Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night
An AI-assisted analysis of satellite images suggests the vapour trails produced by aircraft have a net cooling effect in the daytime because they reflect sunlight back into space
An AI-assisted analysis of satellite images suggests the vapour trails produced by aircraft have a net cooling effect in the daytime because they reflect sunlight back into space
The waning moon prompts a feeling of liminal unease.
22-Down, Three Letters: Sister Michael of “Derry Girls,” for one
Commentary: AI video is improving rapidly. Here's how you could make one yourself -- and what to watch out for as generative video goes mainstream.
This beverage has the potential to become a landmark product for the company, illustrating the impact a single, game-changing offering can have on a brand’s trajectory.
The company is spending heavily on AI and AR technology. Is the CEO still focused on efficiency? A big hint was dropped at Meta Connect this week.
Changing the structure of OpenAI could be advantageous for Sam Altman, a corporate law expert said.
A new study has mapped out the gravitational basins of attraction in the local universe, offering fresh insights into the large-scale cosmic structures that shape the movement of galaxies. The study has been published in Nature Astronomy.
A New Zealand enthusiast spent half a century amassing one of the world's largest private butterfly collections. As death nears, he has handed this life's work of 20,000 specimens to a museum.
Orbital angular momentum monopoles have been the subject of great theoretical interest as they offer major practical advantages for the emerging field of orbitronics, a potential energy-efficient alternative to traditional electronics. Now, through a combination of robust theory and experiments at the Swiss Light Source SLS at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, their existence has been demonstrated. The discovery is published in the journal Nature Physics.
Thanks to increasingly broad car-seat laws, a third child often requires the purchase of a larger, more expensive vehicle. At the margins, this has an effect on fertility.
Michael Carrick on Riley McGree after the Middlesbrough midfielder's return from injury
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macOS recognizes when it’s been restarted without a proper shutdown or restart operation from the menu. When that happens, you see a dialog at startup that tells you that “Your computer was restarted because of a problem,” and offers to let you send a report to Apple. There are lots of reasons that your Mac can restart, including a power failure, and you typically know why it happened.
But for some people, every time they restart their Mac after that, whether using > Shutdown or > Restart... Читать дальше...
"I’ve been skiing and riding for over 40 years…these goggles are the best I’ve worn."
In 2020, we saw the arrival of the pro-Trump, anti-socialist “MAGAzuelan” voting bloc. But this year, Trump has been disparaging Venezuelans who came to America to flee socialism.
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Guest Prudie, Cheyna Roth, by actress and comedian, host Rachel Bloom.
What can Mark Zuckerberg’s example teach women and African Americans in tech about building success and holding on to it?
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Recently, global news has been pretty bleak. So this week, I’ve decided to focus my thoughts beyond Earth’s stratosphere and well into space. A couple of weeks ago,…
Within the medical profession, the shameful ideological capture of our professional institutions has invaded the exam rooms of our clinics and hospitals as well as the halls of our institutions of medical education.
Scrum-half, 23, has enjoyed a brilliant season but his work's only just begun as he enters a pivotal time for club and country
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Great artists need not be great their entire careers—a fact borne out by Francis Ford Coppola, whose 1970s run (The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now) is arguably the finest ever, and whose subsequent output has been wildly mixed and contains no additional undisputed masterpieces. Megalopolis, which Coppola has endeavored to make for four decades and which he financed himself, is a stab at recapturing his former glory... Читать дальше...
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Apartment 7A is a prequel to Rosemary’s Baby, and yet also a film that could only be of interest to those who’ve never seen its Oscar-winning predecessor.
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