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After wrapping production on Phantom Thread in 2017, Daniel Day-Lewis put out a statement announcing his retirement from acting. This came as a shock to many, as fans were hoping for more films starring the Oscar winner. And hasn’t done another movie since though, as of late, rumors have suggested that Day-Lewis ould potentially sign on to another film. However, according to director Jim Sheridan, these rumors are unfounded, and the actor remains firm on his retirement. Apparently, streaming and the "seven thousand…

An international team of scientists have assembled the first complete record of carbon monoxide concentrations in the southern hemisphere, based on measurements of air. Credit: Gordon & Heike Tait An international team of scientists has reconstructed a historic record of the atmospheric trace gas carbon monoxide by measuring air in polar ice and air collected at an Antarctic research station.…

A month after launching the new Prodigy city bike, San Diego's Ride1Up has added a flexible option for commuters who may need to carry their ride on a train for part of the journey. The firm's first folding ebike is available for just US$995.Whether you need to hop on a train for your daily commute or drive the car out of town to enjoy a ride in more natural settings, a folding ebike can be a less cumbersome way to do it than hefting a full-sized two-wheeler.The 59-lb (26.7-kg) Ride1Up Portola is built around a low-step…

“Aye, who’s dog is that?” It was an important question posed by a woman waiting at a crosswalk outside BMO Stadium on Saturday night. In a sea of people rocking skirts the size of dinner napkins and gold chains that could haul a broken-down Escalade, there was a lone German shepard wandering the street. Was it searching for its owner or, like the hundreds of people it was trotting past, waiting to descend into the maximum pura peda ensuing inside L.A. Football Club’s home turf, where Mexican banda Fuerza Regida was…

The largest rocket to ever take flight requires a substantial number of upgrades ahead of its second test flight, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed this past weekend.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their ViewMusk made the comments on June 24 during a live Twitter discussion with Bloomberg journalist Ashlee Vance, saying “well over a thousand” changes are needed ahead of Starship’s second test flight, the date for which has not yet been set.True to the company’s ethos to move fast and break…

A selection of deep-sea specimens from the museum’s collection. Credit: Trustees of the Natural History Museum LondonThe Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a massive area in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of India and rich in minerals, has been parceled out to various companies for impending deep-sea mining. To gain insights into what could be jeopardized once mining operations begin, a group of biologists has constructed the first “CCZ checklist.” This checklist encompasses all the <span class="glossaryLink"…

The online retailer ClickBank shut down sites boosting “Trump Bucks,” which promoted a fabricated currency that would allegedly earn subscribers thousands of dollars if Donald Trump is elected in the 2024 presidential election. An investigation conducted by NBC News revealed several Colorado-based companies had created the scam which promised prospective investors of a get-rich-quick scheme if the former president was reelected.William Shatner on Jeff BezosThe companies reportedly advertised what werecalled “Trump Bucks”…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, May 24. I’m Kent Nishimura, a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times based out of Washington. I cover politics and national news. The exercise of photographing a U.S. senator is a bit like a game of cat and mouse. The photographers and reporters of the Capitol Hill press corps patiently mill about in case a person, most likely in a blue suit (or sometimes a hoodie) with a phalanx of staff, breezes by. That’s when we strike.In these…

The Irish Data Protection Commission on Monday fined Meta (formerly Facebook) a record $1.3 billion over Rs 1 thousand crore) fine over violating data transfer rules in the European Union (EU). The Irish watchdog said that Meta violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force on May 25, 2018. The Wall Street Journal was first to report about the landmark penalty on Meta. The ruling applies only to Facebook and not Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta said it would appeal…

Walt Disney Co will begin a second wave of layoffs on Monday involving thousands of jobs, as part of efforts to eliminate 7,000 positions and save $5.5 billion in costs, according to sources familiar with the matter.The company will cut "several thousand" jobs through Thursday, with the latest round of reductions bringing the total number of jobs culled to 4,000, Disney officials say.The cuts will occur across the company's business segments, including Disney Entertainment, ESPN and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products,…