San Francisco studio Ryan Leidner Architecture has based the design of a wood-and-stucco desert house and art studio in southern California on mid-century Eichler homes and southwestern art. Located in the High Desert region near Joshua Tree National Park, the house was designed for painter Heather Day and her partner Chase McBride.Ryan Leidner Architecture constructed a wood and stucco house in CaliforniaRyan Leidner Architecture designed the home on an undeveloped desert site."[We sought to] respect the landscape with the design of the house, maintaining a compact footprint while still enjoying the sense of expansiveness one feels in the desert," said studio founder Ryan Leidner."In order to get to the property you drive several miles down an unpaved, sandy road through the desert, seeing the occasional home or trailer along the way."It was created for a painter and creative director"And then you take a final turn, and the house begins to emerge from behind a rock outcropping, and what you see is this white line in the landscape, and it feels just so surprising, and I think beautiful."The studio was informed by the straightforward logic of mid-century Eichler homes after the studio renovated one and decided to start with an exposed post-and-beam structure with regular spacing that informed the layout of the rooms.The design was informed by the straightforward logic of mid-century Eichler homesThe team also looked at case studies from painter Georgia O'Keeffe's and Willem and Elaine de Kooning's studios, as well as Mexican architect Luis Barragan's personal residence when considering the space.The rectangular wood frame, which steps down to accommodate a rocky slope, was coated in a white plaster stucco exterior to withstand the extreme fluctuations of the site's weather.A post and beam structure drove the design of the home"We initially explored using a neutral tone plaster with the thought that it would blend in with the desert landscape," the team said."But as we studied that option further, we realized that it actually took away from the architecture and the landscape and that having more of a contrast in tone helped to highlight the beauty of the surroundings."On one side, a solid white wall runs the length of the house, extending slightly past the transverse end walls to create small sheltered flanges. The wall is split in half by a set of double doors and sidelights that align with the doors on the other side of the house.Read: Ryan Leidner adds bridge to geometric San Francisco houseOn the other side, the nearly symmetrical house features a wide central porch with an elevated deck that is accessed through floor-to-ceiling sliding glass walls.Large windows that bring light into the bedroom and artist studio flank either end of the house and the wooden roof trusses extend a short way past the perimeter of the wall to shade the glazing.On one end, the home drops into a studio spaceThe short ends feature clerestory windows underscored by thin vertical wooden bands.In the central space between the breezeway created by the open doors, the kitchen, dining and living room form the heart of the house with exposed wood ceilings, white walls, and concrete flooring.Large windows let in natural light to the studioA short hallway off the kitchen leads to the bedroom and bathroom, while the other side of the main room drops a couple steps into the large open studio space."Living here has helped both of us slow down and savor each day," resident Heather Day said. "The way the windows frame the rugged landscape that seems to change throughout the day or with each season makes us feel closer to land. It's like an ever-evolving painting outside."Recently, Ryan Leidner Architecture renovated a 1940s home in Bernal Heights, San Francisco with a bridge over the front garden and a 1960s Eichler house in Silicon Valley, from which he drew inspiration for this house.The photography is by Joe Fletcher.The post Ryan Leidner Architecture creates home and studio in High Desert appeared first on Dezeen.

