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Jensen Huang made Nvidia a $3 trillion juggernaut. But the path to
success was filled with 'despair' and 'torture'
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Nvidia has been holding a clinic in shattering expectations. The
company’s market cap has increased 160% in the past six months, up
to $3.10 trillion, as the rush to cash in on A.I. has launched the
chip maker into position as the third most valuable company in the
world, trailing only Apple ($3.30 trillion) and Microsoft ($3.25
trillion). “It’s incredibly hard to start a company; it’s
incredibly hard to start a business,” Huang said at the conference.
“The depth of despair, the suffering, the torture—balanced by the
great joy of doing something the world has never done before—is
beyond words can describe. So unless you believe you’re going to
make a real contribution to society it’s going to be incredibly hard
to start that journey.”
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Modi, Macron bilateral emphasises furthering India-France defence
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron
agreed to further intensify strategic defence cooperation with an
increased focus on 'Make in India' when both leaders met on the
sidelines of the G7 Summit held in Italy on Friday.
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UK election: How can the next government get climate goals on track?
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The UK’s journey to net zero has stalled – whoever wins the 4 July
election will need to get it moving again, but many climate scientists
are frustrated with what the main parties are offering
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Einstein's theory was wrong about black holes made out of light
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The theory of relativity predicts black holes should be able to form
from light alone, but incorporating quantum effects makes it
impossible
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Extending Support and Providing Assurance Can Help Those With
Depression
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For some people, depression might be a “single episode,” meaning
they go through a period of depression, but it doesn’t happen to
them again. Other people have recurrent episodes in which they have to
cope with depression at different times in their lives. Depression can
also be chronic and something a person has to manage throughout their
life.Noonan says it's important to follow through when a person is
trying to help a loved one. If, for example, a person offers to make
the loved one an appointment with a primary care physician to get a
referral or start a discussion about the symptoms, then they need to
follow through. Make the appointment as promised, drive them and wait
outside, help them organize referrals, or pick up prescriptions.
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When does old age begin? Science says later than you might think
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Though aging is often portrayed as a problem to fix, it’s more
modifiable than you might think. According to the latest science,
there’s no clear biological tipping point marking the transition
from midlife to late life, says Eric Verdin, president and CEO of the
Buck Institute for Research on Aging in California.“There's an
incredible amount of variability between different people,” says
Verdin, who favors using someone’s biological age—which is how old
your cells and tissues are—rather than their chronological age,
which is the number of years you've been alive. (Read how inflammation
impacts aging.)
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Putin Proposes Cease-Fire in Ukraine With Extensive Territorial
Conditions
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Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on Friday to order an
immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and begin peace negotiations if Kyiv
and its Western allies agree to a series of conditions. These include
Ukraine withdrawing all of its troops from the four Russian-occupied
territories of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia; the West
lifting all sanctions imposed on Moscow; and Kyiv dropping its NATO
membership bid.Moscow does not control all of the territory in these
four regions, meaning that a Ukrainian surrender on these conditions
would give Russia more land than it currently occupies. Combined with
the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in February
2014, this would be a loss of more than one-fifth of Ukraine’s
sovereign territory.
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Is Europe's Turn to the Right Here to Stay?
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Right-wing populists did well in the EU Parliament elections. Now
France’s president is testing the public’s appetite for being
governed by them.
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Colorado board decides a pricey Novartis medicine is unaffordable
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The Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Board voted Friday to
grant the designation to Cosentyx, which is used to treat conditions
such as plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The vote means the
board will decide in a follow-up meeting whether to pursue an upper
payment limit for the drug, which an affordability review found cost
an average of roughly $47,000 per patient in 2022.In reaching its
decision, the board noted that 26% of insurance carriers who submitted
information to a state claims database reported Cosentyx was one of
the top 15 prescription drugs that led to increased premiums. Yet two
years ago, Cosentyx was used by 1,128 residents compared to all of the
available alternatives in the same class of medicines.
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Biden administration to recalculate Medicare Advantage quality ratings
and bonuses
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Recent court decisions required the Biden administration to make these
changes to insurers’ star ratings, many of which came in lower than
companies had expected and cost them hundreds of millions of dollars
in bonuses. While many companies will regain lost bonuses, no insurers
will have to forfeit money from the new calculations, government
officials said. The government also is reopening the process for
Medicare Advantage insurers to submit their 2025 plans to account for
these changes.The Wall Street Journal reported earlier about the
government’s pending action. Top officials at the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services — the federal agency that oversees
Medicare Advantage plans — formally laid out the plans in detail
Thursday night in a memo that was sent to insurance companies.
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Huge Blobs of Seaweed Are Choking the Caribbean's Iconic White Sand
Beaches
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Massive blobs of sargassum seaweed are taking over Caribbean beaches.
The seaweed explosion is fueled by pollution washing into the ocean
from rivers in the Americas and Africa
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Behold! Fresh Eye Candy (and Science) from the Euclid Space Telescope
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The latest images from Euclid, a European mission studying dark matter
and dark energy, are spectacularly beautiful—and scientifically
promising
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Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies
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For Hamas, Everything Is Going According to Plan
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The leaders of both Israel and Hamas seem content for the war in Gaza
to grind on into the indefinite future. Such is the upshot of their
ambiguous, but essentially negative, responses to President Joe
Biden’s peace proposal, which is now fully backed by the United
Nations Security Council. And the reasons are obvious.Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have concluded that the best way
to stay out of prison on corruption charges is to stay in office, and
the best way to do that is to keep the war going. Hamas, meanwhile,
believes that it is winning. On October 13, I wrote in these pages
that Hamas had set a trap for Israel. The trap has sprung; Israel is
fully enmeshed in it, with no evident way out, and Hamas is getting
exactly what it hoped for.
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You Have Every Reason to Avoid Breathing Wildfire Smoke
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Summertime in North America is becoming smoke season. Last summer,
when a haze from catastrophic Canadian wildfires hung over the
continent—turning Montreal, where I lived at the time, an unearthly
gray and my home city of New York a putrid orange—plenty of people
seemed untroubled by this reality. Relatively few people wore masks;
infamously, an outdoor yoga class continued on a skyscraper terrace in
Manhattan. Research has long shown that exposure to the tiny particles
that make up wildfire smoke is a major health hazard; it kills
thousands of people prematurely each year and is linked to a range of
maladies. Yet the message—that smoke is a legitimate health
emergency—seems not to be getting through.Now, in mid-June, the
smoke is creeping back. Ninety-four fires are currently burning in
Canada, of which seven are uncontrolled. Last month, officials in
Minnesota and Wisconsin issued air-quality warnings when smoke drifted
south. The West is expecting an intense fire season. And smoke travels
far beyond burn sites: Research from UC Davis published this month
found that 99 percent of North America was covered by smoke at some
point from 2019 to 2021, and that almost every lake on the continent
spent at least 10 days a year under such haze.
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As Google Targets AI Search Ads, It Could Learn a Lot From Bing
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For years Paula Thompson, vice president of client strategy at the US
digital ad agency Optimal, has been helping Plunge sell baths to soak
in chilling water by buying ads on Google search and Microsoft Bing.
The ads appear atop results for searches such as “ice bath” and
invite users to “Buy our cold plunge today” or “Experience the
cold plunge difference.”But as Microsoft put an AI spin on its
search engine, the tub maker’s ads on Bing now invite users to
“learn about the benefits of cold plunging” or “learn about the
exclusive benefits of Plunge,” according to Thompson. They direct to
informational material, not the purchase pages that were mainly pushed
before.
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5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader
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As you transition to a leadership role, your relationship to power
changes: You gain more of it, and people start acting differently
around you due to your authority. How can you avoid the hidden traps
of gaining power, which shapes you in ways you may not realize? The
authors outline five key traps leaders can fall into — the savior
trap, the complacency trap, the avoidance trap, the friend trap, and
the stress trap — and offer ways to counteract each.
