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Angela Lansbury attends a special screening of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast to celebrate the 25th Anniversary Edition release on September 18, 2016 in New York City. Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Getty Images)Wilko Johnson - A celebrated musician who favored playing “fingerstyle” rather than using a guitar pick, he makes the list of genre luminaries because of his unforgettable turn as Game of Thrones’ terrifying, tongue-less Ser Ilyn Payne—the royal executioner who lops…

Credit: Alexandr Grant/Shutterstock To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration from your own youth? A liquid spontaneously and unexpectedly changes color. A banknote is set alight without being burnt. A column of colorful bubbles shoots into the…

Produced by Ai Weiwei, this is a rousing portrait of Liu Ximei, an astonishingly resilient Aids activist; it also sheds light on a controversial government campaign that accelerated the epidemic in 1990s China. During the first half of the decade, poor farmers were encouraged to donate their blood in exchange for money. Due to a lack of health and safety standards, a staggering number of donors as well as those who received transfusions contracted HIV. In Ximei’s province of Henan, more than 300,000 villagers live with…

As the financial services industry evolves with rapid digitization and innovation, it is bound to expand financial inclusion along with enhancing customer experience and convenience, leading to significant economic impact. While the government and regulators encourage this disruption, they have to ensure orderly growth and expansion, enhance systemic stability, and improve trust and confidence in the financial ecosystem. Fintellix is one of the leading regtech and suptech companies enabling supervisors and regulated…

SHAILENDRA MRUTHYUNJAYAPPA: THE 10 MOST INSPIRING TECH LEADERS TO WATCH IN 2022As the financial services industry evolves with rapid digitization and innovation, it is bound to expand financial inclusion along with enhancing customer experience and convenience, leading to significant economic impact. While the government and regulators encourage this disruption, they have to ensure orderly growth and expansion, enhance systemic stability, and improve trust and confidence in the financial…

While Harry Styles is one of the biggest musicians in the world, he’s also been making a name for himself as an actor. On the 2022 movie schedule alone, he’s starred in two films, one of which is Amazon’s My Policeman which just came out. In the film, the “Adore You” singer plays a gay cop in the 1950s, when it was illegal to identify as gay. His character Tom is complex, and the director gushed over how Styles handled the role, and even said he was inspired by their first meeting.Michael Grandage, the director of My…

Jeezy says Nas helped inspire him to squash his beef with Freddie Gibbs.In an interview with Billboard, the rapper credited Nas with allowing him to move on from his issues with Gibbs, with whom he publicly reconciled earlier this year. “When I realized that most of the time people act out, you don’t have to match energy and engage or react—because, at the end of the day, especially with the Freddie shit, it was just bad communication,” he said, echoing comments Gibbs made himself in interviews promoting his new album, …

Nature is smart, let’s copy it!Image source (Unsplash license)Observing the intricate ways that nature works can give us plenty of relevant ideas to develop solutions to combat our own problems. The reach of AI is far, and so too is its influencers, with nature helping to drive developments in the technology.Already, many algorithms mimic natural phenomena such as how animals organize their lives, how they use instincts to survive, how generations evolve, how the human brain works, and how we as humans learn.Computer…

Few games are as influential to the modern gaming world as King's Field, From Software's 1994 PlayStation 1 dungeon crawler. Almost every game in From Software's catalog owes something to King's Field. The studio iterated on King's Field's dark fantasy setting, unrelenting difficulty, and hands-off storytelling until eventually spawning Demon's Souls and, most recently, Elden Ring. Without King's Field, there is no Armored Core, Sekiro, or any of the vast swathes of games from other studios inspired by…