Катерина Даньшина

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The director of «Mad Max» wanted to «rejuvenate» Charlize Theron for «Furiosa», but the technology looked «unconvincing»

«Mad Max» director George Miller considered using digital rejuvenation technology on Charlize Theron so that she could star in the…

16.05.2024

Take a break, Siri. Apple to add voice control without calling an assistant to iOS 18

Apple has announced a new voice feature in iOS 18 — Vocal Shortcuts, which will allow you to control your…

16.05.2024

ElevenLabs has launched a free iPhone app that speaks text on the screen — 11 voices and PDF capabilities available

The unicorn startup ElevenLabs, best known for its AI dubbing site, has launched its first public app. ElevenLabs Reader: AI…

16.05.2024

Netflix has ordered «additional episodes» for the series «3 Body Problem»

The exact number of episodes and seasons is promised to be announced «later». Netflix has announced that it has renewed…

16.05.2024

Boeing postpones «damned» Starliner mission — valve repaired, but there was a «small helium leak»

Starliner launch a week ago stopped due to a faulty oxygen valveHowever, it turned out that the spacecraft had other…

15.05.2024

Monster sunspot «produced» the most powerful X8.7 flare in 11 years

The giant sunspot on the Sun, designated as AR3664, left us a parting gift, but this time without the bonus…

15.05.2024

Ilya Sutzkever, the chief scientist who wanted to oust Sam Altman and changed his mind, is leaving OpenAI

OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever officially leaves the company — he is best known for leading the infamous…

15.05.2024

Google mentioned the word «AI» 121 times and gave out 1.5 «Gemini» per minute during the almost 2 hours of the I/O presentation

On May 14, Google I/O, a traditional annual event for developers, took place, where the company presents its latest web…

15.05.2024

Veo — Google’s new neural network that produces «high-quality» 1080p videos over 60 seconds long

Google's response to Sora by OpenAI The company did not hesitate to introduce the Veo AI generator capable of creating…

14.05.2024

Gemini 1.5 Flash — fast multimodal Google model with a contextual window of 2 million tokens

Google announced announces the release of Gemini 1.5 Flash, a small multimodal model designed to scale and solve narrow high-frequency…

14.05.2024

Helldivers 2 «beat» God of War Ragnarok and became the fastest-selling game for PlayStation (12 million copies in 12 weeks)

Arrowhead for PlayStation 5 and PC «far exceeded Sony's» expectations. Helldivers 2 sold more than 12 million copies in its…

14.05.2024

Ukrzaliznytsia «upgraded» ticketing website — updated design, women’s compartments and verification through Diia.Signature

Ukrzaliznytsia has launched a beta version of the updated website for buying railway tickets — with expanded and more convenient…

14.05.2024

Nicolas Cage to play an alternate version of Spider-Man in «Noir» series for Amazon

The actor has previously voiced the «noir» Spiderman in the animated film «Spider-Man: Across the Universe», which won an Oscar»,…

14.05.2024

«Don’t give up dating and be a nun». Dating service Bumble launched an anti-celibacy «ad» and is now apologizing for it

At the end of April, dating service Bumble launched a marketing campaign criticizing «celibacy» along with rebranding and app updates.…

14.05.2024

«Dune: Prophecy» — upcoming series about the female order of Benét Gesserit has attracted a Bollywood superstar to play Sister Francesca

Spinoff Films «Dune» is adapting the novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson «The Order of the Dune Sisters».…

14.05.2024

The US plans to impose a 100% duty on electric vehicles imported from China

On May 14, President Joe Biden is expected to impose 100% taxes on imported Chinese industrial products, including electric cars,…

14.05.2024

Chris Hemsworth says he’s annoyed by «unjustified criticism» of Marvel: «Tell that to the billions who watch their movies»

Martin Scorsese has repeatedly criticized Marvel, comparing the studio's films to «amusement park rides» and classifying them as «dangerous» to…

13.05.2024

Windows95man’s performance at Eurovision reminded us of Bill Gates’ «inflammatory» dance 30 years ago (video)

Finland's shocking performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was memorable not only for the participants' bright costumes (one of…

13.05.2024

CRISPR gene editing tool helps partially restore vision to blind patients in clinical trials

We are talking about patients with Leber's amaurosis, a rare congenital retinal disease that affects about one in 40 thousand…

13.05.2024

Apple says only 40 out of 65,000 iOS developers have applied for payments outside the App Store

None of the major iOS app developers has yet applied to use external payment options on Apple devices. According to…

13.05.2024

Vodafone Ukraine has developed its own version of AI for contact centers — launch scheduled for May 15

According to Sergiy Borislavsky, Head of Digital Solutions and Platforms at Vodafone Ukraine, the development and support of the company's…

13.05.2024

«Godzilla and Kong: The New Empire» increased its global box office to $560 million — the movie is preparing to take the MonsterVerse record

«Godzilla and Kong: New Empire» lags behind the current box office leader MonsterVerse «Kong: Skull Island» by only $10 million.…

13.05.2024

Forget about Earth — NASA plans to launch a robotic muggle on the Moon in the 2030s

A maglev or magnetoplane is a train on a magnetic suspension that is driven and controlled by magnetic forces. And…

10.05.2024

Twisters — Ukrainian trailer for the disaster movie about tornado hunters from the producers of «Jason Bourne»

«Twisters» — is a modern version of the 1996 blockbuster «Twister» from the producers of «Jurassic Park», «Jason Bourne» and…

10.05.2024

Microsoft to launch Xbox Store with mobile games in July — first with its own Call of Duty: Mobile, Candy Crush, and Minecraft

