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Alain Delon was among the greatest celebrities of the golden era of French cinema, with his brooding good looks, ice-blue eyes and seductive on- and off-screen presence making him the pin-up of postwar France.In a career spanning more than half a century, Delon made 90 films, many of them critically acclaimed, including Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) in which he played antihero Tom Ripley, Le Samouraï and the historical epic The Leopard, that drew an estimated 134 million cinema-goers, making him a star at the box office.But…

Let this be a lesson in wiping your hardware before sending it out to a refurbisher: Researchers from the security firm ESET have found that less then half of secondhand enterprise routers in their sample were wiped of internal data, which poses a risk both for the companies that sold these routers and their customers.Top Takeaways from the Apple EventAccording to a report from Wired, out of the 18 corporate routers that the researcher team purchased secondhand, only five had been wiped. Nine of the routers had been left…

Warner Bros. Pictures Evil Dead is as Evil Dead does, and in the case of the upcoming fifth franchise installment Evil Dead Rise— heads are certainly set to roll. Directed by Irish horror guru Lee Cronin (Minutes Past Midnight, The Hole in the Ground), we’re sure this new take on Sam Raimi’s mythos won’t disappoint. Check out the blood curdling trailer below, and be warned, this puppy is Red-Band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_AeAPHs In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cronin talks at length…

Lucasfilm Whether it’s Qui-Gon’s Force ghost, Luke Skywalker saving the day, or Darth Vader causing a little trouble — our favorite galaxy far, far away seems to have been overrun by bits of fan service. However you slice it, for better or worse, Star Wars has become incredibly self-referential. Thankfully the folks at Lucasfilm tend to treat these moments with a healthy bit of reverence, and barring a few missteps — we can’t complain. Now, as we prepare for the upcoming third season of The Mandalorian, Star…

Beneath the Andes mountains in South America, Earth's crust is dripping into the planet's interior.Moreover, this has been occurring for millions of years – a long geological process that has produced telltale wrinkling and other features on the surface that scientists have discerned through modeling and experimentation.  This might help us identify interior geological activity on other planets that don't have plate tectonics, such as Mars and Venus.It's called lithospheric dripping, and it's only been identified fairly…

A geological map of the Arizaro Basin, demonstrating folding and thrust faults within the basin, as compared with surface view of the experimental simulation of lithospheric dripping. Folding and direction of shortening is depicted with red arrows. Credit: left photo courtesy of DeCelles, et al.; right courtesy of Julia Andersen et al. Just like honey slowly dripping from a spoon, parts of the rocky outermost layer of Earth's…