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The first half of 2025 is set to be a busy one for Apple. Here's all of the rumors so far, including the iPhone SE 4, M4 Ultra in a Mac Pro, and more!Apple has a busy 2025 aheadApple started off its Apple Silicon transition in the middle of a global pandemic, so those first couple of years were out of balance. As we enter 2025, a pattern has emerged along with a ton of the usual rumors.It doesn't seem like there will be many surprises in 2025 as Apple bumps chipsets and releases updated versions of old products, but there's at least one device that could surprise us early in the year. Rumor Score: Likely Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Researchers calculated that the human brain processes thought at a speed of ten bits per second. Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty ImagesThe human brain is a biological marvel, stuffed with some 86 billion neurons tangling in ways that even scientists have not yet been able to fully map and understand. Nevertheless, compared with modern technological devices, its fair to say that humans live life in the slow lane, given the relatively sluggish speed at which our brains process information.An average Wi-Fi connection in the United States has a download speed above 260 million bits per second. A phone call takes up approximately 64,000 bits per second. Our brains, on the other hand, think at a mere ten bits per second, according to new calculations published this month in the journal Neuron.Its a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is, study co-author Markus Meister, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology, tells Carl Zimmer of the New York Times. If you actually try to put numbers to it, we are incredibly slow.The authors came by their number after examining scientific papers about human feats of speed, then applying methods from the field of information theory to calculate how quickly the brain processes thoughts in these situations. For example, advanced typists hammer away at the keyboard at 120 words per minute, but all that finger dexterity still only translates to ten bits per second of information processing, the researchers conclude. Elite video gamers seem to have lightning-fast reaction times and make split-second decisions, but even their thoughts max out at ten bits every second.The team wondered whether human thinking speed could be hampered by our hardwarein other words, is the body simply too slow to respond to our train of thought? To eliminate this possibility, the researchers looked to a less physically intensive pastime: blind speedcubing, where participants study a Rubiks cube, then put on a blindfold and solve it as quickly as they can. Here, the act of perceptionexamining the cube and mapping out the solutionfeatures heavily, and it requires little movement compared with the cube-solving phase. But even in this motor-light exercise, cognitive traffic comes in at just under 12 bits per second.Our chaotic surroundings, meanwhile, provide far more than just ten bits per second of informationand to be fair, the human senses can match this delivery. In one second, our sensory systems can bring in some ten billion bits of data, with about 1.6 billion bits processed by a single eye alone. But as for conscious thought in the brain, that harried pace of information exchange slows to a relative crawl. Our eyes might capture a wide view of our surroundings, but our brains focus on only a small portion of it at a time.This slow thinking speed means were shedding vast quantities of information input and selecting only a tiny sliver to work with. Ten bits per second is an extremely low number, Meister says in a statement. Its a paradox, he adds, that despite the wealth of data bombarding our senses, we make do with so little of it. What is the brain doing to filter all of this information?One hypothesis is that our bodies were built for a slower era. The ability to operate on ten bits of information per second has been enough for our ancestors to survive. The earliest brains might have evolved for simple navigation, per the statement, and only needed to follow one path of thought at a time. Evolutionarily speaking, that intellectual speed was enough for humans to adapt to the slow-moving natural world. But now, the digital world shifts at a much faster paceoutstripping the thought capacity of our physiological systems.Nature, it seems, has built a speed limit into our conscious thoughts, and no amount of neural engineering may be able to bypass it, Tony Zador, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who was not involved with the research, says to Scientific Americans Rachel Nuwer. Why? We really dont know, but its likely the result of our evolutionary history.Notably, the new study only looks at conscious tasks, neglecting the whirr of other cognitive processes that occur just beneath our awareness. The brain is still working relentlessly when were standing or walking, for instance, and if that information had been included in the teams speed calculation, they would end up with a vastly higher bit rate, Britton Sauerbrei, a neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University who was not involved in the new work, tells the New York Times. Nevertheless, he agrees with the study authors that the brain capacity involved in deliberate tasks transmits little data. I think their argument