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 S22Are we in a post antibiotic era?  “The very slow rolling pandemic of antibiotic resistance has been easy to ignore,” but that must change with today’s rising rates coupled with a lack of novel antibiotics that address the problem, says Christina Yek, a research physician at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the United States National Institutes of Health.Resistance of certain germs to antibiotics remains one of the top global public health challenges, according to the World Health Organization. These organisms kill an estimated 5 million people worldwide each year. In the U.S., more than 2.8 million antimicrobial-resistant infections occur annually, including those acquired in the hospital or picked up elsewhere. When germs become antibiotic resistant, physicians are unable to easily treat the infection
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S29 8 AI Security Issues Leaders Should Watch At a time when cybersecurity is paramount, artificial intelligence tools introduce even more complexity for IT and business leaders. The AI tools, the large language models that power them, and the related security threats are evolving rapidly, and it’s hard for leaders to know where to focus when it comes to AI security. At the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, we delved into this issue with conference speakers and CIO Leadership Award finalists.Hear their advice in this second installment of our two-part video series. (See Part 1: “The GenAI Blind Spot Leaders Have Now”.) In it, accomplished IT leaders and AI experts tackle this question: What aspect of AI security should be at the top of a leader’s list right now?“As [much as] we can do great stuff with these new tools, the hackers can also get a lot smarter — and much tougher to detect,” said George Westerman, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, who spoke with MIT SMR at the event.
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S23This is the biggest health challenge women face in their 20s The habits women develop in this decade set the foundation for their health the rest of their lives. That includes establishing care with appropriate medical providers, learning about their family history of disease and risk factors, and becoming responsible for their health records, experts say. But it also means establishing healthy sleep, nutrition, and exercise habits and paying attention to use, and risks, of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances.“There’s no more important relationship aside from your loved ones than the one you develop with a clinician,” says Stacey Rosen, a cardiologist at Northwell Health in New York. “Establishing these relationships when you’re young and presumably healthy is the most important thing you could do as a young person.”
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S41Here's Exactly When You Can Play 'Elden Ring's DLC: 'Shadow of the Erdtree' The world of Elden Ring is about to get even larger with the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. As you venture into the Land of Shadow you’ll have new weapons to find, new dungeons to explore, and over a dozen brutal new bosses to take down. Players have likely spent weeks leveling and preparing the very best builds for Shadow of the Erdtree, meaning you’ll want to jump in as soon as possible. Especially considering this DLC is practically the size of an entire game. Here’s everything you need to know about when Shadow of the Erdtree launches. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree officially launches on June 21, which means, depending on your time zone, you’ll be able to start playing on the night of June 20. As shared by the official Elden Ring X (formerly Twitter) account, here’s when the DLC will go live in various timezones. You can check the tweet for more time zones.
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S25A Tour of the Cascade Volcanoes from Space: Oregon The Oregon Cascade Range is ... complicated. From the surface it looks like the chain of volcanoes that we started exploring back in British Columbia remains the same. However, once you start looking at the deep geologic processes that are causing volcanoes in Oregon, you quickly realize there is a lot going on.Mt. Hood is to Portland what Mt. Rainier is to Seattle: an ever-present sentinel that both makes a beautiful backdrop and an ominous neighbor. Few people in the Portland area likely realize that Hood erupted as recently as 1865! If you have ever spent time at Mt. Hood and its famous Timberline Lodge, you can see the remnants of some of the activity over the past 250 years up near the summit. On top of that, the river channels leading from Hood, especially on the south side, are choked with volcanic debris that was carried there by pyroclastic flows and volcanic mudflows.
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S28 Recapping Work/24: The Human Factor Technology is given undue agency — it shifts, it disrupts, it eliminates. At Work/24: The Human Factor, a virtual summit held May 2, 2024, MIT Sloan Management Review brought together experts in artificial intelligence, change management, workplace culture, and human resources. Their goal: to help leaders understand how teams can thrive in a tech-dominated, AI-fueled world of work.So many efforts focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), employeeengagement, and the quality of work fail to make meaningful progress because power resists change. Intentionally or unintentionally, the “deep rules” of an organization make it clear which issues are safe to discuss. Companies become stronger, Detert argued, only when people take on these undiscussables.Workforce ecosystems, which weave together actors from within organizations and beyond, have become more complex with the introduction of AI. Altman and Kiron detailed their research into these ecosystems, explaining how artificial intelligence is augmenting human performance and expanding access to decent jobs — while also undermining worker autonomy and equity.
