Hoping to resurrect her late grandmother, Júlia, Catarina Ruivo combines family archives with rich visuals in a non-fiction film which successfully immortalises a cherished loved one. Old photographs of Júlia and her husband are printed out and carefully placed in beaches and forests; their black-and-white figures are cut out from the past and pasted into the present. Rita Durão reads Júlia’s personal letters...
Another crypto company is headed for the public markets. This time, it’s Gemini Space Station Inc., the New York-based crypto exchange and custodian bank founded by billionaire twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The outfit, which plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol GEMI, was founded in 2014 and operates as an exchange and custodian that...
The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump insisted...
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI model developers just a few years after it was founded. “Today was my last day at xAI, the company that...
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 13 August 2025 An analysis of the geometry of young Sun-like stars with planet-forming disks, measured by ground- and space-based observatories, shows that at least one-third of disks are misaligned with the spin of their central star. This distribution of star–disk configurations seeds the later diversity of planetary system architectures. Source link...
Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent, BBC NewsWatch: BBC obtains rare video from inside besieged el-Fasher in SudanThe women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation."Our children are dying before our eyes," one of them tells the BBC. "We don't know what to do. They are innocent. They have nothing to do...
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Every public school in Henrico has weapons detectors. This is something the county and other school districts have rolled out over the past couple years. The expectation is that every day, everyone goes through these scanners before entering as a layer of protection. “We never want to be complacent when it comes to safety," said Director of...
(RNS) — When Yehiel Curry was first asked to become a pastor, his wife shared her thoughts: “I hope you told them no.” In a story he has often recounted, Curry, a former schoolteacher, would eventually say yes, first becoming a lay minister and later, the ordained pastor of Shekinah Chapel Lutheran Church in Riverdale, Illinois. In that role, he...
Researchers have found why common cuff-based blood pressure readings are inaccurate and how they might be improved, which could improve health outcomes for patients. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is the top risk factor for premature death, associated with heart disease, strokes and heart attacks. However, inaccuracies in the most common form of blood pressure measurement mean that as many...
A single bout of either resistance or high intensity interval training could help in the cancer battle, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found. ECU PhD student Mr Francesco Bettariga found that a single bout of exercise increased the levels of myokines, a protein produced by muscles which have anti-cancer effects, and which could reduce the proliferation of...
