Glow

Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he's kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.Except he isn't real. Her "boyfriend" is a chatbot on an app called "Glow", an artificial intelligence platform created by Shanghai start-up MiniMax that is part of a blossoming industry in China offering friendly -- even romantic -- human-robot relations. "He knows how to talk to women better than a real man," said Tufei, from Xi'an in…

The post-Get Out influx of “elevated” horror films, more focused on the construction of a smug metaphor than coherence or cohesion, has become a blight on an already blighted genre. It’s an incredibly difficult web to weave - even Jordan Peele himself facing the odd stumble since his ground-shifting breakout – yet still so many keep trying, dissertations clumsily disguised as films.But in I Saw the TV Glow, a buzzy, brilliant new film premiering at the Sundance film festival, the writer-director Jane Schoenbrun has made…

The very early Universe was a dark place. It was packed with light-blocking hydrogen and not much else.Only when the first stars switched on and began illuminating their surroundings with UV radiation did light begin its reign. That occurred during the Epoch of Reionization.But before the Universe became well-lit, a specific and mysterious type of light pierced the darkness: Lyman-alpha emissions.Even though the early Universe was too dark for light to travel through the opaque gas that dominated it, astronomers have…

December 18, 20233 min readThe James Webb Space Telescope caught its second glimpse of the year of Uranus and its bright-shining ringsBy Keith Cooper & SPACE.comThis image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows the planet and its rings in new clarity. The Webb image exquisitely captures Uranus's seasonal north polar cap, including the bright, white, inner cap and the dark lane in the bottom of the polar cap. Uranus' dim inner and outer rings are also visible…

By Rolfe Winkler and Brianna AbbottDec. 16, 2023 9:00 pm ETMatthew Perry’s death from the effects of ketamine brought new scrutiny to the booming business to prescribe the powerful anesthetic to patients in clinics and online. Perry was receiving ketamine infusions for depression and anxiety before he was found unresponsive in the pool at his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home on Oct. 28. Drowning, coronary artery disease and effects of buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid-use disorder, contributed to his…

We have been treated to some amazing aurora displays over recent months. The enigmatic lights are caused by charged particles from the Sun rushing across space and on arrival, causing the gas in the atmosphere to glow.Now researchers believe that even on exoplanets around pulsars we may just find aurora, and they may even be detectable.Pulsars are the remains of super massive stars that have reached the end of their life. During most of a stars life, they synthesise heavier and heavier elements in their core, the outward…

December 12, 20233min readMysterious green displays in the sky dubbed “mesospheric ghosts” can sometimes accompany the dramatic red atmospheric lights called spritesBy Meghan BartelsRed sprites above a supercell thunderstorm as lightning illuminates the cumulonimbus cloud below near Hay Springs, Nebraska. If you’re ever lucky enough to spot the atmospheric drama of a red sprite, look closely, and you may catch a glimpse of green glow that speaks to Earth’s position in the solar system and sheds light on a mysterious…

When the Sun gets rowdy, Earth's sky lights up with beautiful dancing lights.Around the poles, colorful auroral streams dance and flicker across the sky. Closer to the equator, though, a different empyrean glow appears: the blushing, mauve-pink STEVE, and its attendant green-striped picket fence.What these lights are, and why they appear in our sky, is something of a mystery. Scientists have previously thought that, because they look similar to auroras, they might be related, but the mechanisms behind the phenomenon have…

It's getting dark much too early, and that means a lot more time in movies or live streaming with a bright overhead light or frustrating shadows. Logitech's Litra Glow is a fantastic option for ensuring you look good on camera, and right now, it's at a new all-time low price. The light is down to $40 from $60 thanks to a 17 percent off sale and an additional $10 coupon applied at checkout.LogitechLogitech's Litra Glow is a Premium LED Streaming Light designed for creators and is our recommendation for game-streaming gear…

A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing.Using a chain of atoms in single-file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed the equivalent of what we call Hawking radiation – particles born from disturbances in the quantum fluctuations caused by the black hole's break in spacetime.This, they say, could help resolve the tension between two currently irreconcilable frameworks for describing the Universe: the…