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- ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Coming To Disney+ This Week After $1.49 Billion Box Office Run
James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” is coming to streaming video on demand on Disney+ this week following its blockbuster run at the worldwide box office.
- ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 1 Release Time: Here’s When The Season Premiere Lands On HBO Max
House of the Dragon Season 3 premieres this weekend on HBO and Max. Here's what time the new episode airs, plus a full recap of Seasons 1 and 2 to catch you up.
- Shipping companies will decide when the Strait of Hormuz is truly open—not the U.S. or Iran—and the latest deal is already sowing confusion
"Will the Iranian announcement be enough to deter them? Or will Iran need to resort to force and directly violate the MOU's terms?"
- Trump threatens to charge U.S. tolls in Strait of Hormuz for ‘services rendered as the Guardian Angel to the countries of the Middle East’
Iran’s joint military command said the strait was closed because of the U.S. “clear breach of its commitments” by failing to end the war.
- Trump Says U.S. May Impose Tolls In Strait Of Hormuz If Peace Deal Fails
Peace talks between the U.S. and Iran have faced significant friction this weekend as Iran said it shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
Technology
- The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.
- Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars
A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.
- The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a huge claim: it had solved a mathematical bottleneck…
- As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat
Researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs.
- A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models for almost a decade. The details were thin, and many people were unconvinced. But Subquadratic has started to bring the receipts, sharing the…
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