CNN

A visual timeline of the few hours it took a small fire to grow into Hong Kong’s worst blaze in decades

In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong ...
Variety

Oscars Visual Effects Top 20 Finalists: ‘Avatar,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Predator,’ ‘Sinners,’ ‘Wicked’ and More Make the Cut (EXCLUSIVE)

The Oscar race for visual effects is down to 20. With multiple sources confirming to Variety, the list of finalists includes a mix of anticipated blockbusters and franchise entries, with major studios ...
Variety

Trade Group Representing Studio Ghibli, Other Japanese Companies Tells OpenAI to Stop Using Their Content to Train Sora 2 Video Generator

Japanese content trade group CODA — whose members include award-winning animation house Studio Ghibli — issued a letter to OpenAI demanding the AI company stop using their content to train its Sora 2 ...
The Verge

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

Japanese trade association CODA says Sora 2’s opt-out policy may have violated copyright law. Japanese trade association CODA says Sora 2’s opt-out policy may have violated copyright law. is a news ...
ZDNet

Windows 11's Snipping Tool just got a Google Lens-like feature - here's how to use it

The Windows 11 Snipping Tool now has a visual search engine. You can learn more about the item you capture via a Bing search. You can also extract or translate text and even solve a math equation. The ...
Popular Science

How to use Visual Intelligence on your iPhone with iOS 26

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. By now you should’ve upgraded to iOS 26 on your iPhone, and the ...
Tidbits

Visual Intelligence: Occasionally Useful, but Often Flawed

I’ve been exploring the “visual intelligence” aspect of Apple Intelligence in iOS 26 on my iPhone 17 lately, and while it’s not game-changing, it is occasionally useful and can be faster than using a ...
Fast Company

How 3 industries use visual storytelling

When thinking about industries with the most innovative customer experience activations, retail and entertainment are top of mind. Whether it’s transforming a favorite clothing store into a vintage ...
MacRumors

iOS 26: Use Visual Intelligence With iPhone Screen Content

In iOS 26, Apple has extended Visual Intelligence to work with content that's on your iPhone, allowing you to ask questions about what you're seeing, look up products, and more. Visual Intelligence ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
TheServerSide

How to install Visual Studio Code for Java

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...