Four heroes, each with amazing powers. One with remarkable strength; another can turn herself invisible; the next has a body that can stretch in odd configurations; and the last leaves a trail of flames as he zooms by. Remarkable as these abilities certainly are, the quartet’s most important quality is the love they share for one another. Because, more than superheroes, these four are family. That description applies to Marvel‘s first family the Fantastic Four, whose shared affection (and occasional antagonism) is on full display in the latest trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. However, it also describes Disney‘s first superhero family, as seen in the Pixar film The Incredibles. Although some people might prefer the red-attired quartet over the group in blue, the similarities between the two superhero teams is a good thing. First Family? Voiced by Craig T. Nelson, Mr. Incredible introduced himself to the world in a teaser released in 2003. The two-minute clip opened with nostalgic shots of the hero in his glory days, inspirational images matched by a soaring score. We see Mr. Incredible suiting up, proudly pulling on his gloves and mask. But the tone changes abruptly when he gets to his belt, which no longer fits over his protruding gut. That short clip identifies the central emotional spine of the finished movie. Written and directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles finds Bob Parr in the midst of a midlife crisis. Worried that his glory days are behind him and dissatisfied by his dull office job, Bob puts his own needs above those of his wife and children when an alluring stranger allows him to recapture his youth. Of course all of this suburban strife plays out less in the form of troubling self-medication and more as superhero adventurism, complete with discovering a volcano lair and a rampaging robot. Remembering that teaser and the focus on a midlife crisis does a lot to dissuade folks convinced that The Incredibles ripped off the Fantastic Four, despite having a family of superheroes, three quarters of whom share similar power sets. Bird claims the similarities between his team and the FF were entirely unintentional, stating that he drew more overtly from James Bond movies (thus the ’60s setting, the volcano lair, and Michael Giacchino’s jaunty Monty Norman-inspired score). In fact, the only comic book Bird acknowledges is Watchmen, which also has a plot about the government outlawing superheroes, and even then calls it a coincidence. That said, The Incredibles felt similar enough to the Fantastic Four that producers at 20th Century Fox were compelled to rework their 2005 take on the Marvel heroes. In particular, they found Bird’s depiction of Elasti-Girl’s (Holly Hunter) stretching powers so impressive that they needed to reimagine the way their Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) used his abilities. Obviously, it wasn’t enough as The Incredibles remains one of the greatest superhero movies of all time while 2005’s Fantastic Four is only defended by contrarians or victims of nostalgia. Moreover, it doesn’t really matter if Bird took direct inspiration from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby or if he just happened on the same territory. What is important is how The Incredibles highlights the best parts of the Fantastic Four. Family First. Late in The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible snaps. A shadow covers his face and he grabs Mirage (Elizabeth Peña), the assistant of supervillain Syndrome (Jason Lee), and threatens to kill her. What accounts for this sudden change in tone? Simple. He just overheard a message from his wife Helen, stating that she and her children (Sarah Vowell and Spencer Fox) were flying in a plane over Syndrome’s island, a plane that was just destroyed. Without his family, Mr. Incredible turned into a violent monster. Early in Jonathan Hickman’s influential run on Fantastic Four, Reed Richards uses a multiversal bridge to encounter the Council of Reeds, an organization filled with all of his variants. While the Reeds initially help one another to solve every problem, the main Reed soon gets unsettled by their utilitarian coldness. They reveal a willingness to sacrifice innocents in pursuit of their goals. Eventually, Reed realizes the difference between himself and these other selves; the thing that makes him caring and them as cruel as Doctor Doom. This Reed still has his Sue, still has his brother-in-law Johnny, and his best friend Ben. He has two children in Franklin and Valeria while the other Reeds considered their families a distraction from the real work. In Hickman’s hands—and indeed those of the great Fantastic Four creators, starting with Lee and Kirby—Reed’s family is the source of his heroism, not a distraction. It leads to a wonderful conclusion in which the mere existence of Franklin and Valeria allows Earth-616 Reed to succeed where the others failed. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! However, with the exception of the unreleased 1996 movie, none of the Fantastic Four movies that came before emphasized the family element. Neither Gruffudd nor co-star Jessica Alba had the chemistry to make Reed and Sue feel like a loving, supportive couple in 2005’s Fantastic Four or its 2007 sequel. Worse the 2015 movie leans hard into darkness, so that even brother and sister Johnny and Sue (Michael B. Jordan and Kate Mara) feel like enemies. The Incredibles foregrounds heroes as family, setting a high bar that no Fantastic Four film to date has cleared. Family Forever The latest trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps features lots of intergalactic adventure, including our first look at Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer and Galactus’ foot, stomping through the city like he’s Godzilla. But the center of the trailer is on more mundane issues, namely the quartet’s excitement over Sue’s pregnancy. That combination of the mundane and the superheroic certainly exists in the comics. But it took The Incredibles to put the mixture on screen, opening the way for the Fantastic Four to take its next steps and become the legendary team they’re meant to be. The Fantastic Four: First Steps arrives in theaters on July 25, 2025.

