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A bicycle-towed electric street sweeper may soon be clearing gravel, broken glass, bits of metal and other debris off a bike lane near you. Known as the Bike Lane Sweeper, the device is already being trialled at multiple locations in Canada and the US.The initial version of the sweeper was created by Pierre Lermant, a data science professional and mechanical engineer living in Sunnyvale, California."Although we are lucky in the Bay Area, and many streets/roads have bike lanes, they tend to accumulate debris pushed to the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOppenheimer has emerged as the big winner as the 96th Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night, bringing the 2024 awards season to a dramatic end.Hollywood’s A-listers, including Margot Robbie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone, gathered to honour the best in cinema at a ceremony led by late-night veteran and four-time Oscars host Jimmy…

TikTok says it has more than 40,000 professionals dedicated to keeping the platform safe. Moderators work alongside automated moderation systems, reviewing content in more than 70 languages.Earlier this year, TikTok invited journalists to its new “transparency and accountability” centre, a move aimed at showing the company wanted to be more open. It says moderators receive training that is thorough and under constant review.Yet little is really known about the working lives of these teams. One moderator, who asked to…

By the time Latin Recording Academy President Manuel Abud announced the Latin Grammys’ one-time move to Spain this year, Ibero-American cultural relations had reached new lows.Upon receiving an Oscar nod for playing Cuban American bandleader Desi Arnaz in “Being the Ricardos,” the otherwise beloved Canarian actor Javier Bardem fired back at critics, arguing that Spaniards in Hollywood had more claim to a minority status than Latinos. (Groan.) And as Colombian pop icon Shakira split with the duplicitous father of…

Grim Dawn has been trucking along for quite a while now, and even though we’ve had a fair selection of competent hack ‘n’ slash ARPGs over the years, it is still near the pinnacle of its niche. And now, with update 1.2.0.0, Grim Dawn is taking its next leap forward. This leap forward, however, is really more of a dodge, as that’s one of the most notable new features making their way into the game. As per the developer Crate Entertainment’s recent announcement, Grim Dawn is due to receive a dedicated evade ability (with…

India’s ambitious Chandrayaan-3 has taken off the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh,…

All that hype about the Padres coming into this season?The Dodgers made it look like a bunch of hot air over the last 10 days.After eking out a series win in San Diego last weekend, the Dodgers emphatically swept their National League West rivals this weekend in Los Angeles, earning their fifth straight win over the Padres, and fifth consecutive victory overall, with a 4-0 shutout Sunday at Dodger Stadium.Rather than run away with the division crown, as many pundits predicted entering the season, the Padres are seven…

Rain is one of the natural forces that does not require an invitation and can fall at any time. The only action that humans can take is to manage the water that comes from the skies. The management of rainwater is primarily the responsibility of governments as they have the ability to create good drainage infrastructure for the cities they oversee. However, if they fail to take care of this essential task, the consequences can be catastrophic. In recent incidents of destruction caused by rains, a video has surfaced…

By the time Everything Everywhere All At Once took the top prize this year, victory felt an inevitability. It had been leader of the pack for weeks. Then, once the Oscars finally began being handed out, those hot dog fingers were in all the pies.Ke Huy Quan took the first, for supporting actor; producer Jonathan Wang the last, for best picture. In between, we saw Jamie Lee Curtis (supporting actress), both Daniels twice (screenplay and directing) and Michelle Yeoh (actress). It was almost everything, almost everywhere,…

‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, ‘The White Lotus’ sweep SAG Awards ( Photo Credit – Movie Poster ) The metaverse adventure movie ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ nabbed the best ensemble prize at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday evening, reports ‘Variety’. The Michelle Yeoh-starrer also broke records, becoming the biggest film winner in the history of the show, sweeping nearly every category, ‘Variety’ adds. But SAG highlights the small screen, as well as the big, notes ‘Variety’. The…