Beautiful

This rich, beautiful and inexpressibly sad film is about the friendship between men who can’t talk about their feelings and about winning and losing at the great game of life. It is set in the breathtaking and wonderfully photographed Italian Alpine valley of Aosta, which includes the slopes of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. But the “eight mountains” of the title refers to the eight highest peaks of Nepal: a mysterious symbol of worldly ambition and conquest.Belgian film-makers Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte…

Unlike the Pokémon anime and games set in the present day, where humans and Pokémon live in harmony as friends and competitors, Pokémon: Hisuian Snow — a new limited series of digital shorts based on Pokémon Legends: Arceus — takes place in the distant past at a point when people did not yet fully understand pocketable monsters. Like Arceus, Hisuian Snow’s first episode “Onto the Icy Blue” from writer Taku Kishimoto and director Ken Yamamoto tells the story of a young person learning firsthand just how unforgiving…

Ecobee has announced two new smart thermostats — the first since the Ecobee SmartThermostat with Voice Control arrived in 2019 and the first new products to launch since the company was bought by generator giant Generac last fall. The $249.99 Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium and the $189.99 Ecobee Smart Thermostat Enhanced join the Ecobee3 Lite (now priced at $149.99) in Ecobee’s lineup. Both new models are available now at ecobee.com, Amazon, Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Best Buy. The Premium model addresses a widespread…

One of our modern challenges is keeping track of the things we actually want to spend our time on with the massive amount of digital content that’s available. Sofa is a sharp iOS app that looks to solve that problem with a simple, yet customizable hub to organize movies, TV, music, books, podcasts, apps, games, and more to check out in the future. Along with a new Sofa update landing today, we went hands-on with the free iOS app for a closer look. We’ve all probably tried keeping a basic note or reminder list on…

An artist’s illustration of TESSERAE habitats in space. Shown in foreground is a self-assembling storage unit, autonomously connecting to other structures. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers3 Questions: MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw on Building Beautiful Architecture in SpaceThe TESSERAE project, a design for self-assembling space structures and habitats, has sent prototypes to the International Space Station.Living in space today is a cramped and utilitarian endeavor. Astronuats who arrive on the International Space Station (ISS)…

Barcelona-based Rayvolt not only has some of the most beautiful electric bikes I’ve ever seen, but also designs its own technology to ensure that those e-bikes offer industry-leading performance and user-experiences. That kind of combination of beauty and brains is rarely seen outside of a Hollywood blockbuster, which is why I just had to stop by Barcelona in person to check out the latest from Rayvolt. The company kindly invited me out to its yearly press and dealer meeting, which returned after a two-year hiatus…

The masters of minimalist styling at Sweden's Teenage Engineering have added a feature-packed but tiny pro audio mixer to the company's lineup, which packs built-in sounds, beats and sequencing and can also serve as a USB audio interface.The palm-friendly TX-6 field mixer wears clean and smooth CNC-machined aluminum housing and measures just 90 x 62.5 x 15 mm (3.54 x 2.46 x 0.59 in), though a 6.3-mm audio adapter increases the length to 102 mm and the encoders raise the height to 23 mm.The six-channel stereo mixer –…

With easy availability of high-resolution audio in India through Apple Music, many users are now choosing to go back to wired headphones or earphones, and some are even investing in high-end options. It's possible to put together a decent audiophile kit on a budget, but the more you spend, the better the overall experience. Of course, the heart of any audiophile setup is a pair of headphones, and the Meze 99 Classics that I'm reviewing here is highly regarded in its price segment.Priced at Rs. 24,999, the Meze 99 Classics…