How ILM brought ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ VFX to life, from the AT-AT oner to Baby Yoda’s CG touch-ups

The effects house used pioneering tech, including modified Apple Vision Pro headsets, to bring Jon Favreau's Star Wars series ...
Thurrott

Anthropic Engineer Debates Use of Markdown vs. HTML in AI Agent Output

Markdown has emerged as the lingua franca of AI, especially with the proliferation of AI agents. But an Anthropic engineer argues that HTML is a better choice for output. And despite my love of ...
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 Guardian

The Parallax View: remember when Hollywood made potent political cinema?

This Warren Beatty thriller puts all the anxieties and tension of the 70s into a blender – and delivers a perfectly paranoid pulp mystery Watching Hollywood cinema in 2026 can make for a curious ...
The Conversation

More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good

K-12 teachers and students across the country are increasingly using AI in and out of classrooms, whether it is teachers turning to AI to refine lesson plans or students asking AI to help them ...
NBC News

U.S. military is using AI to help plan Iran air attacks, sources say, as lawmakers call for oversight

As the U.S. military expands its use of AI tools to pinpoint targets for airstrikes in Iran, members of Congress are calling for guardrails and greater oversight of the technology’s use in war.
Harvard Business Review

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...
The Business Journals

Dayton defense R&D firm tapped for $151B Missile Defense Agency contract

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A Beavercreek-based research ...
Geeky Gadgets

Using Gemini 3 AI Easily Create Fully Animated Websites

Have you ever wondered how Apple manages to create websites that feel so effortlessly sleek and innovative? Their secret lies in the perfect balance of design, animation, and user experience, a ...
SiliconANGLE

Parallax Worlds raises $4.9M to help companies virtually stress-test industrial robots

Parallax Worlds, a startup building hyper-realistic virtual simulations to stress-test robots before deployment, today announced it raised $4 million in a seed round. Developing and deploying robots ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...