Dying

François Ozon has brought a tremendous understated confidence and artistry to this very affecting film about euthanasia and assisted dying. There is a robust unsentimentality here, encapsulated by the throwaway gesture in the title itself, leaving us to decide what it exactly it is in the end which has gone “well”. And the final shot of a dead person, the supremely difficult moment to bring off, is haunting in its lack of emotional affect.André Dussollier, the veteran French character actor, plays André, a wealthy and…

Dead individuals may now be brought back to life utilizing a combination of the metaverse, augmented reality, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Consider the possibility of seeing your deceased loved ones again. The need to reconnect with those we’ve lost is as natural as breathing, so it’s no wonder that designers and engineers have begun to investigate how humans deal with death, as well as how technologically resurrects the deceased. Humans and robots are developing a new…

Dying Light 2 lead designer Tymon Smektała has joked about where the game’s downloadable content could take the player. During an interview with VG247 published yesterday (June 1), Techland developer Smektała was asked if the sequel’s DLC will be as out there as the previous game. “Don’t expect that will take you to space or something like that. That would maybe happen in year three or four,” joked Smektała. “Our PR lady is looking at me funny for saying this because in other interviews I’ve said something…

The Milky Way galaxy isn't very active, as far as galaxies go. Every year, it produces around three to four Suns' worth of new stars in the entirety of its spiral body, and stars of all ages can be found sprinkled throughout.  But there are some galaxies even quieter – elliptical galaxies, for which most star formation ceased long ago. In these galaxies, none or very few stars can be found younger than a certain age, suggesting that at some point most star formation abruptly ceased, leaving the galaxy to slowly wink out…

The 1833 Leonid Meteor storm, as seen over Niagara Falls. Credit: Edmund Weiß (1888)As Earth orbits the Sun, it plows through dust and debris left behind by comets and asteroids. That debris gives birth to meteor showers – which can be one of nature’s most spectacular displays.Most meteor showers are predictable, recurring each year when the Earth traverses a particular trail of debris.On occasion, however, Earth runs through a particularly narrow, dense clump of debris. This results in a meteor storm, sending thousands…

Jeff Bridges has looked back on catching Covid while recovering from cancer, saying he was “dancing with my mortality”.The actor, known for playing “The Dude” in the 1998 cult hitThe Big Lebowski, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2020, after doctors found a “12-by-nine-inch tumour” in his stomach.In a new interview, he has spoken about how chemotherapy eradicated the cancer but left him with a very weak immune system – meaning that when he caught Covid in January 2021, he became seriously ill.“I had no…

From Tron to The Big Lebowski Jeff Bridges has been in such a wide variety of movies that there is probably at least one of his roles that you love. Bridges recently got to see just how many people truly love him when he received an outpouring of support after he revealed he’d been diagnosed with cancer. While undergoing treatment, Bridges also had to deal with COVID, and the actor now reveals that the two things together may have very nearly killed him.In a new interview with People, Jeff Bridges says that due to the…

After 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, fans of the BioWare-style RPG were left with nothing to sink their teeth into for years. The next Mass Effect game failed to deliver the experience fans of the series were hoping for, and the less said about Anthem the better. This gap in the market allowed an up-and-coming developer, Spiders, to try to fill that gap with its own new IP. Greedfall was a direct attempt to give fans of those old RPGs the experience BioWare had moved away from. It was technically rough in many ways,…

Dying Light 2 presents Aiden with plenty of opportunities to hurt himself. Players will need to know how to heal in Dying Light 2 between fighting infected, Renegades, and gravity. Thankfully, Aiden has plenty of healing options to choose from, like medicine, campfires, medkits, and sleeping bags. Here’s how to heal in Dying Light 2, the best ways to heal, and when you should burn through your healing items. Sometimes, respawning is the better option. How to heal in Dying Light 2The first…

Time is running out for one of NASA’s spacecraft. The InSight Mars lander is dying, and NASA doesn’t have any big plans to keep it alive. To be fair, the lander has been on the outs for a number of months now. That’s because the dust that Mars’ various storms kick up has been gathering on the lander’s solar panels. The InSight Mars lander is dying Dust covers the solar panels on NASA’s InSight Mars lander, which has kept it from properly recharging its batteries. Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s…