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The freight railcar that federal investigators say likely caused last month’s derailment in Ohio was handed off among four railroads before its fateful trip and was owned by a fifth company, according to documents and people familiar with the railcar’s history and journey.The story of the railcar, which was destroyed in a fiery wreck on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, a small town near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, illustrates the challenges that federal investigators have in understanding the cause of and factors that…

Given limited defence budgets and turbulent geopolitics, In Hard Times by Manoj Joshi, Praveen Swami and Nishtha Gautam promises to elucidate a smart strategy to address the challenges of China and Pakistan while also creating a strategic space for India’s aspirations in the Indian ocean region and beyond. 272pp, ₹699; Bloomsbury India Extrapolating the changed character of war or how it will be fought from the Ukraine operations between Russia and NATO, it is clear that modern warfare will involve the extensive…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWillem Dafoe reportedly made Emma Stone slap him 20 times on the set of And.Both actors are set to appear in two new movies, Poor Things and And by The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos.Poor Things is based on the 1992 novel of the same name. It’s about the story of a woman whose brain is replaced by that of her unborn child.On the other hand, And centres around the story Belle…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain On the day parents across the country discover which secondary school their child can attend, a new report exposes how entry rules are thwarting social mobility especially at the most sought-after state schools. The research, led by the University of Bristol, is the first national analysis since…

"Photo of a frightened journalist staring at their screen as they type stuff into ChatGPT" Automatically generated by Dall・2 by OpenAIOpenAI's ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence program that has been in all the headlines for generating human-seeming text, caused a new round of controversy recently when the version of it running in Microsoft's Bing search beta started to produce bizarre outputs that some users found disturbing. Unfortunately, some of the reporting about the chatbot is itself confusing. In the rush to…

Last Updated: March 01, 2023, 09:40 ISTImage used for Representation. (Photo: Reuters)The surge in tourists is due mainly to the country's full reopening to foreign visitors and the resumption of international commercial flightsVietnam saw 9,33,000 international arrivals in February, surging 31.6 times compared to the same period last year, the country’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said on Tuesday.The surge in tourists is due mainly to the country’s full reopening to foreign visitors and the resumption of…

(a) Changes in CVD and snow cover fraction in 1970 and 2010. (b) Changes in CVD (Near/Far Future - Present). Credit: POSTECH Nature has remained in balance for a long time, but climate change due to modern human activities is disrupting the balance of the natural system. The disruption makes it more difficult for humans—who must work with nature to survive—to predict the future. Moreover, developing countries with limited…

June Wan/ZDNETFor the past few years, Mobile World Congress has been the foldable phone show, with the likes of Samsung, Huawei, TCL, and now, Honor taking part in the innovative festivities. Today, Honor announced the global launch of its latest foldable, the Magic Vs, which first debuted in China back in December. Before you get overly excited about a new foldable coming to a carrier store near you, know that the global expansion starts in Europe for now, and likely won't make a pit stop in the US anytime after.…

Even though their eighth LP found this cartoon band decamping to California to work with producer Greg Kurstin, it’s hard not to speculate which benighted island the title of this record might refer to. As ever, much lore plays out in the band’s videos and Jamie Hewlett’s art. But it’s clear that a 2023 sense of unease powers this record, with Damon Albarn often in bittersweet mode, pondering how a deranged cult might take over a fragile society. Familiar, but inexhaustible, founts of anxiety abound: “Machine assisted, I…

Set in Hong Kong during the early days of the pandemic, Lam Sum’s tender drama pictures a city haunted by economic and political uncertainty. Storefronts are plastered with foreclosure and bankruptcy notices, while talk of moving abroad hovers amid everyday conversations. Plagued by faulty equipment, the one-man sanitary service operated by world-weary Chak (played by Cantopop star Louis Cheung) is on the verge of breaking down. When asked by his ailing mother if God is telling him to give up the business, Chak…