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The final movie in the original Star Wars trilogy sees a climactic showdown between Luke Skywalker, his father Anakin – aka Vader – and the disfigured Emperor. The Emperor is sent to his death, before Vader then appears to finally have a moment of peace with his son before he too passes away. But are […]
Enlarge / Clouds contain billions of individual water droplets that are difficult to plot in computer graphics for movie scenes. (credit: Dartmouth Visual Computing Lab) Animators will now be able to precisely control how microscopic particles interact with light in their renderings of objects, thanks to a research collaboration between computer scientists at Dartmouth University and […]
The novelisation of the final prequel movie has obviously been out in the world for a great many years now, but now it is finding a whole new audience online. And the way it describes Anakin adapting to his new suit is quite powerful. Reddit user darthmeteos even described it as their “favourite passage in […]
The ultra-nationalist crowds that flocked to Poland for its independence day march were seen performing Nazi salutes and burning flares at the event attended by staggering 200,000 people. Police, however, stood idly by. Crowds of people, including various far-right groups, unleashed a sea of fire and smoke on the streets and squares of the Polish […]
As if Donald Trump needed to give his haters more ammunition, the US President has now been accused of trampling on the memory of the US Marines killed in WWI after he canceled a memorial cemetery trip due to rain. Trump was due to travel some 50 miles (85 km) east of Paris on Saturday […]
Enlarge / London’s Millennium Bridge had issues with excessive shaking and swaying when it first opened in June 2000. (credit: Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto/Getty Images) When London’s Millennium Bridge first opened in June 2000, the city was alarmed to discover that the motion of crowds of pedestrians crossing it gave rise to significant shaking and swaying. Londoners […]
Enlarge / This is the sixth type of vehicle Waymo has added its self-driving technology to. The company has also ordered thousands of Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans for its fleet. (credit: Waymo) Waymo and the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Tuesday that the Golden State had approved a permit for the self-driving-car company to […]
Enlarge (credit: Brian Smithson / Flickr) Most of us don’t think twice about installing software or updates from a trusted developer. We scrutinize the source site carefully to make sure it’s legitimate, and then we let the code run on our computers without much more thought. As developers continue to make software and webpages harder […]
Two people were reportedly killed when a light aircraft crashed near an airfield in East Yorkshire. Both the pilot and passenger suffered fatal injuries in the crash reported at about 18:30 GMT on Wednesday, the BBC said, citing Humberside Police. A search was launched in the area to find the plane when it came down […]
Health Canada has approved a new ALS drug that is showing the potential to slow progress of the fatal disease.
