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Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA recently demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers (10 million miles). That's about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth, and the accomplishment, achieved in November 2023, represented the first time that optical communications have been sent across such a distance. Traditionally, we use radio waves to talk to distant spacecraft – but higher…

Axios: Some senators who received a classified briefing about TikTok say China's government can use the app to spy on US users and push propaganda at alarming levels — China's government can use TikTok to spy on American users and push propaganda at alarming levels, senators who received … Axios: Some senators who received a classified briefing about TikTok say China's government can use the app to spy on US users and push propaganda at alarming levels — China's…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt might sound obvious, but getting nominated for an Oscar doesn’t automatically make a film good.In fact, there have been many deserving movies over the years that were somehow overlooked by the Academy.While it’s easy to assume that certain films don’t get nominated because they’re not what voters of the Oscars would usually go for, there have been a lot of surprises in the past.For…

"I probably will never do anything like it again because I don’t make sense in that world," the actress says of her Marvel debut There’s no harm in trying something out and realizing that it isn’t a perfect fit. People do it all the time — making big moves, committing to an incompatible partner, wearing regrettable fashion trends. Dakota Johnson‘s one-and-done is Marvel’s Madame Web. “I probably will never do anything like it again,” the actress told Bustle in a new interview. “I don’t make sense…

The first human patient received an implant from Elon Musk's computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend, the billionaire says.In a post Monday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was "recovering well." He added that "initial results show promising neuron spike detection."Spikes are activity by neurons, which the National Institutes of Health describe as cells that use electrical and chemical signals to send information around the…

If you’re looking for a console you can take on the go or play docked on a TV, the Nintendo Switch remains an excellent option. True, the Switch 2 might come with a bigger eight-inch screen, but the 6.2-inch touchscreen found on the original Switch is still spacious enough to comfortably game. You can play for hours, too, because the console’s battery should last up to six hours. What’s also nice is that the Switch comes with a microSD card slot. That’ll come in handy, as you’ll likely quickly fill up its 32GB of built-in…

Fifty Shades of Grey may have been a hit with the fans and achieved huge box office records, but critics didn’t take well to the trilogy. Rotten Tomatoes scores gave the first movie a Rotten 25%, with Darker and Freed both getting 11%. Jamie Dornan, who signed on as Christian Grey for the three films, recalled going into hiding once negative reviews for the first movie came out.It mustn’t have been easy for Jamie Dornan’s cinematic breakthrough to have been in the E.L. James-adapted film. He got real with BBC Sounds…

Elon Musk said on the social media platform X on Monday that the first human patient has received a brain implant developed by his company Neuralink.After years of delays, Neuralink started recruiting patients for a clinical trial in the fall after receiving approval from the US Food and Drug Administration and a hospital ethics board. The company is developing a device called a brain-computer interface.Musk has said that Neuralink’s ultimate goal is to "achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence," but for now he’s…

It seems being both a friend and collaborator of Tom Cruise has its share of benefits. You not only get to bear witness to some of the spectacular feats he performs on film sets but, if you’re really close to the man, you can even lightly “make fun of him,” like Simon Pegg does. In addition to those benefits though, there’s also Cruise’s famous Christmas cake, which he sends out to those closest to him every year over the holidays. The seasonal treat is practically a legend unto itself at this point, and there are plenty…

Margot Robbie is arguably the biggest star to emerge in Hollywood over the past ten years. Since her big-screen debut in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013, the Australian actress has become globally recognized and adored by moviegoers – and for good reason, too. Robbie’s roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (2022), and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (2023) have shown she is in demand with the most acclaimed filmmakers in the business. Margot’s roles…