Month: January 2025

Prime Video licensed a Melania Trump documentary directed by Brett Ratner

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Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Eve. | Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images Amazon Prime Video has licensed a documentary about Melania Trump that will be directed by Rush Hour director Brett Ratner, reports Variety. A Prime Video spokesperson told the outlet that the movie will be an “unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look” at the … Read more

Roborock’s Roomba competitor gets a robot arm

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iRobot’s on-going financial crisis aside, the world of robot vacuums is still humming along. At CES Sunday, Roborock announced the Saros Z70. The Roomba competitor showcases what the company believes will be the next big step in robovac evolution: an arm. The idea of mounting a a manipulator is no doubt as old as robot … Read more

The Crypto Curve: Left, Right, and Center

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:::tip Intelligence is a broad, relative, highly subjective variable that humans have yet to adequately quantify. Generally, if an organism is “alive” and “autonomous,” we classify it as intelligent life. Nowhere else does this abstract opaqueness materialize so vividly as in Crypto. ::: From degens crafting dissertations on the cult value of Fartcoin to governments … Read more

Why Homo Sapiens Are Addicted to Self-Reflections: A Spotify Wrapped Introspective

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Spotify Wrapped is a genius move—and no, I’m not exaggerating. Every December, like clockwork, Spotify takes over our feeds with its colorful Wrapped graphics and personalized stats. Suddenly, everyone becomes a walking, talking music data chart. It’s not just an app feature—it’s a cultural event. You can’t scroll through Instagram stories for two seconds without … Read more

Charting The Ethereum Account Abstraction Roadmap I: EIP-3074, EIP-5806, and EIP-7702

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Having observed the significant changes that were introduced to Ethereum through the Deneb upgrade, we have begun looking ahead to what the next hardfork, Pectra, will introduce. To help shape the discussions to come, we seek to describe the current landscape of account abstraction surrounding Ethereum and its rollup ecosystem to potentially map a clear … Read more

Bad news for Adrian Dittman/Elon Musk truthers

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After days of speculation that X owner Elon Musk was secretly posting under an account named Adrian Dittman, new evidence suggests Dittman is, in fact, a real person living in Fiji. Attempts to connect Dittman and Musk go back at least to 2023; Dittman frequently makes fawning posts about Musk, and his voice (as heard … Read more