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Learning to Delegate as a First-Time Manager
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Learning how to delegate well is a skill every first-time manager
needs to learn from the very start. Many people are promoted into
management for doing their previous job well. But once you’re
promoted into a leadership role, you must accept that you can’t do
everything on your own — nor should you. Though it may seem
counterintuitive, the more senior you become in an organization, the
less you’ll be involved in doing the day-to-day work. You’ll need
to have a sense of what’s happening without directly contributing to
every project. To do that, you first have to change your mindset from
“doing” to “managing,” even though it might feel
uncomfortable. If you resist this change, you’ll likely end up
overwhelmed and (unintentionally) holding onto opportunities that
could be given to your team.
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Didn't Get Your Employee Retention Credit? Sue the IRS!
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The agency stopped processing new ERC claims last September,
citing rampant fraud. In April, the IRS clawed back hundreds of
millions worth of ERCs that were erroneously claimed. Still, tax
advisory firms and businesses alike have started turning to the courts
to force the IRS's hand, although they have yet to triumph, as
litigation tends to move slowly. Such is the case for Jonathan
Cardella, who runs Strike Tax, a tax advisory firm in Boise, Idaho.
Cardella's firm--which initially focused on advising businesses on how
to tap into R&D tax credits--saw interest spike from businesses
wanting to pursue the employee retention tax credit. Within a year, he
says, ERCs went from a small portion of the business to a majority of
it.
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Wells Fargo Fires Employees 'Faking Work'--Raising Questions About
Remote Work and Quiet Vacationing
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According to a Bloomberg report, the company fired them after
looking into suspicions "they were faking work." The bank's filings
on the matter with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority stated
the workers with its wealth management unit were "discharged after
review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity
creating impression of active work."It's unclear whether those caught
with their noses elsewhere than to the grindstone were working at home
when caught phoning--or rather, faux-typing--their duties in. But
that's the conclusion many observers are coming to, given the
determination with which return-to-work mandates were imposed by
some employers over the last year--and resisted with equal energy by
fans of less rigid home and hybrid arrangements.
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Yoox Net-a-Porter exits China to focus on more profitable markets
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Luxury ecommerce platform’s decision comes at a time of weaker
economic momentum in the mainland
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Bank of America says Broadcom could be the next trillion-dollar
company--but rival Nvidia would still be 3 times larger
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Broadcom, an American semiconductor manufacturer, announced a 10-to-1
stock split and better-than-expected earnings in its second-quarter
earnings report on Wednesday. In the report, Broadcom also projected
$51 billion in sales for the 2024 fiscal year, slightly higher than
anticipated. Shares soared that day in after-hours trading and were
going for about $1,740 around 3 p.m. ET on Friday—about 16% higher
than their Wednesday opening price near $1,500.In a note to investors
on Thursday, Bank of America boosted its target price for Broadcom
shares to $2,000 and raised its 2025 fiscal year sales forecast to
$59.9 billion, which would be a 16% year-over-year gain. BofA cited
semiconductor sales and its acquisition of software firm VMWare last
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These Are The Billionaires Supporting Trump's Campaign
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Harold Hamm: The Continental Resources founder and longtime Trump
friendâwho donated to former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's and
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' primary bidsâwas among the attendees at
the now-infamous April Mar-A-Lago dinner with oil executives where
Trump reportedly pitched industry-friendly policies while soliciting a
$1 billion donation, and in May, Hamm co-hosted a Houston fundraiser
for Trump, Reuters reported. (We estimate Hamm is worth $18.5
billion)Timothy Mellon: A longtime Republican mega-donor and top
contributor to Trump's 2020 campaign, Mellon is the most prolific
donor of the 2024 election cycle, USA Today reported, citing
OpenSecrets data that shows Mellon donated $25 million each to super
PACs backing both Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (We estimate the
Mellon family is worth $14.1 billion)
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Billionaire Groupon Founder Eric Lefkofsky's Health Tech Company Goes
Public--His Fourth IPO
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Shares of the company were priced on the Nasdaq on Thursday at $37 per
share and started trading on Friday, giving Tempus a market
capitalization of $6.1 billion, lower than Tempus' last private
valuation of $8.5 billion from a 2022 funding round. Lefkofsky, who is
founder and CEO, holds an estimated 33% stake in the company, worth $2
billion. That makes Lefkofsky's net worth approximately $3.9 billion.
