Glimpses

From Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis and Nelson Mandela’s Conversations With Myself to Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, some of the best writing in the world has emerged from prison. Even Plato, although not imprisoned himself, wrote on the trial and death of Socrates. The works of Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn were written during the repressive Stalinist era. The prison universe then resembles a genuine archipelago spanning continents and existing beyond the constraints of time and place. Jawaharlal Nehru…

Canadian skin and case manufacturer Dbrand has not only taken a rival case maker to court for allegedly copying its unique “Teardown” skins, but have also unveiled an impressive set of X-Ray skins. The X-ray skins have required a 450-kilovolt X-ray machine to delve millimeters deeper into a device’s components. Using X-ray for imaging the components has yielded some never seen before results, that are impossible to obtain by a simple teardown and photographing in visible light. Dbrand’s X-Ray skins are not limited to…

Starfield will be released in just over a month, and on Tuesday, developer Bethesda Game Studios released three animated shorts as part of a new anthology series called Starfield: The Settled Systems.In the shorts, you’ll get a glimpse of three of the game’s big cities. “Follow a delivery pilot in New Atlantis seeking the exciting life of the elite; a stranded orphan looking for a way out of Akila City; and two street rats struggling to survive in the underbelly of Neon,” the studio wrote in a press email. Starfield…

Conventional wisdom holds that in the early universe, pools of dark matter—specifically, “cold” dark matter, a type of dark matter composed of sluggish, slow-moving particles—attracted gas that gave rise to the first stars. But every experiment to find cold dark matter has failed, leaving some astronomers wondering if they should instead be searching for alternative forms. If, early on, the universe had been filled with some entirely different type of dark matter, what kinds of galaxies would have followed? In an April…

In a bid to recover from the declining revenues in the Reality Labs segments, the Meta founder and CEO Mark…

A spacecraft quietly speeding its way through the Solar System has caught its first glimpses of the asteroids it was sent to investigate from a distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers.Launched in October 2021, NASA's Lucy probe heads the first-ever mission to study the asteroids attendant on Jupiter. Of the 11 objects it is scheduled to visit, the probe has already imaged four, providing us with timelapses of the asteroids Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus.The Trojan asteroids are a group of space rocks that…

Scenes painted in underground tombs in Tarquinia show women and men dancing together as equals. Credit: © s74, Shutterstock.com Tomb and urn images shed light on the intricacies of Etruscan and Roman civilization at least 2,000 years ago, reviving it for modern times. A 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb in the Italian city of Tarquinia…

Two weeks before he went on a shooting rampage at a dance studio in Monterey Park, Huu Can Tran showed up in the lobby of a police station 80 miles away to report some far-fetched allegations.The 72-year-old man told police in Hemet, a small city east of Los Angeles where he lived in a trailer park, that family members had tried to poison him many years earlier. He also claimed to have been the victim of fraud and theft, according to a police account of the meetings. He promised to return with evidence, but never did.The…

A lot has happened in the last day or two, as far as the OnePlus 11 is concerned. An official OnePlus 11 video teaser got shared, then the company announced the phone’s global event, and now a new video teaser is out.A new video teaser shows us glimpses of the OnePlus 11This new video teaser has been published by the OnePlus India YouTube channel, and it gives us glimpses of the phone’s design. It’s kind of similar to the first one in that regard, even though it’s entirely different overall.You can check out that teaser…

Kourtney Kardashian recently reflected on her Tennessee getaway with her husband, Travis Barker. The Kardashians star took to her social media and shared a series of photos from her Southern getaway with her husband Travis Barker for his 47th birthday. Alongside the photos from the trip, the Poosh founder penned, “You’re the only ten I see.” The reality star also shared a closer look at the impressive lodge they stayed in on TikTok, revealing a huge “Happy Birthday Travis” banner through the window. Showing off the…