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MEL Science I recently had the strangely-pleasurable experience of being shrunken down virtually to the size of an individual electron, gaining an immersive 360-degree view of the invisible world that forms the very basis of our reality. MEL Science, a company based in St. Petersburg, Russia, provides a series of virtual reality experiences that can […]
The verdict is in for the first week of the Winter Olympics: Viewership is down. That isn’t stopping NBC from claiming gold.
Published time: 30 Nov, 2017 13:11 Kiev lost $ 15 billion after Russia closed its borders to consumer goods from Ukraine. It is almost a fifth of the country’s GDP. “The sum [lost] is about $ 15 billion,” said Ukraine’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv on Thursday. “In 2014, the annexation of […]
Alexander Payne built a reputation as one of the sharpest wits and most brutal ironists in independent cinema, even to the point where the internet conversation around his last film even encompassed the question of whether he was mean to his characters – as if they were people. For his biggest, most expensive undertaking, he […]
In the future, Matt Damon can become five-inches tall thanks to Norwegian scientists. That’s the premise of Alexander Payne‘s (Nebraska) next film, Downsizing, in which overpopulation has led to people shrinking themselves to live a “bigger” life in a “bigger” home and help the environment while they’re at it. After Sideways, Payne wrote the script with Jim Taylor, […]
For more than a decade in the minor and major leagues, Erik Pappas had been gunning down attempted base stealers from behind the plate. Then, while in camp with the Florida Marlins in 1995, the 11-year veteran catcher’s career was in jeopardy — all because of “the yips.” Warm-up throws to second base were easy, […]
REUTERS/Aaron Harris (Reuters) – Canada’s BlackBerry Ltd, reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Friday, as operating costs nearly halved, and said it expects to be profitable on an adjusted basis in 2018. The company’s U.S.-listed shares were up nearly 5 percent at $ 7.29 before the bell. BlackBerry has shifted away from making its once-iconic smartphones […]
Enlarge / The announcement of the Creators Update in October 2016. The Windows 10 Creators Update, due some time in the next couple of months, enables differential updates as part of what Microsoft calls the Unified Update Platform. These updates only contain the changes between one major Windows update and the next, which should make […]
Unlike Tesla Motors, which is going full-speed ahead on its five million square foot Gigafactory near Reno, Nevada, electric-vehicle startup Faraday Future appears to be shrinking its manufacturing plans in the southern part of the state, according to Las Vegas’s Channel 8 CBS affiliate. In fact, the plant looks like it’s going to be about […]
Government workers are still trying to clear a backlog of 7,000 cases of civil servants having problems getting paid under the Phoenix system, but the focus is beginning to shift to resolving more recent pay problems more quickly, the government says. CBC | Politics News