is pretty airtight, he says.Another shortcoming of our brains compared with computers and smart devices: our brains fall short at parallel processing. We work best handling one thought at a time, instead of balancing several in one go. Humans are no good at multitasking, despite our illusion of getting more work done when we jump between activities, according to Jack Knudson of Discover magazine. Thats because we dont juggle two or more tasks at once as much as we toggle between them, usually at the expense of our focus. Overall performance and efficiency tend to suffer as a result, despite our best intentions to wring more productivity from our days.The latest calculations on human brain speed cast doubt on the arguments for neural-computer interfacing devices meant to accelerate our communication speed, per the statement. Now knowing that the human mind is the bottleneck, the new study provides food for thought to technology start-ups chasing this buzzy integration of the computer with the mind.At the end of the day, speed isnt necessarily everything when it comes to thought. Studies have shown that slowing down our information processing can help things stick in the brain. Perhaps the most salient example is writing by hand, which is often more time-intensive than keyboard punching. But theres something about engaging our complex motor skills and the visual senses that might help wield our brains to the fullest: Studies have concluded that taking pen to paper helps young children retain the alphabet, and note-jotting adults better digest new concepts during lectures, compared to typists.As dizzying as the pace of technology-infused life is in the digital age, these findings suggest we still have ample reason to be the tortoise rather than the hare.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: Brain, Computer Science, Computers, Internet, Neuroscience, New Research

Whether or not you subscribe to them, New Years resolutions are a capital-T Thing for many people in the US. Thankfully, if your goals for 2025 revolve around health and fitness, the 42mm Apple Watch Series 10 is on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy starting at $329 ($70 off), matching its Black Friday low. You can also pick it up in the 46mm sizing at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy starting at $359 ($70 off), which remains the best price weve seen on the larger model.RelatedWhile there are certainly better fitness trackers for hardcore athletes, none of them offer the kind of robust third-party support youll get with a flagship Apple Watch, nor do they integrate as well with Apples larger device ecosystem. The Series 10 is a pretty minor update over the previous model, but its still a solid bet for casual athletes, with a terrific wide-angle OLED display, sleep apnea detection, a thinner design, and a larger charging coil that lets you juice it from zero to 80 percent in just 30 minutes.The more substantial fitness updates come in the form of watchOS 11, Apples latest software update for the Apple Watch, which brings a selection of new training features to the midrange wearable. These include the new Training Load feature, an app called Vitals that can contextualize a set of recovery metrics, and the long-overdue ability to pause your Activity Rings (praise be). I wouldnt say any of them are revolutionary, but if youre upgrading from an older model or youve never owned an Apple Watch before, theyre certainly welcome. Read our Apple Watch Series 10 review.Apple Watch Series 10 (42mm, GPS)$329$39918% off$329$329$39918% offThe Apple Watch Series 10 has a larger, wide-angle OLED display with up to 30 percent more screen area. Its also thinner and lighter than its predecessors.Apple Watch Series 10 (46mm, GPS)$359$42916% off$359$359$42916% offThe Apple Watch Series 10 has a larger, wide-angle OLED display with up to 30 percent more screen area. Its also thinner and lighter than its predecessors.More deals, discounts, and ways to saveNomad is still running its annual Holiday Hangover Sale, offering you a chance to save 20 percent on select items with coupon code HOLIDAY20. The promo applies to an assortment of Apple Watch bands and mobile accessories, including Nomads Traditional Leather Case for the iPhone 16 Pro (now $48), the keychain-friendly ChargeKey (now $20), and the second-gen Stand One charger (now $88). You can even grab a sleek leather case for the latest AirPods Pro for $32, assuming you want something a bit more rustic.Ankers Soundcore Sport X10 earbuds are available from Amazon and Anker (with promo code WS7DV2YU66HE) for $49.99 ($30 off), matching their all-time low. The relatively cheap pair of earbuds offers quite a bit for the money including powerful bass response, an IPX7 rating for water and sweat resistance, and flexible, wraparound hooks all of which make them a great pick if you want a pair of wireless workout buds for the new year.Looking for an Android-based alternative to the Apple Watch Series 10? The Google Pixel Watch 3 is currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store starting at $299.99 ($50 off), which remains its second-best price to date. The handsome third-gen smartwatch is one of the best fitness trackers you can buy thanks to a host of excellent Google integrations and a slew of running features, not to mention a new battery-saver mode that activates when your watch falls below 15 percent. Read our review.

