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It’s getting easier to start conversations.

In the past decade, fires from electronic devices and batteries, from small smartphones to electrical vehicles and airplanes, have repeatedly made headlines. Enhanced computational power has led to a large amount of waste heat generation and undesirable temperature rise of electronics.

How about turning a car's front bucket seats 180 degrees so they face the rear seats and extending out a table so the occupants can play cards or eat a meal? Or a 43-inch (109 centimeter) screen for the passengers in the back seat?

A team of video and AI engineers at Adobe Research has developed an AI application called VideoGigaGAN, that can accept a blurry video and enhance it to make it a much shaper product. The team describes their work and results in an article posted to the arXiv preprint server. They have also posted several examples of the videos that they have enhanced on their project website page.

TikTok's swift ascension to the upper echelons of social media is often attributed to its recommendation algorithm, which predicts viewer preferences so acutely it's spawned a maxim: "The TikTok algorithm knows me better than I know myself." The platform's success was so pronounced that it has seemed to spur other social media platforms to shift their designs. When users scroll through X or Instagram, they now see more recommended posts from accounts they don't follow.

Marvel and Xbox team up to create a special-edition Xbox Series X themed around the X-Men '97 TV show.

The set offers smarts and community, but is it worth it?

Homes made of discarded plastic bottles, construction waste and old tires are being built across Latin America as new technologies help turn municipal waste into sustainable bricks and tiles.

As more than half of Australian office workers report using generative artificial intelligence (AI) for work, we're starting to see this technology affect every part of society, from banking and finance through to weather forecasting, health and medicine.

Elgato’s new Neo products are mostly under $100.

The truth is mostly stranger than fiction in Linklater’s Hit Man.

A research group led by Prof. Ge Ziyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a key strategy for optimizing guest components to minimize non-radiative voltage losses and thus achieve high-efficiency ternary organic solar cells (OSCs).

A Scandinavian twist on the edgy gamer aesthetic.

London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you'd expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood.

There’s a slot for your iPad Pro and everything!

His company confirmed the fashion designer's death Friday on Instagram.

Will you ever trust the brand again?

With pieces from 25 artists, the modest, well-lit gallery was filled with oil and acrylic on canvas, drawings, mixed media, sculptures and even digital media pieces.

One in seven people worldwide are neurodivergent. They may have a diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental condition such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or autism—or traits that mean their thinking style differs from neurotypical patterns.

We found Ikea Billy bookcase lookalikes at Amazon and Walmart.