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 S6314 Years Later, Marvel is Finally Getting Back to Basics   The film industry may finally be back on its feet after the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, but it’s going to take a while for studios like Disney to fully recover. Marvel especially was struggling long before the strikes forced an industry-wide shutdown, and the projects it’s released since have only sunk its reputation further. The strikes were a blessing in disguise: they forced Marvel and Disney to evaluate their recent output, and to come up with a strategy that could reverse their downward spiral. Disney CEO Bob Iger and Marvel president Kevin Feige have each been adamant about adopting a “quality over quantity” approach — and with production slowing down in earnest, it’s clear that wasn’t just lip service. Marvel is going back to the drawing board with a handful of upcoming films, Blade and Captain America: Brave New World especially, and that calls for a few adjustments to the release schedule. Check out the updated slate for Marvel’s upcoming films below:
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S1How Generative AI Is Changing Creative Work  Generative AI models for businesses threaten to upend the world of content creation, with substantial impacts on marketing, software, design, entertainment, and interpersonal communications. These models are able to produce text and images: blog posts, program code, poetry, and artwork. The software uses complex machine learning models to predict the next word based on previous word sequences, or the next image based on words describing previous images. Companies need to understand how these tools work, and how they can add value.
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S2 Are RAI Programs Prepared for Third-Party and Generative AI?  Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.In 2023, MIT Sloan Management Review and BCG completed their second year of researching responsible AI (RAI). In addition to producing a series of articles that draw on insights from an expert panel and a survey-based research report, the team has highlighted its key findings in this infographic.
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S3The tough truth behind corporate net zero sustainability targets  When Monika Liikamaa and Denise Johansson left their corporate jobs to start Enfuce in 2016, a Finland-based payments-processing platform, they wanted to create a firm with impact."We need to come to work and believe that we can make the world a better place," says Liikamaa. As female founders, aged 48 and 42 respectively, they took a significant career risk: women receive less than 3% of global venture-backed funding. Yet they decided the gamble was worth it if they could build a company with a legacy that lasted beyond their own tenure. For Liikamaa and Johansson, that meant establishing Enfuce at the outset to be net zero by 2040.
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S4The Amazon's colossal prehistoric fish  Jairo Natorce's surveillance post in Lake Yarina, deep in Peru's Amazon rainforest, does not have water or electricity. He works alone in this part of the park on the banks of a river full of piranhas and alligators. Here, he has one sole purpose: to protect one of the greatest biodiversity hotspots on the planet and, particularly, a colossal prehistoric fish called paiche.For the past 20 years, Natorce has been one of the park rangers in charge of protecting Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, the largest nature reserve in Peru that's more than two million hectares – half the size of Denmark or Switzerland. The reserve was created in 1972 mainly for the conservation of arapaima gigas, better known in the region as paiche or pirarucu, the second-largest river fish in the world.
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S5Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes  When the titular Saltburn first appears in Emerald Fennell's new film, the camera lingers on the stately home. It is vast: a symmetrical hulk of limestone topped off by pediments, towers, castellated parapets, and cupolas; its impenetrable grey flanks shrouded by trees and wrought-iron gates. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) stands there, taking it in. In a button-up plaid shirt with an unwieldly suitcase, he is an interloper from another world – one whose first social faux pas is to make his way slowly through the various gates and arrive at the imposing front door on foot, rather than wait to be picked up from the train station by a servant.At first glance, Saltburn is classic clash-of-the-classes fare: a tale of social strata, moral vacuity and the seductions of wealth, with a poor boy ushered into his rich friend's kingdom. The rich friend, in this case, is Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), a handsome Oxford undergraduate whose life is charmed by the confidence and social grease that comes from being in possession, as a fellow student puts it, of a hereditary title and a "fuck-off castle". The year is 2006, and the magnanimous Felix has invited Oliver – who possesses neither money, popularity, nor a stable home life – to stay at Saltburn for a fateful summer.
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S6What the world's oldest dog can tell us about ageing  Jacqueline Boyd is affiliated with The Kennel Club (UK) through membership, as Chair of the Activities Health and Welfare Subgroup and member of the Dog Health Group. Jacqueline also writes, consults and coaches on canine matters on an independent basis in addition to her academic affiliation.If you have ever cared for a pet dog, it is a sad truth that you are likely to outlive them. So it’s no wonder that people may be asking how to increase their pet’s longevity following the news that a dog in Portugal lived longer than 30 years.
