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The past couple of weeks for Dakota Johnson may have a little bit awkward professionally, as critics lambasted her latest movie Madame Web and it’s been a big box office flop. However, the same can’t be said about her personal life, as rumors are circulating that she and partner Chris Martin are engaged after six years of dating. For the duration of their relationship, Johnson has been close to Martin’s ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow, so is everything still copasetic now that the Coldplay singer allegedly plans to tie the knot…

Well, maybe he does—after all, part of writing a novel as long-in-the-works and expansive as The Winds of Winter, the latest novel in the Song of Ice and Fire series that gave us Game of Thrones, is going back and revising things. But if you were hoping author George R.R. Martin’s latest update on the book he hoped to stop updating us about would come with a shiny new number, then, bad news.Inspiration Behind the Reality-TV Style for The Hunger Games“The main thing I’m actually writing, of course, is the same thing,”…

You might think the author of A Game of Thrones has enough to occupy his time, but when he’s not making readers wait for his next book or toiling in the realms of TV, George R.R. Martin is known for elevating other sci-fi and fantasy writers. One way he does this: by presenting the long-running Wild Cards series, set in a world where an alien virus causes death, mutations, or superpowers among the infected.Since the Wild Cards shared universe’s arrival in 1987, it’s grown to include dozens of books by an array of authors,…

Aston Martin plans to build "ultra-luxury high-performance" EVs using Lucid's electric motors, batteries and other technology, Lucid announced in a press release. It's the first deal for Lucid to supply parts to other automakers — much like Rimac, which itself developed batteries and other components for Aston Martin, along with Koenigsegg and others. Lucid recently released its own debut electric car, the Air, in multiple versions starting at around $87,400.  "The supply agreement with Lucid is a game changer for the…

George Bernard Shaw famously characterized fashion as "an induced epidemic," and the launch of Aston Martin’s new DB12 at a showbiz party on the Côte d'Azur this week was a masterclass in conjuring a mass outbreak of desire for the new "super tourer" ... all the while cultivating an already elite brand into an even more premium experience. The new Aston Martin DB12 at the amfAR Cannes Gala 2023 at Hotel du…

From January through August 7, 2017, F-35 aircraft were unable to fly about 22 percent of the time due to parts shortages stemming from incomplete plans and funding. The US, Australia, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, South Korea and Britain are all buyers of the trouble-hit F-35…

Documentarian and music video director Jay Martin is making the leap from the screen to the page. Dark Horse Comics will publish Lost Boy, the first original graphic novel from Martin, later this year. The book is written and illustrated by Martin and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic, and follows a young boy surviving and finding his way home in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Here’s how Dark Horse describes Lost Boy: After a deadly accident in the remote Wyoming wilderness, a young boy escapes alone. Stranded, freezing, and…

For the past month or so, Headie One has been teasing out hints of his new single, “Martin’s Sofa”. The title, if you haven’t been following Headie on socials, refers to an old friend of his, Martin, who helped and supported the Tottenham rhymer through tough, pre-fame times, often letting him stay on his sofa.Returning to said sofa then became a byword for having fallen on hard times. So the new track arrives as a tribute, of sorts, but that wasn’t all he did for Martin: just before Christmas, Headie returned to Martin’s…

A Case Study of Using Bayesian Inference for Decision MakingImage by the author.One question many of us come across while shopping on Amazon is: how do I compare two ratings? Amazon ratings give us two important pieces of information: the distribution of ratings (how many were five stars, four stars, three stars, two stars or one star) and how many reviews each product received. Comparing distributions can be pretty straightforward: we can compare the average ratings between two products and then decide. How do we…

Art by Hristo ChukovImage: Ten Speed PressKnown to me only by the nickname “Ser Incel,”I’m delighted to learn here, for the first time, that the gross creeper dies.The Rise of the Dragon will be available on October 25. Preorder it here. Reprinted from THE RISE OF THE DRAGON: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TARGARYEN DYNASTY, VOLUME ONE by George R. R. Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson. Copyright © 2022 by George R. R. Martin. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin…