- “The Zone of Interest” showcases the power of sound design in film – The Washington Post The Washington Post
- ‘The Zone of Interest’ Producer on Finding New Relevancy in a Holocaust Drama: “Our Political Culture Is Closer to That of the Perpetrator Than We Think” Hollywood Reporter
- ‘The Zone of Interest’s Vomit-Inducing Ending, Explained Vulture
- Steven Spielberg Is Right About The Zone Of Interest (Though A 2015 Movie Challenges It) Screen Rant
- How to Watch ‘The Zone of Interest’ – Stream ‘The Zone of Interest’ Town & Country
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‘Dune: Part Two’ Partners With Xbox for ‘Flight Simulator’ Content and Custom Console Design – Variety
- ‘Dune: Part Two’ Partners With Xbox for ‘Flight Simulator’ Content and Custom Console Design Variety
- Xbox Created a Floating Controller to Celebrate Dune: Part 2 IGN
- Microsoft Flight Simulator’s free Dune expansion lets you fly an Ornithopter over Arrakis Tom’s Hardware
- Microsoft Flight Simulator adds Dune’s Ornithopter and planet Arrakis Polygon
- Microsoft Flight Sim’s free DLC finally adds what we’ve all wanted: giant mechanical dragonflies, decolonisation, and the chance to win a magical floating Xbox controller PC Gamer
MSI unveils RTX 4070 SUPER GAMING X SLIM MLG series with iconic red design, 245W TDP out of the box – VideoCardz.com
- MSI unveils RTX 4070 SUPER GAMING X SLIM MLG series with iconic red design, 245W TDP out of the box VideoCardz.com
- Nvidia corrects mistake with one of its new RTX 40 Super GPUs — GeForce RTX 4070 Super has 48MB L2 after all, not 36MB Tom’s Hardware
- ROG RTX 4070 price shrinks in Amazon deal ahead of RTX 4070 Super release PC Guide – For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News
- Custom GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER cards appear at retailers for up to $650 VideoCardz.com
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, 4070 Ti SUPER, 4080 SUPER GPUs Listed: $50-$100 US Premium For Custom Designs, FE Models at MSRP Wccftech
Kim Kardashian Kept “Every Single” Yeezy Design In A “Time Capsule” Storage Unit As A “Tribute” To The Old Kanye West After He Said She Should “Burn” It All – BuzzFeed News
- Kim Kardashian Kept “Every Single” Yeezy Design In A “Time Capsule” Storage Unit As A “Tribute” To The Old Kanye West After He Said She Should “Burn” It All BuzzFeed News
- Kim Kardashian Regrets ‘Fast’ Pete Davidson Romance, Admits She Didn’t ‘Deal and Heal’ After Kanye West Split PEOPLE
- Kim Kardashian Has Regrets About Pete Davidson Relationship TMZ
- Inside Kim Kardashian’s EPIC storage closet: ‘Disgusting’ shoes bought to be like Victoria Beckham, a portrait Daily Mail
- Kim Kardashian Wants Kanye West in Kids’ Lives, Refuses to ‘Take That’ Away PEOPLE
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‘Superman: Legacy’ Starts Pre-Production, James Gunn Says: ‘Costumes, Production Design and More Now Up and Running’ – Variety
- ‘Superman: Legacy’ Starts Pre-Production, James Gunn Says: ‘Costumes, Production Design and More Now Up and Running’ Variety
- James Gunn Posts Exciting Superman: Legacy Update With The Finished Script Yahoo Entertainment
- DC’s James Gunn Announces Superman Legacy Is in Preproduction Gizmodo
- SUPERMAN: LEGACY Director James Gunn Shares Casting Update; Confirms Warner Bros. Has No Power Over DC Studios CBM (Comic Book Movie)
- ‘Superman: Legacy’: James Gunn DC Movie Starting Early Prep For 2024 Shoot Deadline
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Maternal mRNA covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy and delta or omicron infection or hospital admission in infants: test negative design study – The BMJ
- Maternal mRNA covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy and delta or omicron infection or hospital admission in infants: test negative design study The BMJ
- COVID vaccination in pregnancy found to protect infants against infection and hospital admission Medical Xpress
- Vaccination campaigns can reduce the impact of COVID-19 on pregnant women News-Medical.Net
- Protecting infants through covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy The BMJ
- COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy helps protect newborns, Canadian study suggests CBC News
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Rolls-Royce unveils early design for space nuclear reactor
A new image shows a possible version of future space propulsion.
