Since shortly after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian War in February widespread calls began to emerge in the West to supply the Ukrainian Army and possibly Kiev-aligned militias and contractors with Western main battle tanks to enhance their armoured warfare capabilities. Ukraine has since received tremendous quantities of armour from NATO […]
The word “Udûn” plays a large role in episode 6 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. For one thing, it’s the title of the episode. For another, it’s the victory chant taken up by the orcs as Adar’s (Joseph Mawle) plan for the Southlands finally falls […]
The third episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power introduced audiences to the season’s Big Bad: Adar (Joseph Mawle), a menacing elven figure who leads the orcs of the Southlands. His origins — and whether or not he’s actually Sauron — were left somewhat unclear… until […]
The weekend is almost here, but to tide you over while you wait, there’s a brand new Wordle. But if you’ve used all your brain cells this week and are struggling with today’s puzzle, never fear — we’re here to help every day. If you just want the answer, you […]
After seven years, Daily Show host Trevor Noah will soon be Daily Show host no more. Announcing his departure during Thursday’s episode, Noah thanked his team and reflected positively on his experience hosting the show, recalling covering the Trump presidency, the pandemic, and “more pandemic.” “I’ve loved hosting this show,” […]
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Beyond Earth, there are likely other oceans in our solar system. Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter’s cracked, ice-blanketed moon Europa harbors a particularly voluminous sea, some 40 to 100 miles deep. Now, for just the third time ever, a spacecraft flew by the icy moon, swooping just 219 miles from Europa’s […]
Hurricane Ian appears headed for South Carolina as of Thursday, after already dealing untold damage as it cut a path across Florida Wednesday evening through Thursday morning. During its landfall in Florida, it was a Category 4 hurricane. It weakened while on land, but on Thursday afternoon it was upgraded […]
Back in my day, you turned devices off when you didn’t need to use them. But in the age of Amazon, your “smart” home and its ecosystem of gadgets will ideally always be turned on. That vision even has a cool-sounding name: ambient intelligence. It’s A.I. with a new spin […]
Everyone’s favorite text-to-image generator Dall-E has a new competitor from Meta: A video-to-text generator called Make-A-Video. The tool generates short, soundless video snippets based on the same type of text prompts you feed to Dall-E. But Dall-E is child’s play compared to Make-A-Video, at least according to Mark Zuckerberg. The […]