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Leviticus Is Queer Horror with Heart and Soul

TIME - Tech

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The Best Art TVs

WIRED

After you're done bingeing your favorite movies, these art televisions are designed to liven up your wall. I have watched so many times I've lost count. For years, the Andrew Wyeth painting took a prominent place in my living room. Art televisions--the category of TV pioneered by Samsung's Frame and now rapidly expanding with models from many of the major TV producers --combine my passion for movies and shows with an even greater interest in art and photography. When it comes to their performance as televisions, even the best art TVs don't have quite the same punchy colors and speedy refresh rates found on similarly priced standard televisions. However, when the movie is finished, art TVs look a lot better in a room, displaying art and photos on a matte screen with a pristine clarity in a space otherwise wasted by a black box. Art televisions are typically just a little more expensive than a normal 4K TV.


Greta Lee Plays a Tablet in Toy Story 5. In Real Life, She Bought Her Kids a Landline

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'I Love Movies Because of Women.' How John Early Pulled Off Maddie's Secret

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TCL A65K Soundbar Review: Small Size, Big Sound

WIRED

Don't be fooled by the compact size of this soundbar. It's a solid option for smaller TVs or spaces without having to sacrifice sound quality. Acoustic music sounds loud and distinct. Some music sounds washed out and muddy. Living in a small space has some challenges, but poor cinematic sound doesn't need to be one of them.


Open Vision Reasoner: Transferring Linguistic Cognitive Behavior for Visual Reasoning

Neural Information Processing Systems

The remarkable reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs) stems from cognitive behaviors that emerge through reinforcement with verifiable rewards. This work investigates how to transfer this principle to Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) to unlock advanced visual reasoning. We introduce a two-stage paradigm built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B: a massive linguistic cold-start fine-tuning, followed by multimodal reinforcement learning (RL) spanning nearly 1,000 steps--surpassing all previous open-source efforts in scale. This pioneering work reveals three fundamental insights: 1) Behavior transfer emerges surprisingly early in cold start due to linguistic mental imagery.


What's Going On in Donald Trump's Head? We Don't Have Brain Scans. We Do Have This.

Slate

No one can say for sure what's going on in the president's head. His 25 greatest obsessions can get us a little closer. This is the year the first baby boomers--those born in 1946--turn 80, and that cohort includes Donald Trump. We have all recently lived through what it means to have an 80-year-old commander in chief, but at a political moment that's simultaneously more horrific, erratic, and just plain befuddling than anything this country has seen in ages, we wanted to understand the brain of 80-year-old president. Plenty of people are trying to discern whether his recent rants and raves are due to a more serious cognitive decline--we understand the instinct; we've done it too --but we went a different (if related) route. The more we dug into Trump's many fixations, the more we realized that this man still thinks he lives in the 1980s. We also discovered--without too much surprise--that he often seems to fundamentally misunderstand the works he treasures most deeply. These items might not replace a brain map, but they do create a certain holistic view of what animates and splinters Trump's mind. Sometimes, they just help explain his worldview. Other times, they seem to have had real influence on policy and the America that Trump is trying to create. Welcome to Trump Brain, the 25 things that define who the president is--and what he wants. Please enable javascript to fully experience this interactive. When millions of people took to the streets in October to protest Trump's authoritarianism, the president responded by dunking on his critics online. Specifically, he posted an A.I.-generated video of a fighter jet, piloted by himself in a literal crown, dropping human excrement onto the crowds. It was perhaps Trump's most juvenile use of A.I. slop yet--the kind of low-quality, feverish content made possible by artificial intelligence. Trump undoubtedly is the perfect president for the A.I. slop era. In some ways, this is because he's the ideal audience for it: Like many older internet users delighted by the technology, Trump seems to enjoy mindless, cartoonish, childish content. One of the videos he shared depicted him playing soccer with Cristiano Ronaldo in the Oval Office.


How Steven Spielberg Convinced the Cast of Disclosure Day That Aliens Are Real

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They expect you to die! The history of James Bond video games, from the good to the bad to the downright ugly

The Guardian

They expect you to die! Interactive takes on MI6's globetrotting spy have been around almost as long as the films, but that doesn't mean all of them were a success. 'The enormity of the idea helped me': how Patrick Gibson became gaming's new James Bond Bond finally arrived in an official video game capacity in 1984, courtesy of Parker Brothers. The game grouped several 007 adventures (Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only) together. Yet despite including elements from each movie, it was essentially the same game throughout: an unsatisfying and tricky mashup of the arcade games Moon Patrol and Scramble, with the player controlling Bond's amphibious Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me. Obscure pub trivia fact: due to the dispute between Bond producers Eon and screenwriter Kevin McClory, the Diamonds Are Forever segment replaced Blofeld with a villain named Seraffino.


'Supergirl' pre-release tracking looks disastrously bad for Hollywood after lead actress' bizarre comments

FOX News

Dan Le Batard, who previously avoided Doug Emhoff abuse allegation, declares journalism'dead' USA Today calls Stephen Colbert, America's least funny comedian, a'gallant comic avenger' Critics reviews for'The Mandalorian and Grogu' are out, and it's yet another bad sign for Disney, Star Wars Can Victor Wembanyama be the true face of the NBA as a European? Audemars Piguet x Swatch'Royal Pop' release sparks mob scenes, pepper spray and arrests at malls Statisticians strangely don't count multiple clear-cut Caitlin Clark assists vs Mystics The best outdoor weekend in Northwest Georgia doesn't require'roughing it' or sleeping on the ground STRAIT OUTTA WAR?: Iran talks enter most critical phase yet as US military remains on standby Strait of Hormuz reopening among core conditions needed for Trump's approval Greg Gutfeld: A good sheep doesn't do that Brian Kilmeade: This should be in the'fiction section' of every library US, Israeli militaries must ensure Iranians'do not cheat,' Foundation for Defense of Democracies CEO says OutKick-Analysis'Supergirl' pre-release tracking looks disastrously bad for Hollywood after lead actress' bizarre comments Star Milly Alcock's divisive remarks and underwhelming trailers have tracking estimates far below studio hopes Greg Gutfeld: Will Hollywood take the hint? Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the'Gutfeld!' panel discuss Hollywood's obsession with inserting politics into movies. Hollywood can't get out of its own way. For most of the last decade, the entertainment industry has worked extremely hard to alienate large numbers of potential customers.