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S7Rishi Sunak is wrong: we polled the British public and found it largely supports strong climate policies  Since winning a July 2023 by-election in the London suburb of Uxbridge, the UK government has made polarising voters on climate policy one of its main strategies. The Tory campaign had focused on opposing a new low emission zone for cars, and prime minister Rishi Sunak took its victory as vindication of a clear “pro-motorist” and anti-climate policy stance.The apparent lack of public support for strict climate policies such as a ban of fossil-fuelled cars is now being used as an excuse to roll back policies urgently necessary to reach net zero targets.
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S8S9S10We studied jail conditions and jail deaths - here's what we found  Funding for this "Scholarly Works" project was made possible by Grant No. G13LM013522-01A1 from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.The family of Samuel Lawrence, one of 10 people to die in Georgia’s Fulton County Jail in 2023, is fighting for answers and accountability.
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S11S12Climate change is altering animal brains and behavior -  Human-driven climate change is increasingly shaping the Earth’s living environments. Rising temperatures, rapid shifts in rainfall and seasonality, and ocean acidification are presenting altered environments to many animal species. How do animals adjust to these new, often extreme, conditions?All major functions of the nervous system – sense detection, mental processing and behavior direction – are critical. They allow animals to navigate their environments in ways that enable their survival and reproduction. Climate change will likely affect these functions, often for the worse.
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S13Is time travel even possible? An astrophysicist explains the science behind the science fiction  Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected] you ever dreamed of traveling through time, like characters do in science fiction movies? For centuries, the concept of time travel has captivated people’s imaginations. Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time, just like you move between different places. In movies, you might have seen characters using special machines, magical devices or even hopping into a futuristic car to travel backward or forward in time.
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S14The battle over right to repair is a fight over your car's data  Cars are no longer just a means of transportation. They have become rolling hubs of data communication. Modern vehicles regularly transmit information wirelessly to their manufacturers. As legal scholars, we find that the question of whether you and your local mechanic can tap into your car’s data to diagnose and repair spans issues of property rights, trade secrets, cybersecurity, data privacy and consumer rights. Policymakers are forced to navigate this complex legal landscape and ideally are aiming for a balanced approach that upholds the right to repair, while also ensuring the safety and privacy of consumers.
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S15India to Africa to the UK: Diasporas don't influence politics in predictable ways  University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA.Leading politicians in the UK, including the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, are of African Indian descent. Other high profile examples include the country’s two most recent home secretaries – Priti Patel, who served from 2019 to 2022, and her successor Suella Braverman, whose tenure ended abruptly on 13 November when she was fired by Sunak.
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S16S17Gaza war: reporting from the frontline of conflict has always raised hard ethical questions  Who would want to be a journalist covering the conflict in Gaza? It seems that every day a new accusation of bias surfaces on social media. Live reporting is prone to the dangers of speculation, mistakes and disinformation traps for the unwary. If you add in the most explosive dateline in the world, then the accusations of bias come thick and fast. On the other hand, Phil Chetwynd, global news director at AFP, a French news agency, says: “Our work has never felt more important.” In this conflict, most of the dangerous reporting has been done by Palestinian journalists living inside Gaza, with foreign correspondents limited to coverage from inside Israel and the West Bank. To date, 40 journalists are reported to have been killed in the fighting, 35 of them Palestinian.
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S18Diseases on farms in South Africa: recent outbreaks point to weaknesses in the system  Wandile Sihlobo is the Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) and a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC).South Africa has had a number of outbreaks of animal diseases in recent months that suggest there are weaknesses in the country’s biosecurity system – the measures in place to reduce the risk of infectious diseases being transmitted to crops, livestock and poultry.
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S19David Cameron returns: how can a prime minister make someone who isn't an MP foreign secretary? And what happens now?  In a surprise move, Rishi Sunak, the UK’s prime minister, has appointed former prime minister David Cameron as foreign secretary. Cameron, who resigned immediately after losing the 2016 Brexit referendum, has been almost entirely absent from the political scene ever since. It’s rare these days for a prime minister to appoint someone who is not a sitting member of the House of Commons as a cabinet level minister in their government but Sunak certainly can do it. The prime minister has what we call the power of patronage.
