Author: Vidya Saras
ClaudeAI posts animated clips of their mascot on social media. Short loops of their pixel mascot walking around and looking, waving a flag, working out, stomping with confetti. The timing has personality. The motion has weight. I just wanted to take them apart. I slowed the clips to 0.3x, captured screenshots of every frame, illustrated the mascot, and rebuilt four animations from scratch in about four days. No video files, no GIFs. Just SVG, GSAP, and React. The goal was an exact replica, every timing, every easing, and every frame matching the original. This is a breakdown of how I…
A very small body, far from the sun in an icy outer realm of the solar system, has mysteriously grown an atmosphere — and scientists are stumped as to how and why this happened.One possibility is that the atmosphere was produced through cryovolcanism, or basically ice volcanoes Another idea is the atmosphere could be related to an impact, but in that case, the impact must have happened relatively recently since such a thin atmosphere would leak into space and vanish within a thousand years.The object with an atmosphere, designated (612533) 2002 XV93, is a trans-Neptunian object, or TNO, meaning it…
Sale Sharks lock Ben Bamber has extended his contract with the club until 2030.The 6ft 9in-tall Bamber, 25, has played 77 times for Sale since his debut in 2022.”I grew up around the corner and the club holds a really special place in my heart,” he told the club’s website., external “You can see what’s building here and where the club wants to go. I know it’s not been the best season but everyone here wants to make this happen and I want to be a part of it.”Sharks are seventh in The Prem with four matches to go this…
Ahead of its own midnight ceasefire on Wednesday (Tuesday 22:00 GMT), Ukraine also launched a series of aerial attacks on Russia, hitting an industrial area in Kirishi in the Leningrad region and a factory that produces military components in Cheboksary, in the Chuvash Republic.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The UK’s long-term borrowing costs climbed to their highest level since 1998 on Tuesday, as a deepening of the Hormuz crisis added to fears the economy faces a prolonged period of higher inflation.Thirty-year gilt yields rose as much as 0.14 percentage points to 5.79 per cent, their highest level in almost three decades, before dipping slightly to 5.74 per cent. The yield on the 10-year gilt climbed as much as 0.15 percentage points to 5.11 per cent, close to the 18-year high…
Bose has three new speakers to spice up your home listening. The company’s new “Lifestyle Collection”—designed with a snazzy fabric-wrapped grille and gentle curves—includes the Lifestyle Ultra Speaker, Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer, and Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar. All of them can be connected to multiple units and third-party speakers via AirPlay and Google Cast for a better multi-room audio experience.These audio products mark a “reentering” into the home speaker space for the company, bringing back the iconic Lifestyle lineup that originally debuted in 1990—known for simplicity and ease of use—which Bose subsequently discontinued in 2022.To no surprise, Bose says the Ultra Soundbar…
Russia’s Moscow Exchange (MOEX) will begin publishing four new cryptocurrency indexes — tracking Solana, XRP, TRON, and BNB — starting May 13, 2026, marking the first time the country’s leading securities exchange has extended its regulated crypto benchmark suite beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. Related Reading The development, first reported by Russian crypto outlet bits.media and confirmed by Wu Blockchain, represents the second phase of what MOEX has framed as a longer-term buildout of its digital asset infrastructure. Russia’s Largest Securities Exchange to Launch SOL, XRP, TRX and BNB Crypto Indexes The Moscow Exchange will begin publishing four crypto indexes tracking…
One of the annoyances of the blockchain as a decentralized platform is the sheer length of delay before a transaction gets finalized. One confirmation in the Bitcoin network takes ten minutes on average, but in reality due to statistical effects when one sends a transaction one can only expect a confirmation within ten minutes 63.2% of the time; 36.8% of the time it will take longer than ten minutes, 13.5% of the time longer than twenty minutes and 0.25% of the time longer than an hour. Because of fine technical points involving Finney attacks and sub-50% double spends, for many…
If you’ve spent any time searching for a crypto trading bot that actually works in 2026, you’ve probably noticed something: most of the articles out there either list the same five platforms in random order, or they’re so technical they assume you already have a Bloomberg terminal at home.You don’t need either of those. You need someone to explain — clearly, honestly — what each platform actually does, who it’s built for, and whether the automation it promises is real or just a well-worded landing page.That’s what this article does. We’ve gone through 15 of the most talked-about AI crypto…
Two days before the Musk v. Altman trial began, Elon Musk asked OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman about reaching a settlement. When Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Musk responded, “By the end of this week, you and Sam [Altman] will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so be it.”The message—which OpenAI’s lawyers made public on Sunday, and which Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers subsequently refused to let the jury hear about—underscores what may be Musk’s larger goal in this trial. He appears to be trying to not only win over the jurors to potentially…