Tempus is his first company to go public since the IPO of
discount-deal e-commerce company Groupon in 2011, a listing that made
him a billionaire.Lefkofsky founded Tempus in 2015, after his wife was
diagnosed with breast cancer and he was "just perplexed at how little
data had permeated her care," he told Forbes in 2019. The firm, which
has 2,300 employees, started as an oncology-focused
companyâsequencing, for example, cancer patients' tumor samples and
analyzing them with machine-learning-trained models to help determine
a more accurate diagnosis and personalized treatmentâand has
gradually expanded to other disease areas: neuropsychiatry, radiology
and cardiology. Its customers include more than 2,000 healthcare
providers who send their patients' samples for testing and 19 of the
20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, which license
Tempus' massive troves of data for use in drug discovery. Tempus lost
$214 million on $532 million in 2023 revenue; major expenses include
the cost of running genetic tests, spending on research and
development, and purchasing and training data. Its long-term goal,
according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission
about the public offering, is to use artificial intelligence to
analyze healthcare data and further personalize care to "all major
disease areas globally."
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One of Blizzard's Most Divisive Classes Influenced 'Diablo 4's' New
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For the first time in over a decade, Blizzard is adding an entirely
new class to a mainline Diablo game. And according to Diablo’s
franchise manager, this new playable archetype wouldn’t have been
possible if the series mobile game, Diablo Immortal, didn’t prove
players were ready for such a bold expansion on the existing lore.The
Spiritborn are the biggest addition included in Diablo 4’s upcoming
paid expansion, Vessel Of Hatred. While Blizzard hasn’t revealed
much about this mysterious new class, we do know that the Spiritborn
are warriors who seem native to the Nahantu region, the setting of the
upcoming DLC set to drop later this fall. Blizzard will give a full
breakdown of this new class during a Diablo livestream on July 18.
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Real-Time Strategy Games Are On the Cusp of a Massive Comeback
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This year’s Summer Game Fest had tons of announcements, but amidst
all the flashy reveals, I noticed an interesting trend. Real-time
strategy games are on the verge of a massive renaissance. I was able
to go hands-on with three different RTS games, and to my surprise,
each brings a wildly unique approach to revitalizing the genre.
Stormgate carries on the legacy of Starcraft with a dynamic asymmetric
approach, Battle Aces tries to make RTS approachable to everyone, and
Age of Mythology: Retold revitalizes one of the most important games
of the genre. I had extensive hands-on with all three titles, and left
feeling more excited for the future of RTS games than I have in over a
decade. If you’re a strategy fan there’s a lot on the horizon, and
if you’re not, well, maybe it’s about time you give RTS a serious
try. There’s never been a better time. Here’s how each game is
pushing the genre into a comeback.
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50 Years Ago, the Most Underrated Conspiracy Thriller of the '70s
Accidentally Predicted the Future
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"Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe it's everybody else's
problem that they don't get along with you?"We live in a time of
rampant misinformation and political paranoia, an era in which
ludicrous conspiracy theories are allowed to take root in the minds of
millions. Modern society has been driven to this point by numerous
forces, including rampant, social media-driven disinformation
campaigns and corruption scandals that have shaken voters' confidence
in their political representatives.
