A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

Mastodon has almost doubled its userbase since Elon Musk took control of Twitter last month. Here's what you need to know ...

New Year's AI surprise: Fal releases its own version of Flux 2 image generator that's 10x cheaper and 6x more efficient

Fal's new model FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo is a distilled, ultra-fast image generation model that’s already outperforming many of its ...
Wired

Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3

Nvidia has made a fortune supplying chips to companies working on artificial intelligence, but today the chipmaker took a step toward becoming a more serious model maker itself by releasing a series ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Oscars: Academy Reveals Full Lists of Qualifying Documentary, International and Animated Features

Academy members will be asked to pick from 201 documentary features, 86 international features and 35 animated features. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards The documentary feature and ...
Variety

Webtoon Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation to Co-Produce Adaptations of 10 Popular Webcomics

Webtoon Entertainment will bring a batch of stories that originated on mobile phones to life as animated projects under a new deal with Warner Bros. Animation. The companies intend to enter into an ...
Polygon

Exclusive: Watch a magical clip from a new animated movie already in theaters

The French-Belgian co-production Little Amélie or the Character of Rain slipped into theaters quietly, as so many animated movies not coming from Disney or DreamWorks do. But there are good reasons to ...
Engadget

The first trailer for the animated Stranger Things spin-off is here

The world is gearing up for the long-awaited (to put it lightly) arrival of Stranger Things’ fifth and final season, but Netflix isn’t ready to sunset one of its defining franchises just yet. Several ...
WSPA

Maker Lab in Spartanburg Opens

The Kitty Black Perkins Maker Lab is now open at the Spartanburg County Public Library. The new Maker Lab will be the main hub of making and creativity. Originally known as Spark Space, the Maker Lab ...
The Motley Fool

Medicare Open Enrollment Begins Tomorrow. Here Are 3 Moves You Should Make Right Away.

Medicare open enrollment begins on Oct. 15 and runs through Dec. 7 each year. As a Medicare enrollee, you have an opportunity to make changes to your coverage. It's important to get a handle on your ...
ZDNet

10 open-source Windows apps I can't live without - and they're all free

If Windows is your OS of choice, consider these open-source apps. There are tons of open-source apps for just about any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows. I've been using ...
IGN

Batman: Knightfall to Get Multi-Part Animated Movie Adaptation

Warner Bros. Animation, DC, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced at New York Comic Con on Friday that the iconic early ‘90s DC Comics storyline Batman: Knightfall is being adapted into a ...