Author: Vidya Saras

Paramount Pictures Sports movies come in all flavors. Take Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” which draws a stylish, frenetic parallel between the athletes involved in its story’s central love triangle and their passionate love for the game of tennis. Guadagnino understands how to enliven a drama that thrives on this complex dynamic, resulting in a sports movie that feels fresh and exciting. On the flip side, we have intensely dramatic sports movies like “The Iron Claw,” which dramatizes the real-life tragedy of the Von Erich family while still thriving as a cinematic…

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) called for a review of state-run firms’ operations amid an overlap of their regulatory and commercial functions. In a policy paper, “Supporting State-Owned Enterprises Reform in the Philippines,” the OECD noted the importance of a clear separation between these functions to mitigate potential conflicts of interest. “Such overlapping mandates underscore the continued need for careful functional reviews of each government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) operations to ensure competitive neutrality and avoid market distortions,” it said. Among the GOCCs with dual roles are the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), the Philippine Ports…

Key points:Bitcoin price pushed above $95,000, increasing the chance of a rally to $100,000.Institutional investor demand is back, suggesting that the bearish trend could be over.Select altcoins could break above their respective overhead resistance levels if Bitcoin remains strongBitcoin (BTC) bulls are trying to sustain the price above $95,000, but they are likely to face significant resistance from the bears. Will buyers succeed in pushing the price toward the psychologically important level of $100,000, or is a pullback around the corner? That is the big question on the traders’ minds.A positive sign is that inflows for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded…

Your browser does not support the video tag. Today we’re excited to celebrate a huge milestone – Ethereum.org now supports 30 languages! 🎉🎉🎉 Since we launched the Website Translation Program seven months ago, we’ve seen how decentralized collaboration can result in a significant impact in the ecosystem, benefiting hundreds of thousands of community members around the world. As of today, 467 volunteers from 52 language groups have helped make ethereum.org accessible to non-English speaking communities in their mother tongues. Thanks to these volunteers, 16% of all traffic to ethereum.org is now directed towards non-English versions of the site. Over time,…

Nicholas Barber and Caryn JamesYun Sun Park/ BBC(Credit: Yun Sun Park/ BBC)BBC film critics Caryn James and Nicholas Barber pick their cinema highlights of the year so far, from a brutal war epic to an ambitious period vampire drama.Warner Bros Pictures(Credit: Warner Bros Pictures)CompanionThe sharpest American indie film of the year so far, Companion stars Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher as a devoted young couple who go to stay with some friends in a Russian tycoon’s remote forest getaway. (Rupert Friend has a hilarious cameo as the mulleted oligarch.) As a drunken evening of confessions, suspicions and disagreements unfolds, it…

Images tied to the popular Ethereum NFT collections Clone X and Animus temporarily disappeared on April 24, leaving collectors with blank screens and a notice about a terms of service violation.The glitch follows the closure of RTFKT, the digital studio behind the collections, which was shut down by Nike in December 2024. Whilst ownership and metadata remained secure on the blockchain, the visual assets linked to the tokens became temporarily inaccessible due to a third-party hosting problem.RTFKT’s former Head of Technology, Samuel Cardillo, has since confirmed efforts are underway to prevent similar disruptions in the future. Source: RTFKTWhy did the…

TRON is known for its fast and affordable blockchain infrastructure — and one of the key components behind this efficiency is Tron Energy. Designed specifically to power smart contracts, Energy is one of two essential resources on the network, alongside Bandwidth. What Is Tron Energy? Tron Energy is the computing power required to execute operations within smart contracts. Every interaction with a contract — from token transfers to DeFi actions or dApp usage — consumes a certain amount of Energy. The more complex the contract, the more Energy it will use. This system helps the TRON network stay scalable by…

Amidst the chaos and upheaval at the Social Security Administration (SSA) caused by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), employees have now been asked to integrate the use of a generative AI chatbot into their daily work.But before any of them can use it, they all need to watch a four-minute training video featuring an animated, four-fingered woman crudely drawn in a style that would not look out of place on websites created in the early part of this century.Aside from the Web 1.0-era graphics employed, the video also fails at its primary purpose of informing SSA staff…

The EU has moved forward with its campaign against U.S. companies and figures who are not yielding to their expansive censorship demands. They continue to rely on eager U.S. experts.

Coordinating complicated interactive systems, whether it’s the different modes of transportation in a city or the various components that must work together to make an effective and efficient robot, is an increasingly important subject for software designers to tackle. Now, researchers at MIT have developed an entirely new way of approaching these complex problems, using simple diagrams as a tool to reveal better approaches to software optimization in deep-learning models.They say the new method makes addressing these complex tasks so simple that it can be reduced to a drawing that would fit on the back of a napkin.The new approach is…