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The superhero movie rumor mill is nothing new, but Avengers: Doomsday has been a bigger lightning rod for speculation, uncertainty, and misinformation than the average Marvel Cinematic Universe film. Part of this is because Marvel has been keeping the movie under wraps with enigmatic teases and trailers that you probably don’t know are (supposed to be) playing ahead of Avatar: Fire and Ash if you’re not tuned into the space. But even if you are paying attention to Doomsday’s hype cycle, it’s hard to trust that the information, images, or clips you’re seeing are even real. Part of this is…
In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an “impossible” problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century.In this case, the solvers weren’t human.An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Meta determined whether solutions of the equations governing certain dynamically changing systems — like the swing of a pendulum or the oscillation of a spring — would remain stable, and thus predictable forever. You may like The key to the problem was finding Lyapunov functions, which determine the long-term stability of these systems.Meta’s work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI…
Well, they’re finally here. On Friday, the United States Department of Justice released a large trove of files related to infamous convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The release comes just eight hours before the deadline mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law last month.For the Trump administration, Epstein has been “a guy that never dies,” in the words of Trump himself. Since the start of Trump’s second term, the DOJ and FBI have been scouring the agencies’ investigative holdings and releasing portions of that in spurts. While Friday’s release marks the largest trove…
If learning a new skill is one of your New Year’s resolutions, then you might want to know that MasterClass subscriptions are currently 50 percent off. This brings the top-tier subscription with offline mode and use on up to six devices down from $240 annually to $120. The entry-level plan, which supports just one device and doesn’t offer offline viewing, is marked down to $60 from $120.MasterClassOver the past few years, MasterClass has grown to over 200 classes, sessions and original series. You can learn about entrepreneurship from Richard Branson, screenwriting from Aaron Sorkin, cooking from Gordon Ramsay and heaps…
The star of the new Tomb Raider games doesn’t want a repeat of Perfect Dark. Big DLC is on the way for some hit games. And why is there no Xbox Wrapped for 2025? Welcome to the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. If you missed this year’s Xbox Bowl, well, Master Chief road a Warthog onto the field, did the coin toss, and presented the trophy to winner Arkansas State at the end which included an Xbox Ally X. He did not, unfortunately, reveal a new game in the franchise. Master Chief…
Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, technology demonstration is proving space missions can do the same by switching seamlessly between government and commercial communications networks. NASA missions rely on critical data to navigate, monitor spacecraft health, and transmit scientific information back to Earth, and this game-changing technology could provide multiple benefits to government and commercial missions by enabling more reliable communications with fewer data interruptions. “This mission has reshaped what’s possible for NASA and the U.S. satellite communications industry,” said Kevin Coggins, deputy associate administrator for the agency’s SCaN (Space…
Brian Barrett: I just this week was looking back at some of our earliest DOGE reporting and reminded of what a crazy couple of months that was. So just as a reminder for folks who were slumbering through the first half of the year, A, I’m jealous. I respect that.Zoë Schiffer: I was just going to say, good for you.Brian Barrett: Department of Government Efficiency came about when Elon Musk and Donald Trump got together and basically Trump gave Elon Musk kind of free rein to do whatever he wanted, and I’m not really exaggerating here, within the federal government.…
Anthropic is finally letting more people use Claude in Google Chrome. The company’s AI browser plugin is expanding beyond $200-per-month Max subscribers and is now available to anyone who pays for a Claude subscription.The Claude Chrome plugin allows for easy access to Anthropic’s AI regardless of where you are on the web, but its real draw is how it lets Claude navigate and use websites on your behalf. Anthropic says that Claude can fill out forms, manage your calendar and email and complete multi-step workflows based on a prompt. The latest version of the plugin also features integration with Claude…
Wordle, the word-guessing game that has been a daily fixture in many people’s lives since 2021, had a more difficult word than usual today, December 19. I don’t play Wordle, so I didn’t think much of it when my coworkers were chatting about how tough today’s word was. That is, until I looked outside of the Kotaku Slack and to the rest of the internet, where I saw that Wordle players were absolutely crashing out about today’s word. The word for today is “myrrh,” which, for those who don’t know about the cool shit Jesus was given when he died,…
NASA engineers are laying the foundation for the moonwalks the first woman and next man will conduct when they land on the lunar South Pole in 2024 as part of the Artemis program. At the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, teams are testing the tools and developing training approaches for lunar surface operations. As part of a test series occurring in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL) at Johnson, astronauts in a demonstration version of the exploration spacesuit and engineers in “hard hat” dive equipment are simulating several different tasks crew could do on the surface of the Moon. As part of a test series occurring…