Cal Kestis, the hero of EA’s Star Wars Jedi video games, will appear in a spin-off TV series — marking his first voiced appearance in another medium.
The redheaded Jedi will play a role in new episodes of Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy set to debut on streaming service Disney+ next month. A non-canon spin-off set in a “What If?”-style remixed Star Wars universe, Rebuild…
For many months, AMD offered a special treat to enthusiasts wishing to run AI chatbot LLMs on their PCs: configurable VRAM that significantly improved performance. Now Intel can say the same.
Bob Duffy, who oversees Intel’s AI Playground application for running AI art and…
This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom
August 18, 2025
OpenAI’s new, powerful open weights AI large language model (LLM) family gpt-oss was released less than two weeks ago under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — the company’s first open weights model launch since GPT-2 in 2019 — but developers outside the company are…
Gemini’s Nasdaq IPO filing unveils bold access to Ripple Credit and RLUSD-based liquidity, signaling a powerful fusion of stablecoin finance and institutional crypto dominance.
Gemini Nasdaq IPO Filing Unlocks Ripple Credit Access and RLUSD-Based Liquidity
Gemini Space Station Inc., the holding company for Gemini Trust Company LLC, filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and…
A former Monero lead developer sparked controversy after revealing that a close friend—previously skeptical of crypto—wanted to buy XRP, believing banks would be obsolete within two years.
Igniting the XRP Debate: A Skeptic’s Inquiry
The claim by Riccardo Spagni…
Trump, Tariffs, and Tornado Cash
August 18, 2025
Last week, Donald Trump reminded traders that he can still move markets with a tweet, a tariff, or a firing. Crypto whipsawed on his words and actions.
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Sometimes on Alibaba, you find something that makes you stop, scratch your head, and wonder whether the designer started with a golf cart and added a pickup truck bed… or started with a farm truck and grafted on the front half of a golf cart. Either way, the end result is this glorious mashup of country club chic and back-forty practicality.
It’s also the perfect candidate for this week’s…
Used Honda Prologue EVs are selling faster than expected
August 18, 2025
The Honda Prologue is a surprise hit. It was the second-best-selling electric SUV behind the Tesla Model Y in the second half of 2024. Now, used models are in high demand.
Honda Prologue leads used EV sales growth in July
After it delivered the first customer models last…
The waste management experts at Republic Services are committed to cleaning up the Chicagoland area — and now, that includes the air Chicagoans breathe, thanks to the deployment of new Mack LR Electric garbage trucks in the heart of America’s Second City.
Republic…
How to shoot architectural photography that reveals a city's unique and changing identity (Part 1)
August 15, 2025
Architectural photography has this unique way of pulling you into a city’s story – that’s one of the biggest reasons I’ve been drawn to it for years now. The more I explore it, the more I realize it’s not just about photographing buildings; it’s about understanding them, reading them like chapters in a much bigger book.
Just like the cities themselves, architectural…
