Sideshow Collectibles ended its annual 12 Days of Sideshow showcase in the form of a brand new, premium format Batgirl figure. After beginning last week, Sideshow’s 12 Days of Sideshow ran through January 5, 2024, and saw a variety of new products revealed. The final product is an impressively detailed figure of Batgirl. More information … Read more
Electric cars are in a pretty good place right now — if only there were somewhere to charge the darn things. More than ever before, drivers looking to ditch tailpipe emissions have access to some of the best electric cars to hit American roads. EVs are becoming more energy efficient, improving their range and ownership … Read more
A centuries-old mystery surrounding the origins of a chalk giant hill figure has been unravelled by academics from Oxford University. New research indicates the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset was originally carved as an image of Hercules to mark a muster station for West Saxon armies. Speculation has long surrounded the figure, with some believing … Read more
Add to your saved storiesSave Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis two decades later, died Dec. 26. He was 81. The death was reported by the German news agency dpa, citing Mr. Schaeuble’s family. No … Read more
Last week, I posed this challenge: You and nine of your coworkers are sitting in a conference room when somebody wonders aloud about the group’s average salary. Everyone is curious, but nobody feels comfortable sharing their own pay with the group. How can you all learn your average salary without anybody learning any more information … Read more
Michael Latt, a marketing consultant and social justice advocate with strong ties to Hollywood, died Monday after a woman entered his home and fired a bullet that struck him in the head, law enforcement sources told The Times. Authorities believe the shooting was a random act of violence. Police were contacted around 6 p.m. about … Read more
Image: Hot Toys Former Jedi Knight and forever warrior against the dark side Ahsoka Tano gets her own fierce figure inspired by her live-action look in Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s Ahsoka. Presented by Sideshow and Hot Toys, the sixth-scale collectible figure of Ahsoka features a fantastic likeness of star Rosario Dawson; it includes two interchangeable face … Read more
Image: Hot Toys It’s still kind of wild to us that last year brought a new Predator movie, and a good one at that. After decades of the franchise flopping around unable to figure out what it wanted to be, director Dan Trachtenberg stepped up to the plate with Prey, a standalone prequel that gave … Read more
Young kids attend the ground-breaking ceremony for Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo’s newest weightlifting academy. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO From Olympic weightlifting gold medalist to philanthropist. Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo proved she is more than just a beacon of hope by providing something more tangible that can help young athletes take the same path to glory she did: A training center in … Read more
NYU’s LLMtime program finds the next likely event in a sequence of events, as represented in strings of numeric digits. New York University Today’s generative artificial intelligence programs, tools such as ChatGPT, are on course to produce many more kinds of results than just text, as ZDNET has explored in some depth. One of the … Read more