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This article explores the trend of increasing movie lengths, examining factors such as audience expectations, streaming platforms, and the impact on storytelling and production.
The best snow-forecasting app for skiers and snowboarders isn’t from any of the federally funded weather services. Nor from any of the big-name brands. It’s an independent app startup that leverages government data, its own AI models, and decades of alpine-life experience to offer better snow (and soon avalanche) predictions than anything else out there.…
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The British monarch praised multilateral institutions, warned against climate change, and championed diversity
‘Against Your Better Judgment’ Robert Lowell wrote in 1975 that Seamus Heaney was “the best Irish poet since Yeats”—a claim that some thought hyperbolic, or at least premature. But now, on the arrival of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, Lowell’s view has become consensus. Heaney, who died in 2013 at age seventy-four, produced a breadth and quality of work rivaling that of the first Irish Nobel laureate. Just as Yeats explored the “terrible beauty” of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rebellion, Heaney weighed...
Hurst captured the country’s culture—from public rituals of the cult of Santa Muerte to scenes from everyday life—with no small amount of homoeroticism
Travelers wait in line for TSA in the parking garage at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why this battery company is pivoting to AI Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died or is going to die. It’s kind of…