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Teen brothers build a Disney-inspired ride in family basement

Popular Science

Nico (right) and Matteo Mucchetti pose with their homemade dark ride vehicle. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. When 12-year-old Matteo Mucchetti mapped out an amusement-style attraction that he wanted to create in his family's basement and then showed it to his older brother Nico, the high-school sophomore was immediately sold. "This is amazing," said Nico. "Let's make it!" Matteo had sketched on paper a top-down view of the multi-room space in Bear, Delaware, where they live.



John Wick game starring Keanu Reeves unveiled at PlayStation showcase

BBC News

The billion-dollar action film series John Wick is being turned into a video game, featuring the likeness and voice of star Keanu Reeves. Untitled John Wick Game, as it is currently known, will be made by Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive and include input from film franchise director Chad Stahelsk. A trailer for the game, which is expected to be a prequel to the series, was unveiled at PlayStation's State of Play showcase on Thursday. The Sony event also revealed several remakes of major game franchises, including the God of War trilogy, as well as a 30th anniversary edition of platformer Rayman. The John Wick film franchise, which has earned more than $1bn (£735m) worldwide, follows the story of the retired assassin played by Keanu Reeves on a path of bloody vengeance.


Hollywood studios take aim at 'ultra-realistic' AI video tool

BBC News

Hollywood studios take aim at'ultra-realistic' AI video tool The MPA represents the major US studios - Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros Discovery. The content referenced was created as part of a limited pre-launch testing phase, it said. The AI tool can quickly make highly realistic clips from a short, simple text prompt, such as a fist fight between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, Will Smith battling a red-eyed spaghetti monster or even Friends characters reimagined as otters. ByteDance should immediately cease its infringing activity. According to ByteDance, steps are being taken to further address risks, and it will implement robust policies, monitoring mechanisms and processes to ensure compliance with local regulations.



Inside the New York City Date Night for AI Lovers

WIRED

EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help in making AI-human relationships a "new normal." If you're the type of person who cares about Valentine's Day, not having someone to spend it with can be a bummer. While dating apps have been yielding diminishing returns for singles for years now, more people are finding companionship with AI partners . But where do you take your AI lover for a night on the town? Ahead of Valentine's Day, EVA AI decided to try out an experiment.



Whodunnit: The Upstate Murder-Mystery Weekend

The New Yorker

Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The event has a storied history among mystery buffs; some of its first scripts were written by the celebrated author Donald E. Westlake, along with his wife Abby, and they often collaborated with notable writer friends, including Stephen King, Edward Gorey, and Isaac Asimov, on everything from performing to graphic design. A half century ago, few, if any, hotels offered "immersive theatre" as an amenity, and the Mystery Weekend became a hot ticket for city dwellers--the first weekend, in 1977, drew more than two hundred participants. Soon, mystery-solving events were de rigueur at many rural hotels, whose owners found that staging crime scenes was a surefire way to lure cosmopolitans to the country during the off-season. In 1992, the reporter Alessandra Stanley noted that the swelling glut of mystery parties came in three categories: serious, "in which participants form teams and spend two to three days"; semi-serious, which "take place in large hotels, over meals, and are meant to be more entertaining than challenging"; and those on cruise ships, which are fully unserious.



I've Lived Long Enough to Hear an A.I.-Generated Bon Jovi Song in Olympic Ice Dancing

Slate

That move may have warded off the lawyers, but it didn't slide past Olympic viewers. Disgusted reactions ensued immediately after Mrázková and Mrázek took the ice and NBC's announcers pointed out that, while half of their choreography was set to AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," the other half had been soundtracked by A.I. The ISU's own documentation identifies the track as something called "One Two," created by an A.I. prompted to come up with something resembling "90s style Bon Jovi."