Tired of sending plain text and voice notes? Pixi Garden lets you send animated AI characters that walk into chats, perform, and deliver your message. It works inside Apple's Messages app, with ...

DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation announced three new animated series at the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Thursday: Absolute Batman, Joker: Laugh Riot, and an untitled ...

In 2024, Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with texts, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Text scams are also becoming harder to detect with AI. Knowing what to look ...

Rather than generating text word by word, Google's experimental open-source model drafts entire passages simultaneously using diffusion, resulting in up to 4x faster inference. Extremely powerful ...

Some tasks involved grabbing food in tricky situations. S. Isparta et al., Royal Society Open Science, 2026 under CC-BY-4.0 Are you a righty or a lefty? That trait—the preference of using one side of ...

In a new study published Wednesday in Royal Society Open Science, researchers at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy describe a test for pawedness in dogs. The test sorts the animals into ...

President Donald Trump's remarks about the Right to Repair movement and legislation pending in Congress on June 4 raised the visibility of the issue and how it relates to auto repairs done by vehicle ...

Jury convicts Left of securities fraud, acquits on four counts, sentencing set for August 31 Prosecutors allege Left manipulated markets via media, profiting from misleading stock calls Legal experts ...

Netflix Animation Studios (NAS) production workers have ratified their first union contract with The Animation Guild, adding another organizing victory to animation’s increasingly unionized production ...

Unruly Republic: Columnist Barton Swaim explains how the SPLC, climate groups and other outfits p rofit from nonexistent monsters. Photo: Steve Helber/AP/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/Gina M ...

The integration of CBS and Paramount cable assets under George Cheeks, Chair of TV Media, continues. After BET Studios in December became a label of CBS Studios, the same is now being done with ...

For right-handed players who favor a fade, Augusta National presents several uncomfortable tee shots. That means the opposite is true for left-handed players, seemingly baking in an inherent advantage ...