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Listen to article(2 minutes)Pat Gelsinger is keenly aware he must act fast to stop Intel from becoming yet another storied American technology company left in the dust by nimbler competitors.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Listen to article(2 minutes)Pat Gelsinger is keenly aware he must act fast to stop Intel from becoming yet another storied American technology company left in the dust by nimbler competitors.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company,…

SZA is a different breed of pop star. In even her most glammed-up press shot, she is splattered with blood; in another, she’s coated in a thick film of mud, and on the cover of her second album, the emotional bombshell that is SOS, she sits with her back facing the camera, looking out on a vast ocean, in a nod to a famed paparazzi shot of Princess Diana. These are distancing devices – ways for the 33-year-old musician to armour herself against the leery intensity of fame.It makes sense that she would have an inclination…

Playing around in the mud is something many people did when they were kids, but John Smol has made a career out of it.The biology professor at Queen's University is an expert in paleolimnology. The second part of that title refers to the study of lakes and rivers, while the first points to his specialty — reconstructing their history based on sediment."Every lake has a history book at the bottom," he said, adding it provides a record of what lived in the lake and how the ecosystem around it has changed over time.His work…

Off-roading is an adventure activity that is slowly gaining popularity among SUV owners in the country. Many groups offer off-road trips and expeditions so that people can explore the capabilities of their vehicle. In the past, we have seen several videos on the internet where people driving on extreme and tricky terrains have gotten stuck even with a 4×4. Here we have one such video where a Toyota Fortuner 4×4 gets stuck in mud while crossing a lake, and it takes the combined effort of a Thar and a tractor to pull it…

Here’s a fun challenge: teaching a quadrupedal robot to successfully dribble a soccer ball. It is, in essence, a core component of RoboCup, the big international competition founded all the way back in 1996. Soccer is a great way to put a robot’s locomotion, agility and decision making to the test. Two key differences with MIT’s Dribblebot: First, the RoboCup robots are generally bipeds. Second, and more importantly, this robot is designed to perform the complex task on uneven and changing terrain, adding yet another…

Mahindra Scorpio N SUV is currently one of the most popular SUV in the country. Launched in the market last year, Scorpio N now has a long waiting period. Ever since its launch, we have com across several videos where the SUV has shown how capable it is both on and off the road. Recently, a video from a YouTuber showing the sunroof on his Scorpio N leaking had gone viral on the internet. After that incident, the manufacturer had given a reply to the vlogger in the form of another video. Here we have another video from…

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, water, boiling-hot mud and natural gas were added to the mixture. When the eruption intensified, mud started to spread over the fields. Alarmed residents evacuated, hoping to wait out the eruption safely. Except that it didn't stop. Weeks…

It’s lunchtime a couple of weeks before Christmas. Past the tree in the glitzy lobby of Claridge’s hotel in London ambles a man who, in his octagonal glasses, workman’s jacket, jeans and trainers, looks a little out of place. Once installed in his room, however, Tony Kushner is entirely in his element. Insights on art, history and politics pour out at the slightest prompting. He cites writers from Conor McPherson to Robert Lowell, gives a lightning-quick insight into Othello (too cruel a play, he says, for him to catch…

Antoine Fuqua’s thuddingly unsubtle Will Smith-starring slavery drama is an unusually ugly picture. And while you can make a case that the facts of slavery cannot and should not be prettified, Fuqua’s approach, both in the relentless grind of graphic cruelty and the grim, near monochrome sludge of the cinematography, makes for a gruelling endurance test of a viewing experience.Smith, fresh from his Oscar-winning performance in King Richard last year, delivers a physically committed turn as a character loosely based on a…

Mahindra Thar is currently one of the most afforable 4×4 SUVs one can buy in country. Ever since the launch of current generation Mahindra Thar, it has become a common sight in off-roading communties in India. What makes Mahindra Thar a popular SUV among buyers is its looks, price and its off-road capabilities even in stock form. Like many other 4×4 SUVs in the market, the capabilities of a stock 4×4 SUVs are limited when compared to a heavily modified one. Here we have a video that proves just that. A completely stock…