By the time Jean-Luc Picard took command of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, relations between the Federation and the Klingon world of Qo’noS had greatly improved. They were allies, and there was even talk of the Klingons officially joining the Federation. This allowed characters like Worf to become Starfleet officers, starting a new era of close collaboration.
Welcome, darlings, to this week’s farcical frolic through the cryptocurrency circus. If last week was a courtroom comedy, this week was a high-stakes cabaret of institutional bravado, legal theatrics, and Bitcoin’s melodramatic recovery. Grab your martini and let’s dive in.
Mark Fischbach, known as the creator, shared on his Distractible podcast that he’ll be attending the Oscars as a guest, even though he isn’t nominated for an award or presenting this year.
A German tourist, Faycal Manz, sued the popular New York City restaurant Los Tacos No. 1, claiming he was injured after eating their spicy salsa. He reported burns to his mouth and tongue, and also experienced stomach problems.
The latest installment in the 30-year-old Scream series broke records upon release, despite a rocky start. While Scream 7 initially received the lowest critic score in the franchise (31%), it went on to achieve the best opening weekend box office ($63.6 million) – only to experience the biggest second-week drop in the series’ history (-73.3%).
The Ethereum Foundation offloads 5,000 ETH to BitMine as the price climbs above $2K, with the transaction priced at an average of $2,042.96 per coin. Because why keep your crypto when you can trade it for a few million dollars and pretend you’re a corporate treasury wizard?
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go and Ingress, has used over 30 billion images and scans – created by players of those games – to develop its Visual Positioning System (VPS), as reported by MIT Technology Review.
Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s classic novels, Foundation is a grand story set in space, depicting the decline of a vast empire and a daring effort to lessen the ensuing chaos. The brilliant mathematician Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) foresees the empire’s fall and creates a colony dedicated to safeguarding humanity’s collective knowledge for future generations, spanning planets and centuries.
Researchers have developed VisiFold, a novel framework that leverages graph-based techniques to dramatically improve the accuracy and efficiency of forecasting traffic patterns over extended periods.
The science fiction series Firefly first aired in 2002, but was unfortunately cancelled by Fox after just one season. Despite its short run, the show—created by Joss Whedon—has continued to gain popularity over the years, attracting new fans alongside its dedicated original followers. Although it didn’t continue on television, the story lived on with the 2005 film Serenity, and later expanded into comic books. Currently, there’s a lot of excitement about the possibility of revisiting this beloved universe.