We may earn a commission from links on this page. Adventure Time changes you. A show that starts off as a silly cartoon about a kid wearing a bear hat and his shape-shifting adoptive brother Jake the dog hides some of the deepest, darkest lore in entertainment history. The show deals with existential issues in…
For years now, the cookie banner has been the universal symbol of online surveillance. It’s a pop-up most of us dismiss without reading, but it’s a silent acknowledgment that someone, somewhere, is watching. The privacy-conscious among you may even have started to control what cookies a site saves on your system, but trackers have now…
As Doctor Doom gears up to battle the entire Marvel Universe, he’s going to do it in style. A look at the character’s latest redesign teases his connection to The Fantastic Four with an ironic twist. Artist InHyuk Lee shared a special look at his variant for Doom All-On-One #1, a one-shot story releasing on…
I live in a fully decked out smart home, but I didn’t start out interested in smart home tech. In fact, I long considered smart home features to be a negative that I actively avoided. Now that I’ve incorporated them into my life, here are smart devices I once considered dumb that I have now…
Local models get put through their paces on plenty of fronts. Reasoning, general chat, mobile-friendly setups, whatever fits a small card; all of that gets tested to death (including by me). Vision is one of the areas that doesn’t come up as much in these head-to-heads, which is odd because for a lot of daily…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of large language models (LLMs), the spotlight has largely focused on the decoder-only architecture. While these models have shown impressive capabilities across a wide range of generation tasks, the classic encoder-decoder architecture, such as T5 (The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer), remains a popular choice for many real-world applications. Encoder-decoder models often…
Jeff Bezos attends the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions on June 17, 2026 in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight…
It’s been revealed at Anime Expo that 13 years after its debut, the dark action comedy Murciélago is finally getting an anime, and it looks to be an incredibly wild ride. Yoshimurakana’s Murciélago stars Kuroko Koumori, a former death row inmate guilty of killing 715 people since childhood who’s evaded death in exchange for working…
During the first half of 2026, heatwaves with uncharacteristically high temperatures have been reported in many places around the world. Samsung has announced a feature for its Galaxy Watch smartwatch which will help people who work outside, or are vulnerable to the effects of high temperatures, prevent heat-related illnesses, and to understand when it’s time…
