Resurrection

Stanford University’s research team has made a significant breakthrough in quantum technology by improving niobium-based qubits to match leading alternatives. This advancement highlights niobium’s potential to operate at higher temperatures and wider ranges, opening new possibilities for quantum computing. Credit: SciTechDaily.comExpanding possibilities for superconducting qubits.For years, niobium was considered an underperformer when it came to superconducting qubits. Now scientists supported by Q-NEXT have found a way…

Image: LegoBring home the magic of Walt Disney’s first animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Lego form. The new collectible set will be available on March 4 online, and in select Lego stores and retailers. The set recreates the story of Snow White as she wishes for a new life, meets seven new friends and decides to room with them, and then takes a near-tragic turn after biting into a poison apple. There’s even a glass coffin for her to hang out in until Prince Charming smooches her back to life—which…

Within the first few hours of Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, you have a very important--and difficult--decision to make. As Red, you must swear an oath to the now-deceased Antea on whether you will help her ascend peacefully into the afterlife, or resurrect her when her body has been retrieved from the meetinghouse. While the game does explain that resurrecting Antea requires sacrificing as many settlers as possible with a blame ritual, it isn't clear exactly what that means. Here's a spoiler-free…

When it comes to the trillion mysteries stored within the magical world of Harry Potter, almost all have been answered in the novels and films or else solved by its renowned author, J.K. Rowling. That said, there are still some questions that have maintained their secret status such that even the cinematic adaptations of the books didn’t try to solve them. Undoubtedly, one of the biggest baffling questions of all time centers around why on earth Harry dropped the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest. When did…

When Liam Gallagher first heard the songs John Squire had written for their new collaborative album, he had two thoughts: that they were “banging”, and that he instinctively knew how to sing them. After all, he’s been singing Squire’s songs since his early teens.“You’ve got to remember, I’m a massive Stone Roses fan,” Gallagher announces from across the table at a studio in Kentish Town, north London. “They were the ones who got me into a band, so I know the rhythms. It’s not like I’m singing Trent Reznor out of the…

Black Panther 3 is a matter of when, not if. But, before then, we’re going to be returning to Wakanda with upcoming Disney Plus animated series Eyes of Wakanda and the long-in-development spinoff show starring Danai Gurira’s Okoye. Ryan Coogler will have his hands busy with those projects for some time, though we’re certain that somewhere behind the scenes plans are busy being formulated for a full sequel centered around Letitia Wright’s Shuri. Current rumors say Marvel Studios is running scared after The Marvels…

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.After immersing in nonfiction for the last four incredible book clubs — watching birds, reporting on Trump, Elon Musk, and two books on AI — I switched gears to catch up with a previous guest author. This past week I’ve been devouring the new suspense novel from Michael Connelly, who memorably joined book club readers in Hollywood before the pandemic shut down our live events.In “Resurrection Walk,” Connelly pairs Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller and former…

We are in the penultimate episode of Marvel’s Disney+ series Secret Invasion, and, surprisingly, we don’t have a lot of questions or plot points to wrap up. After the first four episodes of the Samuel L. Jackson-led spy-thriller series, most mysteries have been solved or explained in... Gravik detail. (Get it?…Read more... We are in the penultimate episode of Marvel’s Disney+ series Secret Invasion, and, surprisingly, we don’t have a lot of questions or plot points to wrap up. After the first four episodes of the…

BERKELEY, Calif. —  Jessi Fernandez joined a street gang at 13. By his 20s, he had been shot at more times than he could count. He got busted for methamphetamine possession and spent time in Los Angeles County jail for carrying a loaded gun. Yet the persistent danger didn’t wash away a street kid’s dream — that he would get rich as a drug kingpin, then turn legit.Escapist fantasies became harder to embrace by late 2015, when rivals gunned down two of Fernandez’s closest friends in a few months’ time. The second had…

The premature death in 1982 of one of Brazil’s most treasured musicians left her homeland reeling. “Brazil without Elis,” mourned one front page after the legendary singer Elis Regina unexpectedly died at the age of 36.So when Elis Regina recently re-emerged, performing a soul-stirring duet with her daughter, the Grammy-winning singer Maria Rita, there were similarly charged scenes of catharsis and nostalgia.“It’s seven-something in the morning … and I’m bawling my eyes out,” tweeted Brazil’s first lady, Rosângela Lula da…