Nuclear fission systems, which harness the energy released in the splitting of atoms, could be used to power astronaut bases on the moon or Mars. Or they could help shorten the travel time to the Red Planet, which takes six to nine months to reach with current-generation propulsion systems.
Rolls-Royce could be a part of that ambitious spaceflight future. The venerable company released an early-stage design of a micro-nuclear reactor on Friday (Jan. 27), in the wake of a 2021 agreement (opens in new tab) with the United Kingdom Space Agency to study future nuclear power options in space exploration.
“Each uranium particle is encapsulated in multiple protective layers that act as a containment system, allowing it to withstand extreme conditions,” Rolls-Royce tweeted (opens in new tab) in a brief description of the system.
Related: NASA funds nuclear probes for icy moons, huge new space telescopes and other far-out tech ideas
Nuclear systems have long flown on robotic space missions. For example, radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) provide electricity for many probes, including NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, which are currently exploring interstellar space. Big NASA Mars rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity also use RTGs, though smaller rovers such as Spirit and Opportunity went with solar panels.
But RTGs are not fission reactors. Rather, they are nuclear batteries, converting to electricity the heat thrown off by the decay of radioactive material. Nuclear fission has yet to power a spacecraft off Earth, though that could change soon; for example, NASA and DARPA recently announced plans to build a nuclear thermal rocket by 2027.
Nuclear fusion — the power source of the sun and other stars, which flows from the merging of atoms — could also one day be part of humanity’s spaceflight portfolio. That possible future is a long-term one, however; our species has yet to harness this power source here on Earth. (But U.S. scientists did announce a big breakthrough recently: a fusion experiment that produced more energy than it consumed.)
Speaking generally, some of the concerns of space fission or fusion power include safety for astronauts; portability, as more mass means a more expensive mission; and longevity in a harsh and rugged environment.
But nuclear power is a staple of space exploration nonetheless, both in reality and in science fiction. The technology even helped fuel a joke in the 2015 movie “The Martian.” In the film, astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) — in search of warmth in an unheated rover and desperately digging up a reactor buried in regolith for safety reasons — said his Red Planet training manual had a section about surface operations labeled “Don’t Dig Up The Big Box of Plutonium, Mark.”
Elizabeth Howell is the co-author of “Why Am I Taller (opens in new tab)?” (ECW Press, 2022; with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams), a book about space medicine. Follow her on Twitter @howellspace (opens in new tab). Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens in new tab) or Facebook (opens in new tab).
Hogwarts Legacy leaker who claimed the design director was their dad struck by Warner Bros copyright notice
The Hogwarts Legacy community is lamenting the temporary disappearance of a bizarre leaker claiming to be the son of a senior developer.
In a now-nuked Reddit post (opens in new tab), user HogwartsInsider alleged that through their connections to their father, design director Chad Liddell, they’d been able to assist in QA on the game, and while a non-disclosure agreement partially bound them, they’d been permitted to host a limited Q+A session, revealing details about the game.
Through that thread, they answered questions pertaining to everything from player customisation to PC performance. At the time of writing, however, none of what they revealed remains visible. According to one of the subreddit’s mods (opens in new tab), Warner Bros issued a takedown notice to Reddit’s legal department, which took down the post in question. Another post, from a user claiming to have accessed the game early, was also removed, and both accounts have now been deleted.
None of the content revealed in either leak was particularly notable – there were no story spoilers and little mechanical discussion, with most players wanting to know about customisation and map exploration, and both users were wary of spoiling too much. Nonetheless, the community appears to have rallied around the leakers as their new heroes; at the time of writing, several of the subreddit’s top posts are memes paying tribute and/or decrying Warner Bros’ decision to strike the post.
