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NASA is tapping the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help with the ongoing construction of the Lunar Gateway. Set to act as an ever-moving station in orbit around our planet’s satellite, the UAE has now been tapped to design the airlock module on the Lunar Gateway.This move further solidifies the partnership between NASA and its international partners, including the AUE. The agency shared the news that the UAE will contribute to constructing the Crew and Science Airlock for Gateway earlier this week. This…

“Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s epic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the conflicted father of the atomic bomb, was selected Tuesday as the best film of 2023 by the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. Partially shot in the East Bay, including a few scenes on the UC Berkeley campus where Oppenheimer worked as a professor, the film nabbed two other awards — one for Robert Downey Jr.’s supporting turn as Oppenheimer rival Lewis Strauss and for the film’s stunning, at times staggering cinematography. Nolan’s…

It’s hard enough to look for an excellent product designer in an industry that’s been around for decades—say a creative who makes designs for a car or a coffee maker. But where do you go when you’re looking for a product designer to help you in an industry that, in many ways, is just in the process of forming, the way artificial intelligence is at the moment? Where do you go when the entire industry—from the hardware to the software to even how to legally use AI—is all very much in flux? Whom do you hire? For iconic…

On Tuesday, Donald Trump made a vague promise to only personally abuse the powers of the presidency on “day one” of the second administration he hopes to have. For his long-term agenda, Trump is planning to staff major government offices with a crop of the most extreme, vitriolic, and sycophantic Republicans in his orbit — Including known white nationalist and Taylor Swift truther Stephen Miller.  According to a report from Axios, Trump has been mulling which loyalists he will elevate into government if he reclaims…

Did you know Google Pixel smartphone users have a secret double-tap gesture feature that can perform various quick tasks? If not, then know that Google has this feature called Quick Tap which enables users to interact with their smartphone simply through through gestures. The Google Pixel Quick Tap feature can perform several tasks through a simple double tap on the back of the smartphone such as opening an app, silence your phone, and much more. Know more about the Google Pixel Quick Tap feature here.What is the Google…

Early next year, shooting starts for a sequel to the 1984 cult rock-mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. It stars the actors who played the perma-delusional UK rockers back then: Michael McKean as hair-tossing frontman David St Hubbins; Christopher Guest as guitarist, Nigel “one louder” Tufnel; Harry Shearer as bassist Derek Smalls (“Hello, Cleveland!”). No drummers of course: they all perished, exploding on drum stools, dying in “freak gardening accidents”, and so on.Spinal Tap II has the same director, Rob Reiner, who also…

University of Bath researchers have innovated a greener, simpler, and cheaper method for drug development using an enzyme from the flower Oldenlandia affinis to produce stable cyclic proteins and peptides, potentially revolutionizing pharmaceutical production and applicable in various industries. Credit: Peter Warren Scientists at the University of Bath have used nature as inspiration in developing a new tool that will help researchers develop new pharmaceutical treatments in a cleaner, greener, and less expensive way.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePaul McCartney and Elton John are among the real-life musicians set to make cameo appearances in the upcoming sequel to rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.Rob Reiner, who directed the 1984 film, revealed several guest stars and teased further details about the sequel during an appearance on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast.The new film was originally slated to…

Paul McCartney and Elton John will appear in the sequel to cult mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, for which filming is due to get under way early next year, it has been revealed.Rob Reiner, director of the original 1984 release as well as the sequel, was speaking to comedian Richard Herring on the latter’s RHLSTP (Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast). Reiner told Herring, after the latter expressed his admiration for This Is Spinal Tap, that “everybody’s back” for the sequel and that filming would begin at…

If you don’t think the double tap gesture is helpful enough to be active all the time, you can always turn it off on your Apple Watch. First available for Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, the double tap gesture was released more widely with watchOS 10.1 alongside NameDrop.With double tap gestures, users can easily control the Apple Watch Series 9/Ultra 2 using just one hand and without touching the display by tapping the index finger and thumb of their watch hand together twice to quickly perform…