than a dozen. All the result of sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder where a genetic mutation causes normally full-moon shaped red blood cells to form into half moons and get stuck inside blood vessels, restricting blood flow and causing bouts of excruciating pain. The disease affects about 100,000 people in the U.S., many of whom are Black. Few treatments are…

The Israeli government said it will uphold a brief cease-fire in Gaza if Hamas freed 50 hostages The Israeli government has approved a deal for the release of hostages captured by Hamas in exchange for a brief cease-fire in Gaza. The decision was announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in a WhatsApp message early Wednesday, according to the New York Times. In exchange for a 4-day pause in the fighting in Gaza, the agreement would see the release of at least 50 hostages seized…

In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses CRISPR gene editing as a treatment for diseases. The decision marks another high point for a biotechnology that has regularly been lauded as revolutionary in the decade since its discovery.The therapy, called Casgevy, will treat the the blood conditions sickle-cell disease and β-thalassaemia. Sickle-cell disease, also known as sickle-cell anaemia, can cause debilitating pain, and people with β-thalassaemia can require regular blood…

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet speaks during a press conference ahead of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of online payment company Stripe, and his brother, John — a Stripe co-founder — and economist Tyler Cowen raised more than $50 million from some of the biggest names in tech: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel. Mark Zuckerberg…

Yesterday, the Dutch government released an official letter announcing it will allow the tasting of meat and seafood products cultivated from animal cells under specified conditions. Following in the footsteps of the US and Singapore, the Netherlands is now the first country in Europe to permit tastings of lab-grown meat, a move that is particularly welcome by leading Dutch startups in the field.  Collaborative competition in the lab-grown meat space Cellular agriculture might not make a huge…

On Thursday, various outlets reported on a June Reddit post from user potterharry97 saying that Steam would no longer be publishing games with AI-generated content. Later in the month, another game dev penned a similar post. Valve says that’s not quite right.In a statement emailed to The Verge, Valve PR representative Kaci Boyle said the company’s goal is “not to discourage the use of on Steam; instead, we’re working through how to integrate it into our already-existing review policies.” She went on to say that the…