All posts tagged: idea

Pluribus’s Rhea Seehorn reacts to Vince Gilligan’s scrapped idea

Pluribus’s Rhea Seehorn reacts to Vince Gilligan’s scrapped idea

Published by Daniella Wilson

While we all wait patiently for the second season of Pluribus, series creator Vince Gilligan has now revealed that the show almost had a very different look to it – quite literally. Speaking during a panel at SXSW, the Breaking Bad screenwriter disclosed that his initial plans for Pluribus included a very naked hive mind. He said (via Variety): “We talked about [how] they didn’t need to wear clothes at all, but we’re not working for HBO. But then we thought, we can’t do that to all these extras. We can’t all be naked.” Gilligan added: “We figured, they strictly wear clothes for protection against the sun and against cold or whatnot. But we talked hours and hours and hours about all that kind of stuff.” Rhea Seehorn stars in Pluribus Apple TV Rhea Seehorn, who leads the cast as Carol – one of a handful of people on Earth somehow immune to a global virus – was also on the panel and joked: “Oh my God, thank you … Can you imagine if I had …

Singularity Update: You Have No Idea How Crazy Humanoid Robots Have Gotten

Singularity Update: You Have No Idea How Crazy Humanoid Robots Have Gotten

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Peter H. Diamandis via Metatrends, I just spent the afternoon at Figure headquarters in San Jose with Brett Adcock and David Blundin, and I’m still processing what I saw. We’re not talking about concept robots. We’re talking about fully autonomous humanoid robots running neural networks end-to-end, doing kitchen work, unloading dishwashers, organizing packages – for hours at a time, with no human intervention. Today? Figure’s robots are doing 67 consecutive hours of autonomous work. One error in 67 hours. That’s not a demo. That’s a product. And here’s what most people don’t understand: the gap between “doing one task really well” and “doing every task a human can do” is collapsing at exponential speeds. Let me explain why… NOTE: Brett has been a past Faculty Member at my Abundance Summit, where leaders like him share insights years before the mainstream catches on. In-person seats for the 2026 Summit next month are nearly sold out. Learn more and apply. The Death of C++ and the Rise of the Neural Net When I first visited …

Betrayal review – This pure ITV nonsense squanders an intriguing idea

Betrayal review – This pure ITV nonsense squanders an intriguing idea

Published by Daniella Wilson

Marriage breakdowns and cop dramas: two of the great staples of British telly. This psychological obsession with infidelity and espionage is, perhaps, a demonstration of the way in which the small screen offers a lurid portal into the unmentionable, secret sides of our buttoned-up national character. It also provides a roadmap for the new ITV four-part drama Betrayal, which combines these two genres to frustratingly mixed effect. Shaun Evans is John, a British Intelligence operative with a reputation for doing things on his own terms. “We all know your gut is good,” Simone (Nikki Amuka-Bird), his handler at MI5, tells him, “but we have to prioritise using our resources carefully.” And so, John goes off on his own, resulting in him witnessing a brutal murder and being lined up for voluntary redundancy. But while he’s being squeezed out of the agency, he seems to have unearthed the credible threat of a mass casualty terror attack, possibly organised by the Iranian military. Teaming up with Mehreen (Zahra Ahmadi), a British-Iranian agent, gives John a last chance …

Minnesota and the American Idea

Minnesota and the American Idea

Published by Daniella Wilson

Masked federal officers have now killed two U.S. citizens in the streets of Minneapolis. In both cases, the Trump administration stood by the officers, claiming that the Americans they shot to death were interfering with law enforcement, which has never been a capital offense. These events have set a dark precedent. Americans can no longer assume that they can exercise their established rights to protest and observe public law enforcement without punishment, which raises questions about the exercise of other historically attested rights. If we are not as safe from state violence as we thought we were, then the very foundations of the country seem shaky, and we may be witnessing a breakdown of the American idea. The United States was founded as an experiment in propositional citizenship, the idea that a nation could be bound not by race, ethnicity, or language but by fidelity to a set of principles—liberty, equality, self-governance, and inalienable rights. In an address in 1858, Abraham Lincoln reminded his audience that although many Americans had been in the country for …

‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna reveals her love for UK seaside town

‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna reveals her love for UK seaside town

Published by Daniella Wilson

With its sandy beach, popular market and growing arts scene, more and more visitors have been visiting Margate amid an impressive revival for the Victorian seaside town – but its latest tourist has taken it to new fame. Posting on her Instagram profile to her 20million followers, Madonna shared pictures from her visit to an arts festival in the town last weekend, the second time she has reportedly visited in three months. Pictured with Turner Prize winner Dame Tracey Emin, she praised her friend’s “quite remarkable” residency programme for artists in the community, before providing a glowing review on the town, which has a population of just over 60,000 and is around 80 miles from London. “The whole town seems to be inhabited and energized by creativity,” she wrote. “Writers and performance artists, photographers, and painters. This is my idea of heaven. Whenever I go there, I feel like I’ve entered a dream.” Described as England’s coolest seaside town, Margate has seen an influx of creatives in recent years, attracted by its thriving arts scene, …

The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it

The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Rushing to get to work in the morning, we grab our coat, bag and keys and – invariably – steal a glance at the clock to check that we are running on time. The passing of time is so integral to our day-to-day lives that we can’t afford to ignore it from one hour to the next. So far, so completely obvious. Yet if we pause to ask what physics has to say about why time flows at all, we find it struggles. Albert Einstein’s ideas warped time, quantum theory barely considers it, and no other facet of modern physics can satisfactorily explain it. “It’s one of the biggest mysteries of science,” says Natalia Ares at the University of Oxford. Now, though, one of the most audacious proposals for how time really works is getting a second look. Back in the 1980s, physicists sketched out the hypothesis that time is an illusion, conjured from an essentially timeless universe by the strange workings of quantum mechanics. Back then, this idea, known as the Page-Wootters mechanism, impressed …

Baldur’s Gate 3 star Devora Wilde pitches her Lae’zel return idea

Baldur’s Gate 3 star Devora Wilde pitches her Lae’zel return idea

Published by Daniella Wilson

Devora Wilde, who played Lae’zel in the beloved Baldur’s Gate 3, has been chatting to us about potentially revisiting her iconic Githyanki character. Wilde is the latest guest in our Arcade Hang interview series, and you can watch our BG3 chat in the player above (or over on the Radio Times Gaming YouTube channel). Of course, despite the fact that Dungeons & Dragons mainly takes place in a vaguely historical setting, it didn’t take long for talk to turn to the future. And given that Wilde is constantly told that she looks like Lae’zel (much to the actor’s chagrin), surely that puts her in good stead for the live-action BG3 adaptation that fans keep asking for? Wilde answered with a laugh, “When is that happening? Yeah, I’d love that. That would be amazing. Yeah, it would put me in good stead. I guess I’d have to have some prosthetics, but I’m fine with that.” Devora Wilde holds court with her fellow BG3 stars, Aliona Baranova and Jennifer English, at the “Rolling the Dice: The Cast …

Movie stars want to direct. It’s not always a great idea

Movie stars want to direct. It’s not always a great idea

Published by Sam Flores

In Hollywood, there’s an old joke among wannabe actors scraping by doing odd jobs between auditions: “Well, right now I’m parking cars, but what I really want to do is direct!” The punchline comes from the canned line that established actors so often feed interviewers and talk show hosts when discussing their career goals. Practically every working actor of some repute has offhandedly mentioned their interest in directing a film at one time or another. But the joke also points to how difficult it is to direct in the first place — how much of a studio’s financial trust, production insurance and rapidly moving parts have to come together to make a film happen. If becoming a working actor is hard, proving your worth behind the camera is ten times as tough, especially when the audience’s expectations are heightened by a pesky little thing: name recognition. Just like not everyone is destined to be an actor, even fewer actors have what it takes to direct. This year has seen several notable names attempt to direct …