Federated learning has emerged as an approach for collaborative training among medical institutions while preserving data privacy. However, the non-IID nature of data, stemming from differences in institutional specializations and regional demographics, creates significant challenges. This heterogeneity leads to client drift and suboptimal global model performance. Existing federated learning methods primarily address this issue through model-centric approaches, such as modifying local training processes or global aggregation strategies. Still, these solutions often offer marginal improvements and require frequent communication, which increases costs and raises privacy concerns. As a result, there is a growing need for robust, communication-efficient methods that can handle severe non-IID scenarios effectively.Recently, data-centric federated learning methods have gained attention for mitigating data-level divergence by synthesizing and sharing virtual data. These methods, including FedGen, FedMix, and FedGAN, attempt to approximate real data, generate virtual representations, or share GAN-trained data. However, they face challenges such as low-quality synthesized data and redundant knowledge. For example, mix-up approaches may distort data, and random selection for data synthesis often leads to repetitive and less meaningful updates to the global model. Additionally, some methods introduce privacy risks and remain inefficient in communication-constrained environments. Addressing these issues requires advanced synthesis techniques that ensure high-quality data, minimize redundancy, and optimize knowledge extraction, enabling better performance under non-IID conditions.Researchers from Peking University propose FedVCK (Federated learning via Valuable Condensed Knowledge), a data-centric federated learning method tailored for collaborative medical image analysis. FedVCK addresses non-IID challenges and minimizes communication costs by condensing each clients data into a small, high-quality dataset using latent distribution constraints. A model-guided approach ensures only essential, non-redundant knowledge is selected. On the server side, relational supervised contrastive learning enhances global model updates by identifying hard negative classes. Experiments demonstrate that FedVCK outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predictive accuracy, communication efficiency, and privacy preservation, even under limited communication budgets and severe non-IID scenarios.FedVCK is a federated learning framework comprising two key components: client-side knowledge condensation and server-side relational supervised learning. On the client side, it uses distribution matching techniques to condense critical knowledge from local data into a small learnable dataset, guided by latent distribution constraints and importance sampling of hard-to-predict samples. This ensures the condensed dataset addresses gaps in the global model. The international model is updated on the server side using cross-entropy loss and prototype-based contrastive learning. It improves class separation by aligning features with their prototypes and pushing them away from hard, negative classes. This iterative process enhances performance.The proposed FedVCK method is a data-centric federated learning approach designed to address the challenges of non-IID data distribution in collaborative medical image analysis. It was evaluated on diverse datasets, including Colon Pathology, Retinal OCT scans, Abdominal CT scans, Chest X-rays, and general datasets like CIFAR10 and ImageNette, encompassing various resolutions and modalities. Experiments demonstrated FedVCKs superior accuracy across datasets compared to nine baseline federated learning methods. Unlike model-centric methods, which showed mediocre performance, or data-centric methods, which struggled with synthesis quality and scalability, FedVCK efficiently condensed high-quality knowledge to improve global model performance while maintaining low communication costs and robustness under severe non-IID scenarios.The method also demonstrated significant privacy preservation, as evidenced by membership inference attack experiments, where it outperformed traditional methods like FedAvg. With fewer communication rounds, FedVCK reduced the risks of temporal attacks, offering improved defense rates. Furthermore, ablation studies confirmed the effectiveness of its key components, such as model-guided selection, which optimized knowledge condensation for heterogeneous datasets. Extending its evaluation to natural datasets further validated its generality and robustness. Future work aims to expand FedVCKs applicability to additional data modalities, including 3D CT scans, and to enhance condensation techniques for better efficiency and effectiveness.Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our60k+ ML SubReddit. Sana Hassan+ postsSana Hassan, a consulting intern at Marktechpost and dual-degree student at IIT Madras, is passionate about applying technology and AI to address real-world challenges. With a keen interest in solving practical problems, he brings a fresh perspective to the intersection of AI and real-life solutions. [Download] Evaluation of Large Language Model Vulnerabilities Report (Promoted)

Season 3 is set to arrive at some point in 2025 and Hwang promises that The fierce clash between [Gi-hun and Front Mans] two worlds will continue into the series finale with Season 3.When Will Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2 Premiere?Reality competition series Squid Game: The Challenge was Netflixs first official stab at a Squid Game spinoff. Released on November 22, 2023, the real life (and thankfully non-lethal) version of the Squid Game was successful enough to receive a second season. There is no word yet on when the next batch of episodes will arrive but season 2s open casting call is now closed, suggesting that Netflix has its 456 players in the fold. Whats Next for Hwang Dong-hyuk?In an interview with The Guardian following the success of Squid Game season 1, Hwang Dong-hyuk expressed a desire to branch out creatively and not be limited to solely Squid Game. His first rumored post-Squid Game project with Netflix may or may not help that goal. Tentatively titled The Best Show on the Planet, the project is a satire about the life of the creator of a Squid Game-esque global hit. Hwang first discussed the series in mid-2022 and no new details have emerged yet. Additionally, Hwang has written a 25-page treatment for a feature film called Killing Old People, based on the works of Italian novelist Umberto Eco. Is David Fincher Still Prepping an English Squid Game Remake?An English-language Squid Game remake makes little sense on paper, given that the show was already a massive hit in the English-speaking world. But Netflix found a way to make a needless project interesting anyway. Deadline reported in late 2024 that acclaimed film director David Fincher was attached to the project. The report even goes so far to claim that the Squid Game remake could be a priority for Fincher and begin production as early as 2025.Fincher is best known as the multi-award-winning director of Seven, Zodiac, Gone Girl, The Social Network, and more. He also previously directed the Netflix true crime series Mindhunter, which Hwang Dong-hyuk says is one of only two TV shows he watched in its entirety (the other being Breaking Bad).