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S30The Most Intriguing Horror Game of the Year Is Weighed Down By Unimaginative Gameplay Still Wakes The Deep is all about atmosphere, tone, and thrills. It sets out to be an authentic homage to seminal 1970s horror classics from visionaries like John Carpenter and Ridley Scott. And across its six-hour campaign, it effectively replicates much of what made these auteurs revelatory masters of their craft when they first jumped on the scene.When stacked up against the likes of 1979’s Alien or 1982’s The Thing, this survival horror game predictably has a hard time living up to the classics. However, strong performances from its cast, an unsettling and aesthetically cool backdrop, and moments of genuine relatable terror do just enough to make it a fun riff on a familiar concept.
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S21Israel's War of Regime Change Is Repeating America's Mistakes The term “regime change” has fallen out of favor in the past two decades, and it is not a term that Israelis use to describe the war they are waging in Gaza. But regime change is precisely what Israel is seeking. Its military operation in Gaza aims to destroy Hamas as a political and military entity and eliminate the de facto government the group has overseen for nearly two decades.The Israeli campaign is an understandable response to the horrific attacks of October 7, in which Hamas-led terrorists killed around 1,200 Israelis, took some 250 hostage, and deeply traumatized the Israeli public. In the aftermath of the attacks, Israeli leaders rightly concluded that it was unacceptable for Hamas to continue running Gaza—just as American leaders decided after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 that they could no longer accept the status quo in Afghanistan, where the Taliban was harboring al Qaeda, and that they had no choice but to carry out regime change there.
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S49PlayStation Plus Just Quietly Added A Classic Retro Star Wars Game The LEGO games are unavoidable hits. Few series not produced by Nintendo have been as reliable at providing a family-friendly experience deep enough for kids and parents to enjoy all the same. And LEGO’s reliance on recreating some of pop culture’s most enduring movies and TV shows has meant a game for every kind of gamer.While LEGO Star Wars games have seen quite a bit of evolution over the years, there’s something still so fun about the more focused, level-based games released early on in the series. Now, the best game in the classic LEGO style — LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy — finally available on PlayStation Plus.
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S1Honor Thy Father: The Saga Of A Drug Smuggler's Son Clyde Walton Cobb might not have been the best father figure, but he was a hell of a pot smuggler. Between 1977 and 1981, Cobb, who used a suntan oil business as a front, and along with a group of “saltwater cowboys,” generated $300 million by smuggling marijuana from Cartegena, Colombia to the rivers and swamps of the Florida panhandle with a vast network of airplanes and shrimp boats.Inside Sunburn Cannabis’ headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cobb shows off a photo of his father, wearing shorts and a Rolex while smiling next to an 800-pound swordfish. A giant American flag covers one wall, a few hot pink Make America Great Again hats speckle a desk, and two weapons are in reach—a bazooka and a Super Soaker. Sunburn is a good-ol’-boy cannabis brand, not the woke, politically correct corporate kind preaching about how marijuana is “Nature’s medicine.” Sunburn’s ethos is far more personal: Only in America could the son a drug smuggler exceed his father’s wildest dreams.
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S24Experiencing Sympathetic Joy Promotes Cooperation and Deepens Connections Re-watching your favorite movie is delightful but watching it with a friend who's seeing it for the first time can bring even more joy. Experiencing a friend’s surprised reactions and laughter can make you feel the same, making the moment as much about their enjoyment as it is about the film itself.Many cultures have a specific term for this concept of deriving happiness from the joy of others. In Yiddish, it is called "fargin," and in Pāli and Sanskrit, it is referred to as "muditā." These words capture the essence of sharing in others' joy, and even though the English language lacks a single term for this feeling, it’s known as sympathetic joy.
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S32Marvel's Biggest Movie Scandal Just Took a Shocking Turn For the Worse Marvel is no stranger to long-gestating projects. Captain America: Brave New World has been delayed and reworked long enough to warrant a title change, and its McDonald’s toys are releasing months before the actual movie. But that’s nothing compared to one of Marvel’s most exciting projects suffering delay after delay and obstacle after obstacle over the course of five years. Though the studio hasn’t abandoned the movie, the whole affair has become remarkably personal.Blade, the Mahershala-Ali-starring remake of the classic 1998 movie, was announced in July 2019. Since then, the film has experienced delays both out of its control (a global health crisis, the dual writers’ and actors’ strikes) and self-inflicted. So far, six screenwriters have tried to crack Blade’s story, including True Detective mastermind Nic Pizzolatto and former X-Men ‘97 showrunner Beau DeMayo.
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S36'Starfield's Massive Expansion Plans Prove Bethesda Doesn't Understand What Gamers Really Want Just a few days after Bethesda revealed a trailer for Starfield’s Shattered Space DLC during the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, studio director Todd Howard announced that more expansions are on the way — and there may be more than even the game’s fans were expecting. In a new interview, Howard says that Bethesda may have given up on its previous games too early and hopes not to repeat that mistake in the future.In an interview with YouTuber MrMattyPlays, Howard says that Bethesda is already working on the next expansion coming to Starfield after Shattered Space, and even gives a hint of when players could expect it. Howard says the studio hopes to release expansions on a “more or less” annual basis for “hopefully a very long time.” And while that’s about as vague as a statement can be, we did get some indication of how long “a very long time” could be, from the same interview.
