As today’s Oscar nominations show, Hollywood animation is in creative crisis

While five of 2025 highest grossers were animated, including "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Zootopia 2," creative timidity ...
IEEE

GEM: A Generalizable Ego-Vision Multimodal World Model for Fine-Grained Ego-Motion, Object Dynamics, and Scene Composition Control

Abstract: We present GEM, a Generalizable Ego-vision Multimodal world model that predicts future frames using a reference frame, sparse features, human poses, and ego-trajectories. Hence, our model ...
Interesting Engineering

Ti Hua Ji: World’s earliest computer is a silk loom built in China 2000 years ago

The world’s earliest computer was not built in the 19th century by Charles Babbage but over two millennia ago during the Western Han dynasty, according to the China Association for Science and ...
Indian Defence Review

2,000-Year-Old Device Found in Chinese Tomb Could Be World’s Oldest Computer

Archaeologists excavating a tomb in Xinjiang, in far-western China, made an unexpected find: a 2,000-year-old silk-weaving loom equipped with mechanical components that some believe reflect the basic ...
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Bodies Pile up at EPCOT During New Year’s Crowd Control Failure

EPCOT guests reported “body to body” crowd chaos in the United Kingdom World Showcase Pavilion during one of the busiest New Year’s Eve celebrations at Walt Disney World Resort. Unmitigated congestion ...
Rennlist

At $125K This Might Be the World’s Most Expensive 2000 Boxster S

This 2000 Boxster S has been rebodied to look like a Ferrari Dino 246, but is that enough to justify the outrageous price? I love the 986 Boxster–I have owned several and I have been on the record ...
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The world’s largest plane takes off in slow motion

This video captures a close-up slow-motion takeoff of the Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft. The detailed footage highlights the sheer size and power of the aircraft as it lifts off ...