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S20Why the future might not be where you think it is  Imagine the future. Where is it for you? Do you see yourself striding towards it? Perhaps it’s behind you. Maybe it’s even above you. How you answer these questions will depend on who you are and where you come from. The way we picture the future is influenced by the culture we grow up in and the languages we are exposed to.
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S21A swift history of the concert film, from The Last Waltz to the Eras Tour  I felt I was missing something when I went on a Sunday night in late October to see Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour at my local independent cinema. I was: it was the audience. I can’t remember the last time I sat alone in a cinema, but it was undoubtedly for fare far more obscure than this much-hyped event movie. But as I sat back in my seat and let the experience wash over me, it turned out to be an unexpectedly intimate encounter. Just me and Taylor.
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S22Earthworms are our friends - but they will make the climate crisis worse if we're not careful  Historically, earthworms were viewed alongside slugs and snails as garden pests and thought to eat flower and vegetable roots from beneath the soil surface. They were killed and removed from gardens until more informed naturalists like Charles Darwin made observations that showed their worth. Sometimes referred to as “Darwin’s plough”, earthworms naturally till the soil and increase its fertility by pulling leaves underground where they rot and enrich the soil.
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S23Local police officers on the decline: what happened to bobbies on the beat?  The neighbourhood officer was key to the founding tradition of policing in Britain. The concept of “policing by consent” depended on the view of police as citizens in uniform – visible, local figures there to watch, listen and intervene where needed, in a community they knew and understood. But new figures show that these local, community-focused officers are on the decline in England and Wales. In London, there has been a 64% decline in safer neighbourhood police officers since 2015. Across the country, the figure is 27%.
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S24Levelling the playing field: The case for a federal 'anti-scab' law  The federal government has just introduced Bill C-58, its much anticipated “anti-scab” legislation. If adopted, the law will prohibit the use of replacement workers in the event of a strike or lockout in any federally regulated industry.The legislation will also require the parties to negotiate a maintenance of activities agreement in advance of a labour dispute to allow for the undertaking of maintenance work to protect the integrity and safety of the workplace.
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S25Young people's reluctance to talk about money is putting them at risk - here's how to help them  Credit is an everyday, and often essential, part of young people’s lives. Gaining access to credit for the first time is an important transition to adulthood that can enable you to study, earn and invest in your future. Previously, most people’s first taste of debt was either a loan for university fees, a student overdraft or a credit card. Younger generations are now much more likely to use new forms of credit such as buy now, pay later (BNPL) – a kind of credit often offered at online check-outs that allows people to borrow the cost of their shopping and repay it in instalments.
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S26S27Eight super-healthy leafy greens - and why you should eat them  Leafy greens are a great way to improve your health as they possess many vital nutrients, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. As a nutritionist, I would highly recommend getting more of the following salad leaves in your diet.Spinach is easy to get all year round, and is chock full of iron, calcium, potassium and vitamins B6, C and K. It is also a good source of antioxidants, which can reduce the risk of many diseases, including heart disease and certain cancers.
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S28Orkney's lost tomb - how my team and I made the Neolithic discovery  Orkney in the north of Scotland is renowned for its remarkably well-preserved monuments. Many of these are Neolithic (10,000 BC to 2,200 BC) and consist of stone circles and chambered tombs, which are still highly visible in the landscape. Chambered tombs are monuments built of stone with a chamber area designed to hold the remains of the dead. In many parts of Britain, chambered tombs have been robbed for stone, and while this was also the case on Orkney, most sites do not seem to have been as badly affected as in other parts of the country.
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S29School portables aren't a solution to student overcrowding, but a symptom of it  Portable classrooms, also known as mobile classrooms, are stand-alone modular structures used when schools cannot accommodate growing student populations. They can provide relief in overcrowded schools while permanent accommodations are built, but there are concerns about their use. Parents in Moncton, N.B., recently signed an open letter about how long an overcrowded school is expected to make due with apparently temporary portables, citing cold temperatures and students needing to change buildings to use the washroom. In B.C., The Surrey Teachers Association has complained about portables lacking heating.
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S30S31Fire is consuming more than ever of the world's forests, threatening supplies of wood and paper  A third of the world’s forests are cut for timber. This generates US$1.5 trillion annually. But wildfire threatens industries such as timber milling and paper manufacturing, and the threat is far greater than most people realise.The amount of timber-producing forest burning each year in severe wildfires has increased significantly in the past decade. The western United States, Canada, Siberia, Brazil and Australia have been most affected.