Apr 18, 2025The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Shadow IT Your employees didn't mean to expose sensitive data. They just wanted to move faster. So they used ChatGPT to summarize a deal. Uploaded a spreadsheet to an AI-enhanced tool. Integrated a chatbot into Salesforce. No big deal—until it is. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. Most security teams are already behind in detecting how AI tools are quietly reshaping their SaaS environments. And by the time an alert is triggered—if it even exists—damage may already be done. This Isn't a Hypothetical Problem. It's Happening Now. AI adoption inside organizations is no longer strategic. It's spontaneous. Employees are experimenting, connecting, automating—and bypassing security while doing it. AI systems are becoming embedded in your SaaS stack without visibility or oversight. And it's creating a new class of shadow integrations—ones that don't show up in traditional threat models. If your current defenses rely on manual tracking, policy enforcement, or user education alone, you're not keeping up. Learn How to Adapt—Before Your Next Blind Spot Becomes a Breach Join Dvir Sasson, Director of Security Research at Reco, for "Your AI is Outrunning Your Security. Here's How to Keep Up" — an unfiltered session on what it really takes to maintain AI Security Readiness. You'll walk away with: Clarity on emerging AI-driven threats inside SaaS tools you already use Real examples of breaches caused by unmonitored AI integrations Actionable detection and response strategies that forward-thinking companies are using right now AI is no longer just a tool—it's a moving part of your operational fabric. The more decentralized and dynamic it becomes, the less your traditional security playbook applies. If you're not accounting for AI's growing presence across your SaaS apps, you're not seeing the full risk surface. Watch this Webinar And when a breach hits your CRM, your boardroom doesn't care how it happened. Just that you didn't see it coming. Save Your Seat: This session is for security leaders, IT owners, and SaaS risk managers who want to evolve beyond reactive security—and take proactive control in an AI-powered world. 👉 Register now to reserve your spot. Spaces are limited. Found this article interesting? This article is a contributed piece from one of our valued partners. Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post. SHARE    

The quest for long, healthy life—and even immortality—is probably almost as old as humans are, but it’s never been hotter than it is right now. Today my newsfeed is full of claims about diets, exercise routines, and supplements that will help me live longer. A lot of it is marketing fluff, of course. It should be fairly obvious that a healthy, plant-rich diet and moderate exercise will help keep you in good shape. And no drugs or supplements have yet been proved to extend human lifespan. The growing field of longevity medicine is apparently aiming for something in between these two ends of the wellness spectrum. By combining the established tools of clinical medicine (think blood tests and scans) with some more experimental ones (tests that measure your biological age), these clinics promise to help their clients improve their health and longevity. But a survey of longevity clinics around the world, carried out by an organization that publishes updates and research on the industry, is revealing a messier picture. In reality, these clinics—most of which cater only to the very wealthy—vary wildly in their offerings. Today, the number of longevity clinics is thought to be somewhere in the hundreds. The proponents of these clinics say they represent the future of medicine. “We can write new rules on how we treat patients,” Eric Verdin, who directs the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, said at a professional meeting last year. Phil Newman, who runs Longevity.Technology, a company that tracks the longevity industry, says he knows of 320 longevity clinics operating around the world. Some operate multiple centers on an international scale, while others involve a single “practitioner” incorporating some element of “longevity” into the treatments offered, he says. To get a better idea of what these offerings might be, Newman and his colleagues conducted a survey of 82 clinics around the world, including the US, Australia, Brazil, and multiple countries in Europe and Asia. Some of the results are not all that surprising. Three-quarters of the clinics said that most of their clients were Gen Xers, aged between 44 and 59. This makes sense—anecdotally, it’s around this age that many people start to feel the effects of aging. And research suggests that waves of molecular changes associated with aging hit us in our 40s and again in our 60s. (Longevity influencers Bryan Johnson, Andrew Huberman, and Peter Attia all fall into this age group too.) And I wasn’t surprised to see that plenty of clinics are offering aesthetic treatments, focusing more on how old their clients look. Of the clinics surveyed, 28% said they offered Botox injections, 35% offered hair loss treatments, and 38% offered “facial rejuvenation procedures.”  “The distinction between longevity medicine and aesthetic medicine remains blurred,” Andrea Maier of the National University of Singapore, and cofounder of a private longevity clinic, wrote in a commentary on the report. Maier is also former president of the Healthy Longevity Medicine Society, an organization that was set up with the aim of establishing clinical standards and credibility for longevity clinics. Other results from the survey underline how much of a challenge this will be; many clinics are still offering unproven treatments. Over a third of the clinics said they offered stem-cell treatments, for example. There is no evidence that those treatments will help people live longer—and they are not without risk, either. I was a little surprised to see that most of the clinics are also offering prescription medicines off label. In other words, drugs that have been approved for specific medical issues are apparently being prescribed for aging instead. This is also not without risks—all medicines have side effects. And, again, none of them have been proved to slow or reverse human aging. And these prescriptions are coming from certified medical doctors. More than 80% of clinics reported that their practice was overseen by a medical doctor with more than 10 years of clinical experience. It was also a little surprising to learn that despite their high fees, most of these clinics are not making a profit. For clients, the annual costs of attending a longevity clinic range between $10,000 and $150,000, according to Fountain Life, a company with clinics in Florida and Prague. But only 39% of the surveyed clinics said they were turning a profit and 30% said they were “approaching breaking even,” while 16% said they were operating at a loss. Proponents of longevity clinics have high hopes for the field. They see longevity medicine as nothing short of a revolution—a move away from reactive treatments and toward proactive health maintenance. But these survey results show just how far they have to go. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.

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Image: Nintendo LifeJust when you thought the messaging around Nintendo's 'Switch 2 Edition' games couldn't get any more confusing, another discovery comes along to stir things up even further. Looking at the game's store pages, it seems some upcoming titles won't support the Nintendo Switch Online Cloud Save feature — or maybe they will, it's all a bit confusing (thanks for the heads up, Eurogamer). As was pointed out in a recent Resetera thread by user RandomlyRandom67, the Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Switch 2 Edition page on Nintendo's website houses the following disclaimer: "Please note: this software does not support the Nintendo Switch Online paid membership's Save Data Cloud backup feature".Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube808kWatch on YouTube You'll find the same message at the bottom of Nintendo's Donkey Kong Bananza listing, and the original poster claimed it could also be found on the Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Party Jamboree Nintendo Switch 2 Edition pages, but it seems to have been removed now. Hmm. Image: Nintendo Life Image: Nintendo Life Where things get really confusing, however, is how these disclaimers appear to only be present on the European and North American game listings. Eurogamer noted that no such message appears on the Japanese site for any of the games, muddying the waters even further. Again, hmmmmm. We've reached out to Nintendo for a comment on these cloud save shenanigans and will update this article when we hear back. Removing the NSO cloud save option from new Switch 2 games is a baffling move, but taking it from the likes of TOTK — which, let's not forget, supported it in its Switch 1 form — makes even less sense. We know that you'll be able to move your original BOTW and TOTK save files over to the Switch 2 editions, but, if the disclaimer is correct, you won't be able to make a new cloud save in the latter once it's there. Surely there's been a mistake here. We'll be keeping an eye out for more clarification in the run-up to Switch 2's launch, but until then, cherish you're cloud saves, folks. Who knows how long they'll last? "That DLC is available as a separate purchase" You'll need to use 'Zelda Notes', though What do you think is going on here? Let us know in the comments. [source resetera.com, via eurogamer.net] Related Games See Also Share:0 0 Jim came to Nintendo Life in 2022 and, despite his insistence that The Minish Cap is the best Zelda game and his unwavering love for the Star Wars prequels (yes, really), he has continued to write news and features on the site ever since. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment... Related Articles Switch 2's Backwards Compatibility List Provides Updates On Two Titles Here's what you can expect Here's Why Switch 2 Joy-Con And Pro Controllers Don't Have Analogue Triggers Nintendo thought instant input was the "better option"