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S39'House of the Dragon's Epic New Opening Credits is Ripped from Real History Nothing says Game of Thrones more than Ramin Djawadi’s epic title theme, so it was no surprise HBO kept the music for the prequel series House of the Dragon. The pounding instrumental track played under an exploration of a map of Westeros in Game of Thrones, introducing viewers to the regions and great houses at play. House of the Dragon Season 1 shifted its focus to the mighty Targaryen family, with rivers of pouring blood showing how important familial connections were to the upcoming civil war.Now, with the Dance of Dragons officially underway, House of the Dragon Season 2 has changed its approach again, this time going with embroidered depictions of key plot points. Check out the new opening below, then keep reading to learn how this new credits sequence is enmeshed in real-life history.
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S44S4610 Years Later, Fujifilm Is Finally Releasing a New Wide Format Instant Camera Fujifilm releases an almost endless number of Instax Mini instant cameras like the recent retro-looking Instax Mini 99, but has only sold two wide-format Instax Wide instant cameras to date. After 10 years, Fujifilm is releasing the Instax Wide 400.The Instax Wide 400 replaces the decade-old Instax Wide 300 that was released in 2014, which itself succeeded the Instax Wide 210 launched in 2009. Think about that for second, and how different 2014 was. TikTok hadn’t come out yet; USB-C and wireless charging were but dreams that wouldn’t become universal for a few more years; VR and mixed reality headsets like the Quest were still duct-taped-together prototypes.
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S33Tesla's $20,000 EV Might Be a Stripped-Down Version of Its Best-Selling Car Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, may have dropped a big hint about the company’s first affordable EV.During Tesla’s 2024 annual shareholder meeting, Musk hinted at the potential scope for an affordable EV, saying “You could imagine if there was... say, a Model Y that cost less than $20,000, it would sell like five million units.” Musk added that the situation wasn’t possible currently, but figuring out how to make affordable vehicles would be a game changer.
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S35Netflix's Biggest Sci-Fi Show Will Soon Face An Unexpected Rival Movie The coming of the aliens known as Trisolarans (or the San-Ti, as they’re known in Netflix’s 3 Body Problem) will take at least 400 years, but within just a few short years on Earth, there will be at least four different interpretations of how that glacial alien invasion unfolds.As David Benioff, D.B Weiss, and Alexander Woo mount their plans to adapt the next two volumes from the trilogy of books that began with The Three-Body Problem, another movie version of Cixin Liu’s epic is in the works. And, it’s possible that this new Three-Body movie will be out before Netflix completes its full version of 3 Body Problem.
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S38This Humanoid Robot Can Learn How to Fight and Play Piano Just By Watching You Instead of designing a humanoid robot with AI reasoning and neural networks, you can just teach it yourself.Researchers at Stanford University developed a robot that can imitate what you’re doing in real-time thanks to a simple webcam setup. Called HumanPlus, the team’s robot can learn how to box, play piano, return a ping pong ball, and type, all by shadowing what a human does.
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S50A brief history of Stephen Hawking's greatest equation | Aeon Essays A black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other subatomic particles streaming out from the centre of galaxy M87, travelling at nearly the speed of light. Photo courtesy NASA HubblesiteA black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other subatomic particles streaming out from the centre of galaxy M87, travelling at nearly the speed of light. Photo courtesy NASA Hubblesite
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S37The Most Polarizing Sci-Fi Movie of the Year Finally Got a Release Date -- But There's One Problem Only a select few people have seen Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s impossibly audacious sci-fi epic, but already it’s the most polarizing movie of the year. Early test screenings built buzz over the film’s “baffling” tone and unique inaccessibility, while reviews out of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival are firmly split 50/50 with some calling it an audacious cinematic achievement and others calling it hot garbage. (As one of the lucky few to see it at Cannes this year, I can confidently say that it’s both.)After Megalopolis found buyers for distribution in Europe’s top five territories, the rest of the world waited with baited breath over whether they’d get to see this divisive movie for themselves. IMAX pledged to give the film a global release, but without a North American distributor, it was unclear whether the movie would ever get released in the United States — until now.
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S43June's Summer Solstice Strawberry Moon Will Be Weirder Than Usual With the full Strawberry Moon looming large on the southeastern horizon, June 21 will be the darkest full Moon night of the year.June 2024’s full Moon is the Strawberry Moon, and this year it coincides with the summer Solstice, which makes its appearance a little stranger — and darker — than usual. Read on to learn what’s going on with this year’s Strawberry Moon, how to get the best view, and how June’s full Moon may also have lent its name to a romantic tradition in the Middle Ages.
