The best movies, music and TV of the year, according to our experts

Readers asked them to defend their picks, and shared some other notable pieces from 2025 that were worth mentioning ...
MIT Technology Review

How I learned to stop worrying and love AI slop

Speaking with popular AI content creators convinces me that “slop” isn’t just the internet rotting in real time, but the ...
IEEE

Multidimensional Voronoi Constellations vs. Short Blocklength Probabilistic Shaping: A Comparison for Multilevel Coding Approach

Abstract: Performance of concatenated multilevel coding with probabilistic shaping (PS) and Voronoi constellations (VCs) is analysed over AWGN channel. Numerical results show that VCs provide up to ...

ACTRA accuses Unicorn Academy maker Spin Master of sidestepping union talent

Canada’s biggest actors’ union is pressing Spin Master, the major Toronto toy maker and entertainment company, to avoid recruiting non-union talent for a series of Unicorn Academy YouTube videos.