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Kerala Ishtu: Creamy vegetable stew
In The Great Indian Thali cookbook, Nandita Iyer shares her recipe for a mild, coconut-based stew made with seasonal vegetables and a hint of spice.
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Driving Manufacturing Efficiency With AI: Pirelli's Daniele Petecchi
The spring 2024 issue's special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
The spring 2024 issue's special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
Daniele Petecchi didn't realize how complex the process of producing tires was until he joined Pirelli, a company that's been in the business of manufacturing tires for more than 150 years. But now, as head of data management and AI, he's focused on leveraging the company's wealth of data to meet the stringent technical, quality, and performance requirements of the Formula One racers and luxury vehicle makers â like Ferrari, Lamborghini, and BMW â that rely on Pirelli's premium tires.
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20 Years Ago, the Most Overlooked Zelda Game Predicted a Modern Gaming Trend
The Legend of Zelda games are a uniquely singular experience. People know the classic dungeons, puzzles, and themes that have filled the series, but it’s in how you, the player, specifically approach your journey that typically defines Link’s adventure. So what happens when that experience becomes a shared one?
Released for Nintendo GameCube on March 18, 2004, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures offers an intriguing answer. The game is a fun experiment that explores how the addition of others changes a dynamic that we thought we knew very well. But along the way, it also reveals the defining feature of all Zelda games that keeps the franchise going strong two decades later.
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'Dune' Sequels Present a Huge Challenge for Denis Villeneuve, 'Dune' Scholars Say
Dune: Part Two has stormed the box office like the rideable Shai-Hulud, reigniting the global cinematic appetite for spice melange on a scale larger than Part One could have dreamed of. The only problem with making a massively successful Dune adaptation is that audiences will be itching to see more of Frank Herbert’s universe on screen… but the sequel novels come with a completely different reputation.
Herbert wrote five sequels to his 1965 classic — Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune — and despite their commercial success, none of them captured the zeitgeist quite like the original. Their reputation among those who have read them to completion is mixed (although nowhere near as negative as the ones co-written by Herbert’s son, Brian), in no small part due to how unhinged and unwieldy the Arrakis saga becomes.
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2024's Creepiest Religious Thriller Movie Wastes A Great Idea
Things go bump and clang in the night in an Italian convent, in which American newcomer Sister Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) ends up suddenly and miraculously pregnant in Michael Mohan’s eerie but overbearing Immaculate. But the more she snoops around, the more she realizes something sinister is afoot. Unfortunately, it takes until the final act for the horror movie to lay its cards on the table, at which point it displays mild hints of intensity. In order to get there, however, Immaculate first throws every cheap and familiar aesthetic trick at the wall just so see what sticks, causing one hell of a racket.
A brisk prologue sucks the audience in, with images of a young nun trying to escape the convent’s grounds. Nuns dressed in haunting red masks and some bone-crunching violence make for a fun introduction, but the film is seldom as enjoyable ever again. When it switches focus to Cecilia — whose one-way ticket causes Italian airport officials to worry she’s being exploited — her daytime arrival in the countryside is met with aggressive, unsettling interactions from the convent’s Mother Superior (Dora Romano) and her translator Sister Mary (Simona Tabasco), who warns her not to romanticize the lush setting, with its centuries-old abbey. Things aren’t easy for young newcomers, since their job is to look after aging nuns living out their last days. Death is in the air.
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LG's Retro-Futuristic Speaker Doubles as an OLED Fireplace
Its latest wacky innovation from its experimental LG Labs division is called the DukeBox for CES 2024. Even though old-school vacuum tube audio is still relevant these days, LG gave it a considerable facelift by adding an OLED display that has an adjustable transparency.
It doesn’t feel right to label the DukeBox as just a 360-degree speaker or just a transparent display, but it’s certainly a conversation starter for anyone who steps into your apartment. Along with the DukeBox, LG has been leaning heavily into retro-inspired designs like its recently announced artsy portable projector.
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60 Years Later, an Iconic Superhero Team Will Achieve a Historic First
DC’s iconic superhero team has gone through many iterations. Now, they’re finally coming to the big screen.
As the past few weeks of tumult will tell you, James Gunn and Peter Safran’s plans for the new DC Universe aren’t exactly set in stone. That can be frustrating, but it can also be downright exciting.
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The Director of 2023's Wildest Sci-Fi Movie is Pulling Off a Rare Hollywood Achievement
Yorgos Lanthimos is both one of the weirdest and most efficient directors working today. From The Lobster to The Killing of A Sacred Deer, he’s managed to produce a parade of critically acclaimed movies. After his latest success, the multi-Oscar-winning Poor Things, Lanthimos is attempting to pull off a new feature film less than a year after his last. This new project shares many cast members with Poor Things, but one new element could make it even more unique.
Last week, Searchlight Pictures announced Kinds of Kindness will hit theaters on June 21, 2024. Lanthimos’ new movie will reunite Poor Things stars Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Margaret Qualley, and will also feature Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Joe Alywn, Mahmoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.
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Quest 3S Leak Shows How the Headset Could Cost Less Than the Quest 3
We’ve been hearing rumors about Meta working on a more affordable version of its Quest 3 headset since early last year, but we’ve yet to get any clues on what it could look like. Thanks to a Redditor who claims Meta has been doing user research meetings for its next headset, we could have some idea of the design now.
Since it’s just a leak from what’s likely to be early consumer research meetings, we have to take these images with a grain of salt. Meta could still tweak the design of its affordable follow-up to the Quest 3 once it’s scheduled for production. While it’s not Apple Vision Pro levels of sleek, it looks like Meta could tweak the design slightly and the camera positioning.
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PSVR 2 News Confirms a Painful Truth About the PS5's Biggest Failure
The PlayStation VR 2 launched just over a year ago, in February 2023, but a new report indicates the gaming headset may already be in trouble. Despite Sony’s hope that the PSVR 2 would usher in a new era of console VR, it may instead mark the end of a shaky experiment.
After producing 2 million headsets, Sony is halting production due to a surplus of unsold units, Bloomberg reports. Sony said the PSVR 2 sold 600,000 units in the first six weeks after its launch, but hasn’t released figures since then. Shipments of the headset to retailers have fallen every quarter since launch, according to Bloomberg.
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Tuesday 19th March 2024
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