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Tesla is finally starting to roll out Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta v12 to customers — another “mind-blowing” update, according to CEO Elon Musk. However, as usual, everyone should be really careful when using FSD Beta. FSD Beta v12 has been one of the most anticipated updates to Tesla’s controversial ADAS level 2 system, which it hopes will eventually become level 4 or even 5. The Tesla v12 software update is introducing what Musk has been calling “end-to-end neural nets”. The biggest difference…

At the 2024 Oscars, he was most definitely a “10.” Ryan Gosling’s performance of I’m Just Ken at the 96th Academy Awards, alongside Mark Ronson and other famous Kens, wowed audiences, made co-stars laugh, and got other A-list celebrities to join in.After triumphing in his Ken role in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Ryan went ahead to perform the popular song on the stage at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday (March 10).Mark and company managed to get the 43-year-old actor and all the other Kens (including Simu Liu) from the film to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLionsgate has released the first look at Borderlands, its upcoming movie adaptation of the popular video game series.The star-studded adaptation will be led by two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as Lillith, an infamous outlaw who returns to her home planet and forms an unlikely alliance with a team of heroes. Together, they face a dangerous journey battling alien monsters and…

Unappreciated at the time of its release, despite being one of the best horror movies of the 2000s, Jennifer’s Body has become a cult classic in the world of horror movies. The screenwriter of the Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried-led horror-comedy Diablo Cody has returned to the genre with a new film called Lisa Frankenstein. Surprisingly enough, she says that Fox's film takes place in the same universe as her latest work, and my mind is blown.The 2009 horror comedy that Diablo Cody wrote follows a high school student who…

James Cameron is a man known for spectacle. The sinking of a real model of Titanic, a planet filled with blue aliens and enormous spaceships, to a decimated space colony filled with carnivorous acid-blooded extraterrestrials. So when the man says something ‘blew him away’, there’s got to be something to what he’s using.In a recent Vanity Fair article Cameron told the interviewer, fairly emphatically, that while he doesn’t ‘bow down to the god of Apple’, he was ‘really, really blown away’. He’s not the only prominent…

While Samsung announced a new series of Neo QLED TVs at CES 2024, it also temporarily reduced the prices of its 2023 models in many markets. These limited-time discounts allowed me to upgrade my smart TV from an entry-level 50-inch / 125cm Crystal 4K model to a Neo QLED 4K one. I've been using my new 50-inch QN90C Neo QLED for a few days now, and it never fails to blow me away every time I see it. Even though I tempered my expectations for Samsung's Neo QLED, I must admit that my jaw still didn't drop to the floor the…

On Saturday, one of Alaska Airlines’ planes had a window and fuselage blew out midair, forcing an emergency landing. Despite the shock, no one got hurt. While the story itself is incredible, a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) has gone viral as an iPhone from this plane was found intact on a road near Beaverton, Oregon.According to Seanathan Bates, he found an iPhone from the Alaska Airlines flight on the side of the road. It was still in Airplane Mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for this…

For the first time, astronomers have discovered a white dwarf with two different faces, one of hydrogen and the other of helium. The discovery raises new theories about white dwarf evolution and the role of magnetic fields in shaping celestial bodies. Credit: K. Miller, Caltech/IPACUnusual white dwarf star is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.In a first for white dwarfs, the burnt-out cores of dead stars, astronomers have discovered that at least one member of this cosmic family is two-faced. One side…

Should Marvel and Star Wars fans be starting to get worried that the Disney mea culpas are coming quicker and faster? It was only in February that the mouse house’s CEO, Bob Iger, told shareholders that the mega-studio needed to get “better at curating” franchise content for Star Wars and Marvel because of the extraordinary expense of creating it. Now, in the middle of the company’s worst box office slump in years, Iger this week told CNBC that Disney would be both “spending less on what we make, and making less” in the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChristopher Nolan has explained his decision to cast his eldest daughter, Flora, in such a shocking role in his atomic bomb movie Oppenheimer.The biographical film, set during the Second World War, stars Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as the “father of the atomic bomb”, and is due to be released on 21 July.Nolan previously said people are walking out of the…