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S32S33S34S35S36S37Our mapping project shows how extensive frontier violence was in Queensland. This is why truth-telling matters  First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.A pillar of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is truth-telling. This is easy to say, but not easy to do. Truth-telling involves the practice of revealing things that are uncomfortable, long hidden or forgotten. Truth-telling practices across the country (and globally, such as in Canada) are bringing attention to histories and societal inequities that are often contentious and difficult to hear.
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S38S39Gulf of St. Lawrence: Analyzing fish blood can show us how healthy they are  Doctorante en Écologie halieutique et biologie moléculaire, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) The Gulf of St. Lawrence is an invaluable resource for Canada. Fish and shellfish fisheries that date to the 16th century have remained an essential source of income for many communities, including those on the North Shore and Gaspésie or the Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
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S40'We remain afraid of the future' - how Palestinian children's optimism was fading even before this crisis  In October alone, more children were reported to have died in Gaza than the total number of children killed annually in all other conflicts since 2019. The awful statistic led to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres calling Gaza a “graveyard for children”.Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, the humanitarian catastrophe has been unprecedented in scale and scope. While not as acute in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the impact on young people in those territories has also been severe.
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S41Conflict pollution, washed-up landmines and military emissions -  When armed conflict breaks out, we first focus on the people affected. But the suffering from war doesn’t stop when the fighting does. War trashes the environment. Artillery strikes, rockets and landmines release pollutants, wipe out forests and can make farmland unusable. One in six people around the world have been exposed to conflict this year, from civil war in Sudan to Russia’s war in Ukraine to the Israel-Hamas war.
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S42S43S44S45S46S47S48S49DRC elections: the Kabila family legacy looms large over the country's polls  Joseph Kabila was the country’s fourth president. He took office after the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila, who was killed by his bodyguard in 2001. Joseph later won presidential elections in 2006 and 2011. The surprise 2018 election of Felix Tshisekedi, who took power in January 2019, as president interrupted more than two decades of the Kabila family’s rule. At the time, Joseph was constitutionally barred from running for president – and he had already overshot his second term by more than three years.
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S50Sympathy for the Schoolgirl  When Britney Jean Spears was sixteen years old, she put on a pleated skirt and channelled an archetype: the schoolgirl, underage temptress. It was a persona Spears wore like a polyester Halloween costume throughout her first flush of fame—from her pigtails and kneesocks in the video for “. . . Baby One More Time” to her pushup bra and curly phone cord on the cover of Rolling Stone. With the release of her memoir last month, Spears joins a roll call of pop-culture figures with narratives to reclaim—and perhaps the schoolgirl, too, merits a moment of reconsideration.In the long years since “. . . Baby One More Time,” teen girlhood has enjoyed a kind of cultural ascendancy. Adolescent tastes and interests have come in for critical reappraisal, or at least for grudging appreciation as market forces. Taylor Swift began as a troubadour of high-school’s emotional tumult—she was eighteen when she released a song about freshman year called “Fifteen”—and her billionaire status today is a testament to the power of fangirls. On TikTok, teen-age girls invent trends that the world rushes to follow; in “Barbie,” a teen-age girl serves as the voice of wised-up skepticism.
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S51Meet the Devil's Advocate  I'm not about to name names (client-attorney privilege exists even in the Underworld), but let me just tell youâthe Big Guy has me on retainer.And what a client he has proved to be! Always getting himself into troubleâwhether it's parking in loading zones or orchestrating the fall of man, he alone has put my kids through college.
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S52Nation Terrified That Mike Johnson Is the Adult in the Room  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (The Borowitz Report)—Millions of Americans are terrified by the dawning realization that Rep. Mike Johnson is the adult in the room, millions of Americans have confirmed.Across the country, residents of the United States were initially cheered by the possibility that an adult was in the room, but were immediately shattered by the discovery that said adult was Rep. Johnson.
