Polygon

Toy Story changed animated movies forever — yet it was almost canceled

The premiere of Toy Story on Nov. 22, 1995 wasn’t just the beginning of a franchise or even Pixar’s reign as a leading animation company. Today, the computer-generated animation pioneered in that ...
Cartoon Brew

Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...
The New York Times

Animation Hasn’t Been the Same Since ‘Toy Story’

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...
Futurism

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, ...
The New York Times

You’re a Computer Science Major. Don’t Panic.

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...
Polygon

Toy Story 5 trailer pits Woody and Buzz against a tablet computer

It's been 30 years since the original Toy Story was released, putting Pixar on the map as an animation studio and introducing the worlds to characters like Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

The Geometric Code: Genome’s 3D Shape Functions as the Living Computer that Enabled Complex Life

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?
ZDNet

You can use Anthropic's popular Claude Code tool on the web now - how to get access

This means you can start coding sessions outside the terminal. It is available in research preview for Pro and Max users. Anthropic's Claude Code tool has become a go-to-assistant for developer's ...
Android Authority

Android’s new Computer Control feature shows the Rabbit R1 was ahead of its time

For a brief period last year, it seemed that AI-powered gadgets like the Rabbit R1 were going to be the next big thing. People were fascinated by the idea of replacing their smartphones with tiny ...
GeekWire

Code.org CEO rips NY Times for stoking ‘populist fears’ over computer science jobs and AI

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...
Education Week

AI Can Generate Code. Is That a Threat to Computer Science Education?

Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...