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From CornwallRecommended if you like Shovel Dance Collective, Meg Baird, Anne BriggsUp next Second album Howl – Cornish for “sun” – due for self-release on the spring equinox (20 March)Cornwall was unusually quiet in 2020’s first lockdown, empty of the usual Easter tourists. “Something really magic happened to time down here,” says Daisy Rickman, adding the usual caveat acknowledging the wider horrors. Raised in deep-west Mousehole (pronounced “mowzul”), she had been playing in a psychedelic folk band, but now had space…

Andy Boxall / Digital Trends The sales ban on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, which caused Apple to stop selling the two smartwatches late last week, has already been lifted — for now. On December 27, the U.S. Court of Appeals temporarily lifted the sales and import ban on the two Apple Watch models. Apple stopped selling the Series 9 and Ultra 2 from its online stores on December 21 and pulled the watches from its physical retail locations on December 24. With this latest ruling, Apple is now…

In a typical battery, charged ions zip one way through a sea of other particles as the battery recharges, before racing back in the other direction to release the stored energy on cue.Back and forth the ions go, some getting diverted along the way, until the capacity of the battery is drained, and it loses energy too quickly to be of any use.But physicists, good on them, are imagining new ways of storing energy in handy portable devices by drawing on a strange quantum phenomenon that twists time, amongst other unusual…

Selena Gomez, the American singer-songwriter, seems to have found love in music producer Benny Blanco. Confirming their relationship on December 7, the 31-year-old artist shared the news through a celebrity fan page called PopFaction’s Instagram. Subsequently, Gomez posted an Instagram story, showcasing herself alongside the Eastside music producer, both donning a ‘B’ initial ring. Fans have flooded the duo with congratulatory messages, expressing excitement over this new relationship. In a recent…

Axel Springer, the publisher of Business Insider and Politico, said on Wednesday it was partnering with OpenAI, which will pay the German media group to allow ChatGPT to summarize current articles in responses generated by the chatbot.“ChatGPT users around the world will receive summaries of selected global news content from Axel Springer’s media brands,” which also includes the German tabloid Bild, the two companies said in a statement.The chatbot’s answers will include material otherwise kept behind a paywall and offer…

The Scarlet Opera don’t let gender define them. The five-member rock band spoke to Rolling Stone for the On Your Radar video series to discuss a special celebrity fan, dive into their recent released “That Kind of Woman,” and share their dream collaborations. The Scarlet Opera first felt successful, bass player Daniel Zuker says, after selling out the West Hollywood rock club Troubadour, with no songs releases. Frontman Luka Bazulka says that Neil Patrick Harris happened to be a fan of their music and after a…

In India, it is not uncommon to find people selling small items, cleaning cars, and even beggars at traffic signals. It is not just adults who are often seen engaging in such activities, but children too. There are cases where children are seen begging or even doing stunts at traffic signals to entertain people and earn money from them. Whether we should promote children by making them do such stunts or beg for money is a different discussion altogether. However, here we have a video where a person traveling in a car…

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s Science, Quickly. I’m Karen Hopkin. Swimming against a current can be tough. But imagine having to do it in a fluid with the consistency of corn syrup. That’s more or less the challenge faced by mammalian sperm as they race to reach an egg. Reza Nosrati: That’s such a hard race for sperm. It’s like a very tough marathon. Hopkin: Reza Nosrati is a mechanical engineer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He says that sperm are not deterred by tide or averted by…

John Carney doesn’t make stories with music so much as stories about music. Characters are changed by melody; relationships forged by rhyme. There’s nothing glittery about typical Carney characters. They wouldn’t belong in conventional musicals. “Flora and Son” carries on that theme with its warts-and-all depiction of a drinking-and-partying single mother (played memorably by Eve Hewson) in Dublin and clumsy-thief son Max (Orén Kinlan), who can hardly stand each other. These folks are never going to play Wembley, but…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study published in the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies has looked at the dynamics of student peers helping each other with their educational needs. Peer mentoring and collaborative learning are highlighted but the research shows a worrying phenomenon whereby a high-performing…