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Tech Can this $70,000 robot transform AI research? Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition Published April 18, 2025 6:00am EDT close Can this $70,000 robot transform AI research? Reachy 2 is touted as a "lab partner for the AI era." The folks at Hugging Face, the open-source artificial intelligence gurus, just jumped into the world of robotics by acquiring Pollen Robotics. And right out of the gate, they are offering the Reachy 2, a super-interesting humanoid robot designed as a "lab partner for the AI era." Ready to dive in and see what all the buzz is about?STAY PROTECTED & INFORMED! GET SECURITY ALERTS & EXPERT TECH TIPS – SIGN UP FOR KURT’S ‘THE CYBERGUY REPORT’ NOW Reachy 2 Humanoid robot (Hugging Face)What makes this humanoid robot so special?So, what makes Reachy 2 stand out? Well, first off, it's a state-of-the-art humanoid robot already making waves in labs like Cornell and Carnegie Mellon. It's designed to be friendly and approachable, inviting natural interaction. This robot is open-source and VR-compatible, perfect for research, education and experimenting with embodied AI.The innovative Orbita joint system gives Reachy 2's neck and wrists smooth, multi-directional movement, making it remarkably expressive. Reachy 2 also features human-inspired arms.Its mobile base, equipped with omni wheels and lidar, allows for seamless navigation, and the VR teleoperation feature lets you literally see through the robot's eyes! Finally, its open-source nature fosters collaboration and customization, with Pollen Robotics providing a ton of resources on their Hugging Face organization. Reachy 2 Humanoid robot (Hugging Face)Technical specificationsThis humanoid robot combines advanced vision, audio and actuator systems for cutting-edge AI interaction and teleoperation. Here's a quick look at what Reachy 2 brings to the table. Standing between 4.46 and 5.45 feet tall and weighing in at 110 pounds, it features bio-inspired arms with 7 degrees of freedom, capable of handling payloads up to 6.6 pounds. It's also equipped with a parallel torque-controlled gripper and multiple cameras for depth perception, plus a high-quality audio system. Navigating its environment is a breeze thanks to its omnidirectional mobile base.When it comes to perception, Reachy 2 has a vision module in its head with dual RGB cameras and a Time-of-Flight module for depth measurement. There's also an RGB-D camera in its torso for accurate depth sensing. Immersive stereo perception is achieved through microphones in Reachy's antennas.For interaction, Reachy 2 has custom-built speakers with a high-quality amplifier and a Rode AI-Micro audio interface. Its expressive head is powered by an Orbita system, and it has motorized antennas for enhanced human-robot interaction.Reachy 2's manipulation capabilities stem from its Orbita 3D and 2D parallel mechanisms, along with a Dynamixel-based parallel gripper that features torque control.Controlling Reachy 2 is a Solidrun Bedrock v3000 unit, with AI processing handled on external hardware. Finally, the mobile base includes omnidirectional wheels, Hall sensors and IMU, an RP Lidar S2 and a LiFePO₄ Battery.WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? Reachy 2 Humanoid robot (Hugging Face)Cost of the humanoid robotGetting your hands on Reachy 2 will cost you $70,000, a price that reflects its cutting-edge robotics and AI components and open-source capabilities, making it a serious investment for researchers and educators looking to push the boundaries of human-robot interaction.GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Reachy 2 Humanoid robot (Hugging Face)Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics team upSo, what does Hugging Face scooping up Pollen Robotics really mean? Well, it could signal a big push toward making robotics more accessible. Think of it this way: Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf and chief scientist at Hugging Face says, "We believe robotics could be the next frontier unlocked by AI, and it should be open, affordable, and private."Matthieu Lapeyre, Pollen Robotics co-founder, echoes this sentiment: "Hugging Face is a natural home for us to grow, as we share a common goal: putting AI and robotics in the hands of everyone."Hugging Face's acquisition of Pollen Robotics represents its fifth acquisition after Gradio and Xethub. This move solidifies Hugging Face's commitment to open-source AI and its vision for a future where AI and robotics are accessible to all. Reachy 2 Humanoid robot (Hugging Face)Kurt's key takeawaysBottom line? Hugging Face is making moves. Who knows, maybe one day we'll all have our own Reachy to help with the chores (or just keep us company). Either way, the collaboration between Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics is definitely worth keeping an eye on.If you could use a robot like Reachy 2 for any purpose, what would it be and why? Let us know by writing us at Cyberguy.com/Contact.For more of my tech tips and security alerts, subscribe to my free CyberGuy Report Newsletter by heading to Cyberguy.com/Newsletter.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAsk Kurt a question or let us know what stories you'd like us to cover.Follow Kurt on his social channels:Answers to the most-asked CyberGuy questions:New from Kurt:Copyright 2025 CyberGuy.com. All rights reserved. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson is an award-winning tech journalist who has a deep love of technology, gear and gadgets that make life better with his contributions for Fox News & FOX Business beginning mornings on "FOX & Friends." Got a tech question? Get Kurt’s free CyberGuy Newsletter, share your voice, a story idea or comment at CyberGuy.com.