Guillermo del Toro Hopes He's Dead Before AI Art Goes Mainstream The director tells WIRED the real Victor Frankensteins are tyrannical politicians and Silicon Valley tech bros. Guillermo del Toro attends the Headline Gala screening of Netflix's during the 69th BFI London Film Festival. Guillermo del Toro loves a challenge. Nothing the 61-year-old director does could be termed "half-assed," and each of his movies is planned, scripted, and storyboarded with immense attention to detail. Such discipline is evident in, his adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. It's a movie del Toro has been trying to make for years, and it shows. The elaborate sets and costumes--as well as some embellishing of Shelley's story--could only be the work of someone as connected as he is with his source material.

I went to Sonoma for a NASCAR race and found out heat is the bad guy, fluids are the secret weapon, and Valvoline's engineers are basically mad scientists with pit passes. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. A tire is making decent progress coming out of a turn at Sonoma Raceway --except for the fact it's no longer attached to Cody Ware's No. 51 Ford Mustang. Crowds gasp, cars swerve, and the wheel menacingly rolls off, then on, and then off the track again before it finally collapses. I've never related to a tire more.

When Virginia Woolf wrote this innocuous sentence in "A Room of One's Own," her foundational work of feminist criticism, she opened the door to another field, still decades in the future--that of queer literary criticism. Do not blush," Woolf cautioned her audience. "Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women." Chloe and Olivia are characters in a book that Woolf has invented, a mediocre novel by a writer she names Mary Carmichael. Ostensibly, the women are friends and colleagues, not lovers, but Woolf drops clues for attentive readers. At one point, she interrupts her train of thought to ask for reassurance that Sir Chartres Biron is not lurking somewhere in the room. When she gave her original talks, Biron had recently been appointed the chief magistrate in an obscenity case that had been brought against the publisher of Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness," a novel about a girl named Stephen who wants to be ...

Another crazy week in Go Full Throttle AI Rankings -- the cloud based predictive analytics system that uses our proprietary algorithms, utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, to deliver Driver Rankings and Race Predictions. Huge moves in the Cup Series data following battle at Richmond Raceway where Denny Hamlin and Toyota finally get to Victory Lane. Mr. Consistency and multi time Busch Light Pole Award winner Ryan Blaney started P1 and delivered another top 10 finish in 7th place. Of course, Hamlin's win rocketed him up 10 places from P22 all the up to P12. Kevin Harvick and his 4 SHR Ford finished 2nd at Richmond and that moves Harvick up 5 spots in the rankings to P11. Byron led a ton of laps and looked to be headed to Victory Lane before a great tire strategy call by Hamlin and Harvick's teams gave them the advantage late, passing Byron at 5 to go.

"Made for Love," which is now streaming on HBO Max, opens on a vast expanse of desert, empty save for a geometric building in the distance. A lid on the ground is unlatched, and out pops a woman in a sequinned dress, gasping for breath, her hair drenched with water and a little blood. The woman is Hazel Green, and she is portrayed by Cristin Milioti, a strongly expressive actor who has become known for deploying her feral intellect to outsmart male villains in science-fiction thrillers. If you have seen Milioti take down a video-game dictator in the "Black Mirror" episode "USS Callister," or hack a time-loop purgatory in the 2020 comedy "Palm Springs," then you might be able to guess the story of "Made for Love," even before Hazel raises her middle finger at the structure on the horizon. The place is clearly the source of some terror--one that is futuristic yet eerily familiar.

Hyundai, the South Korea based automotive company, unveiled its latest innovation this week at the Consumer Electronics Show -- a car with legs. The vehicle, dubbed Elevate, can walk and climb in addition to drive, and is geared toward aiding emergency responders in tough-to-reach areas after a natural disaster. "The legs have five-degrees of freedom. So, these legs can walk in mammalian mode and reptilian, and that really makes it omnidirectional," David Byron, manager of design and innovation at Sundberg Ferar, a company working with Hyundai on the project, told Fox News."It can go anywhere, it can drive like a regular car but when it gets to a situation where a normal wheeled vehicle reached its limit, this can standup -- crawl over various terrain." Although the concept sounds intriguing, John Suh, vice president and founding director of Hyundai CRADLE -- the company's corporate venturing innovation business -- stressed there is no timetable for actual production.

One of this week's milestones in the history of technology sets the tone to two centuries of debating the impact of machines and artificial intelligence on human work and welfare. On February 27, 1812, Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords in a parliamentary debate on the Frame Breaking Act which made destroying or damaging lace-machines (stocking frames) a crime punishable by death. The rejected workmen, in the blindness of their ignorance, instead of rejoicing at these improvements in arts so beneficial to mankind, conceived themselves to be sacrificed to improvements in mechanism. In the foolishness of their hearts, they imagined that the maintenance and well doing of the industrious poor, were objects of greater consequence than the enrichment of a few individuals by any improvement in the implements of trade which threw the workmen out of employment, and rendered the labourer unworthy of his hire. And, it must be confessed, that although the adoption of the enlarged machinery, in that state of our commerce which the country once boasted, might have been beneficial to the master without being detrimental to the servant; yet, in the present situation of our manufactures, rotting in warehouses without a prospect of exportation, with the demand for work and workmen equally diminished, frames of this construction tend materially to aggravate the distresses and discontents of the disappointed sufferers.

A chat with AI instructor Chris Mohritz Christopher Mohritz is a lifelong entrepreneur and technologist with a number of successful businesses under his belt; bringing a unique blend of technology know-how coupled with creative thinking and business acumen to each of his projects. Since 2009, Chris has been building and leveraging artificial intelligence systems to cognify a wide range of business functions -- marketing, sales, customer support and decision automation to name a few. And over the past five years, he has been building and operating a business accelerator for web/mobile startups, helping other entrepreneurs launch exceptional "AI-first" businesses. Chris draws heavily from a deep background in technology -- from operating nuclear reactors in the U.S. Navy to designing datacenters at Lockheed Martin. Complemented by a broad range of business experience -- from technical sales for the Fortune 500 to project management in the public sector.

This week's milestones in tech history include the first mass movement fighting automation, the first photography studio in New York, and the first meeting of the hobbyists club where the first Apple computer was demonstrated throughout its development. Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in a parliamentary debate on the Frame Breaking Act. During the short time I recently passed in Nottingham, not twelve hours elapsed without some fresh act of violence; and on that day I left the county I was informed that forty Frames had been broken the preceding evening, as usual, without resistance and without detection. Such was the state of that county, and such I have reason to believe it to be at this moment. But whilst these outrages must be admitted to exist to an alarming extent, it cannot be denied that they have arisen from circumstances of the most unparalleled distress: the perseverance of these miserable men in their proceedings, tends to prove that nothing but absolute want could have driven a large, and once honest and industrious, body of the people, into the commission of excesses so hazardous to themselves, their families, and the community.

The show stars former Mythbusters members Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara, and it's set to premiere on Netflix on December 9th. This time around, Byron, Belleci and Imahara aren't just investigating strange scientific phenomena or seemingly impossible movie scenes; they're ranking history's weirdest inventions, heists and happenings, and seeing how science makes them possible. In its first trailer, White Rabbit Project shows off a few familiar Mythbusters tropes, including explosions, wacky robotics, big guns and mild torture in the name of science. There's everything from training pigeons to robot jousting, and even an attempt to eat a fancy meal with electrodes intermittently zapping the hosts' muscles. We first heard about White Rabbit Project in September.