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Image: Universal PicturesDavid Lynch’s 1984 Dune was the eccentric auteur’s take on Frank Herbert’s “unfilmable” classic science fiction book series. It was divisive but became a cult film nonetheless, and stars Kyle Machlachlan, Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, and Linda Hunt.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoAs Denis Villeneuve’s masterful films adapting Herbert’s work have reinvigorated interest in the series, there’s now a new appreciation of what Lynch was able to accomplish. He walked without rhythm so…

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A new method for recovering high-purity gold from discarded electronics is paying back US$50 for every dollar spent, according to researchers – who found the key gold-filtering substance in cheesemaking, of all places.Society has held gold in high esteem for millennia. More recently, for its technical applications across electronics and microelectronics, aerospace, medicine, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. However, like any metal, gold is a non-renewable resource. And increasingly valuable.In a new study, researchers…

On the vast grasslands of Alberta, a group of sharp-tailed grouse gather for the most important event of the year: a song and dance competition.While most male birds compete against each other to win a mate, the grouse take a different approach. They perform a synchronized dance routine as a team, and the more males, the more impressive their performance.These sharp-tailed grouse put on a remarkable show. With their heads down and wings outstretched, they stomp and rattle their tail feathers. Flashes of yellow from the…

Yes, I signed up for a Hotmail account at a very early age -- or, rather, at a very early stage of the internet's hegemony. And I've stuck with it because I like my email address and the Hotmail service, now known as Outlook, has rarely gone down cataclysmically.Flunking the junk testThere have been periods, however, when the prevalence of junk mail has charged through my tolerance levels. One of those periods was very recent. I suddenly began to get junk mail that didn't just appear in my junk mail folder, but…

The godfather of the MCU himself, Robert Downey Jr., might not be in any hurry to return to the Marvel multiverse, given that he’s currently enjoying an awards season career high, but that won’t necessarily stop the studio from continuing the Iron Man brand without him. While there’s no such movie as Iron Man 4 currently on the docket, Disney CEO Bob Iger’s latest revelations about the future of the franchise suggest it’s surely only a matter of time. Speaking at the House of Mouse’s Q1 earnings call, Iger made many…

UMG has some of the biggest artists right now signed to their label, including Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, SZA, The Weeknd, Drake, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Harry Styles, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, and Adele, to name a few. Also: TikTok bans explained: Everything you need to knowAs a result, the absence of its artists' music on the app is already being felt by users since they are responsible for some of the highest charting songs of our time. Both artists and fans are sharing their disappointment on the app, with…

Who doesn’t like Jake Gyllenhaal? Unlike many Hollywood mainstays, the 43-year-old actor has managed to avoid any of the bad press that so many of his contemporaries have faced in recent years. From Donnie Darko to Brokeback Mountain to Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal has starred in so many beloved movies across his career and has earned himself a reputation as a real stand-up dude into the bargain. That’s why it’s so shocking that we’re hearing he was allegedly acting very un-Jake Gyllenhaal-like on the set of cancelled movie…

I succumbed to flights of fancyI confess I fell beneath the spell of my iPhone's Health app.There before my eyes were not only my steps taken, but my walking and running distance, my walking speed, my walking step length, and even a measure of my walking asymmetry. (This seemed to be something to do with the evenness of my gait.)There was even the measure of flights climbed. Also: The best fitness trackers to replace the Halo BandI wasn't sure why this was at all important. Why did it matter how many times I'd gone up…

How this might affect youGoogle is very much not transparent about its Enterprise pricing plans. The main Google Workspace pricing page simply says "Contact Sales." The Google Workspace blog doesn't mention anything about a price increase, at least as of the time of this writing. There is, however, a mention of a jump in price for the Enterprise Standard plan from $20 to $23 (less than I've been hit with) on a January 3, 2024 post on the Cumulus Global (a Google partner) blog. Also: AI is a lot like streaming.…