For the vast majority of people, CarPlay is a must-have. Apples in-car experience provides a vastly superior infotainment experience than most options from carmakers. Theres quick access to your favorite apps, integration with Siri, seamless connectivity, and more.Here are some of my favorite tips and tricks for making sure youre getting the most out of your CarPlay experienceCustomize your CarPlay apps and Home Screen A lot of your favorite apps are probably available on CarPlay, but that doesnt mean you want all of them on your CarPlay Home Screen. Thankfully, its easy to adjust those options.Open the Settings app on your iPhoneTap General Tap CarPlay Tap your cars name and choose Customize Here, youll see a full list of all the CarPlay apps on your phone. You can simply tap on the red minus sign to hide apps from appearing on CarPlay. You can also rearrange your CarPlay Home Screen while on this page of the Settings app. Simply drag the apps into your desired order using the three lines on the right side of the app icons. CarPlay wallpapersWhile you cant use any photo as your CarPlay wallpaper, Apple does offer a selection of pre-installed options. Open the Settings app on CarPlay itselfSelect Wallpaper Choose your desired wallpaper and tap Set Apple adds new wallpaper options to CarPlay from time to time, but theres still only a limited number of choices available.Wireless or wired? CarPlay works both wired and wirelessly, depending on your cars make and model. Wired CarPlay generally provides a faster and more reliable experience. While using wireless CarPlay, you might experience some latency when doing things like changing songs and accessing Siri. Heres my strategy:I use wireless CarPlay for quick trips around town when Im getting in and out of the car multiple times of the car as I run errands. I use wired CarPlay for longer road trips where Im in the car for extended periods of time. Again, your mileage may vary depending on your car. There are, however, ways to bring wireless CarPlay to any car. My personal recommendation is the CarlinKit 5.0 adapter, which converts your cars wired CarPlay implementation to a wireless experience for under $60. Dark modeCarPlay is available in light mode and dark mode interfaces. In the Settings app via CarPlay, you can choose between three options: LightDark Automatic I use the automatic setting, which switches between light and dark modes based on time of day and other exterior lighting factors. Driving Focus mode One of the most important benefits of CarPlay is that it enhances in-car safety by discouraging you from picking up your phone. First, theres the Driving Focus mode. This blocks incoming notifications, messages, and calls so your focus remains on the road. You can customize the Driving Focus mode via the Settings app on your iPhone. You can choose to allow notifications from specific contacts and enable an automatic reply feature that tells people who text you that youre driving. You can also choose to enable Driving Focus when connected to CarPlay automatically. Announce MessagesAnnounce Messages is a popular iPhone feature that works with Siri to read your messages aloud. Then, you can choose to reply to that message using your voice. The feature works with Apples Messages app as well as third-party apps like WhatsApp. Go to Settings > Siri & Search > Announce Notifications on your iPhoneTurn on Announce Notifications and select supported appsIn CarPlay, make sure Announce Messages with Siri is enabled in the CarPlay Settings appIf youre like me, you prefer to have control of the music while youre driving. However, if want other people in your car to be able to contribute songs to the queue, CarPlay has you covered. Youll see a SharePlay icon in the upper-right corner on the Apple Music Now Playing screen. By tapping on this icon, youll be prompted to generate a QR code that others can scan. Once they scan this QR code, a pop-up will appear, informing you that someone is interested in joining your SharePlay session.Once that person joins, the other people can contribute songs to the queue, see whats currently playing, and rearrange the queue even if they dont have Apple Music. Wrap up Are you a CarPlay user? If so, what are some of your favorite tips and tricks? Let us know down in the comments. The elephant in the room, of course, is Apples highly-anticipated next-generation CarPlay platform. Unfortunately, there are very few details available on when that will actually materialize. If youre an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels. 