In July, Microsoft will launch a marketplace with games, which will initially feature titles from its own studios (such as…

10.05.2024

«The One Who Conquered Everest». Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe to star in biopic about legendary climber Tenzing Norgay

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay is one of the two people (along with Edmund Hillary) who first climbed the world's highest peak,…

10.05.2024

«We missed the mark». Apple has apologized for the «disruptive» iPad promo, but it doesn’t seem to be taking it down

The video «Crush» was published before presentation of new iPads and demonstrated how a hydraulic press destroys various things familiar…

10.05.2024

What are whales singing about? ML analysis reveals «deeper» than expected meaning of conversations and use of a separate alphabet

A study of whale language using machine learning has revealed a complex phonetic system that suggests cetaceans can talk to…

09.05.2024

25,000+ marriage applications registered on the «Diia» portal — 53% were submitted by women

In February, after 4 months of beta testing on the portal, «Diia» became accessible a service for applying for marriage…

09.05.2024

No VPN and no government permission: banned WhatsApp suddenly launched in China

WhatsApp has been miraculously working on some devices in China for two weeks — despite a longstanding government ban on…

09.05.2024

Fake «Monet» for $600 000. Artificial intelligence identifies 40 fake paintings on eBay

The researchers analyzed images of paintings sold on eBay using AI and found almost 40 fakes. Among them — fakes…

09.05.2024

New series «Office»: Peacock confirms development of spinoff — reporters from the defunct newspaper will replace Dunder Mifflin team

The documentary team that immortalized Michael Scott and his colleagues in the Scranton office of a paper company travels to…

09.05.2024

For the first time, Prozorro has put up a bitcoin lot — the price for 0.146 BTC starts at ₴188 thousand

For the first time, the Ukrainian electronic public procurement system Prozorro has put up an online lot with cryptocurrency. The…

08.05.2024

«We have learned our lesson». Marvel will release «only 2-3 movies a year» to fight superhero fatigue

The strategy to reduce production is common for Disney, but according to the media company's CEO Bob Iger, «is especially…

08.05.2024

The sci-fi series Dark Matter with Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly has been released on Apple TV+

Currently, the first two episodes are available for viewing, and the rest — will be released every Wednesday. Apple has…

08.05.2024

OpenAI has created a deepfake detector that recognizes images generated by DALL-E 3 with 98% accuracy

The company that developed ChatGPT and DALL-E created is a tool for recognizing images generated by artificial intelligence. Currently, the…

08.05.2024

«The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms»: the director of «Game of Thrones» will work on the prequel, and the first season will have only 6 episodes

Owen Harris has joined the directing and producing teams of HBO's new series «Knight of the Seven Kingdoms», which is…

08.05.2024

Microsoft closes several more Bethesda studios — developers of Redfall and Hi-Fi Rush, including

Microsoft has shut down a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall developer Arkane Austin and Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil…

07.05.2024

Indians who paid $1,000 for a Tesla pre-order in 2016 never received a car — but it’s not so easy to get the money back

In April 2016, Tesla opened a pre-booking site for India, but it still does not sell electric cars in the…

07.05.2024

Starliner did not take off: the first manned flight of the Boeing spacecraft was canceled due to problems with the oxygen valve

The next launch attempt may be scheduled for Friday, but delays have become typical for the mission due to ongoing…

07.05.2024

Apple launches secret ACDC — project to develop artificial intelligence chips for data centers

Apple has been working on the ACDC (Apple Chips in Data Center) project for several years, but it has no…

07.05.2024

Meet MAI-1: Microsoft’s new 500 billion-parameter AI model that aims to «beat» GPT

Microsoft seems to be working on its own large language model, which will potentially become a major competitor for AI…

07.05.2024

Musk advised J.K. Rowling to publish «interesting and positive» content on X/Twitter instead of posts about transgenderism

Both the billionaire and the writer have often been criticized for their views and statements on transgender issues. In the…

06.05.2024

Bitcoin trader loses $70 million after sending cryptocurrency to wrong address

This is a popular type of scam with «address poisoning»/ address poisoning — when fraudsters create fake accounts with a…

06.05.2024

Wi-Fi and cable at the same time: Google plans to speed up the data transfer process when setting up a new Android phone

When you set up a new Android phone, you usually have three options for moving data from your old device:…

06.05.2024

Authors Gen V will not look for a new actor to play Chance Perdomo — the plot was rewritten to make the character disappear from history

Chance Perdomo, 27, who played Andre Anderson, a student with the superpower of manipulating metals in the Gen V series,…

06.05.2024

Pornhub will pay taxes in Ukraine — as «an electronic service provider»

The company MindGeek (or Aylo), which owns the Pornhub porn site, has become a taxpayer in Ukraine. «The company that…

02.05.2024

Anthropic has launched a mobile app with Claude chatbot — only on iOS for now (Android version coming soon»)

The main competitor ChatGPT was previously available on Anthropic Claude.ai website and in third-party libraries such as Amazon Bedrock, Hugging…

02.05.2024

«Ukrposhta» launches a new series of stamps «Russian navy — to the bottom!» — in circulation since May 8

«Ukrposhta» announces new stamp issue «Russian navy - to the bottom!» — continued legendary series «Russian warship... !» — which…

02.05.2024

GTA VI publisher Take-Two closes two game studios — Roll7 and Intercept Games (part of Private Division)

Last month, Take-Two announced the layoff of 5% of its staff, or about 600 employees. How reports Bloomberg as part…

02.05.2024