The cowboy – strong but silent, a lonely figure caught between small town domesticity and the absolute freedom of the wilderness – has experienced something of a reinvention in the past few years, mostly in the hands of women filmmakers. Chloé Zhao’s The Rider and Nomadland, Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog and Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow all use the genre framework of...
If an almost-three-hour is-it-spoof-is-it-not directed by a French auteur starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin sounds a bit odd, just wait until you see it. Adapted from Giuliano da Empoli’s novel of the same name, The Wizard of the Kremlin is fashioned as a biopic for Paul Dano’s Vadim Baranov, a successful TV producer, lover of all things art and Tupac Shakur fan who...
For all the hype about data centers in space, there just aren’t very many GPUs up there. As that starts to change, the near-term business of orbital compute is starting to take shape. The largest compute cluster currently in orbit was launched by Canada’s Kepler Communications in January, and boasts about 40 Nvidia Orin edge processors onboard 10 operational satellites,...
India’s quick commerce market is booming, with demand more than doubling for some players. But the fast-delivery push by Flipkart and Amazon is raising the stakes in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure. Flipkart, one of India’s largest e-commerce players, entered quick commerce later than local rivals such as Blinkit, Swiggy, and Zepto. But it has now...
After 10 days, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft have returned to Earth, their mission around the Moon a success. Integrity, the name of the crew’s spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. Pacific Time, according to NASA. The four crew members...
After reflecting on how the mid-career and midlife stages interact, Yu Tao developed several habits that he practises as a mid-career researcher.Credit: Benjamin SmithOne afternoon in November last year, two e-mails landed in my inbox minutes apart. The first was from my son’s school, reminding parents that the transition to secondary education would begin in a few months — a...
A senior Lebanese official earlier told the BBC that Lebanon would only take part in talks if a ceasefire was in place. Source link...
Neighbors are sharing what they saw after a crash that ultimately killed an infant in Chesterfield, in an incident that child safety advocates said happens more often than we realize. Source link...
(RNS) — A community of Catholic sisters who provide skilled nursing care for poor, terminally ill cancer patients is suing New York state health leaders in federal court, seeking a religious exemption from the state’s law protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ long-term care facility residents. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne argued in the lawsuit, filed Monday (April 6) in the...
Researchers at the University of Chicago have uncovered a surprising new role for zeaxanthin, a plant-based compound best known for supporting eye health. According to findings published in Cell Reports Medicine, this common carotenoid may also help the immune system fight cancer by enhancing the activity of key immune cells. The discovery points to zeaxanthin as a simple, widely available...
