China’s Moon Lander Wakes Up From Its Long, Ultra-Cold Night
While slumbering, the spacecraft recorded the coldest temperature yet for our orbiting rock: a punishing -310°F.
While slumbering, the spacecraft recorded the coldest temperature yet for our orbiting rock: a punishing -310°F.
Not sure anyone saw that one coming—er, shambling. Plus the rest of the week in gaming news!
In 1966, Nina Simone famously sang the strikingly diverse yet intersecting narratives of four fictional-but-unforgettable black women. Now, four women who could be considered Simone’s spiritual daughters—award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens, acclaimed neo-folk singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah, classical…
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There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets. This is the latter.
For a demographic that wears a lot of suits, hockey players rarely appear in actual formalwear—even if a red carpet is rolled out for an event, a lot of players will stick to the same suits they wear on game days. This January, though, thanks to the NHL All-Star Game and the MLSE Foundation gala, Frederik Andersen and Auston Matthews gave us a look at some outfits that were, if not full black-tie formalwear, more formal than usual. Читать дальше...
As the wave of spring album announcements continues to build, it’s easy to overlook the solid lineup of releases here to keep us warm in the dead of winter. February brings a ton of great indie music, with Beirut, Girlpool, Cass McCombs, and Panda Bear all returning with new full-lengths. And it’s a particularly…
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“When you see the hate begin to rise, call it out,” says Ressa about attacks on the truth and other dark campaigns, particularly on social media. “Because if you don’t call it out, ignoring it doesn’t make it go away; it makes it get stronger.”
There’s a reason they call it “Development Hell.” It can’t be pleasant working on a game for four, five, even six years before release, constantly trying to hit a moving target that keeps getting further and further away. And if there’s any game that embodies development hell in 2019, it’s Crackdown 3. Well, maybe that Final Fantasy VII remake as well, and maybe Shenmue 3, and maybe Dead Island 2, and probably Star Citizen.
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Certain parts of the U.S. feel the bite of downturns less severely. Livability.com compiled a list of seven cities where you might avoid the worst effects of a recession that some say lies just over the horizon.
From the bestselling author of The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What comes a taut, suspenseful story of two visitors’ role in a nation’s fragile peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of decades at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and incautious, the other — nicknamed the Clock — wants only to do the work and go home. Читать дальше...
Happy Friday! Here’s what’s popping up in LA this week: the Rams take on the Pats at your favorite gay bar The Abbey, $1 Nutella Panini for National Nutella Day, Vegans unite at Super Vegan Sunday Smorgasburg and mezcal classes at Salazar should all be added to your February goals.
Liberating Hollywood, UCLA's ambitious retrospective showcasing the work of female directors during the 1970s, continues with Moment by Moment starring Lily Tomlin and John Travolta, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, based on Tomlin's solo show, Anne Bancroft's only film behind the camera, Fatso, starring Dom DeLuise, and more.
From a convention devoted to cookies, to art exhibits celebrating animals, David Hockney and Alison Saar, to a reading by Janet Fitch and more, here are the 13 best things to do in Los Angeles this week!
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To understand male celebrity over the past 25 years, you must first understand the trajectory of Matthew McConaughey.
The 19-year-old endorsed by Dua Lipa
OFFICIALS fear predicted totals of up to 2m of rainfall — on top of an already metre-high deluge — will plunge North Queensland into a record-breaking “catastrophic” flood disaster on a 700km-long stretch of coast from Cairns to Mackay.
THE verdict is in.
THIS Sunnybank house has been launched out of the 90s and into the 21st century thanks to recent renovations.
Artists are supposed to be among the least likely to lose their jobs to automation, but what happens when AI-enabled features start painting, editing, and doing other parts of their jobs for them? AI tools are already starting to automate what used to be time-consuming manual processes — but the results may be good for artists’ creativity, rather than potential job killers.
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The very first time is never perfect -- but for "Sex Education," it was pretty damn close.
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One beautiful discovery in “Capernaum,” which made the Oscar shortlist for best foreign film, is the gravely charismatic Zain Al Rafeea.
World War I footage from London's Imperial War Museum is brilliantly enhanced and fashioned into a haunting centennial documentary.
An overview of the Chinese minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.