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A new Tesla Cybertruck beta prototype has been spotted and this time we get a good look at the front-end, which appears to have been updated, and it still has a monstrous windshield wiper. As we reported last week, we expected to start seeing a lot more Cybertruck sightings as the automaker is testing its new fleet of beta prototypes ahead of the start of production. The first beta prototype was spotted in Palo Alto last week, but it mainly gave us a look at the latest design from the back…

Asteroids seem to have resumed their potentially disastrous near encounters with Earth. NASA keeps track of these objects by analysing data from observatories and telescopes like Pan-STARRS, the Catalina Sky Survey, and the NEOWISE telescope. The majority of this gear is securely planted on the ground, but a few bits are free to wander the skies. NASA established the Planetary Defense Interagency Group to keep an eye out for potential threats to Earth (NEO). The Small-Body database, the Jet Propulsion…

Saturday, February 4 will see 5 giant asteroids zooming towards Earth at fiery speeds. All these asteroids are of varied sizes ranging from 100 feet to 58 feet. Since they will be coming very close to Earth, it becomes important to track their movement. NASA, keeps an eye on all the near-Earth objects like asteroids, comets, among others, which can pose a threat to the planet. Here are the details the research organisation provided about the asteroids nearing Earth today. As per the latest information shared…

Punters probably don’t need another reason to skip Tár, Todd Field’s much-discussed tale of a feted conductor who becomes a lightning rod for the #MeToo movement, but Marin Alsop was happy to oblige nonetheless. Tár, the US conductor told the Sunday Times, was “anti-woman” and a personal affront. The film could have told the story of a rapacious male monster, but chose instead to make its lead a female conductor. “To have an opportunity to portray a woman in that role and to make her an abuser,” Alsop said. “For me, that…

The genius of Todd Field’s superb Tár comes from the way the film-making echoes the treacherously seductive and mercurial nature of its central character. Lydia Tár (an electrifying Cate Blanchett) is a dazzling talent: a world-class conductor and composer with a towering ego to match her formidable professional reputation. She describes herself, in a rare, entirely insincere moment of self-deprecation, as “a U-haul lesbian”, but in fact she is one half of a Berlin Philharmonic power couple: her partner is the lead…

NASA has informed that the Sun emitted a strong solar flare on January 5. An image has also been captured of the event. Sun is the largest object in our solar system. It is a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium at the center of the solar system. It is a source of energy without which life could not exist on Earth. There are several solar activities also associated with the huge fire ball. The solar activities include solar flares, coronal mass ejection, high-speed solar wind, and solar energetic particles.…

Nearly 100 tons of dust-sized particles are bombarded on the Earth every day. Once a year, a vehicle-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creating a giant fireball although it burns up before reaching the surface. According to NASA, every 2000 years, an asteroid the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significant damage to the area. If you're wondering about planet-killing asteroids, they come along only once every few million years. But that doesn't mean small asteroids are safe. If these space rocks…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKieran Hodgson has spoken about walking a “real tightrope” with his satirical comedy Prince Andrew: The Musical.The British actor stars as the recently evicted royal in his self-written Channel 4 biographical musical film, which takes a “light-hearted” approach to storying Prince Andrew’s “very public fall from grace”.In a new interview with The Times, published on Tuesday 27 December,…

Netflix’s gamble on foreign productions has paid off handsomely yet again, with their latest breaking a massive all-time record unlikely to be rebroken anytime soon. Norwegian kaiju film Troll has been a surprise hit for the streaming giant, with the film coming out of absolutely nowhere to not just be king of the hill on their charts — but become their all-time record holder. Within just three weeks, Troll is now Netflix’s most popular non-English language film ever put on the platform. The numbers are staggering – over…

A flash of powerful light from a galaxy just over a billion light-years away is upending our understanding of the most powerful explosions in the Universe.The gamma-ray burst appears to be the result of a merger between two neutron stars. This in itself isn't a surprise; neutron stars can release a short, intense burst of high energy radiation as they crash together.What is a shock is the duration of the outburst. The flash of gamma radiation lasted 50 seconds – a length previously thought only to be associated with…