Maya

Flipkart-owned online fashion platform Myntra has unveiled its first virtual fashion influencer ‘Maya’ aimed at “tech-savvy GenZ customers.” The company launched the Aritificial Intelligence-based virtual influencer ahead of its biannual sale. Maya will provide insight into trends and deals to customers, it said.In a release, Myntra claimed that its virtual influencer “advocates body positivity, mental health, and inclusivity.” The company has also set up Maya’s Instagram profile under the username, "maya_unlimited," and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMaya Hawke’s display of carefree abandon at the world premiere of Asteroid City has received mixed reactions from fans. On Tuesday (23 May), Hawke and her co-star Rupert Friend were filmed dancing in front of press photographers on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.In the video, the Stranger Things star, outfitted in a mossy green gown with baby blue gloves, is shown being…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMaya Hawke’s display of carefree abandon at the world premiere of Asteroid City has received mixed reactions from fans. On Tuesday (23 May), Hawke and her co-star Rupert Friend were filmed dancing in front of press photographers on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.In the video, the Stranger Things star, outfitted in a mossy green gown with baby blue gloves, is shown being…

The long-standing mystery of the ancient Mayan 819-day calendar has been potentially deciphered by anthropologists from Tulane University, who found the calendar to be in sync with the synodic periods of all visible planets from Earth. Earlier, it was thought that the calendar referred to four cycles of 819 days, but this didn’t align with the synodic periods of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Instead, the researchers found that 20 cycles of 819 days, equating to about 45 years, align with the synodic periods…

A cycle featured in Maya calendars has been a mystery pretty much since it was rediscovered and its deciphering began in the 1940s.Covering a period of 819 days, the cycle is referred to simply as the 819-day count. The problem is that researchers couldn't match that 819 days up to anything.But anthropologists John Linden and Victoria Bricker from Tulane University now think they've finally cracked the code. All they had to do was broaden their thinking, studying how the calendar worked over a period of not 819 days, but…

An ancient stone "scoreboard" likely used in a soccer-like ball game was discovered at an archeological site in Mexico earlier this week, archaeologists said.Found at the Maya Chichen Itza site, researchers and archeologists said the circular stone's diameter was just over 32 centimeters (or just over 12 inches), and it weighed 40 kilograms (about 88 pounds), according to a statement from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History on Twitter.The stone, which is believed to be a kind of scoreboard, dates from…

Local rainfall coherency. A Summer SST reconstruction from the Cariaco Basin with above (below) average temperatures indicated in red (blue). B Local rainfall coherency index, i.e., multidecadal correlations between detrended carbon and oxygen stable isotope records which exhibit periods of significant positive and insignificant/weakly negative correlation when tested against 1000 AR(1)-realizations with a 90%-confidence level. Periods of negative…

Image: Well Go USAAfter a brutal home invasion in London—just after learning they’re finally expecting a much-wanted baby—a young couple sees a brighter future when they inherit a home in the Irish countryside. But not for nothing is this folk horror/psychological thriller/creature-feature blend titled Unwelcome.Directed by Jon Wright (Grabbers) and written by Mark Stay, Unwelcome stars Hannah John-Kamen (Ava Starr/Ghost in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp and the upcoming Thunderbolts) as Maya, who’s nine months pregnant…

Nestled in the jungle of northern Guatemala, a vast network of interconnected Maya settlements built millennia ago has been mapped in unprecedented detail.The civilization featured towering pyramids, palaces, terraces, ball courts and reservoirs connected by a sprawling web of causeways, an international group of archaeologists reported during a presentation at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala City this month.  Their findings reveal a “level of infrastructure that is just mind-boggling,” said Dr.…

A bulldozer clears an area of forest that will be the line of the Maya Train in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Tuesday, August. 2, 2022. Photo: Eduardo Verdugo (AP)Mexico’s government is building a new train project that could have big economic benefits, but the tracks are going to be laid at the expense of fragile ecosystems and indigenous artifacts, alarming the country’s environmentalists.The train system, which is known as Tren Maya (or Maya Train), will cut through pristine environments that have barely…