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'Metaphor: Refantazio' Already Feels Primed to Be Another Cult Classic
From The Developer Behind Persona
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The release of Persona 5 in 2016 was a pivotal moment for Atlus,
catapulting a niche RPG series about high schoolers into the
mainstream. Persona has become a veritable phenomenon, and at the same
time, Atlus has become a household name. I know comparing things to
Persona 5 can be a tired practice at this point, but its influence on
Metaphor: Refantazio is clear to see, from the striking art style to
the combat. Even with that Persona foundation, Metaphor feels like
something fresh and new, Atlus using its expertise to create an
expansive new world begging to be explored. This has the potential to
be a cult classic, just waiting to be unleashed. At Summer Game Fest,
we were able to play through a three-part demo of Metaphor: part
story, part battles, and the final one a mix of social elements and a
boss battle. It’s practically impossible to get a read on a 100-hour
RPG story with just a little snippet, but Metaphor’s setup is
undoubtedly compelling. The game’s fantasy world is supposed to be a
“mirror” of the contemporary world, one wracked by strife and
tension between the eight different races. After the current king is
assassinated, something called the Royal Magic is activated, meaning
anyone can become the next king by gaining enough support from the
people. You’re one of those hopeful candidates.
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Boeing's Starliner Will Attempt A First-Of-Its-Kind Landing For A U.S.
Capsule
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Two astronauts will break from American spaceflight tradition next
week, when their capsule drops down onto land, instead of splashing at
sea.As early as next Tuesday, the Boeing Starliner will undock from
the International Space Station (ISS) with two astronauts inside.
Instead of landing in the ocean, as their fellow NASA Commercial Crew
Program partner, SpaceX, has been successfully doing with its Crew
Dragon at least twice each year since 2020, Starliner will become the
first and only American orbital crew capsule to touch down on land.
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Rotatable Scroll Wheels Are the Best New Phone Trend in a Decade
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The time has come for phones to get weird again. Nothing kicked off
the return of fun-designed gadgets with eye-catching transparent
aesthetics and an LED “Glyph” system with the Phone 1, then the
Phone 2 and Phone 2a, and now more phone makers are daring to break
the unibody glass slab status quo.The latest phone trend that I am 100
percent here for: scroll wheels. Yes, honest to god, tactile discs you
can rotate around and around and around.
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How to Beat Mohg in 'Elden Ring' and Access the Game's New DLC
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A full breakdown and guide to defeating Mohg in Elden Ring so you can
start the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.Mohg is one of the more
well-hidden bosses in Elden Ring, tucked away in the Mohgwyn Palace.
The majority of players missed this boss while playing, but the race
is now on to defeat him since doing so is a prerequisite for accessing
the game’s upcoming Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.
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This Humanoid Robot is Trying to Give Every Car Tesla-Like
Self-Driving
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Autonomous software like Full Self Driving may end up being great for
Telsa drivers, but what about everyone else?A research paper out of
Japan showed off an autonomous driving project that puts a humanoid
robot in front of the steering wheel, driving a car that is decidedly
not equipped with Tesla’s FSD Beta or any other self-driving
software for that matter.
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This Upcoming Nintendo Switch Game Makes Platforming Feel Fresh Again
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PlayStation’s Astro Bot recently made a splash at the State of Play
showcase, but it isn’t the only promising platformer to be revealed
in the past few weeks. Buried amongst the avalanche of announcements
from Summer Game Fest was the reveal of Nikoderiko: The Magical World,
an upcoming platformer that looks like an homage to some of the best
games in the genre with a charm all its own.Nikoderiko is being
published by Knights Peak, a new division of My.Games, which focuses
on PC and console releases, rather than the company’s usual mobile
games. A showcase from Knights Peak revealed that Casper Van Dien
(Johnny Rico in the Starship Troopers movie) will be joining the cast
of the Starship Troopers: Extermination FPS and indie Soulslike
Mandragora is also joining the label, but Nikoderiko was the
announcement that really caught my eye.