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Vision Pro was chosen as 9to5Macs Product of the Year. But theres still a lot Apples spatial computer has to prove heading into its second year. Here are three big coming upgrades that could lead to a breakout 2025 for Vision Pro.Apple Intelligence (especially for Siri)Apple neglecting to bring AI to its flagship, cutting-edge spatial computer in 2024 was a disappointmentbut understandable. The companys playing catch-up with AI and rightfully prioritized its most popular devices: the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.But Apple Intelligence is on its way to Vision Pro, likely in visionOS 3. And theres one main area it could make a significant impact: an upgraded Siri.Plenty of other AI features will make nice additions to visionOS, but a more powerful Siri easily tops my list.Im still a relatively new Vision Pro owner, but Ive quickly found Siri more important to spatial computing than any other Apple platform (save HomePod).Voice-first computing has tremendous potential on Vision Pro, and Siris ChatGPT integration plus the powerful upgrades coming in iOS 18.4 would make a huge difference to the visionOS experience.Robust gaming supportFor years, Apple has been trying to prove that its serious about gaming. The iPhone has always been a gaming hit, but Apple has also tried to convince users (and developers) to invest in gaming on the Mac, Apple TV, and more.But somehow, the Vision Pro launched without much of a gaming story. Apple Arcade offers a variety of spatial games, and others are available on the App Store. But there are currently no VR game controllers supported, and Apple doesnt seem to think of visionOS as a gaming platform.Fortunately, it sounds like PlayStation VR2 controllers will be supported soon, and thats hopefully just the start of Apples gaming plans.Apple needs to prove in the new year that gaming is a priority for Vision Pro. Otherwise, all the best VR games will continue being exclusive to competing platforms.Much more Apple Immersive VideoImmersive Video is one of the most remarkable, killer app-style features on the Vision Pro. The only problem is, demand for content has significantly outweighed supplyfor now.Apple wrapped up 2024 with an increase of regular Immersive Video releases, and thats bound to continue in 2025 as recent developments point to big plans for new content.The variety of different Immersive Video releases in 2024 shows how much Apple is experimenting with this new medium, and how much potential is there for the future.I hope Vision Pro can become a true productivity platform, but thats still up for debate. Whats undeniable is that Immersive Video can make Vision Pro a killer entertainment device.Vision Pros coming upgrades: wrap-up If Apple succeeds on all three fronts above, Vision Pro should start to become a lot more compelling to a lot more people. Price, weight, and app ecosystem are all important factors too. But the more Apple can do to make visionOS a true computing platform, with strong gaming and video experiences, the brighter Vision Pros future will be.What Vision Pro changes do you hope to see in 2025? Let us know in the comments.Best Vision Pro accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Netflix spent an estimated $17 billion on content in 2024, with most of that money going toward original productions. That investment resulted in a huge catalog of great movies, from summer blockbusters like Hit Man to recent holiday hits like Hot Frosty and Carry-On. The platform's original films have started to dominate industry awards shows like the Oscars and theGolden Globes, too; in 2024 alone, they received received 18 Academy Award nominations. So what's in store for 2025? A lot. Netflix's January movie releases span every genre, from documentaries like Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever to a new feature-length Wallace & Gromit movie to the highly-anticipated Back In Action starring Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx. In case you missed it, the streamer just added Horizon: An American Saga: Chapter 1 and The Watchers to its lineup at the end of December. Take a look below at some of the biggest films coming to Netflix in January, from its newest originals to older titles that have been freshly acquired. See at Netflix Netflix Back In Action (Jan. 17) Cameron Diaz has taken a decade-long break from acting, and she makes her return in the appropriately-titled Back In Action, which reunites her with Jamie Foxx, her co-star in Annie and Any Given Sunday. In the film, the pair star as an average married couple, Emily and Matt, whose attempt to raise their family in peace is interrupted because surprise! they're actually secret agents whose lives are thrown into chaos when their cover is blown. The film, which co-stars Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott and Jamie Demetriou, arrives Jan. 17. Netflix Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Jan. 3) We've come to expect movies about the robots becoming sentient, but it's rare for the same fate to befall the garden gnomes. Alas, that's what happens