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S47The Most Controversial Form Of Scientific Discovery May Also Be The Most Effective Self-experimentation may be controversial, but it has contributed significantly to modern-day medicine.Science presenter and journalist Dr Michael Mosley was well known not only for his expertise, energy and passion as a broadcaster but also for trialling experiments on himself. From swallowing tapeworm eggs to having areas of his brain switched off, Mosley joined other medical pioneers who weren’t afraid to make use of their own bodies in the quest to learn more about them.
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S34One Line in 'House of the Dragon' Just Created a Big 'Game of Thrones' Plot Hole Season 2 takes a brief detour at Winterfell, and teases one of the biggest threats to the Seven Kingdoms.House of the Dragon certainly has the feel of a self-contained story, but the prequel series is still very much beholden to the events of its predecessor, Game of Thrones. Whether you pledge allegiance to Team Black or Team Green, the battle between these two families is just one of many significant struggles in Westeros. The Dance of Dragons will have huge repercussions on the realm, but Thrones fans know that a much bigger war — one that will affect every faction in the Seven Kingdoms — is brewing.
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S3120 Years Ago, the Most Underrated Horror Survival Sequel Redefined the Entire Genre Henry Townshend wakes up one morning to find himself trapped in his own dingy apartment. The front door is mysteriously covered in chains and padlocks, and Henry has no means of communicating with the outside world. That is save for a mysterious hole in his bathroom wall that acts like an evil Mario pipe, whisking him away to nightmarish hellscapes.Thus begins The Room (no relation to Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult classic), the fourth entry in acclaimed survival horror series Silent Hill. While the game is viewed as the black sheep in the franchise, its ambitious gameplay — despite uneven execution of subversive ideas — was a pioneer of contemporary survival horror games that almost managed to outdo the franchise’s biggest rival.
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S42The Strangest Sci-Fi Cult Classic of the '80s Is Making an Unexpected Comeback In terms of how we view science fiction movies today, the 1980s was easily the most influential and formative decade. But, interestingly enough, by 1983 after the release of Return of the Jedi, the massive influence of the Star Wars franchise on blockbuster sci-fi movies had morphed into a new phenomenon: the anti-Star Wars sci-fi epic. 1984’s Dune and 1986’s Aliens are two great examples of this miniature trend, a moment where great directors like David Lynch and James Cameron attempted to wrest the storytelling themes and aesthetics of space-based sci-fi cinema away from the Star Wars mold. And sandwiched smack-dab in the middle of this moment was a cult flick that bombed in 1985, but went on to become a classic.Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Enemy Mine was released on December 20, 1985, one year after Petersen’s fantasy classic, The NeverEnding Story. And now, the contemplative world of Enemy Mine is coming back, thanks to Star Trek: Picard Season 3 showrunner, Terry Matalas.
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S45'The Acolyte' Will Finally Follow Up on Its Most Urgent Cliffhanger The Acolyte took a huge detour last week with an episode set in the past, revealing the heartbreaking experience that put twins Osha and Mae Aniseya on different paths. But now that we’ve seen what happened on Brendok (at least from one point of view), we can get back to the adult twins as Mae’s mission for revenge brings her face to face with Wookiee Jedi Kelnacca. Here’s everything you need to know as the latest Star Wars series hits the halfway mark.The Acolyte Episode 4 premieres on Tuesday, June 18, on Disney+. Star Wars shows usually premiere on Wednesdays, but The Acolyte’s release time was bumped into primetime, which slots it into Tuesdays.
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S40'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' Will Improve on the Movies in One Epic Way Since it was first revealed in January, Indiana Jones And The Great Circle has looked like a faithful recreation of everything that makes the films special. A recent interview with the developers of the upcoming Xbox exclusive explains how the folks behind the recent Wolfenstein games managed to create such an authentic love letter to Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ original vision.In an Official Xbox Podcast interview with MachineGames’ Jerk Gustafsson, the game’s director, and John Jennings, the game’s production director, the two leads spoke about the unprecedented access they’ve had to Lucasfilm that has allowed them to properly live up to the legacy of the franchise both tonally and visually.
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S4825 Years Ago, the Most Influential Time-Loop Thriller You've Never Seen Reenergized the Genre As far away as it may feel, the end of the ‘90s was a time of seismic cultural shifts and collective apocalyptic anxiety. The impeachment scandal roiled the Clinton administration, Princess Diana’s sudden demise dominated headlines across continents, and Y2K paranoia made the potential collapse of society loom large.The decade’s pressure-cooker energy gave rise to one of the most innovative eras of independent and international cinema, with films such as Rushmore and Cronos propelling filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Guillermo del Toro into the spotlight. One movie in particular, though, a shot of adrenaline straight out of Berlin, encapsulates the sinking feeling of running out of time that defined the looming millennium, and its frenetic presentation can be traced to its impact on the contemporary indie scene.
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