An estimated 5,000 people gathered Sept. 30, 1926, at 174-188 Main St. in Worcester to watch the famous Harry Houdini perform his famous copper-casket trick. Little did the crowd know it would be his ...

This piece is excerpted from National Geographic's Book of Magic and the Occult: A Visual History. He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life ...

Pixar has pushed its hybrid CPU/GPU renderer, XPU, into full production status with the beta of RenderMan 27. XPU, introduced as experimental in earlier releases, now supports final-frame rendering.

HAMMOND, Ind. - RaeAnn Mills bobbed a brush in a bottle of nail polish the color of a Barbie doll box. She took her sister's hand and smoothed a thin layer of "Pink Forever" over each nail. Mills is ...

Abstract: The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility, ...

But then Lagergren, in the group immediately ahead of McIlroy, eagled the 16th and birdied the last and suddenly McIlroy required an eagle on that concluding par-five to force a play-off. And so, from ...

One of the main missions was to pack the entire algorithm and functionalities I desired inside a tool using only Houdini out of the box. No HDK. As a result, it became a somewhat conservative ...

A Frontier Firm is a next-generation media organization that reimagines what’s possible—across storytelling, audience engagement, operations, and monetization. These companies embrace agentic AI to ...

A new AI trend has taken the internet by storm. You can now use Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash 'Nano Banana' engine to create 3D figurines from an image. Here's the step ...