Reimagining

Millie Bobby Brown is essentially Netflix’s bread and butter — the modern version of a studio system star who’s become the face of the streamer, for better and for worse. After Stranger Things and Enola Holmes, their latest collaboration comes in the form of the defiant fantasy adventure film Damsel, directed by the Spaniard Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, written by Fast X scribe Dan Mazeau, and executive produced by Brown herself. The 20-year-old plays Elodie, daughter of a lord forced to marry a prince to save her family’s…

By University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science February 16, 2024A new chip developed by Penn Engineers uses light to accelerate AI training, offering faster processing and reduced energy consumption while enhancing data privacy. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comAn innovative new chip uses light for fast, efficient AI computations, promising a leap in processing speeds and privacy.Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the…

I don’t know how to say this nicely. I am not sure I want to say this at all. Still, maybe I should give it a try.It had been a good day. I’d started a new batch of students in my class on persuasive communication they were enthusiastic and seemed to enjoy the exercises I designed for them. After class, I had a working lunch with my daughter, who is home from Bengaluru. We ate quinoa salad with figs, jeera rice and creamy dal makhani, she worked on her data strategy spreadsheet, and I worked on a class assignment for next…

So how do Dr. Subbiah and her team stay ahead of cancer and work toward better outcomes in cancer care? The solution starts with the patients who participate in clinical trials. Dr. Subbiah recognized right away that there were entire populations of patients who were not represented in the trials used to test new cancer treatments, and that was unacceptable.“When you look closely at those who participate, you see key people, part of our families, being excluded from the studies. Older adults; people in rural areas; people…

Atari continues to open its vault for modern developers, as the company has announced its next classic game to get the remake treatment: Lunar Lander Beyond, which is a full re-imagining of the 1979 arcade classic Lunar Lander.Lunar Lander Beyond puts players in the role of captain for the fictional Pegasus Corporation, which leads expeditions through space. The captain will lead a crew of explorers, advisors, and landers through multiple challenges, including resource collection and rescue missions, all…

Before Resident Evil, there was Alone in the Dark — a Lovecraftian survival horror game from Frédéric Raynal, that relied on fixed, pre-rendered backdrops upon which 3D characters would scurry about. The game design impressed creator Shinji Mikami to adapt it into RE's early model, prior to which it was planned as a first-person shooter. Arriving on the scene in 1992, Alone in the Dark spawned an entire series of compelling titles, before eventually fading into obscurity over the next decade. That is, until Swedish…

The technological changes we have been experiencing all these years have often been touted as disruptions to processes and businesses; seldom have concerns been raised about the threat to creativity as it is intricately linked to the competence of human quality. With generational AI, the unique status of human creativity is being upstaged with ChatGPT and its brethren as these tools are capable of producing new creative content with a mix of images, audio and text that are as good or better than human generated output.…

Screenshot: NetflixImagine, if you will, someone remade a classic Looney Tunes cartoon where Elmer Fudd tries to hunt Bugs Bunny. But instead of just updating the animation, that someone used the cartoon as the basis for a sprawling epic that turned Elmer and Bugs’ face-off into a sprawling, tense game of cat-and-mouse, extrapolating depth, social commentary, and more—and imagine that reimagining absolutely ruled. That’s not quite Pluto, but it’s close.Based on a storyline in the original Astro Boy, the beyond beloved and…

You can’t have an awards show without a little drama. While institutions like the Oscars can shine a celebratory spotlight on artists and their craft, they also tend to bring out the peanut gallery. Everything from nominations to production choices gets skewered as viewers debate the right way to recognize the art they love. That attitude has spilled into video games in recent years, as shows like The Game Awards have opened conversations about how the medium is celebrated, whether or not enough games are getting the…

The recent cyberattacks involving Uber, Okta, and Twitter have affirmed cybersecurity experts’ worst fears: Phishing remains disturbingly effective and leaves lasting damage when combined with social engineering.  A study conducted by the Swiss public university ETH Zurich found that phishing simulations, a security training method that many companies rely on, is often ineffective. The findings suggest that employees who are prone to clicking on potentially malicious links often do so repeatedly, and that those who…