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Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening, has confirmed the upcoming survival game will veer away from the source material. Dune: Awakening takes place years after the events of the 2021 film and will feature an “alternative” history, according to creative director, Joel Bylos. Funcom worked with both Legendary Pictures, the team behind the big-screen adaptations, as well as the family of Dune author Frank Herbet, but Awakening sees several supposedly-dead characters still alive. That’s not the only change either, with…

French startup Zama has raised $73mn to commercialise the “holy grail” of cryptography: fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Conceptually simple but practically complex, FHE enables computations on encrypted data without having to first decrypt it. As a result, companies can provide services without seeing their customers’ information. The users, meanwhile, won’t notice any difference in the function. To visualise the process, imagine the encrypted data as a locked box and the computations as…

When it comes to blockbusters, Paul Rudd has played Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and taken on threats like Yellowjacket, Thanos and Kang the Conqueror. Of course, he’s also part of the Ghostbusters movies now and will don a proton pack once more for Frozen Empire, the sequel to 2021’s Afterlife. Rudd enjoys his position within the storied franchise that began decades ago. He recently expressed his enthusiasm over one specific aspect of filming the latest installment, which was also stressful for him in a…

Researchers have made progress against citrus greening disease by developing hybrid citrus trees that produce desirable orange-like fruit and resist the disease. Through genetic analysis, they’ve created tools for early flavor profile screening, marking a significant step in ensuring future hybrids combine disease tolerance with the essential sweet orange flavor.It’s one thing for a hybrid citrus tree to tolerate citrus greening disease (a.k.a. Huanglongbing) and quite another if it also produces orange-like…

Image: UniversalWe’ve known for a while that Green Knight star Dev Patel was making a switch for his next movie, taking on the dual role of star and director for Monkey Man, a John Wick-esque mythological action thriller set in Mumbai. But now, thanks to a little help from Jordan Peele, we’ve just got our first look, and wow.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie Monkey Man follows Patel as Kid, a young man making a meager living by day doing small jobs in Mumbai, and taking part in underground fighting…

The aluminum canister containing bits of an ancient space rock has finally been opened, revealing the bulk of the asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory. Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors Earlier this month, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team managed to crack open the TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) head after developing new tools to deal with two stuck fasteners that stood in the way of the asteroid sample. With the sampler head finally open, NASA revealed the remainder of the unseen…

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Andersen and Lensky of Google disagree. They do not think the experiment demonstrates a topological qubit, because the object cannot reliably manipulate information to achieve practical quantum computing. “It is repeatedly stated explicitly in the manuscript that error correction must be included to achieve topological protection and that this would need to be done in future work,” they write to WIRED.When WIRED spoke with Tony Uttley, the president and COO of Quantinuum, after the company’s own announcement in May, he…

Amidst the recent controversy surrounding her marital challenges, Jada Pinkett Smith candidly revealed that the infamous Oscars slap played an important role in saving her marriage. The 52-year-old acknowledged that the incident prompted her to reflect on whether she could continue her journey with Will Smith. Despite earlier headlines speculating about their marriage, there now appears to be a newfound sense of clarity. Will Smith with wife Jada Pinkett Smith at the premiere of Aladdin. Jada Pinkett Smith…

Located on a street off London’s Park Lane the Michael Werner Gallery is the epitome of moneyed art world chic: situated in a Georgian townhouse, so discreet a passerby would never know it was there. It really shouldn’t be a surprise to find the late Don Van Vliet’s paintings in these surroundings – Michael Werner has been his gallerist ever since the early 80s, when Van Vliet stopped calling himself Captain Beefheart and gave up music entirely to devote himself to visual art – and yet it is. The paintings in his first…