Astounding

It’s 40 years this month since anyone bar the attenders at their handful of gigs heard the Smiths. On 13 May 1983, they released their first single, Hand in Glove, on Rough Trade. Then, on 31 May, John Peel broadcast their first session for his BBC Radio 1 show. Before the year was out, they would have recorded one more for him, as well as two for David Jensen. A total of 14 songs were broadcast, all being heard for the first time, apart from a new version of Handsome Devil, the B-side to Hand in Glove.The Smiths’ radio…

A large percentage of crypto whales are adept investors who didn’t just stumble on wealth. Their intricate knowledge of investing is developed through years of experience and rigorously studying the minutiae of crypto investing. So when they make predictions, they stake big, and the odds are always in their favour. When it comes to listing the top meme coins in the crypto industry, Dogecoin is definitely on the roll. Dogecoin, which is famous for being touted by crypto icon and tech giant Elon Musk, raked in almost…

Like every other industry with many moving components, the crypto market is very unpredictable. One moment a coin can fall, and the next, it could rise. Such is the case with cryptos like Arbitrum (ARB) and Polygon (MATIC), which are now in correction mode after seeing slight jumps. However, one project in Stage 3 of its presale that could revolutionize the trading industry has been the hot topic among investors and experts – TMS Network (TMSN)! Keep reading as we closely examine all three of these tokens! Arbitrum…

There’s a way you can take professional-grade photos on your iPhone. Just turn this feature on. When it comes to smartphone cameras, nobody arguably does it better than Apple. iPhones are the best camera phones in the market with their advanced optics, user-friendly design and great software processing. The latest iPhones such as the iPhone 14 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro MAX can even go toe-to-toe with the professional cameras. Apple has consistently made improvements to the camera over the years, making it a top choice…

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press The center of gravity of “The Whale” is obviously the 600-pound man at its center. Look closely, though, and he’s the one with a soul as light as a feather. Charlie is a reclusive, morbidly obese English literature teacher unable and unwilling to stop eating himself to death. As his health woes mount and his life expectancy is put at just a week, Charlie struggles to reacquaint himself with his estranged daughter. We meet him on Monday and the film goes day by day to Friday. Charlie is a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt’s difficult to think of the moments before a heartbreak and not lace them with omens. The mind, too often, moulds memories into prophecies. Colours get dialled up. Emotions solidify. It’s a hard thing to talk about, let alone visualise. That’s why Aftersun, the debut of Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells, is so astounding. She’s captured the uncapturable, finding the words and…

Blue whales consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day, research estimated Tuesday, suggesting that the omnipresent pollution poses a bigger danger to the world's largest animal than previously thought.The tiny fragments of plastic have been found everywhere from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains, and even inside human organs and blood.Now a modeling study published in the journal Nature Communications has estimated how much is being ingested by whales.A US-led research team put tags on 191 blue,…

It’s known as “ghost gear.” Abandoned traps, aimlessly drifting nets, and other lost fishing equipment can haunt the ocean for years, ensnarling and killing whales, turtles, and other marine creatures. The magnitude of the problem has been hard to quantify, but a new study provides the first solid global estimate of the amount of equipment lost each year: enough nets to cover Scotland, for example, and fishing line that could wrap around the equator 400 times.…

WhatsApp trick: If you used the ‘delete for everyone’ feature on WhatsApp to delete an important message and now want to recover it, there is a way to do that. Find out below. The popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp often comes up with astounding new features to make users' experience better. As a part of that, it introduced the ‘delete for everyone’ feature in 2017 which allowed users to delete a particular message not only for themselves but also for…

Gregg Haljan was the Third Officer on the Space-Ship Planetara when he was summoned by Detective-Colonel Halsey’s office. “I am, I do beg you to believe, a very humble fellow, striving for your approval, hoping only to entertain you,” Haljan writes. The book, Brigands of the Moon, is published by Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930. In spite of the secrecy, the Grantline Moon Expedition, the news has gotten out of spite of our secrecy.Astounding StoriesDare to dream. Dare to go where no other has gone…