Director and lead star Panta Mosleh’s queer comedy Pass the Salt — about a sheltered Muslim-Iranian grad student who falls in love with a young Jewish woman — has added Amanda Wear, Adam Fox and Nathaniel Vass to its ensemble cast.
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The cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands in the U.S. is drawing renewed attention to a decades-long shift in how fresh food moves through the country.
The expansive red bluffs of Western Australia's Yilgarn Craton give the landscape a Martian appearance. It turns out the resemblance is more than superficial: The Yilgarn Craton also shares geological characteristics with lakes in Mars' Terra Sirenum region. T. A. Plattner and colleagues recently characterized those shared features to shed light on the region's aqueous history and its potential to have supported life in an article published in the journal Earth and Space Science.
For the past decade or so, Microsoft has shown that it is willing to cut just about any corner it can when it comes to actual investment in game development for its storied franchise, Halo. As a lifelong Halo fan, I’m tired, boss. Tomorrow marks the release of Halo: Campaign Evolved, a (mostly) faithful recreation of the 2001 original, Halo: Combat Evolved, and Xbox is celebrating by collaborating with, you guessed it, Lamborghini.
Video games are an art form, and the levels used to build many of them can be thought of as the brush strokes that make it all possible. And yet, as with any medium, there are moments that don’t go quite right. Even fantastic games feature stretches where design principles falter or potential remains unmet.
E.J. Peaker, who portrayed the chatty hat shop assistant, Minnie Fay, in Barbra Streisand’s Hello, Dolly! and starred with Robert Morse on the innovative but short-lived ABC musical comedy show That’s Life, has died. She was 82.
Previous apps for identifying animal calls regularly hit practical limits: Without a stable internet connection, real-time identification in forests or high mountains was impossible.
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YouTube Premium is becoming an even better value, as the service will soon include a subscription to Peacock at no extra cost for users in the United States.
Right now, most publishers block AI bots. According to Vince Nero’s excellent research, 79% of top news sites block AI training bots via robots.txt. Only 18% block no AI crawlers at all.