originally

The most populous country in the world, India, has long been left out of genetic studies, leaving a massive gap in our understanding of human origins and appreciation of the genetic diversity of our species.A new study diving 50,000 years into the past by analyzing thousands of genomes has sought to change that, revealing several surprising threads in the rich tapestry of modern India's ancestry.University of California Berkley population geneticist Elise Kerdoncuff and colleagues sequenced the DNA of 2,762 peple from…

Image: LucasfilmIn current Star Wars canon, the plot to steal the Death Star’s technical plans is incredibly straight forward: it’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the tale of Galen Erso’s sacrifice and the ragtag team that swooped down to Scarif and gave their lives to ensure that data fell into Rebel hands. But in the expanded universe, one of Star Wars’ most legendary games set the stage for a much larger, more complicated process.Dark Forces, released in 1995—and re-released this week with a new remaster across PC and…

Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida has revealed that the game originally had a PlayStation 4 version alongside its PlayStation 5 one.PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida conducted an interview with Yoshida on The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook YouTube channel about Final Fantasy XVI's development. Yoshida said, "Originally, we were expecting to have a multi-platform release on PlayStation 4 as well. And to some extent, the assets were pushing the PlayStation 4 to its absolute limits."He continued, "But in the…

Is Playboi Carti postponing his Antagonist tour… again? As of last week, Carti was slated to commence his tour across North America beginning on Jan. 14 in Salt Lake City — but on Monday, Rolling Stone confirmed the run of shows for his scheduled tour were now marked as “TBD” on both Carti’s website and on Ticketmaster where tickets are still available for purchase. Neither reps for Playboi Carti nor his openers Ken Carson and Destroy Lonely immediately responded to Rolling Stone‘s requests for comment on the…

As if the movies themselves didn’t make it more than obvious, fans have long come to understand that the Star Wars sequel trilogy changed drastically throughout development. Multiple writers and directors worked on The Force Awakens as well as The Rise of Skywalker, sometimes with radically different results, while The Last Jedi stayed true to itself in between, with even more polarizing results.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedThe actors involved in the films have at times talked about this—but for…

We’re not far off having our eyeballs exposed to the first official GTA 6 trailer. Until then, let’s talk about the classic games in Rockstar’s iconic series. Hey, did you know there was a point when Vice City (easily the best entry – I will fight you all) nearly wasn’t its own game? According to a blog post from Obbe Vermeij – former technical director at Rockstar Games – the follow-up to Grand Theft Auto 3 was just going to be a mission pack. Vermeij said the team had the idea to have a game set in the 80s in…

Don’t you hate it when you start an app and you’re inundated with prompts and pop-ups pushing you to pay for microtransactions? As you can imagine, all of the people making these microtransactions each year are filling Google’s pockets to the brim. That’s about par for the course today, but it seems that Google didn’t plan for it to be this way at the start. Google didn’t really plan on making money from the Play Store. Right now, Epic Games is still working on suing Google for its alleged monopoly over the Android app…

Upon its groundbreaking release, you couldn’t go far without hearing a short snippet from Disney’s animated extravaganza Moana. From the song blaring in retail stores’ loudspeakers to folks selecting one of the film’s songs for karaoke, we’re not exaggerating when we say it was everywhere. But when exactly did the movie come out? Starring ever-popular acting superstar Dwayne Johnson, Moana memorably gained a wide cult following and renowned praise — with particular focus being on its soundtrack, animation, and vocal…

Although this early suit is almost comical compared to the tech we've seen Stark use in the movies, elements from the very first Iron Man comics can still be found in the MCU. In "Iron Man 2," Tony has Happy carry around a briefcase containing an emergency suit, though one way more advanced than in the early comics. "Iron Man 3" sees Tony's suit assembling itself one independent piece at a time, much like his segmented comic suit. And Tony's ability to keep this suit on him at all times via the use of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe director of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has revealed that he originally intended to de-age Tom Cruise using CGI.Cruise reprises the role of ace spy Ethan Hunt in the blockbuster sequel, which is out in cinemas now.In recent years, a number of high-profile films have used digital effects to make actors appear years, or even decades, younger on screen, including…