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After more than six months of grueling negotiations, David Ellison thought he was on the verge of landing the deal of a lifetime: taking over Paramount, Hollywood’s century-old studio. Ellison took the floor Tuesday morning in Los Angeles from an adviser to Shari Redstone, the heiress who controls the media group behind the classics, including … Read more
Sensing deflected wavefronts in fluorescence microscopy. Credit: Optics (2024). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.518559 A team led by researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has adapted a class of techniques used in astronomy to whiten images of distant galaxies for use in the life sciences, offering biologists a faster and cheaper way to get clearer and sharper microscopic … Read more
Indoor cycling software specialist Zwift has had a tumultuous relationship with hardware over the past couple of years, but its latest product is a clever idea that could disrupt the industry and create an entirely new product category. Called the Zwift Ride, it simply takes an existing smart trainer — namely the Wahoo Kickr Core … Read more
Over an inland sea 100 million years ago, a great flying reptile haunted the skies. Kyle Johnson via Unsplash Looking out over the Eromanga Sea 100 million years ago, not every ferocious predator would be found under the surface of the water. [–> Instead, one threat would come from the skies. [–> The “long-vanished” sea … Read more
It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspirational leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn more The rapid AI video generation market has changed, again: Luma AI, a startup backed by famous Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, today announced the free public … Read more
Artificial intelligence delivered advances in the US space program and in medicine decades before it made headlines. Now, AI is poised to bring major improvements to American education, tech entrepreneur Alex Galvagni said in an exclusive interview in New York City with Fox News Digital. Galvagni is the CEO of Age of Learning, the California-based … Read more
Cracking and self-healing of peptide glass. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07408-x A team of materials scientists from Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, both in Israel, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology in the US, have discovered that mixing a certain peptide with water results in creating a … Read more
On Thursday, Tesla ( TSLA ) shareholders will find out whether Elon Musk’s record $56 billion pay package will be reinstated after a Delaware judge struck down an earlier one. “I am voting yes without enthusiasm; I’m voting yes out of principle,” early investor Ibrahim AlHusseini told Yahoo Finance. Personal feelings aside, he said Tesla … Read more
Artist’s impression of a photonic Bose-Einstein condensate (yellow) in a bath of dye molecules (red) that has been stirred by an external light source (white flash). Credit: A. Erglis/Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg Researchers at the University of Bonn have demonstrated that super photons, or the photo Bose-Einstein condensates conform to the fundamental theorems of physics, … Read more
What a Google ‘top stories’ search result looks like with and without AI Summary The dramatic impact Google’s AI-written summaries are having on search results visibility for publishers has been revealed through exclusive new research. An investigation led by The Press found that AI-written summaries returned nearly a quarter of news-related search queries in mid-May … Read more