Thursday 25th April 2024

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The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.

The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.

Generative AI has vast potential to augment our work, now and in the future, but there’s a very real danger of human workers ceding too much control to machines and becoming complacent about mistakes. Maintaining a “human in the loop” is often touted as the antidote to catching errors, but MIT senior lecturer and research scientist Renée Richardson Gosline says that people frequently overestimate their ability to find flaws in GenAI-produced content.

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'Stellar Blade' Review: The Beginning of an Exciting New Sci-Fi Saga

Understanding what it means to be human can be a complex issue. As Eve explores a post-apocalyptic Earth searching for monstrous creatures called Naytibas, the question of humanity becomes a central theme. Humans and Naytibas alike roam the planet, but what’s really happening here? Throughout her journey, Eve will visit underground caverns in search of answers as history slowly unfolds.

Stellar Blade offers a story about sacrifice interwoven with religious themes combined with challenging combat and stylish graphics. South Korean studio Shift Up's first console game delivers a narrative that will make you question what it really means to be human, while also requiring split-second timing in battle if you want to live to tell the tale.

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A Dead Star in a Nearby Galaxy Just Did Something Wild

A magnetar in galaxy M82 recently sent a huge burst of gamma rays and other radiation blasting out into space. Magnetars are the burned-out, collapsed cores of massive stars, wrapped in the strongest magnetic fields in the universe. And sometimes, the restless shifting of those immensely powerful magnetic fields releases a huge blast of energy: a giant flare, bright enough to be seen tens of millions of light-years away.

In the last 50 years, astronomers have seen one of these dramatic flares just three times, and never in another galaxy – until recently. Astrophysicist Sandro Mereghetti and his colleagues published their work in the journal Nature.

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'Falcon and the Winter Soldier' Exclusive Clip Reveals a Crucial Change to Show's Plot

The finale of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier may be when we see Sam Wilson don the Captain America suit, but Episode 5 is secretly the best episode. It’s when we see Sam finally see Isaiah Bradley’s way of thinking, when we see Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine for the first time, and when we see Sam start to train with his predecessor’s shield.

But initially, one of those scenes was supposed to open the series. In an exclusive clip from the upcoming Falcon and the Winter Soldier Blu-Ray and 4K release, the creative team behind the series reveals the initial opening scene — and why it was moved all the way to Episode 5. Check out the full clip below.

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Famke Janssen Probably Won't Be in 'Deadpool 3' — But There's a Silver Lining

No one’s ever really gone — and that’s especially true if you’ve got the Phoenix Force. As Jean Grey, Famke Janssen has returned to the big screen whenever fans least expect it. Fox’s X-Men films killed Jean off time and again, but she always came back, whether it be as a ghost (in 2013’s The Wolverine) or as a variant in a different timeline (in Days of Future Past). If anyone were to return in the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine — which will send its eponymous duo on a journey through the multiverse — Jean Grey is your best bet. But is Janssen interested in reprising her role?

“You know, I haven’t been asked,” Janssen tells Inverse at the premiere of her latest film, Boy Kills World. “Obviously I’ve been replaced by the beautiful Sophie Turner, so I don’t know if that would ever happen; I doubt it.”

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Nintendo Switch Just Quietly Released Two Classic Racing Games You've Never Heard Of

After adding Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island earlier this month, Nintendo Switch has a few more additions to the line up that players may be less familiar with. Starting today, Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can play Extreme G and Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls, two Nintendo 64 racers that both put a unique twist on the racing genre.

Extreme G is the more recognizable of the pair, as it’s more of a standard racing game and also got a lot more attention upon its original release. Extreme G is a sci-fi racer where players zip around track at incredible speeds, something like Nintendo 64’s answer to the PlayStation racer Wipeout. The difference is that, while Wipeout featured futuristic spaceships to race in, Extreme G puts players on what are essentially souped up sci-fi motorcycles. Also like in Wipeout, competitors can pick up weapons as they race along the track to slow their opponents and gain an upper hand.

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'Another Crab's Treasure' Is the Must-Play Soulslike of the Year

Another Crab’s Treasure is the quintessential underdog story, a game about a little guy thrust into a dangerous world where nearly everybody wants to erase him from existence. It’s also one of the most inventive takes on the Soulslike genre that I’ve ever seen: a tough-of-nails action game, a cartoony romp through a colorful world, and an insightful reflection on the dangers of pollution and climate change. Last year Lies of P proved that a unique story and aesthetic can make a Soulslike game flourish, and in every regard, Another Crab’s Treasure feels like the next step after that. It’s simply a must-play title that pushes the genre forward in imaginative new ways.

In Another Crab’s Treasure you play as Kril, a tiny hermit crab simply living his life in the shallow pool. That is until one fateful day, when one of those shark grabber toys steals your shell and runs away with it. With no home and nothing to his name, Kril sets out on an adventure to get his shell back, taking him through a SpongeBob-esque world where trash is seen as treasure.

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Quentin Tarantino's Canceled Last Movie Would Have Finally Explained His Messy Cinematic Universe

Quentin Tarantino was a literal poster boy for ’90s movies, as Pulp Fiction posters were plastered on the walls of countless dorm rooms. Despite that, Tarantino has kept his filmography relatively small after declaring a decade ago that he plans to retire after his 10th movie. With Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood being his ninth film, fans were waiting with bated breath to learn what his last film would be.

In March 2023, The Hollywood Reporter revealed Tarantino’s next and presumedly final movie would be called The Movie Critic, “set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center.” Rumors swirled around who could star in the filmmaker’s swan song, but it was all for naught. Last week, THR revealed Tarantino is scrapping the movie and going back to the drawing board.

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12 Years Later, an Iconic Sci-Fi Franchise is Rebooting Its Own Confusing Chronology

As the 1979 classic Alien returns to theaters to celebrate its 45th anniversary, and the forthcoming film Alien: Romulus plans to fill in the gaps between Alien and Aliens, the chest-bursting franchise is expanding as a TV franchise too. A new TV series from FX from showrunner Noah Hawley will serve as a a prequel to the entire Alien franchise — and it might just have shaken up the entire timeline once again.

First comes the big question: Didn’t we already have an Alien prequel in 2012 with the Ridley Scott movie Prometheus? Didn’t Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) get impregnated with a bloodthirsty squid alien, that, by the time of Alien: Covenant, resulted in a proto-version of the xenomorph? If the Alien story doesn’t really begin with Prometheus, what is this new TV series about? The rumored timeline of the Alien TV series will put it a few years before the events of that prequel, which already seems like a continuity hiccup. Here’s why the Alien TV series will have to hammer out the formation of the most corrupt sci-fi corporation of all time: Weyland-Yutani.

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How Amazon's Best New Sci-Fi Show Built Its Massive Post-Apocalyptic World

Production designer Howard Cummings and costume designer Amy Westcott reveal how they brought the universe of Fallout to the screen.

“How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” This is the now-famous tagline of Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film. Although the tagline was, of course, referring to the controversial subject matter of Vladimir Nabokov’s book, the same words could just as easily be applied to Amazon’s ambitious new video game adaptation: How did they ever make a TV series of Fallout?

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