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CES 2024: The annual tech industry fair known as the tech is regaining momentum after the pandemic, with artificial intelligence (AI) infusing everything from bicycles to baby bottles. The gadget extravaganza referred to as CES formally kicks off Tuesday in Las Vegas, boasting more than 3,500 exhibitors and expecting some 130,000 visitors. CES exhibitor and attendee numbers have jumped each year since the Covid-19 pandemic caused it to be an online-only event in 2021."After Covid some people thought they were not going…

Legendary F1 engineer Steve Nichols made his mark during the 1980s and '90s, but at least a small part of him wondered what it would have been like to be in the game a quarter-century earlier. That spark grew into a blaze, pushing Nichols out of retirement to create his own company and street car project. The Nichols N1A race-inspired roadster has a pedigree like nothing else before it, designed as a modern take on the great race cars of the 1960s, specifically the very first car built by the McLaren team. The N1A's…

While popular new indie releases are high on the list, big-budget behemoths from many months and years ago have resurfaced to challenge them Valve’s Steam, the dominant sales platform in PC gaming (wherein the majority of PC games are bought and sold), is having its big annual summer sale, which puts deep discounts on a vast collection of storefront content. As a result, old bestsellers with long, long legs are seeing a resurgence in top-tier revenue gains. Massive AAA games from previous…

But the upswing could also help rekindle merger-and-acquisition business across the startup universe, analysts say. The number of tie-ups has remained low despite sharp drops in venture investing and public-market debuts—conditions that generally prompt more startups to seek the lifeblood of cash from potential buyers. Among U.S. tech firms, there were 425 M&A deals with a total value of $31.9 billion in the first quarter of 2023, down from 563 deals valued at $173.3 billion over…

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery - they have created a robot that can sweat, shiver and walk too. This innovative robot, called ANDI, has been developed by Thermetrics, a company in the United States, along with Arizona State University. ANDI is being hailed as the world's first sweaty robot. According to Konrad Rykaczewski, an Associate Professor at Arizona State University, "ANDI sweats, generates heat, shivers, walks, and breathes." ANDI, also known as a "thermal mannequin," has been designed to study…

via Marvel Studios The shadow of Jonathan Majors continues to loom large over the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the studio’s complete and utter silence on the ongoing allegations surrounding the actor potentially speaking volumes. While there’s no word on whether or not the star will end up being cut loose as the Multiverse Saga’s big bad, the fact he’s already been dumped from several projects and completely removed from the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania marketing campaign doesn’t paint a pretty picture…

The Might Barbarians is Michael Moreci's latest entry from Ablaze in the Sword and Sorcery fantasy story with art by Giuseppe Cafaro.The Mighty Barbarians is a comic that is exactly what its title declares, a fast, unfussy axe-to-the-head barbarian series updated to feel new again. Barbarian fantasies are deceptively simple. All you need is burly, musclebound men and women with swords and axes hacking away at other swordmen, monsters and magical or supernatural creatures and you're home free. The trick is to be fun.…

via 20th Century Fox The way Hollywood works – especially as it relates to a movie designed to be the first in a multi-film franchise – is that sequels will be given the okay should the opening installment turn a tidy profit. However, in some cases the first chapter is so unrelentingly awful that there’s no other choice but to abandon ship, which makes 2006’s Eragon such a fascinating case. Released at a time where big budget fantasy and YA literary adaptations were all the rage, the $100 million epic based on…

All That Breathes, which was nominated in the Best Documentary Feature Film category at the 95th edition of the Academy Awards, lost to Daniel Roher's Navalny. The documentary on India's climate change was nominated against All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Fire Of Love, A House Made of Splinters, and Navalny. (Also Read | Oscars 2023 live updates) Navalny is a documentary film that revolves around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and events related to his poisoning. The award was presented to the team of…

When Cowboy, a premium European e-bike company, invited the media to an event in Paris, France, it faced some unexpected challenges. Along with torrential rain, there also were strikes and protests against changes to the country’s pension system. And then the big reveal was… not a new bike. Instead, the announcement was three springtime color options for the Cowboy 4 and 4ST (step-through) plus Adaptive Power, a software upgrade coming to Cowboy 4 bikes this month. So when I met the company’s execs, I already had my…