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The Weirdest Fantasy Epic of the Year Puts a Unique Spin on a Classic
Story
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Death looks a little different in Tuesday. Instead of the standard
appearance of a cloaked, skeletal man, this Grim Reaper takes the form
of a parrot, albeit one that’s grungy, filthy, and looks like he’s
halfway dead too. Grudgingly, Death (voiced by Arinzé Kene) makes his
way from one victim to the next, called to each person by their dying
words. Those words never stop, echoing in Death’s head like constant
white noise, until one day, Death arrives to kill Tuesday (Lola
Petticrew), a terminally ill teenager whose lungs are about to give
out. Realizing that she’s staring Death right in the face, Tuesday
suddenly interrupts his creeping approach with a joke about a car full
of penguins. Death laughs, and the voices stop. And thus begins the
odd, lovely, and enchantingly strange directorial debut from Daina O.
Pusić.Tuesday walks a fine line between moving and mawkish, a
thoughtful and high-concept portrait of a mother’s grief that also
sometimes manages to be a little too cute. But thanks to a wholly
dedicated performance from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tuesday manages to
transcend its slightly thin premise.
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From Urine (Yes, Urine) to Helium: The Most Common and Bizarre Leaks
During Space Travel
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Hours after Starliner launched, teams detected helium leaks on several
of the spacecraft’s thrusters. The Boeing Starliner will return to
Earth no earlier than June 22, a four-day delay from its previous
target date. Helium leaks, discovered once Starliner was in space, may
be part of the reason for the delay.
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8 Weird But Useful Model Y and Model 3 Accessories You Need to Know
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Take one look at the Model 3 and Model Y subreddits and you’ll find
no shortage of requests asking for the must-have accessories for their
Tesla-made EV. The go-to answer remains the same: screen protector and
floor mats.Despite those boring answers, there’s a whole world —
from desks to fridges — of more interesting accessories, including
products from third parties and Tesla itself. Here are eight
surprisingly handy accessories that we found to level up your Model 3
or Model Y.
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49 Years Later, the Oldest Sci-Fi Show Just Brought Back A Daunting
Forgotten Villain
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There are a lot of strange, strange creatures in the universe of
Doctor Who. But the finale of the newly rebooted Season 1 will find
the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) battling an enemy that he previously
faced back when he was rocking a head full of curls and an infinitely
long scarf.At the end of Doctor Who Season 1, Episode 7, “The Legend
of Ruby Sunday,” the shocking new villain might leave more
contemporary fans scratching their heads. Turns out the much-teased
“One Who Waits” is an ancient god that the Doctor has vanquished
before. Here’s why the Big Bad of this episode requires a bit of
time travel back to 1975, and the epic 4th Doctor adventure, “The
Pyramids of Mars.”
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65 of the Cleverest, Most Genius Things Most Added to Amazon Wish
Lists
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Sure, you know the products that have been lingering on your wish
list. But do you ever wonder what’s at the top of other shoppers’
wish lists? Well, you’re in luck. We’ve sifted through Amazon’s
list of “most-wished-for” items to bring you the 65 cleverest,
most genius things that shoppers are pining for. They run the gamut,
from clever car accessories to things that make your home more fun and
more functional. And the best part is, these wish lists picks are only
a few clicks away from becoming a reality. You don’t need to bring
in a contractor or an electrician to upgrade your lighting. These
easy-to-use wireless LED lights can be attached to most surfaces with
the included mounting tape or screws. They have a dimmable design,
with multiple color choices and a remote control that makes them
convenient to customize. And they’re a seamless way to add more
light where you need it, whether it’s under kitchen cabinets, along
stairs, or even in closet.
