Lost Art: How CG Killed Hand-Drawn Animation at Disney

While blockbuster CG-animated films like Toy Story 5 dominate the big screen today, let's take a look back at how hand-drawn ...
CNET

Disney's Imagineers Are Using Adobe's Firefly AI to Dream Up Ride Designs

The AI tool will be trained on proprietary Disney assets, helping Imagineers rapidly produce 3D models of characters and ...
The Next Platform

Tensordyne Converts AI Matrix Math To Logs To Crank Up Inference Oomph

Transformations are the key to such codes, and they rely on math that predates computing as we know it by centuries. There ...

Disney’s Imagineering Arm Using Adobe’s Firefly AI Models for Park Designs

Disney's Imagineering Research & Development unit is using Adobe’s Firefly Foundry to help Imagineers design and visualize ...
InfoWorld

Python and WebAssembly? Here’s how to make it work

Here’s how to safely replace packages like smtpd, cgi, msilib, and more. Django 5.2 release touts automatic model importing—and phases out earlier 5.x editions The newest Django has more than new ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
The Verge

You can now turn 2D apps into 3D while using the Galaxy XR headset

The experimental ‘auto-spatialization’ feature is rolling out now to Samsung’s XR device. The experimental ‘auto-spatialization’ feature is rolling out now to Samsung’s XR device. is a senior reporter ...
JournalofAccountancy

Use Excel dynamic arrays to build a revenue-testing schedule that auto-refreshes

Q. I get a detailed revenue transaction export from the client, and then I get it again, revised, usually after I’ve already filtered, sorted, and documented my selections. I’m tired of reapplying ...
SlashGear

Using An iPhone & Windows PC? Here's How I Make It Work (And What I'd Change)

Microsoft and Apple have long felt like the Montagues and the Capulets, but lately, it feels like that feud is gradually mellowing into a cordial, mutual understanding — without needing two young ...
NPR

'ChatGPT saved my life.' How patients, and doctors, are using AI to make a diagnosis

Start reading recent internet conversations about AI, and you'll find an anecdote that surfaces with increasing frequency: ChatGPT delivered lifesaving medical advice. "Three weeks ago I woke up from ...
The New York Times

How Trump

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. President Trump has ...
Phys.org

Neutral-atom arrays, a rapidly emerging quantum computing platform, get a boost from researchers

Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...