in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the latest film from Aardman animation studio. After Wallace invents a "smart" gnome he calls Norbot, it starts behaving strangely, as if being commanded by sinister forces. As always, it's up to Gromit to save his oblivious master from disaster. The film premieres on Jan. 3. Netflix Ad Vitam (Jan. 10) The French action thriller Ad Vitam not to be confused with the French TV series of the same name as the two are unrelated stars Guillaume Canet as a man named Franck Lazareff who survives a murder attempt but is on the hunt for the men who kidnapped his wife Lo (Stphane Caillard). In his search to find her, he becomes a part of a deadly manhunt that's somehow tied to his own scandalous past. Netflix Cunk on Life (Jan. 2) Cunk. Is. Back. Documentarian Philomena Cunk is a character created by British performer Diane Morgan, and, let's just say David Attenborough walked so that Cunk could... also walk, just in slow motion, through picturesque locations filled with nature. After her successful 2022 "documentary" Cunk on Earth, she's here with her latest follow-up, Cunk on Life, debuting on Netflix Jan. 2. Presented as a philosophical look at our purpose on Earth, Cunk deadpans her way through the special, trying to understand the meaning of life while asking, "Is life's meaning a riddle that even can be answered, and if so, should we listen or cover our ears to avoid spoilers?" Netflix Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever (Jan. 1) Another day, another story about a tech millionaire doing something outlandish with his money, right? That's the gist of Netflix's new documentary Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, out Jan. 1. Bryan Johnson, a Silicon Valley millionaire, spends roughly $2 million per year on a quest to reverse the aging process and add years to his life through diet, sleep, exercise and procedures like gene therapy and plasma transfusions. In the past few years he has amassed over a million Instagram fans, many of whom are following his lead. Filmmaker Chris Smith (Tiger King) spent a year following Johnson in an effort to understand the movement he's started, which he simply calls "Don't Die," and see if this is simply one man's obsession or if there's something to it. A24 You Hurt My Feelings (Jan. 26) In A24's You Hurt My Feelings, which will be available on Netflix on Jan. 26, Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as Beth, a non-fiction author working on her first novel. After she overhears her husband Don (Tobias Menzies) criticizing a draft of the book, their previously loving marriage starts to unravel. Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, the marital drama features plenty of comedy courtesy of its supporting cast including, Michaela Watkins, Jeannie Berlin, David Cross and Arian Moayed. Warner Bros. Inception (Jan. 1) In Christopher Nolan's Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a thief with the ability to enter people's dreams and steal secrets from their subconscious who is later hired to implant a dream into a subject's head, a concept called "inception." The film's cast is a who's who of incredible talent including Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Joseph-Gordon Levitt and Marion Cotillard. Even though this is one of those Nolan films that's admittedly best seen on the big screen, if you've never seen it, do yourself a favor when it arrives on Jan. 1. Sony Pictures 13 Going on 30 (Jan. 1) 13 Going On 30 has become something of a modern classic since it was first released in 2004. Since then, the Jennifer Garner film has bounced around several streaming services, and it returns to Netflix this month. The film that taught an entire generation to love Billy Joel's Vienna, gave us the term, "thirty, flirty and thriving," and delivered an iconic version of the Thriller dance, arrives Jan. 1. Screenshot by Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET Spider-Man (Jan. 1) The Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire as your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man drops this month on Netflix. The films, distributed by Sony and produced before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was a glimmer in Thanos's eye, will join Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the great 2023 animated feature that is also streaming on the site. Warner Bros. Rush Hour (1998) They just don't make buddy action comedies like Rush Hour anymore, but luckily the 1998 film (and its two sequels) start streaming on Netflix this month so we can relive the magic of a bygone cinematic era. The pairing of Jackie Chan as a Hong Kong cop who's also a skilled martial artist and Chris Tucker as the fast-talking L.A. detective who's assigned to babysit him during an investigation is 100% everything you think it will be... and more.