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The Joker says that Folie Deux can barely hold a tune
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix starrer film ‘Folie’is a “half-hearted, half-baked” musical, according to critics. “The musical numbers were so lacking in whimsy or any sense of fun, it’s hard to ever get swept up in them. Then, the movie drops you…right back into Arthur Fleck’s bleak reality from which there never seem to be…
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The US gave the Russian cyber-criminals immunity as part of a prisoner swap
A data breach at a US-based election management company exposed names, addresses, voter registration numbers and phone numbers of more than 5 million voters, media reported. The company Platinum Technology Resource, which provides voter registration software and other digital tools, failed to notify Illinois within 45 days of the incident. The company said it scanned…
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The first US moon landing happened more than 50 years ago
US space agency NASA’s Odysseus spacecraft has successfully landed on the Moon, becoming the second private mission to do so. The six-legged, phone-booth-sized spacecraft landed near the Moon’s south pole, around 300 kilometres from the lunar south pole. Odysseus is the second launch, after Astrobotic’s attempt, in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programme.
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The ancient genomes show population turnovers
We found that two SNPs stood out for explaining much more variance than the others when fitting the GWAS model using the genotype data. The SNPs that use painting data explained the same amount of variance, suggesting that they are very similar. Notably, two SNPs stood out for explaining much more variance than the others…
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The building blocks of life are rich in the asteroid sample
NASA scientists revealed what OSIRIS-REx brought back from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Some of Bennu’s sample is 4.7% carbon, the highest ratio of extraterrestrial carbon ever measured, NASA said. It added the carbon and water molecules are “exactly the kinds of material that we wanted to find.” OSIRIS-REx had collected samples from the asteroid in…
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ALA stated that the number of challenged unique book titles increased 40% by the year 2022
The number of challenges to books doubled in 2022, and the number of challenges to unique titles was up nearly 40% over 2021 in US, according to American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom data released on Monday. The association releases data on books it said have been challenged for removal from public and school…
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The European space probe sees the Jupiter System
NASA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission is aiming to launch on April 13 from the European Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana. It is scheduled to fly by Ganymede, one of the moons in the system. “We want to confirm that there’s liquid water in these moons, confirm their heat sources,” said Juice’s principal…
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A asteroid lost 1 million kilograms after a collision with DART
NASA’s asteroid impact mission DART has calculated that the transfer of momentum when it hit Dimorphos was 3.6 times greater than if the asteroid had absorbed the spacecraft and no material was blasted from the surface. The impact caused it to move more than the spacecraft could, researchers said. The DART spacecraft crashed into the…
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New cars are expensive, but they don’t have to be
The base price of a new car in the United States has shrunk over the past 20 years while the average sticker price as sold to customers has grown, according to data from Cars.com. It has a base price of $15,730, barely different from the base price in 2002, the cheapest new car available that…
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The Knights and squires went on strike at the California Medieval Times
Times Performers United, the union representing workers at Los Angeles Times, said that it’ll negotiate a fair Collective Bargaining Agreement which ensures that wages are “neccesarily matched with skills”. “We’ll bring the performers and stable hands at Times to the table. Low wages, dangerous working conditions, and a lack of respect from company management incited…
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The Mars rover will be the first to deliver samples to Earth.
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is set to send back the first-ever sample returns from Mars, including four volcanically derived rocks that were collected by the roving Perseverance spacecraft. Samples will also be sent back to Earth to be used to determine the age of rocks from a particular place on Mars. Mars Ascent Vehicle…
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Magnetic fields in stars have been probed.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has studied three Sun-like stars and found their magnetic field deep in their interiors. It found that the “Accelerator Zone” of the Vela wind nebula is highly ordered and symmetrical, which could give clues about why these nebulae are so powerful. HST has also found evidence of magnetic fields at…
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The US government charges 8 social media professionals.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a parallel civil complaint against seven people for running a stock trading forum called Atlas Trading. The SEC alleged that the forum made false statements about the stock’s value and intent to hold it, resulting in over $114 million in profits. The alleged scheme dated back to at…
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There is a strong meteor shower of the year.
Fireballs from the Southern and Northern Taurids, a shower of comet Encke’s debris, were seen across the heavens on Sunday and Monday. Fireballs can be seen moving across sky for a few seconds, whereas most meteors are visible only for a millisecond. There are more than two dozen meteor showers to watch in the next…
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Airlines had to pay more than $600 million in refunds to passengers for the swine flu.
US Department of Transportation has ordered six airlines to pay $600 million in refunds to customers for cancelled flights, saying they shouldn’t have been denied the right. The airlines, including Frontier Airlines, were ordered to pay $7.5 million. “Airlines that brazenly skirt the rules deserve to be fined…this latest round of enforcement comes almost three…
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Tomorrow’s big jobs report has global implications.
The US economy added 2.3 million jobs in the last six months of the year, the highest amount in the last 20 years, as per data released by the Department of Labor on Friday. The US economy also fell at an annual rate of 1.1% in the same period, its worst year-on-year drop in over…