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via Sony There aren’t many actors left who are capable of opening a movie based entirely on the strength of their own name and nothing else, but A Man Called Otto once again reinforced that Tom Hanks is definitely among them. On the surface, a quaint and largely unnecessary remake of a Swedish literary adaptation that had only released in 2015 hardly screams “box office success story,” but the power of Hanks played a huge part in propelling director Marc Forster’s movie to unexpected heights. A Man Called Otto…

A private company from Japan aiming to become the first non-government organization to land a spacecraft on the moon ran into issues at the last minute. A Japanese private company, ispace, blasted a rocket to the moon and its lunar lander was set to touch down today, April 25, at 12:40 PM ET, but flight controllers lost communication just "moments" before it should have landed.According to The Associated Press, the lunar lander--named Hakuto, the Japanese word for white rabbit--was just 33 feet away from…

We have come across various videos in the past showing Army convoys moving from one place to another. In most cases, the convoy moves in parts, transferring personnel, equipment, and other necessary items. While we have seen this equipment being transported by train, there are instances when they prefer to transfer these things by road. A recently viral video on the internet shows an abandoned Indian Army tank on a busy highway. The tank was spotted on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway. We will explain what is…

What would have been the first private Moon landing has ended in failure after Japanese startup ispace lost contact with its lunar lander, as reported earlier by The Washington Post. As the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander inched closer to the Moon’s surface, engineers found that they were no longer able to communicate with the spacecraft.“Currently, we have not confirmed communications from the lander,” ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada said during a livestream of the mission. “So we have to assume that we could not complete the…

In 2008, artists Julio César Morales and Eamon Ore-Girón, working under the moniker Los Jaichackers (a play on “hijackers”), created a large cube that was part minimalist sculpture, part functional room. Built on a steel armature, its pristine exteriors were covered in mirrors and emblazoned with the Jaichackers name. Its interior space was used to screen videos of neighborhood bands doing covers of popular songs. “Migrant Dubs” was intended to highlight the ways culture gets adapted — as when, say, a Latin party band…

June Wan/ZDNETIf you've shopped for a MacBook over the past eight years, then you know full well how stingy Apple has been with ports. (Or, should I say, "port" if you bought the 12-inch MacBooka few years later. Through it all, dongles, adapters, and hubs were my best friend. An expensive one at that.Also: The best laptops, tested and reviewed by expertsEven today with Apple finally bringing back legacy ports like HDMI, MagSafe, and an SD card slot, there's still a functional void left to be filled that third-party…

Margot Robbie Once Revealed How calling Off Will Smith During The Audition Got Her The Role In Focus(Photo Credit –Still From Movie) Margot Robbie and Will Smith are two of the A-list stars of Hollywood. Smith has been one of the top-rated actors even before Margot. The talented duo shared the screen for the film Focus, but there’s an interesting story behind how the Babylon actress landed the part. She apparently told off Smith during the audition, and she believed it played a major role in her getting the role.…

The Food Network has chopped Valerie Bertinelli’s Daytime Emmy-winning cooking show after 14 seasons.The “One Day at a Time” and “Hot in Cleveland” alum shared the bittersweet news Saturday in an Instagram post plugging the premiere of the 14th and final season of “Valerie’s Home Cooking.” “It has been one of the huge joys in my life to bring you this sweet little show, and I wish it wasn’t so, but the final season of Valerie‘s Home Cooking start airing tomorrow on @foodnetwork,” Bertinelli wrote. “We loved making every…

Amazon headquarters, called The Spheres, in Seattle, Washington. Image: David Ryder (Getty Images)After Amazon announced another round of layoffs affecting 9,000 employees earlier this week, a leaked document from inside the company revealed that listing too many job openings and subsequently over-hiring in some departments may have been a part of the problem.A leaked document obtained by Insider reveals that Amazon put hiring power in the hands of managers, and that the company had little oversight on the hiring process…

This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Almost 1,000 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, are returning to work after nearly two years without an improved contract, marking an end to the longest strike in the state’s history. It’s a disappointing outcome for the union, illustrating how declining industry and the lack of other job opportunities in coal country leaves even exceptionally well organized workers with little leverage.Miners at Warrior Met…