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A strain of science fiction has emerged lately, especially in Europe and more specifically France, that’s very sparing with visual effects and more dependent on tricks involving makeup and sets, sprinkled with a bit of body horror, à la David Cronenberg. French director Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom, which debuted in Cannes and played at the London film festival but has yet to open in the UK, is very much in this style, with genetically mutated people turning into animal-human hybrids – lizards, birds, all manner of…

The ruling came as a setback for Tesla after the company won two product liability trials in California this year over the Autopilot system.U.S. automaker Tesla Inc on Monday said it has a "moral obligation" to continue improving its Autopilot driver assistant system and make it available to more consumers based on data that showed stronger safety metrics when it was engaged.In response to a Washington Post investigation of serious crashes involving Autopilot on roads…

Credit: The Conversation Pressure on the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with cluster bombs has refocused attention on the legal and moral use of such weaponry. The U.S. has been here before. It provided Saudi Arabia with cluster munitions—which contain bomblets that can scatter across a wide area, often not exploding until…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeShould Warner Bros have shelved The Flash? I’m honestly not sure I have an answer. The accounts of its star, Ezra Miller, and their two-year downward spiral – which include allegations of harassment, grooming and physical violence – is distressing in a way that extends beyond all critical analysis. What needs to come, before even the matter of accountability, is the question of why…

Tech CEO Elon Musk, who heads Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter and to date has no clones we know of, slammed remote work in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday. Musk said the practice was “morally wrong,” despite the fact that he’s hardly the best example of an office-going parishioner.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechMusk’s distaste of remote work isn’t new. Shortly after he took over Twitter last year, Musk ended the company’s “work from home forever” policy, which had been created by the…

An investigation by NME has found that Ubisoft Paris – the studio behind Just Dance – has allegedly suffered from crunch culture, demanding management and disputes with Ubisoft headquarters. Last week, French union Solidaires Informatique’s Ubisoft Paris alleged that Just Dance 2023 burned out ten per cent of its developers, and involved monthly rates of sick leave. While Ubisoft declined to comment on the claims, a representative from Solidaires Informatique’s Ubisoft Paris branch alleged the statistics were an accurate…

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court effectively legalized abortion with its Roe v. Wade decision. Seven months ago, the Court took those rights away. Since the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, antiabortion legislators have pushed state-level laws that try to ban abortions at earlier and earlier points in pregnancy. With some of these laws, legislators want to make abortion illegal as soon as an embryo has detectable cardiac activity. These so-called “fetal heartbeat laws” and their underlying talking point that abortion…

Ten years ago, in early September 2012, a team of archaeologists and researchers unearthed the 527-year-old remains of Richard III in the lost site of the former Greyfriars church, beneath the staff car park of Leicester city council social services.Before the results of mitochondrial DNA analysis of a descendant of Anne of York, Richard III’s sister, confirmed that the remains belonged to the fallen king, it was the osteology work of Dr Jo Appleby that led to a probable identification. She determined that the skeleton in…

11 Bit Studios, the publisher behind games such as Frostpunk and This War Of Mine have announced their next project, a narrative-driven RPG. Codenamed Project Vitriol, the title is being developed by Fools Theory, a collective of AAA veterans whose previous titles include The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3. 11 Bit Studios says Project Vitriol is a “deep, morally ambiguous narrative-driven RPG, of a scale and scope not previously undertaken by the publisher”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-IwpJT9NCk During the…