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In a scarred and scored terrain on the face of Mars, a giant secret lurks.There, beneath the region known as Noctis Labyrinthus (Labyrinth of the Night), scientists have found evidence of an enormous, ancient volcano – and, possibly, a buried sheet of glacier ice. The discovery makes the equatorial site an attractive option in the search for signs of ancient life on the dry and dusty planet. Finding a hidden volcano was never part of the plan, but when a team led by planetary scientist Pascal Lee of the SETI Institute…

Most of the music of the British-born, Maryland-raised artist Jason Mills, who performs as IDK, falls under the umbrella of rap. Over the past decade he has worked with Kaytranada and Denzel Curry, using a broad palette of sonics and delivery styles and garnering comparisons with early Kendrick Lamar and the melodic rap end of Frank Ocean’s oeuvre. While IDK stands for Ignorantly Delivering Knowledge, Mills doesn’t necessarily address weighty themes; often he makes party tracks.F65, the 30-year-old’s sprawling, 22-track…

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom just got a new three-minute trailer, ahead of its release on May 12, exclusively on the Nintendo Switch. Much of it is shrouded in mysterious story bits, as we follow protagonist Link across the calming sweeping vistas of Hyrule and its densely populated towns and encampments. There are a bunch of new enemies, returning characters, and a new design for Princess Zelda. This new trailer arrives after producer Eiji Aonuma confirmed last month that the sequel had finally gone gold…

There are plenty of themes swimming around in Sam Mendes’s sprawling, uneven Empire of Light, but few coherent ideas linking them. Set in the 1980s, in the kind of pursed-lipped and sanctimonious British seaside town that wears its former glory like a long outdated party frock, the film awkwardly slings together mental health issues and racially motivated violence, then ties it up with a rather glib point about the unifying power of cinema.Olivia Colman plays Hilary, a troubled front-of-house manager at a seafront picture…

In November 2021, Tord Lundström, the technical director at Swedish digital forensics nonprofit Qurium Media, noticed something strange. A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was targeting Bulatlat, an alternative Phillippine media outlet hosted by the nonprofit. And it was coming from Facebook users.Lundström and his team found that the attack was just the start of it. Bulatlat had become the target of a sophisticated Vietnamese troll farm that had captured the credentials of thousands of Facebook…

Since its invention, cinema has played a crucial role in how images of war are created and immortalised in the popular imagination. Divided into four chapters, Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti’s sprawling documentary throws the supposed neutrality of the camera up in the air, probing how photography is more than a witness; it can also be an integral cog in the war machine.Restored by film archivists from the ravages of time, flickering, scratchy footage of the Italian-Turkish war of 1911-12 jumpstarts this cinematic…

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press Twenty-seven years ago, Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13” saluted men with the right stuff — quiet courage and grace under pressure. This summer, he’s returned to that magic number for a similar rescue tale but traded the vastness of space for a film deep underground. “Thirteen Lives” is a dramatization of what happened in July 2018 when 12 boys and their football coach were trapped in a flooded limestone cave in Thailand for several weeks. Like his space flick, it will take a lot of on-the-fly…