Soon you'll be able to fling around the klutzy schlub in Human Fall Flat on VR

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Why is it so satisfying to toss, drop, throw and fling ragdoll characters down steps, out of windows and into oncoming traffic in games like Human Fall Flat? Ragdoll games just know how to scratch the lizard part of our brain that enjoys being the destructive force of mayhem while also meeting the moral center of our frontal lobe by not causing any real world harm (or felony charges).

Now you’ll

Sesame Workshop's top marketer is leaving during a critical period of transition

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Samantha Maltin, chief marketing officer, Sesame Workshop
Samantha Maltin was EVP at Sesame Workshop.

Sesame Workshop

  • Sesame Workshop's chief marketer, Samantha Maltin, is leaving the company.
  • Maltin's exit follows Sesame Workshop's CEO change and upcoming "Sesame Street" revamp.
  • "Sesame Street" may find new streaming partners when its deal with Max ends in 2025.

Sesame Workshop is losing its chief marketer of five years, Samantha Maltin, in a rare executive

No one can actually use Meta's newest AI tool, Movie Gen

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A person holding a cell phone in front of the Meta AI logo displayed on a computer screen, on April 29, 2024, in Edmonton, Canada.

Meta just announced a new generative AI model to help users turn simple text into images, videos, and audio clips.

Meta Movie Gen allows users to input text and automatically generate new videos, personalize videos, do video editing, and generate audio, all of which is trained on a "combination of licensed and publicly available datasets."

If that seems a lot like OpenAI's Sora, that's because it

As Android innovation grows, has Apple lost its touch?

Android Central
No company is perfect, but only Apple seems to continue acting as though no other companies exist. There have been quite a few missteps in recent years, and we can't help but wonder what's happening.

I'm a professional baker. I made 5 brands of boxed brownie mix to see which is the best.

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Five brownie squares sitting next to labels with different brownie-mix brands on them arranged on white plastic cutting board
I used my expertise as a professional baker to rank brownie mixes from five different brands.

Alana Al-Hatlani

  • I made brownies using mixes from brands including Pillsbury, Duncan Hines, and Betty Crocker.
  • The brownies from Kodiak Cakes' mix had a grainy texture and lacked chocolate flavor.
  • The Ghirardelli mix made fudgy brownies that I loved, but Pillsbury's were my favorite.

As a professional