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We’ve taken one small step towards robot police officers: a drone capable of disarming a suspect: In a June 22 video posted on the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office’s Instagram page, an officer wearing goggles can be seen operating a drone to retrieve a knife from an armed suspect hiding inside a cluttered house. “After not responding to negotiators, a drone was deployed inside the residence,” the post says. “Drone pilots located the suspect hiding in a corner of a garage” and then used a high-powered magnet attached to the drone to grab the knife out of the suspect’s hand. In the video ­ which is soundtracked by the “Mission: Impossible” theme song—the intercepted knife can be seen spinning around in the air as the drone carries it back to the deputies...

We’re finally getting Grand Theft Auto VI, poised to be one of the largest gaming releases in history.

Netflix has detailed a cloud-based system for scaling camera file processing across global film and TV workflows. The pipeline handles ingest, validation, metadata extraction, and media transformation at scale using FilmLight API and distributed compute. It standardizes workflows across editorial, VFX, and color pipelines, improving consistency and reducing manual handling across productions. By Leela Kumili

Google's demo reel for Gemini Omni looks effortless: ask for a video, then keep talking to it until the shot is right. The question for developers is whether that conversational loop holds up outside a stage demo — and what it actually changes versus the Veo workflow it replaces. What Does Omni Add That Veo Couldn't? Omni's core addition is state. Veo produced one-shot renders — each prompt generated a fresh clip with no memory of the last. Gemini Omni holds context across turns, so changing the camera angle on turn three preserves the characters and lighting established on turn one without restarting the scene . Announced at Google I/O on May 19, 2026, the first shipped model, Gemini Omni Flash, replaces Veo as the video-generation surface in the Gemini app . Product director Nicole Brichtova framed it as "the next step towards combining the intelligence of Gemini with the rendering capabilities of our media models" — DeepMind's informal pitch is a "Nano Banana for video," extending conversational image editing to motion footage. Two claims deserve a skeptical read. Google advertises "intuitive understanding of forces like gravity, kinetic energy, and fluid dynamics," but those physics behaviors currently rest on Google demos and creator footage, with no third-party benchmarks published at launch . And on raw output, independent reviewers put Omni's generation quality on par with Veo 3.1 rather than clearly above it . The differentiation is the iterative editing loop and Gemini-grounded reasoning — not a new render engine. Before Starting: Paid Membership, Region, Age Omni access is gated behind a paid Google AI plan and a few hard eligibility rules, so confirm these before you open a prompt. Gemini Omni Flash unlocks in the Gemini app and Google Flow for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, with Plus starting at $7.99/month . If you want to test it for free, generation is available at no cost on YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create App at launch . Two cons

The 48-team World Cup is not the only historic soccer event this year. Four titans are vying for control of video game soccer in the fiercest battle the industry has ever seen.

Up front, so there's no confusion: the app I'm describing (Nightmare TV) is a player only . You bring your own M3U / Xtream Codes playlist — it ships with no channels and no content. This post is about the playback engineering, not about where streams come from. Think "VLC for IPTV," not a content service. The problem that started it I watch a lot of live content on my PC — sports, mostly. And every IPTV player I tried on Windows fell into one of two buckets: An Android app running in an emulator. TiviMate and the good mobile players are Android-only, so on a desktop you end up in an emulator or a VM. Input lag, no real HDR path, fans spinning. A thin ExoPlayer / libVLC wrapper. These run natively, but most of them treat HDR as "pass the HDR10 metadata to the display and hope." On an SDR panel — or even a lot of HDR panels — bright skies in a football match blow out to a flat white blob, and 4K HEVC with a DTS track stutters because the decode path isn't doing what you think it is. I wanted the thing that didn't exist: a native Windows player with a reference-grade video path. So I built it on libmpv — the same playback core mpv uses — with a Flutter desktop shell on top for the UI. This post is the part I actually find interesting: the HDR tone-mapping pipeline. Why HDR "just passing through" isn't enough HDR10 content is mastered in the PQ (ST.2084) transfer function against a mastering display — often 1000 nits, sometimes 4000. Your screen is whatever it is: a 350-nit SDR laptop, a 600-nit "HDR400" monitor, an 800-nit OLED. If you map PQ straight to the panel, everything above the panel's peak just clips — all the highlight detail collapses to maximum white. Tone-mapping is the process of intelligently compressing the mastering range into the display range so you keep highlight detail instead of clipping it. The naive version (a fixed curve, or clipping) is what most wrapper players ship. The good version adapts to both the content and the display. The pipeline H

Nicolas Cage was born to play 1930s PI Ben Reilly/The Spider: part Bogart, part Bugs Bunny, 100% Cage-y.

Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s first check, most of them will get lost in the Valley of Death between prototype contract […]

X will now let you 'react with video' to posts.

The Amazing Digital Circus finale will hit more than 4,000 theaters around the world Thursday. Two weeks later it’ll be on YouTube, bucking Hollywood trends and testing the power of online fandom.

Consoles with disc drives are the easiest way to enjoy all kinds of physical media, but that could end with the next-gen PlayStation 6 and Microsoft's Project Helix.

AI videos that are animated, unrealistic, or only have a little AI may still hide their origins, though.

Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10 blue links, the rules just changed in a pretty significant way. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca […]