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Even if you aren’t the biggest Beyoncé fan, it’s impossible not to clock who the megastar at the center of Swarm, Amazon’s new comically-edged psychological thriller series from Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, is based on. Everything about the show’s story of a disturbed fan who finds murderous purpose in her obsession with a celebrity she doesn’t know is meant to make you think deeply about what it really means to lose yourself in parasocial relationships and online fandom. At times, you can see how Swarm is tapping…

Happy Swarm day to all who celebrate.On Friday, Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’ bold and inimitable new series debuted on Amazon Prime Video, bringing with it (as teased in the days leading up to the premiere) some new sounds from Childish Gambino. In fact, the Swarm arrival coincides with the rolling out of a new EP of original music from the series by Ni’Jah with Kirby featuring Gambino.As those who’ve already started their binge of the show know, Ni’Jah is the fictional (and decidedly Beyoncé-like) star whose fandom…

Two high-profile streaming series — Apple TV+’s climate-change spectacle “Extrapolations” and Amazon Prime’s cult-of-celebrity thriller “Swarm” — debut this week. And we have a clear favorite. In theaters, committed actor Willem Dafoe becomes a one-man show in “Inside” while Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are together again, but is “Moving On” any better than “Grace and Frankie”? Read on. “Swarm”: There’s a lot to unpack in each episode of this shocking and disturbing series about an obsessed music fan. I watched it a week…

Not only is Swarm buzzing on the horizon, but Childish Gambino fans have new music to look forward to thanks to the Prime Video series’ impending unveiling.Recent teasers for the series, co-created by Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, include snippets of new Gambino music. More specifically, here’s how Prime Video words it in each teaser’s respective YouTube description: “Original music from the new series Swarm by Ni’Jah with Kirby featuring Childish Gambino” Even more specifically, the track in question is…

Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts - perhaps hundreds of thousands of them - to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump's critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that…

Earlier this week, SpaceX released more information about the new argon Hall thrusters that will power the Starlink V2 mini satellites, an innovation that likely has much to do with the company’s acquisition of Swarm Technologies in 2021. The deal, which closed in July 2021, was an extremely rare move for SpaceX. Swarm — which manufactures and operates ultra-small satellites for IoT devices — remains the company’s only acquisition in its 21-year history. It was also notable because, relatively…

Cartoon summarizing observations. Eruptions and intrusions at Kīlauea cause pressure gradients to rapidly propagate through the Kīlauea transport structure to the Pāhala sill complex. Magma is injected into the Pāhala sill complex from the underlying magma- bearing volume; the sills are proximal to the plagioclase-spinel phase boundary, possibly in a polyphase coexistence region. The sills are connected to Kīlauea and the decollement/Ka‘ōiki region…

Shayla Love: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Shayla Love. When you hear a bee buzzing along, visiting a flower, you’re hearing the movement of air made by the fluttering of its wings. But it turns out that bees are buzzing in more than one way. Giles Harrison: I first saw this when I saw a bumblebee land on an electrode I was using, and I saw a real change in the measurement. And I thought, “This is a charged thing.”  Love: That’s Giles Harrison, a professor of atmospheric physics at the University…

Employing vibration instead of onboard sensors to command a horde of Microbots. The small scale of microrobots makes them perfect for medicine administration, disease diagnostics, and even surgery. Individual robots can work together as swarms to make significant breakthroughs in everything from building to surveillance. Due to their small size, microrobots frequently have limited sensing, communication, motility, and processing capabilities despite their potential; nevertheless, a new study from the Georgia Institute…

Climate activists protest against environmental pollution from aviation at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, in Schiphol, Netherlands November 5, 2022.Piroschka Van De Wouw | ReutersHundreds of climate activists swarmed a private jet section of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Saturday as part of a day of demonstrations in and around the airport.The activists stopped several aircraft from taking off by sitting in front of their wheels. Commercial flights were not delayed as of early afternoon. The environmental groups…