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By Jake Coyle | Associated Press One of the best films of the year, Margaret Brown’s “Descendant” is, strictly speaking, about the discovery of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship. After it was used to illegally kidnap and enslave more than 100 Africans, the 90-foot-long schooner was sunk near Mobile, Alabama, around 1860, decades after the international slave trade was outlawed. Until recently, it laid unfound somewhere in the muddy waters of the Mobile River, a lost, 160-year-old crime scene. But “Descendant,” a…

Pune: The city-based automotive technology provider KPIT Technologies has reported a 26% rise in its revenues for Q2 FY23 year-on-year, and a 28% rise year-on-year for its profits, although the latter also saw a slight dip sequentially.KPIT earned around Rs 745 crores in revenues for Q2 FY23, up from around Rs 590 crores in the corresponding FY22 quarter. In profits, KPIT recorded around Rs 83 crores for Q2 FY23, against Rs 65 crores a year ago, but dipping against the Rs 87 crores recorded in Q1 FY23. Priya Hardikar,…

Starting with the co-creators is a smart move Although the quality of the Fallout series has waxed and waned over the years, the name still means something. The original series was a trailblazer in the genre, and there’s still a lot of goodwill left from modern adaptations like Fallout: New Vegas. To remind people of how important this series is, Bethesda is running a new Fallout retrospective series, which you can watch for free on YouTube. The first clip, “conceiving Fallout,” has a few familiar faces, including…

Biden’s AI Bill of Rights to reshape the federal government but not the public sector The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy last year said it would release the AI Bill of Rights. Government guidelines were required to safeguard citizens from discriminating or ineffective AI said Biden’s AI Bills of Rights. It safeguards against harms from artificial intelligence that disproportionately affect vulnerable communities. After receiving feedback from organizations like Microsoft and Palantir as well as…

Brad Pitt Terms George Clooney The Most Handsome Man At Present (Photo Credit –wikimedia) Hollywood star Brad Pitt has called George Clooney and Paul Newman the “most handsome men”. The Bullet Train star joked that he had to pick his ‘Ocean’s’ co-star and close pal, George Clooney, 61, as the hottest male on the planet right now, while late Hollywood icon Newman, who was 83 when he died in 2008, is his choice for the past because of how he “aged so gracefully”. Asked by Vogue who the “most handsome men in the world…

Machynlleth-born Cerys Hafana is a master of the Welsh triple harp, an intimidating instrument of three rows of glistening strings. In the 2022 anthology Welsh (Plural), excerpted in the Guardian, she wrote that “it is viewed as a kind of historical artefact, hailing from a better time when everyone in Wales spoke Welsh”. Glorifying that past “is an erasure of all the things that have changed for the better”, she added, spit in every syllable.Hafana explores resonances from the past that connect with the modern day in a…

The government will be coming out with a fresh draft of the data protection bill in the next few days, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.Inputs received from various stakeholders have been considered while formulating the bill, Vaishnaw said at the third edition of the Global Fintech Fest."It's a matter of a few days only when the bill will be uploaded for consultation," he said.The government had in early August withdrawn the Personal Data Protection bill, which was first presented in late 2019.Vaishnaw…

Around 15,000–20,000 years ago, as the last ice age began to recede, human populations transitioned from a way of life that depended on hunting and gathering to one that favored agriculture. Technology slowly evolved in response to the most basic social needs of food and shelter, until about 5000 years ago when the Urban Revolution began. Every era exists at the behest of all the eras before it and every era starts with the tools that the era before ended with. The drive to go against the grain has birthed the concept of…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, says President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to present the 2023 budget to the National Assembly in October. Mr Gbajabiamila said this when he addressed journalists shortly after inspecting Hearing Rooms 028 and 234 of the House, which were expected to serve as the temporary chamber due to the ongoing renovation of the House complex in Abuja on Wednesday. “I am hoping that the budget will be presented latest by the first week of October,” he said. Both…

| Death stars in his own comic this October, the very first Bill and Ted one-shot special, aptly named Bill & Ted Present: Death. After rocking out with the guys in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Death is anxious to expand his musical horizons and write a hit song for Wyld Stallyns. For inspiration, he turns to Beethovenonly to learn that Beethoven has gotten into… jazz fusion?! Knowing that won't do, Death seeks an older version of Beethoven before his music jumped the shark, and for that, he'll need a time…