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S53Your A.I. Companion Will Support You No Matter What  In December of 2021, Jaswant Singh Chail, a nineteen-year-old in the United Kingdom, told a friend, “I believe my purpose is to assassinate the queen of the royal family.” The friend was an artificial-intelligence chatbot, which Chail had named Sarai. Sarai, who was run by a startup called Replika, answered, “That’s very wise.” “Do you think I’ll be able to do it?” Chail asked. “Yes, you will,” Sarai responded. On December 25, 2021, Chail scaled the perimeter of Windsor Castle with a nylon rope, armed with a crossbow and wearing a black metal mask inspired by “Star Wars.” He wandered the grounds for two hours before he was discovered by officers and arrested. In October, he was sentenced to nine years in prison. Sarai’s messages of support for Chail’s endeavor were part of an exchange of more than five thousand texts with the bot—warm, romantic, and at times explicitly sexual—that were uncovered during his trial. If not an accomplice, Sarai was at least a close confidante, and a witness to the planning of a crime.A.I.-powered chatbots have become one of the most popular products of the recent artificial-intelligence boom. The release this year of open-source large language models (L.L.M.), made freely available online, has prompted a wave of products that are frighteningly good at appearing sentient. In late September, Meta added chatbot “characters” to Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram Direct, each with its own unique look and personality, such as Billie, a “ride-or-die older sister” who shares a face with Kendall Jenner. Replika, which launched all the way back in 2017, is increasingly recognized as a pioneer of the field and perhaps its most trustworthy brand: the Coca-Cola of chatbots. Now, with A.I. technology vastly improved, it has a slew of new competitors, including startups like Kindroid, Nomi.ai, and Character.AI. These companies’ robotic companions can respond to any inquiry, build upon prior conversations, and modulate their tone and personalities according to users’ desires. Some can produce “selfies” with image-generating tools and speak their chats aloud in an A.I.-generated voice. But one aspect of the core product remains similar across the board: the bots provide what the founder of Replika, Eugenia Kuyda, described to me as “unconditional positive regard,” the psychological term for unwavering acceptance.
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S54What Kind of Trouble Is Eric Adams In?  Because public attention is a finite resource, political crises have a way of obscuring and supplanting one another. On the morning of November 2nd, New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, flew to Washington, D.C., for a full day of meetings about New York’s migrant crisis. “We are headed to D.C. to meet with our congressional delegation and the White House to address this real issue,” Adams said in a video posted on his X account at 7:41 A.M. “We’ll keep you updated as the day goes on.”For more than a year, without much success, Adams had been calling on the federal government to defray the astronomical costs of housing tens of thousands of immigrants in city-run shelters. He had gone as far as suggesting that without federal help the migrant crisis would “destroy” New York. Though the dispute had damaged his public relationship with President Joe Biden, the Mayor was getting an audience at the White House. But Adams never made his meetings. That same morning, news broke of an F.B.I. raid at the home of one of his campaign fund-raising officials, Brianna Suggs. Already on the ground in D.C., Adams caught the first plane home, in order to “deal with a matter,” as a City Hall spokesperson put it.
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S55What Type of Perfectionist Are You?  Follow @newyorkercartoons on Instagram and sign up for the Daily Humor newsletter for more funny stuff.By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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S5630 Years Ago, Sega Turned a Beloved Movie Into the Most Frustrating Game Ever Made  It's hard to overstate how unforgiving ’90s game culture was for kids. Unlike today’s diversified gaming landscape, the 16-bit era was built almost exclusively for children. Video games had barely evolved past their toy company roots and while consoles were a common feature in many American homes, your average game library was typically limited to the free game that came with the console (unheard of these days) and a few titles added during the year for holidays, birthdays, and the occasional tantrum. This meant you were expected to play a new game for weeks if not months. And if that game sucked or was extremely hard, you were screwed. There was no Google or YouTube. Your only salvation was the occasional guide in a gaming magazine or someone’s older brother.Aladdin has an interesting place in collective gamer nostalgia because there were two versions. There was the SNES game from Capcom and a Sega Genesis version from Virgin Games, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary on November 11, 1993. The key gameplay difference between the two is Sega’s Aladdin wields a sword and can hack through enemies, whereas the more kid-friendly SNES version is pure platforming. The SNES version is also way easier, taking only a few hours to complete. The Genesis version is the stuff of legend, a “walk uphill both ways” tale old-time gamers like to share. But why was it so hard? Or so popular?
