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Eros Hoagland/Netflix Eight years after her last film, “Detroit,” Kathryn Bigelow is back with “A House of Dynamite” on Netflix. As with her prior Iraq War-centric efforts such as “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” it’s a cinema vérité-style thriller of how American life has changed in the wake of 9/11. As written by Noah Oppenheim, it’s a triptych that examines the immediate reactions to a nuclear weapon being launched from an unknown enemy towards Chicago. Unfolding in non-chronological time, it views the same 18-minute event from three different perspectives: White House Situation…

The real question is how effectively AgiBot’s algorithms can teach its robots new tricks. Using reinforcement learning to teach a robot tasks that require improvisation generally requires a lot of training data, and studies show it cannot be perfected entirely inside a simulation.AgiBot speeds up the learning process by having a human worker guide the robot through a task, which provides a foundation for it to then learn by itself. Before cofounding AgiBot, chief scientist Jianlan Luo did cutting-edge research at UC Berkeley, including a project that involved robots acquiring skills through reinforcement learning with a human in the loop.…

Alinagar (Bihar) [India], November 5 (ANI): Singer and BJP candidate from Alinagar seat in Bihar, Maithili Thakur, acknowledged her “little” political experience, saying she is “learning new things every day”. Maithili Thakur is the youngest candidate and could potentially become the youngest MLA if elected. Her constituency, Alinagar, will undergo polling in the first phase of the elections on November 6. Speaking to ANI, the singer-turned-politician highlighted that the people of Bihar are aware of the work done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. “I have little political experience, but I am learning new things every day. When I…

CBS We’ve written about every “NCIS” death before — after all, across 22 seasons, there are plenty of characters who’ve come and gone, with many meeting their untimely end on screen. Many deaths can make sense narratively, and some, even if lamentable, are understandable to audiences who know that an action show like “NCIS” is at its best when life hangs in the balance. But then there are times when it just seems like the writers of the show are playing with the audience’s feelings, making us all fall in…

CHICAGO (AP) — The first civil trial over a Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia more than six years ago opened Wednesday before a federal court jury that was asked to decide how much the American aerospace company must pay to the family of one of the 157 victims.The eight-person jury in Chicago, where Boeing used to have its headquarters, had been expected to set financial compensation amounts for the families of two women who were among the people who died when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plunged to the ground in March 2019. But moments before jurors arrived in the…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Bihar Elections 2025: The much-awaited high-stakes battle of the year is all set to take place on Thursday with first phase of voting for the 243-member Bihar Legislative Assembly. Votes will be polled for 121 seats in the first phase across 18 districts in the state.  The voting on Thursday will be held in districts including capital city Patna (14), Bhojpur (7), Buxar (4), Gopalganj (6), Siwan (8), Saran (10), Muzaffaropur (11), Vaishali (8), Darbhanga (10), Samastipur (10), Madhepura (4), Saharsa (4), Khagaria (7), Munger (3), Lakisarai (2), Shekhpura…

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” is back in time for the holidays, with the second movie, “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,” hitting theaters on December 5, 2025. Never played the game, or need a reminder of what unlucky security guard Mike (Josh Hutcherson) experienced with the killer animatronics the first time around? Check out this recap video so you’re caught up before the sequel comes out. Based on the original Scott Cawthon-created video game franchise, “Five Nights at Freddy’s” saw a simultaneous theatrical and streaming release on Peacock in 2023. Despite the at-home option, “Five Nights at Freddy’s”…

The ambitious project, shared in a video on October 31, demonstrates a working alternative to traditional home energy systems and puts a spotlight on the growing problem of e-waste. According to TecheBlog, Doel’s setup is capable of powering his microwave, kettle, oscilloscope, extractor fan, and editing system, all from a wall-mounted pack of what many would consider trash. The device’s construction comes at a time when more than one million disposable vapes are thrown away every day in the UK alone. Each of these contains a rechargeable lithium-ion battery similar to those found in phones and laptops. Yet, despite their…

Sarah Enticknap/Peacock RATING : 7 / 10 Pros Excellent performances from Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning Sticks the landing in the final episode Fleshed-out characters serve the story Cons The show falls into the trope of doling out clues too strategically (and nonsensically) Irish author Andrea Mara has been writing incredibly solid thriller novels since 2017, but her first major adaptation only just arrived courtesy of “All Her Fault,” a Peacock original miniseries that marks Sarah Snook’s return to the small screen. Snook, who won an…

Gurugram: Hours after Rahul Gandhi claimed another round of “vote chori” in the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, Bhupinder Singh Hooda Wednesday said the details revealed by Gandhi during his press conference have vindicated his (Hooda’s) stand that the BJP stole people’s mandate in the elections held in October last year.Addressing a press conference at his Talkatora Road residence in Delhi Wednesday evening, Hooda said no exit poll had given the BJP more than 29 seats in the 2024 assembly polls, while all pollsters predicted a landslide victory for the Congress. Accompanied by state…