Author: Rahul M

Actors work hard to avoid being pigeonholed into roles similar to their most notable characters. After the original “Star Wars” trilogy had made Mark Hamill known to the world as intergalactic swashbuckler Luke Skywalker in the late ’70s and early ’80s, he teamed up with horror maestro John Carpenter for the 1995 thriller “Village of the Damned.” The village in question is the small North Carolina town of Midwich, where Reverend George (Hamill) frets to his wife Sarah (Pippa Pearthree) about needing finger paint for the town’s fall festival. Worries about finger paint soon turn…

20th Century Studios “Predator: Badlands” changed the sci-fi action universe forever, including having the franchise’s first Yautja protagonist. Since Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) features in nearly every scene, he couldn’t just be Silent Bob and observe everything around him; he needed to communicate too. Resultantly, the Yautja language becomes a major component of the movie. To bring this to life, “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg brought in linguist Britton Watkins to create this entirely new vocabulary. Watkins is no stranger to alien speech, having previously developed the Klingon dialect for J. J.…

It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of powerful profit-driven forces, humanity would suffer. Musk had been an early investor in DeepMind, the UK-based lab that was ahead of the pack in pursuing artificial general intelligence. After Google bought DeepMind in 2014, Musk cut ties with the research organization. He felt it was essential to create a counterforce incentivized by human…

New Delhi: Former Vice-President (V-P) Jagdeep Dhankhar Friday delivered his first public address since his sudden resignation in July, praising the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and extolling the values of the “Hindu spirit”, as he launched a book by Sangh joint general secretary Manmohan Vaidya in Bhopal.Dhankhar was the chief speaker at the event that took place in Kushabhau Thakre Convention Centre in Bhopal. Before this, the only public appearance Dhankhar had made since his dramatic resignation was at the swearing-in ceremony of CP Radhakrishnan, his successor in the V-P’s post.  Show Full Article Vaidya’s book, the former V-P said,…

PatnaNovember 21, 2025 09:03 PM IST First published on: Nov 21, 2025 at 08:57 PM IST For the first time in two decades as Bihar CM, Nitish Kumar has given up the Home portfolio while in power, handing over the crucial department to Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, according to a government notification issued Friday. The JD(U), in exchange, has received Finance that used to go to the BJP earlier. The decision to give Choudhary Home signals a significant shift in dynamics in the NDA, underlining the BJP’s position as the largest party in the state with 89 seats in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fátima Bosch Fernández’s Miss Universe victory resounded across Mexico on Friday, framed as the vindication of a disrespected contestant from a country where women have pushed their way into positions of power and are increasingly calling out traditional chauvinism.The 25-year-old from the Gulf coast state of Tabasco was scolded by the competition’s Thai director, Nawat Itsaragrisil, during a livestreamed sashing ceremony for the more than 100 contestants on Nov. 4. She allegedly did not follow his guidelines for taking part in local promotional activities. He called security when she spoke up to defend herself, and she…

The persistent hum, hiss, or ring of tinnitus—often described as a phantom sound—is not just a sensory glitch. For more than 250 million people globally, it’s an unrelenting companion that reshapes daily life. From mild irritation to full-blown sleep disruption and anxiety, the condition is often treated as untouchable: poorly understood, difficult to diagnose, and impossible to cure. But that assumption is beginning to shift. New research from the University of Oxford has unearthed a surprising connection between tinnitus and one of the body’s most fundamental systems: sleep. Specifically, the patterns of neural activity that drive deep sleep may also…

Ed Araquel/Netflix When it comes to holiday traditions, there are few American rituals like Thanksgiving Day. From dawn until dusk and beyond, it’s a day when families gather together to show gratitude for each other and reconnect at the tail end of another year. And while it might not entail an exchange of gifts, there’s a big meal full of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. But over the last century, another tradition has emerged for the holiday, as families routinely gather around the television after dinner. Some families…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish parliamentary committee set up to oversee a new peace initiative with Kurdish militants on Friday voted in favor of a controversial step to meet with the militant group’s leader, Abdullah Ocalan, in prison, state media reported.Ocalan, who has been imprisoned at Imrali Island near Istanbul since 1999, remains an influential figure among Kurds and is seen as key in advancing the peace process aimed at ending a decades-long insurgency. However, as the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, he is also reviled by much of the Turkish public as a “baby killer”…

The newly linked cave system was the result of decades of careful exploration and mapping by volunteers from the Excursionist Society of Málaga’s Underground Exploration Group. Situated in the Sierra de las Nieves near Málaga, this discovery provides a significant breakthrough in cave research. The team’s meticulous efforts suggest that the system could eventually reach up to 31 miles in total, should additional passages be discovered. Beyond the discovery’s size, the caves’ connection also opens new opportunities for hydrological research and offers a valuable natural laboratory for scientists studying the movement of water through limestone formations. A Historic Breakthrough for…