Believe it or not, your phone’s tiniest vibrations can reveal your conversations — thanks to AI. A team of computer science researchers at Penn State has developed a startling new way to eavesdrop on phone calls remotely by decoding subtle vibrations emitted by a cellphone’s earpiece. Using millimeter-wave radar combined with an AI speech recognition system, their setup can capture …
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Angelina Jolie is set to star in the new spy thriller “The Initiative,” reuniting with her “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” director Doug Liman. Universal is in talks to land the hot project with F. Scott Frazier (“Collide,” “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage”) attached to write the screenplay — plot details for which are being kept under wraps — and …
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Angelina Jolie and Doug Liman, who famously worked together on Mr. and Mrs. Smith, are reteaming for another thriller set in the world of spies. Coming on top of multi-studio competition, Universal is wrapping up the final deal points to land The Initiative, a hot spy package that sees Jolie attached to star, Liman on board to direct and F. …
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Daniel Dae Kim plays a spy who faked his own death in the new thriller series Butterfly on Amazon Prime Video. He’s pictured above in Park City, Utah, in 2020. Mat Hayward/Getty Images for The Latinx House hide caption toggle caption Mat Hayward/Getty Images for The Latinx House Actor Daniel Dae Kim first broke into Hollywood as one of the …
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Ever since his breakout role in the widely popular series Lost, Daniel Dae Kim has been killing it on the screen. Most recently, he’s been involved in projects like Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters and Avatar: The Last Airbender, but we finally get to see him take center stage in Prime Video’s Butterfly. Kim has always been outspoken about Asian representation …
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When I first saw this picture in the late summer of 2019, at the Venice Film Festival, I waxed persistently pessimistic about its prospects of ever being screened in the United States. The film’s director and co-screenwriter (with Robert Harris, adapting his own novel), Roman Polanski, is a well-known fugitive from United States justice, and the crime is rape. To …
Read More »Apple’s mission to put a camera in everyone’s hand may have backfired. The Apple community is buzzing about a photo posted on social media recently that purportedly shows an unreleased iPhone 17 being tested in the wild. In the photos, shared by X user @Skyfops, a person wearing sunglasses and a hat holds up two phones while walking down the …
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The long-promised “more affordable” Tesla model has been spied on Chinese social media, and it’s disappointingly about what we expected: a slightly decontented version of the Model Y. For many years, Tesla had planned to build a much more affordable vehicle, starting around $25k. This vehicle was nicknamed the “Model 2,” and would have offered the most affordable entry point …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a pulsating red supergiant star in the shoulder of the Orion constellation. One of the best known and most luminous stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse has long intrigued anyone who has gazed up and seen its reddish tint, which is visible …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a pulsating red supergiant star in the shoulder of the Orion constellation. One of the best known and most luminous stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse has long intrigued anyone who has gazed up and seen its reddish tint, which is visible …
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