The accusation of “all style, no substance” gets thrown around often, sometimes appropriately, but what about a film that has neither style nor substance, no matter how much it tries to sell that it has both? Wicked: For Good is that picture, one that probably wouldn’t exist if not for the hubris of everyone involved in its creation. Its mere premise was baffling:...
Autonomous electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor warned staff Thursday it may need to lay off more than 100 employees, or possibly even ‘shut down,’ according to a company-wide memo obtained by TechCrunch. The memo comes after Monarch Tractor was already cutting some positions over the last few weeks at its California corporate facilities and remote teams in India and Singapore,...
TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and a background sound generator aimed at improving the mental health of its users. The social network said it will also give users badges for controlling their TikTok usage. The company is redesigning its screen time management page and adding new features to it. These include an affirmation...
With consumers increasingly asking questions of ChatGPT — not Google — product discovery is changing. And the promise to give brands visibility and control over this fast-growing search channel has made Peec AI one of Europe’s hottest startups. Just four months after its Seed round led by 20VC, the Berlin-based startup has raised a $21 million Series A led by...
Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity Seth Berkley Univ. California Press (2025)Most people don’t like getting vaccines, much less seeing their children have needles poked into their thighs and arms. But context can change that. Besieged by terrifying outbreaks of paralytic polio and the spectre of iron-lung respirators, many parents were...
Previously unknown organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach have been presented and performed in Germany for the first time in 320 years.Germany's Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer called the discovery of the two pieces a "great moment for the world of music".They first caught the attention of the Peter Wollny, a researcher of the German composer and musician, in 1992 when...
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a "peeping Tom" incident that took place earlier this month on Clay Street. Source link...
(RNS) — In late October, Rutgers University, New Jersey’s flagship state school, held an academic panel on the rise of Hindu nationalism in the United States. The conversation between a South Asian history professor and a graduate student traced how Hindutva — a far-right political ideology distinct from Hinduism — influences politics in the sprawling Indian diaspora. The topic has...
A research effort led by Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka has generated an in-depth structural map of a bacteriophage, offering new insight into how these viruses could be used to counter drug-resistant bacteria. Lead author Dr. James Hodgkinson-Bean, who completed his PhD in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, says bacteriophages are "extremely exciting" to scientists searching for alternatives to antibiotics as...
Researchers at ChristianaCare's Gene Editing Institute have demonstrated that turning off the NRF2 gene with CRISPR technology can make lung cancer cells responsive to chemotherapy again. By blocking this gene, the treatment restores how tumors react to common cancer drugs and slows their growth. The study was published on November 14 in the journal Molecular Therapy Oncology. This advance builds...
