'Stranger Things' Season 5: What is the Abyss?

Stranger Things has been hinting at this reveal throughout Season 5. Look no further than its references to A Wrinkle in Time ...

Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech

Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Cumulative Link Modeling of Ordinal Outcomes in the National Health Interview Survey Data: Application to Depressive Symptom Severity ()

Williams, A. and Louis, L. (2026) Cumulative Link Modeling of Ordinal Outcomes in the National Health Interview Survey Data: Application to Depressive Symptom Severity. Journal of Data Analysis and ...

Q&A: The science of snowflakes—how hexagonal symmetry and environmental changes create endless designs

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...
The Hindu

Gavi, UNICEF announce new agreement to make R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccines more accessible

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF have announced a new agreement that it said will make the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccines significantly more accessible and affordable, paving the way to protect ...
IEEE

Multiview Clustering via Hypergraph Induced Semi-Supervised Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Abstract: Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) based multiview technique has been commonly used in multiview data clustering tasks. However, previous NMF based multiview clustering approaches fail ...
IEEE

Semi-Supervised Adaptive Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Multi-View Clustering

Abstract: Multi-view clustering (MVC) has gained attention for its ability to efficiently handle complex high-dimensional data. Many existing MVC methods rely on a technique known as Nonnegative ...
TweakTown

Konami never told Kojima that the Wachowskis wanted him to make a Matrix game

TL;DR: In the early 2000s, the Wachowski sisters approached Konami to develop a Hideo Kojima-directed Matrix game, but then-CEO Kasumi Kitaue canceled the project to prioritize Metal Gear Solid.
PC Gamer

Hideo Kojima just found out that Konami turned down the chance to make a Matrix game 26 years ago: 'If someone had told me, maybe there could’ve been a way to make it work'

In a recent interview with Time Extension former Konami executive Christopher Bergstresser revealed that, way back in 1999, the company was approached by the Wachowskis with an offer to make a Matrix ...
GamesRadar+

Hideo Kojima says "no one ever told me" Konami turned down a Matrix game – but maybe there "could’ve been a way to make it work" despite Metal Gear Solid 2

Hideo Kojima has revealed he was unaware of the pitch that he would make a game based on The Matrix, despite reports that the Wachowski sisters asked him to do so directly. I was surprised to see on ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one

For as video gamey a series as The Matrix is, it is a touch surprising there have only been a handful of actual games. Obviously the one that makes most sense is The Matrix Online, what other genre ...