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Somehow, market manipulation feels good in a place like this. So might Nicole Kidman say in her iconic advertisement for AMC Theatres — if it had been scripted by the cinema chain’s hardcore investors, that is. Ever since an internet mob rescued the company from the brink of bankruptcy in 2021 by snatching up shares in a coordinated buying frenzy, this group has grown entrenched, defensive and somewhat paranoid that large Wall Street firms are illegally colluding to crash the stock. But this week, their niche…

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have utilized auditory illusions to examine how moments of silence can distort people’s perception of time, addressing the long-standing philosophical question of whether silence can be perceived as more than the absence of sound.A team of psychologists and philosophers at Johns Hopkins University have used auditory illusions to demonstrate that silence distorts people’s perception of time similarly to sound. Their findings suggest that we “hear” silence just as we do sound,…

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If you’ve been watching Twitch and other streaming services, or are a streamer yourself, then you know that the Blue Yeti microphone line is highly recommended. Unfortunately, the pro versions cost a pretty penny, but luckily we’ve found a great Prime Day deal on the Blue Yeti Nano Premium, which has many great features of the Pro version while being considerably cheaper. In fact, this deal from Amazon will knock $20 off its price tag, bringing it down to $80 from $100. Why you should buy the Blue Yeti Nano…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA controversial new drama eight years in the making has become a surprise hit at the box office.On Independence Day (4 July) in the US, a brand new movie starring The Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel was released – and made enough money to place third behind high-profile releases including sequels Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Impressively, it managed this feat while…

Image Source : PORTRONICS Portronics Pure Sound Pro X1 Wireless Soundbar Portronics, a leading player in the digital and portable consumer electronics market in India, has introduced the Pure Sound Pro X1 Wireless Soundbar. The Portronics Pure Sound Pro X1 Wireless Soundbar is now available in the market at a discounted price of Rs 5,999, along with a 12-month…

When you think of true surround sound stereo systems, you imagine cumbersome multi-speaker affairs that take all day to set up. Sony may have just upended that notion with its complete with 360 spatial sound mapping. The hook here is that the speakers are detachable and the whole system can easily be moved from room to room without a trip to the chiropractor. The system uses the company’s proprietary spatial sound mapping technology to create phantom speakers at the front, rear and overhead. These audio sources integrate…

Despite attempts to turn them into keyboard-less laptops, tablets remain primarily media consumption devices for most users. Sony’s new HT-AX7 Bluetooth speaker promises to expand on that use by transforming your tablet into a portable home theater with a pair of detachable satellite speakers.One of the sacrifices made so that tablets can become thinner, lighter, and easier to travel with is that their tightly packed interiors don’t leave much room inside for large speakers. Your tablet can probably still fill a room with…

Type the words “sound of freedom” into Twitter (decent people who wish to live good, happy lives should under no circumstances actually do this) and the search will yield dozens of triumphant reports crowing about the improbable victory of a film by that title over the likes of Indiana Jones at the box office this week.That’s not, strictly speaking, accurate – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny had already been out for five days, the first three of which out-earned Sound of Freedom’s opening-day take, when the new…

When you turn on a lamp to brighten a room, you are experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy.These photons must obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for instance, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time, allow a photon to be in two places at once.Similar to the photons that make up beams of light, indivisible quantum particles called phonons make up a beam of sound. These particles emerge from the collective motion of…