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5 Years Later, Marvel's Darkest Spinoff is Still its Most Mature Show
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For the past two decades, superhero cinema has been shaped by the rise
of gritty reboots. The Dark Knight earned praise for its sophisticated
action and grounded tone, contrasting with the cartoonish Batman of
the 1990s. Five years later, Man of Steel faced criticism for
introducing grit where it didn’t belong. Since then, superhero fans
have been trapped in a circular argument about which adaptations
should or shouldn’t be “dark,” overlapping with debates over
what qualifies as adult storytelling.Is violence and misery inherently
mature? Is optimism inherently childish? Should we take Batman more
seriously than Iron Man because he cracks fewer jokes? These talking
points get more tedious with every cycle, especially since they ignore
the fact that most superhero movies, gritty or not, are formulaic
PG-13 blockbusters aimed at a broad mainstream audience. Back in the
mid-2010s, this trend extended to family-friendly TV spinoffs like
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. But with Daredevil and Jessica Jones,
Marvel’s Netflix franchise decided to do something different and
genuinely adult.
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The Most Divisive Star Wars Show Ever Has One Major Problem
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In The Acolyte Episode 3, “Destiny,” one question is specifically
raised: Are the Jedi good or what? This proactive debate is at the
center of the entire show, unpacking the nitty-gritty of what we
thought we knew about the Jedi for the past several decades. Just in
case you’re confused, Episode 3 makes this dichotomy painfully
obvious when Mae screams, “The Jedi are evil!” at young Osha, who
counters with the powerful rejoinder, “The Jedi are good!” This
attempt to discuss the ethics of the Jedi is interesting, even if
it’s clumsy.This central conversation is obviously compelling, but
it also could be the Achilles’ heel of the series. While various
trolls pathetically try to dunk on The Acolyte for racist and sexist
reasons, diversity is not the show’s problem. Those elements should,
of course, be celebrated. But, from a purely structural standpoint, it
feels like The Acolyte is trying to do a lot at the same time. The
series introduces the High Republic in live action, teases a
mysterious Sith villain, tells the story of Mae’s exacting bloody
revenge, and drops breadcrumbs for a meandering mystery, which began
years in the past. It’s a lot to juggle, and the balls are falling.
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Why Do Dogs Have Whiskers? A Veterinarian Reveals the Forgotten Reason
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Cats aren’t the only pets with long, luxurious whiskers. Well, maybe
dog whiskers aren’t as lithe, but these fur babies still share this
trait. But why do dogs have whiskers anyway?Whiskers are specialized
hairs that work as touch receptors, according to Brian Collins, a
veterinarian at the Cornell Riney Canine Health Center. “When their
whiskers brush up against things, that sends a signal that there's
something there,” Collins tells Inverse. That sense of touch helps
them get around, especially because their eyesight close up isn’t
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70 Years Ago, a Wild American Sci-Fi Thriller Beat Godzilla to the
Punch
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When it comes to the parade of giant cinematic monsters introduced in
the 1950s, the one with the longest (and most profitable) legacy is
Godzilla. Working as both sheer spectacle and horrific nuclear
metaphor, the “King of the Monsters” went on to have a ludicrously
successful film career. However, it wasn’t the first big creature to
stomp across our screens, nor was it the first one to harness potent
atomic allegory. Seventy years ago, and a few months before
Godzilla’s Japanese premiere, Them! gave us an underrated genre
classic, albeit with a very American point of view.By 1954,
Hollywood’s monster mash was in full swing. A 1952 re-release of the
original King Kong had been a hit, and was swiftly followed in 1953 by
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. In that film, the gigantic
“Rhedosaurus” is awakened by a bomb test and eventually killed by
radiation poisoning, turning atomic weaponry into both a nasty alarm
clock and a devastating defensive countermeasure. Both films would
inspire Godzilla, while America would double down on nuclear beasts in
the form of super-sized ants with Them!