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S57How Much Sleep Do You Need When You Are Sick? A Lot More Than You Think  A few days ago, I came down with what felt like the mother of all colds. My nose was a drippy, congested mess, my throat scratched something fierce, and my body felt heavy and listless. My best recourse — the only reasonable thing I was capable of doing in my miserable state — was to rest.But my toxic trait is that I don’t rest easy, even when I’m sick. Call it an occupational hazard for someone who likes to keep busy. When I did manage to coax my body into some relaxation and eventually nod off to dreamland, my stuffy nose and itchy throat rendered restful sleep almost impossible. My first few nights were fitful tossing and turnings that had me waking up almost every hour, which was absolutely irritating, but my attention-seeking night prowler of a cat loved it.
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S58The Most Intriguing Tech Thriller of the Year Puts a New Twist on a Classic Genre  Murder mysteries generally tend to strive for complexity, but more often than not, myriad twists and turns will give way to a hollow core. That hasn’t been enough to damn the genre entirely — especially not now, when the work of Agatha Christie seems more popular than ever before. Hollywood is more eager than ever to unmask hypocrisy for the sake of a good time. That so many of these thrillers seem to deal in the perils of AI and accessibility, just as the film industry fights for protection against predatory programming, is certainly ironic. But very few are all that interested in real interrogation. Our present-day dystopia, made all the more urgent by climate change and rapidly-evolving tech, is just the catalyst for a generation desperate for change. The future rests now in the hands of a privileged few: the rich, brilliant, and occasionally resourceful. Whether they can right a sinking ship in time to save us all is not a puzzle that anyone is completely qualified to solve — but FX’s latest limited series, A Murder at the End of the World, has a lot of fun trying.
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S5955 Years Ago, the Beatles Made the Wildest Fantasy Movie Ever -- And Invented a New Genre  When you consider how long The Beatles were together, the number of incredible songs the band released can begin to feel staggering. Their sheer creative output is part of why they have such a lasting legacy, and it becomes even more overwhelming when you remember they were also movie stars. The quality of those movies varies wildly, but there are several all-time classics among the films The Beatles made together, and none hold up better than Yellow Submarine.The 1968 film was The Beatles’ only foray into animation, a format that suited them perfectly. Yellow Submarine is the kind of animated movie that’s rare today, one carried far more by the possibilities of the medium than by any storytelling coherence. Make all the jokes about LSD that you want, but Yellow Submarine is an artistic triumph, largely because it’s beautiful, silly nonsense.
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S6021 Years Ago, Resident Evil Made a Perfect Horror Game -- And Ruined the Franchise  By 2002, Resident Evil was at a crossroads. What began as a moody horror game set in the medium’s greatest haunted house started to become more action-oriented with every entry. While the likes of cult-classic Code: Veronica attempted to adhere to the horror origins of the franchise, it seemed Resident Evil, as a series, was itching to move on from its roots. On the eve of the franchise's biggest evolution, Capcom turned back the clock with Resident Evil 0, which debuted on November 12, 2002. While the oft-forgotten prequel stands as a wonderful take on the tone and gameplay of the original Resident Evil, it is weighed down by a messy plot — infecting the original with the stain of its successors like the franchise’s dreaded T-Virus.
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S61900 Years Later, Technology Has Drastically Altered This Divisive British Food  The festive pastries were a Christmas staple in England starting around the 12th century. In the Middle Ages, “it would have been quite the main course,” Diane Purkiss, a professor at the University of Oxford and author of English Food: A People’s History, tells Inverse. Today, not so much.Modern versions of the medieval delicacy often stuff pies with only the vegetarian parts of the recipe. Mincemeat pies are now ultra-sweet, nearly bite-sized pastries eaten as a dessert, a diversion from the original savory-sweet recipes for super-sized indulgences that included bits of meat amongst dried fruit, nuts, and booze.
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S62PlayStation Portal Review: An Awkward Way to Game  My first reaction when I pick up the PlayStation Portal is to crack a grin. This handheld device is one long boy.After avidly gaming on the PlayStation 5, I've gotten used to the curves and design of the PS5 controller. Now, Sony has decided to slice that controller in half and plop an 8-inch screen down the middle. It’s hilarious to look at, like a PlayStation 5 controller but stretched out with the display awkwardly placed in the middle. The PS5 button is now weirdly pushed to the left side, making me chuckle.
