In 2018, there was something quietly revolutionary about the animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. Not only did it employ a unique and spectacular visual schema which located an aesthetic sweet spot between the handmade and the digital, but it also ported that boldness over to its story, which offered a witty twist on the done-to-death superhero origin story. In the interim we’ve...
The supporting cast fair no better. Edward Linton (Shazad Latif) is also retooled, now a nice but dull man who lives in a house so antithetical to his sensibilities it’s laughable we’re asked to believe he decorated it in such a manner. His ward Isabella Linton is a simple, spoiled young woman in awe of Cathy until she sets her sights on Heathcliff; Alison...
After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazon’s “Melania” fell 67%, to an estimated $2.37 million, in its second weekend. The documentary about First Melania Trump has grossed a total of $13.5 million so far (almost all of that in the United States), which means it’s extremely unlikely the film — which Amazon spent $40 million to...
Deep tech startups in sectors such as space, semiconductors, and biotech take far longer to mature than conventional ventures. Because of that India is adjusting its startup rules, and mobilizing public capital, hoping to help more of them make it to commercial products. This week, the Indian government updated its startup framework, doubling the period for which deep tech companies...
This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of $23 billion — a nearly threefold increase from the $8.1 billion valuation the Nvidia rival had reached just six months earlier. While the round was led by Tiger Global, a huge part of the new capital came from one of the...
Money could become harder to come by for European scientists if the overall European Research Council pot does not dramatically increase.Credit: Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty The number of US-based researchers applying to prestigious grants that would see them relocate to Europe has more than doubled in the last year.According to data from the European Research Council (ERC), applications from the...
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of an NBC News presenter, is believed to have been abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Source link...
When Amari Robinson was just 10 years old, she discovered a love for Black history, and a desire to share what she was learning with others. Her passion has grown into Betcha Didn’t Know (BDK), a multimedia brand designed to make learning Black history an engaging experience. Source link...
(RNS) — An animated film made by and for Muslims will hit hundreds of U.S. and Canadian movie theaters this weekend, marking a milestone for Muslim children’s representation on the big screen. The movie, “Time Hoppers: The Silk Road,” follows four gifted students who travel back in time on a mission to protect historical Muslim scientists from an evil, time-bending...
Synthetic materials are widely used across science, engineering, and industry, but most are designed to perform only a narrow range of tasks. A research team at Penn State set out to change that. Led by Hongtao Sun, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering (IME), the group developed a new fabrication technique that can produce multifunctional "smart synthetic skin." These...