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Steam Just Released a Demo for the Chillest Puzzle Game of the Year
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Just because video games tend to keep you inside doesn’t mean they
can’t help you feel just a little closer to nature. More and more
games lately are embracing an ecological message, and a new contender
for one of the best is now available on Steam. Developer Bitmap
Galaxy’s Preserve isn’t due out in full until later this year, but
you can try it out with a new demo during Steam Next Fest.Preserve’s
hex grid probably looks a little familiar to board game players, and
even more so to fans of the 2022 puzzle game Dorfromantik. In fact,
Preserve looks almost identical to Dorfromantik at first, opening with
just a few empty hexes floating in the void, but once you start
filling that space up, the differences are immediately apparent. Where
Dorfromantik was all about building up tiny towns by placing houses
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'Doctor Who' Just Brought Back Its Weirdest Time Travel Tech, 52 Years
Later
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Although Doctor Who primarily concerns the adventures of the Doctor
zipping through time and space in his quirky TARDIS — a box that
allows travel through Time And Relative Dimension In Space — there
are, in fact other forms of time travel within the canon of the
Whoniverse. And oddly, some of the most paradoxical timey-wimey
adventures in all of Doctor Who occur when the characters are not
using the TARDIS. In the days of the 10th, 11th, and 12th Doctor, the
most common alternative to the TARDIS was a wrist device known as a
vortex manipulator, commonly described as “cheap and nasty time
travel” and used by everyone from Captain Jack Harkness to Missy.
But hiding in plain sight is another Who time travel method, one which
makes a sneaky comeback in the penultimate new Season 1 episode “The
Legend of Ruby Sunday.” In order to see into the past, back to 2004,
the Doctor asks UNIT to use a “time window,” which ends up causing
all sorts of problems. But what is a time window? Here’s the cheap
and nasty history of this alt-time travel tech.
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No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of
Losses and the Meaning of Life
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“We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to
hurt each other.”
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The Beach and the Soul: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Benedictions of
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“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or
too impatient… Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea
teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, …
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Poop has been an easy target for microbiome research, but voyages into
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Likened by some scientists to another human organ, your microbiome is
collectively the tens of trillions of microorganisms that live in
interconnected populations on and in your body. They serve as
miniature sentinels that help protect your body’s surfaces from
pathogenic invaders. In the upper intestine, distinct microbial
populations also aid in digestion, metabolism and even immunity.I am a
gastroenterologist who has spent the past 20 years studying the
microbiome’s role in health and disease. Advances in technology are
helping scientists investigate the small intestine microbiome and the
promise it holds for better understanding and treating many diseases.
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Has Reform really overtaken the Tories in the polls? And does that
mean it could beat them on July 4?
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A YouGov poll has put Reform UK ahead of the Conservatives for the
first time. After a terrible few weeks of election campaigning, the
Tories are on 18% while Reform has edged ahead to 19%. The same poll
gave Labour 37% and the Liberal Democrats 14%. This news makes a great
headline, but it actually means the Conservatives and Reform are
essentially neck-and-neck in the polls. This is because all surveys
are subject to errors, which are commonly plus or minus 3% in a
typical poll.
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Research nation: Birmingham hosts BISA 2024
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“So, this is your first time in the UK and you’ve come to
Birmingham? Poor you,” went the conversation on the train.
Earwigging from down the carriage, I winced, and I have no connection
to the vast conurbation that is often proudly referred to by
inhabitants as England’s “second city”. But what I’d heard was
not an atypical reaction from British people when considering
“Brum”, a city often harshly regarded as uneasy on the eye. The
West Midlands (as you might guess, neighbour to the East Midlands I
visited a couple of weeks ago) is however, a vast and diverse region,
home to almost three million people and a wider metropolitan
population of more than four million. The response from the visitor,
in the UK from Sweden, was rather more positive than the resident
Englishman might have expected. She’d had a great few days, and
despite the (predictably) inconsistent early summer weather was
already thinking of a return to these shores.
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There's frustratingly little discussion of our music and nighttime
industries in this election
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So far the UK 2024 elections have been dominated by discussions on
migration and fiscal responsibility. As a result, the space dedicated
to arts, culture and music has felt relatively minuscule.But there are
important issues to be addressed in these industries, especially in
the face of city councils slashing their culture and heritage budgets
– such as Birmingham in February. This has been likened to creating
a “cultural wasteland” and causing “cultural deprivation”.
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