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Five weeks after giving birth to her son, the singer-songwriter Lucy Rose had a pressing question for the other new mothers at her NCT baby group. “I was like: is anyone else’s back killing them?” None of the women were able to empathise but Rose still managed to persuade herself that the excruciating pain she was in must be a normal part of the gruelling postpartum experience.Until a few days later. Rose was lifting her son Otis out of his cot, when “my whole body collapsed, then my back started spasming. That’s probably…

Unless you truly treat your body like a sketchbook, most of us want our tattoos to mean something. An important symbol, a reference to a loved one, or perhaps a mantra to keep in mind. For some reason, many non-Asian folks have decided that Chinese or Japanese symbols somehow have enough significance for them to be inked onto their skin.A man wondered if he perhaps shouldn’t have told a friend what her “Chinese” tattoo actually meant. To put it plainly, it didn’t mean “Strength and Beauty.” Readers weighed in on OP’s…

The article tells us of medieval performers and entertainers called minstrels, with the first people of this profession appearing around the 12th century. While their activities also included juggling, acrobatics, and music playing, they were best known for their storytelling. However, until now, there has been little information on what their performances were actually about.Recently, a medieval comedy routine has been discovered in the manuscript of a tutor known as Richard Heege, which gives us a nice good glimpse into…

Much like the little girl with the curl in the well-known rhyme, when this film is good, it’s very good. But when it’s bad it’s … well, the original poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow says “horrid,” but Bad Behaviour is more very awkward and self-indulgent. But the good largely outweighs the “oof” and this is a first feature for writer-director-co-star Alice Englert who should be applauded for taking interesting if not always successful risks.At least Englert made a safe bet by casting Jennifer Connelly in the lead, for…

Miniaturizing tech is a perpetual challenge for wearable makers. The smaller the device, the better it is for wearability. The thing is, that usually comes at the expense of battery life. However, Silicon Labs is hoping its latest xG27 chipset is small and energy-efficient enough to spark some big ideas in the medical tech space — like a saliva reader that’s so tiny it can be mounted onto a tooth. According to Silicon Labs, the xG27 family of SoCs consists of the BG27 and the MG27. Both are built around the ARM Cortex M33…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChris Pine has finally addressed the viral video that appeared to show Harry Styles spitting on him at Venice Film Festival last year.In the video, taken at the premiere of Don’t Worry Darling, Styles is seen walking over to his seat beside his co-star Pine. Fans speculated that Styles appeared to then spit in Pine’s lap before sitting down next to him – a moment that was…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChris Pine has finally addressed the viral video that appeared to show Harry Styles spitting on him at Venice Film Festival last year.The video showed Styles walking over to his seat beside his costar Pine for the premiere of Don’t Worry Darling. Fans then speculated that Styles appeared to spit in Pine’s lap before sitting down next to him – a moment that has affectionately been…

Stable Diffusion is open source, meaning anyone can analyze and investigate it. Imagen is closed, but Google granted the researchers access. Singh says the work is a great example of how important it is to give research access to these models for analysis, and he argues that companies should be similarly transparent with other AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.  However, while the results are impressive, they come with some caveats. The images the researchers managed to extract appeared multiple times in the training…

Think pollution is bad now? A new series from Mad Cave Studios is coming next year to show you just how bad it can get. Don’t Spit in the Wind is a four-issue miniseries from writer and artist Stefano Cardoselli, with colors and lettering by Dan Lee. The series, set in a future in which the Earth is no longer habitable, follows a toxic waste clean-up crew who start disappearing with no explanation. Here’s how Mad Cave describes Don’t Spit in the Wind: In the distant future, humanity has escaped the shell of what was…

Olivia Wilde addressed the rumour surrounding Harry Styles “spitting” on Chris Pine at the Venice Film Festival.During Wednesday’s (21 September) appearance on The Late Show, the Don’t Worry Darling director set the record straight by saying that “Harry did not spit on Chris”.“I think it’s a perfect example of, like, people will look for drama anywhere they can,” she added.Earlier this month, a brief yet puzzling interaction between Styles and Pine at the Venice Film Festival went viral on social media.Styles and Pine…