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There was real justice in Kristen Stewart’s Berlin jury awarding their top prize, the Golden Bear, to this excellent movie from the 72-year-old French director and lion of documentary film-making, Nicolas Philibert. His film is compassionate, intelligent and shrewdly observed; it is about a Paris landmark which has only been in existence for 13 years but which tourists and anyone with an interest in mental health should really come and marvel at. The Adamant is a floating day-care centre for people with mental disorders,…

The company formerly known as Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies (Solo AVT) is now moving forward under the name Terraline. Along with the name change comes a shift in the company's mission, at least for the near term. Its autonomous SD1 platform will take a backseat as it focuses on meeting the immediate demand for an all-electric Class 8 long-haul truck for human drivers. It calls this one the Tangra LH1, and the truck utilizes the same 500-mile (805-km) electric architecture but with a cab built for an actual person,…

The Legendary Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham has died at the age of 90. Legendary Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham died in Houston on January 3, 2023 in the early morning hours of Tuesday. He was 90. Cunningham flew into space on Apollo 7, the historic first flight with crew in NASA's Apollo Program, he was 90 years old. “Walt Cunningham was a fighter pilot, physicist, and an entrepreneur – but, above all, he was an explorer. On Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission, Walt and his crewmates made…

Jason Momoa has been one of the best things about the DCEU. His performance as Aquaman has taken the character from the butt of jokes about talking to fish to one of the coolest and most charismatic DC heroes. 2018’s Aquaman defied gloomy box office predictions to become a billion-dollar smash (and a sizeable international hit) and hopes are very high for the long-delayed Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom when it lands in late 2023. But right now, the internet is abuzz about Momoa switching up his DC roles, leaving Atlantis…

The station has now expanded to its maximum size, with three modules and three spacecraft attached for a total mass of nearly 100 tons. Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their country's space station, where they will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard and expand the facility to its maximum size. Docking with the Tiangong station came at 5:42 a.m. Wednesday, about 6 1/2 hours after the Shenzhou-15 spaceship blasted off atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the…

Performance capture is part and parcel of the filmmaking experience these days, but it’s almost always utilized in tandem with practical sets, green screens, and assorted Volume-esque soundstages. That might be because of Robert Zemeckis, who tried and failed to kick-start a cinematic revolution with The Polar Express, only for interest and enthusiasm in the experiment to peter out. The perennial festive favorite did manage to earn $314 million at the box office following several re-releases, but given that it cost an…

The Artemis 1 mission taking off from the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning. Photo: NASAThe launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission sent the Orion capsule on a journey to the Moon, in addition to 10 cubesats included as secondary payloads. The Space Launch System’s upper stage successfully deployed the tiny satellites yesterday, but one of them appears to be malfunctioning. The jumbo Moon rocket took off on Wednesday at at 1:47 a.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, officially kickstarting NASA’s Artemis…

The mako shark flopped around the boat’s bow for about 2 minutes before wriggling free.Image: Maddie Meyer (Getty Images)They’re going to need a bigger boat. A group of people fishing in New Zealand were shocked when they picked up an accidental hitchhiker: A massive mako shark that leapt aboard their fishing boat.Star Wars: Shatterpoint Announcement Trailer02:27The First Things To Do In VR, Part 3Today 9:39AMOver the weekend, Churchys Charter NZ took a group of five customers out fishing off the coast of Whitianga, a…

India’s heaviest rocket is prepared for launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India.Photo: Indian Space Research Organization (AP)British company OneWeb has resumed its plans of building an internet constellation in low Earth orbit despite suffering a frustrating setback earlier this year.After having to cancel its launches aboard Russia’s Soyuz rocket, the British company launched 36 of its internet satellites on Saturday using India’s heaviest rocket. The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO)…

OneWeb on Sunday announced the successful deployment of 36 satellites launched by ISRO's commercial arm NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Bharti Global is the largest investor in OneWeb, a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company.This latest launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NSIL marks one of the biggest commercial orders by India's premier space organisation, and the first using the LVM3 rocket, OneWeb said in a statement.OneWeb said…