The circumstances around the leak are pretty wild, as even if the leaker was exactly who they claimed to be, non-disclosure agreements exist for a reason. At this late stage before the game’s release, marketing campaigns are fully locked in, and even if a QA worker really was related to a senior developer, an unofficial question and answer session on a fan forum wouldn’t just be signed off by ‘my dad who works at Avalanche’.
The leak, which was nixed at the same time as another thread by a user who claimed to have got their copy of the game early, is just the latest chapter in a bizarre pre-launch saga for Hogwarts Legacy. While community enthusiasm remains high, the Hogwarts Legacy controversy continues, with several protests aimed at the game.
While J.K. Rowling is not involved in the development of Hogwarts Legacy, GamesRadar+ does acknowledge the author’s role in the creation of the Wizarding World, as well as her publicly stated, harmful views regarding the rights of transgender people. If you’d like to offer your support to the communities affected by Rowling’s rhetoric, consider donating to the National Center for Transgender Equality in the US, or Mermaids in the UK.
NASA’s Revolutionary Propulsion Design for Deep Space Missions
Rotating detonation rocket engine, or RDRE hot fire test at Marshall Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA
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Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and primary collaborator IN Space LLC, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, are confirming data from RDRE hot fire tests conducted in 2022 at Marshall’s East Test Area. The engine was fired over a dozen times, totaling nearly 10 minutes in duration.
The RDRE achieved its primary test objective by demonstrating that its hardware – made from novel additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, designs and processes – could operate for long durations while withstanding the extreme heat and pressure environments generated by detonations. While operating at full throttle, the RDRE produced over 4,000 pounds of thrust for nearly a minute at an average chamber pressure of 622 pounds per square inch, the highest pressure rating for this design on record.
Rotating detonation rocket engine, or RDRE hot fire test at Marshall Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA
The RDRE incorporates the NASA-developed copper-
Thrust propulsion testing and characterization of the University of Central Florida rotating detonation rocket engine is shown in this photo. NASA provided funding for a UCF project focused on rotating detonation rocket engines, which use high-energy explosions to produce more energy with less fuel, improving engine efficiency and cutting down space travel costs and emissions. Credit: UCF
RDRE is managed and funded by the Game Changing Development Program in NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.
Samsung Galaxy A24 images reveal Galaxy S23-like design
The launch of the Galaxy S23 series is something millions of folks have been waiting for, even though the leaks have pretty much made Samsung’s Unpacked event null and void as everyone already knows what to expect from the new phones.
Of course, that isn’t to say everyone is going to buy a Galaxy S23-series smartphone. The Galaxy A series continues to be popular and will no doubt sell a lot more in 2023 as well. And one of the upcoming A series devices that could end up being a massive success, the Galaxy A24, has been revealed ahead of its official announcement in all its glory thanks to leaked 360-renders.
These renders show the device from the sides, back, and front, and the first thing you will probably notice (at least if you follow the mobile industry and all the leaks that have been happening) is that the A24 looks quite similar to a Galaxy S23 or Galaxy S23+ from the back. Part of it is down to those individual rear camera rings, which is a design theme that Samsung seems to have adopted for all devices this year.
The front, however, will probably give away the fact that it’s a mid-range phone we’re looking at, because of the waterdrop notch and the huge chin at the bottom. The latter is something we hope Samsung would have addressed already, but clearly, it don’t done so.
The specs might not be too impressive, either. The Galaxy A24 is reportedly powered by the MediaTek Helio G99 chip, which is the first time that Samsung is using that chip on a phone if memory serves us right. Other specs are expected to be run-off-the-mill, too, such as a 6.4″ AMOLED display, at least 4 gigs of RAM, and Android 13 out-of-the-box.
The rear cameas are said to include a 50MP main camera, a 5MP ultra-wide camera, and a 2MP macro camera, while the 8MP camera for taking selfies and making video calls should see an upgrade to a 13MP camera. As far as battery capactity is concerned, it could either be 4,000 mAh or 5,000 mAh, though we have a feeling it will be the latter. In either case, charging should be quick as the A24 is said to support 25W charging, same as its last two predecessors.
There is no concrete time frame for when the Galaxy A24 will go official, though it shouldn’t be too far off. In any case, rest assured we will keep you updated as more news about the phone comes our way.