Mat Linnett

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post today that “it’s time to move on” from Elon Musk’s cage fight antics. “We can all agree Elon isn’t serious,” he wrote, adding that the refusal of the X (formerly Twitter) owner to confirm a date and his offer to “do a practice round in my backyard instead” shows how unserious he is.

This followed a pair of screenshots of text messages between the billionaires that were posted to X today by user DogeDesigner and, later, Musk himself. The thread showed Musk offering a “practice bout” next week at Zuckerberg’s house, to which Zuckerberg responded by telling Musk that if he wants a “real MMA fight” he should train on his own and let Zuck know when he’s “ready to compete.”

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If you’ve got a pet, it’s likely you have something cool that you use to either feed the pet, amuse the pet, watch the pet, track the pet, or travel with the pet. Well, the folks here at The Verge are no different: many have animal companions whom they feed, pamper, worry about — even obsess about — and totally enjoy.

We asked our co-workers to tell us about some of the techie (and not-so-techie) gadgets that they use to keep their pets clean, fed, and amused — along with portraits of the much-loved dogs and cats. We’ve got some great photos to show you. Enjoy.

Aslan

Mitchell Clark, former news writer

We got the WOpet automatic feeder after our vet informed us that our cat Aslan...

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Bruce Straley, who co-directed 2013's The Last of Us with Neil Druckmann, believes unionisation could be the answer to ensuring creators are recognised for their contributions to a series.

This comes after Straley was not credited in HBO's TV adaptation of the game, despite his key role in Naughty Dog's critically acclaimed release.

Speaking to the LA Times, Straley addressed this snub from the showrunners, calling it an "argument for unionisation".

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The security footage video starts with a scene from a feel-good movie. As a man sets some takeaway food on the hood of his SUV parked in his driveway he cheerfully bids a "good morning!" to his neighbor. By the end of the 48-second video he's screaming, "I'll shoot that fucker!" — Read the rest

Riccardo Bancone writes: Hi! My name is Riccardo Bancone and I am a freelance 3d Artist from Italy. I just recorded a tutorial with some tips to Improve your interior renderings by reducing noise and fireflies when using mesh with emission materials. I hope you will find it useful!

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Emerging Technology From the arXiv:
Google identifies house numbers in Street View using a neural network for image recognition  —  How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View  —  Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that's just as good as human operators.