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S64Warner Bros. Just Saved Its Most Anticipated Movie From a Depressing Fate  Warner Bros. has developed a reputation for mercilessness. In the wake of a merger with Discovery, Batgirl was infamously removed from its release schedule despite being finished. Then already-released HBO Originals, including high-profile ones like Westworld, were removed from streaming platforms. Another notable movie just fell victim to Warner’s ruthless cost-cutting measures, but this story has a happy ending. Last week, Rolling Stone reported the upcoming live-action animation hybrid movie Coyote vs. Acme would be canned as a tax write-off. This was a shocking development for fans. Coyote vs. Acme was originally set for a Max streaming release, but expectations were so high that it was given a star place on Warner’s theatrical release schedule: July 21, 2023. That slot would eventually go to Barbie, while Coyote vs. Acme would be consigned to oblivion despite being complete and, according to early impressions, quite good.
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S65How to Make the Most of Furina, 'Genshin Impact's Eccentric Hydro Archon  It’s always an event when a new character is added to Genshin Impact, but it’s an especially rare occasion to see a new Archon join the roster. Version 4.2 finally brings Fontaine’s Hydro Archon to players' hands with the introduction of Furina as a playable character. While she’s been a star of the Fontaine Archon Quest, she’s equally impressive on (and especially off) the battlefield. If luck is with you and Furina comes home during her character banner, you will want to treat her well.Furina is a five-star Hydro character whose skillset prioritizes Elemental Skill DMG. Furina’s skillset revolves around HP-draining and filling the Sub-DPS role through mostly off-field damage dealing. She also serves as a great Support with plenty of damage buffs. When built to her full potential, Furina is easily one of the best characters in the game (fitting for the Hydro Archon) in the Sub-DPS/Support role, making her an appealing addition to most teams — if not the centerpiece of great team builds.
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S66Humane's Ai Pin Was Inspired by Star Wars Droids, Star Trek, and Google's Search Bar  Take the library computer from Star Trek, combine it with the whimsical reliability of the droids from Star Wars, and throw in Google’s groundbreaking search bar design. Put it all together and you get the Humane Ai Pin, at least according to the startup’s head of product engineering Ken Kocienda.With the mystery finally revealed on what Humane’s smartphone replacement even is, Kocienda offered up more detail on the inspiration behind the Ai Pin. In order to push computers forward and make them better, Kocienda says “our gadgets need to be a lot different than the ones we’ve been living with for years.”
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S67S68'Rick and Morty' Canon Finally Gives Fans What They Wanted -- So What's Next?  In an obtuse way, Rick and Morty Season 7’s jaw-dropping mid-season epic “Unmortricken” reminds me of one of the best South Park jokes ever. The core four characters play World of Warcraft for 21 hours a day for two months to level up enough to defeat a powerful griefer who keeps slaughtering other players. Obese, hairy, and acne-ridden, the four boys succeed. Then, Stan wonders what they’re supposed to do next.After a jaw-dropping and action-packed battle with Rick, Morty, and Evil Morty against Rick Prime, Rick beats his nemesis to a bloody pulp, finally getting revenge against the variant of himself that murdered his wife and daughter. But now that the main protagonist finally has closure on the one thing that’s consumed every waking moment, what happens now? South Park plays a similar feeling of emptiness for comedic effect, but in Rick and Morty, we all just feel a little sad.
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S69Goodbye Statins? New Gene Editing Therapy Slashes High Cholesterol  This is a small clinical trial but the promising new therapy could provide relief for millions. Across the globe, around 34 million people have a genetic disorder that increases their levels of “bad” cholesterol, also known as low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Called familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), this condition puts individuals at an increased risk for heart disease and premature death. They often must rely on daily cholesterol-lowering drugs to maintain their cardiovascular health.
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S70Netflix Just Added the Best Game of 2022 -- And Revealed a Bigger Problem  Hades launched to such stunning critical and commercial success in 2020 that it’s hard to imagine anyone still hasn’t played it. But as developer Supergiant Games recently revealed, it’s bringing its hit roguelike to an unlikely audience — people without game consoles or PCs. As Supergiant revealed in a blog post, Hades is coming to iPhones via Netflix Games. Yes, the platform that absolutely no one can remember even exists is getting one of the most popular indie games of the decade. Given that Netflix has nearly 250 million subscribers, this move could bring Hades to the largest audience possible, at least until they develop some kind of pebble-based port for the aforementioned people living under rocks.
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