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Bay Area-based computer vision startup Nex believes the future of TV is all about getting children (and their parents) off the couch.Last year, the company released the Nex Playground, a colorful set-top game console for children 8 years and younger with an integrated camera that captures a player’s motions to control gameplay. “Modern entertainment options have made families more sedentary, more isolated from each other,” says Nex cofounder and CEO David Lee. “We want to change that.”Titles available on the device…

While most of us prefer to be in a relationship rather than alone, some folks are such downright horrible and nasty people that it might be best to simply allow them to remain alone. But some netizens refuse to go quietly into the night and will, instead, aim to get back at their exes from hell.A woman shared her petty yet brilliant bit of revenge with an abusive and alcoholic boyfriend. As a result, he ended up with not a single sock remaining in his home. OP debated some readers in the comments, while others shared…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKirsten Dunst has said that the experience of shooting hyper-realistic war sequences for the upcoming A24 film Civil War left her with “PTSD for a good two weeks”.The Marie Antoinette actor, 41, stars as a military-embedded photojournalist documenting post-apocalyptic America in the upcoming war drama from Ex Machina and Annihilation writer-director Alex Garland.Speaking to Marie…

Many parts of North India received rainfall in the last couple of weeks. Many parts of Punjab even reported a hailstorm, which affected the crops. Here we have an incident from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow where a car was stuck on a road after it caved in, creating a sinkhole. The video of the car stuck in the sinkhole has already gone viral on the internet. Car left dangling after 20-ft sinkhole appears on Lucknow road byu/22_January_2024 inCarsIndia The video has been shared by Cars India, a forum on Reddit. The video…

PULLMAN, Wash. —  The search continues.Saying he was trying to discover whom he could build a team around near the end of a maddening season, UCLA coach Mick Cronin did not unearth any surprises Saturday evening.Point guard Dylan Andrews is likely to be a cornerstone going forward after he continued his late-season surge with another strong showing against Washington State.Center Adem Bona may have no choice but to come back for another college season after committing more needless fouls that limited his…

If we get to the end of 2024 with a better news story than Willy’s Chocolate Experience in Glasgow, I will be absolutely staggered.It’s the perfect story. You’ve got high expectations versus miserable reality. You’ve got an organiser who – if his reams and reams of apparently AI-generated self-published books are any indication – has a samurai-level expertise when it comes to parting people from their money. You’ve got the fact that he runs a company called House of Illuminati. You’ve got police involvement. You’ve got…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA joke from the new Mean Girls movie has been cut after an actor from the cast of the original film took offence to it. Lindsay Lohan was “very hurt and disappointed” by one specific joke made in the new film, and the reference appears to have been cut from its digital release.Tina Fey’s remake sees The Last Thing He Told Me’s Angourie Rice take over for Lohan as new student Cady…

A mother decided to leave a handwritten note in her daughter’s lunchbox after she came home complaining about a comment her teacher made at school.Caroline, who owns a company that sells eating utensils for small children named Pezzi, took to her TikTok account to reveal her three-year-old daughter, Evelyn, had arrived home one afternoon saying her teacher instructed her to eat her lunch in a certain order—beginning with her “good” foods and ending with the “bad” ones.For her toddler, the “good” foods were her sandwich…

Kerry Wan/ZDNETPre-gaming my week at Mobile World Congress with a demo of Motorola's bendable phone concept may have been the best worst decision of my life. On one hand, the coolness factor of a phone that can wrap around your wrist is beyond measure. On the other hand, it's so ambitious that you quickly realize how far-fetched it is when you finally put it on.Also: Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Fold is the most bizarre, fun, and expensive laptop I've ever testedMotorola first unveiled the bendable concept at Lenovo Tech…

OnePlus’s latest top phone can’t shake the feeling of being left behind by rivals.Even with a sleek appearance, speedy software and longer battery life the OnePlus 12 is devoid of the much-hyped AI tools packed into handsets from Samsung, Google and others. It feels more like a phone from 2020 than from the new era of artificial intelligence.That could appeal to anyone looking for a cut-down, relatively clutter-free experience – as may the cost of £849 (€969/$799), which undercuts £1,000 rivals with all the bells and…