Self-driving cars and medical robots need an infant’s understanding of physics to succeed

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them

OpenAI’s GPT-2 program churns out natural language that’s remarkably coherent—and that’s a problem

Manny celebrates mushrooms. Anna Marie has fever dreams. Chris finished…three games? Listen and find out if this is the real life, or if it’s just...

Natural doctrines come along so infrequently that you’d think we’d notice when one was cresting over the horizon. The record keepers come, gathering magic in...

Chris has to resist the lure of the bratwurst to record a show. Anna Marie has to match 3. Alice has to deliver missiles…wait…she didn’t...

Chris has to finish writing this summary so he can start building his new PC. So….the folks talk about E3 and some stuff and amiibos...

Sam Wachter tries to convince us that Moco Moco Friends’ Plushkins are not Pokémon. Anna Marie goes through all the feels. Chris continues his therapy...

This is the end of an era. No longer will we be able to look forward to episode 420. You could say our ambitions have...

We return from the depths of kidney despair to bring you a fresh show. Chris’s FFXI obsession has passed (for now). Kelley learns to Musou....

Never has one man in inexpensive rumpled suits been so loved by the style set - but Sanders’ clothes signal an authenticity other politicians can only dream of

Of all the things we’ll miss about Bernie Sanders, now that he has dropped out of the Democratic race, his style should be the least of it. Not only because his politics are so right on – this is the man who believes in free education and Medicare for all and who has had many Americans, who until recently felt disenfranchised by mainstream politics, feeling activated by it. But also because his clothes are so seemingly unremarkable.

He wears crumpled suits that look borrowed from a slightly larger man and creased shirts with straight-lace striped ties. The inconspicuousness of his geography teacher shoes are matched only by his inoffensive navy round-neck jumpers.

He’s played a revolutionary hero, a horny teen – now Gael García Bernal is a reptilian choreographer in Ema, and locked down in Mexico city. Just don’t ask him to move to LA when all this is over

At the start of the century, the director Alfonso Cuarón was casting Y Tu Mamá También, the bawdy but plangent road movie he had written with his brother Carlos about two oversexed Mexican teenagers, the wealthy Tenoch and his poorer, grungier friend Julio. “Alfonso called me very excitedly,” recalls Carlos Cuarón. “He said: ‘I know who’s going to play Julio! I’ve seen him in Alejandro’s movie.’” Alejandro González Iñárritu, that is, whose ferocious dog-fighting drama Amores Perros was about to be released. “I said: ‘No, no, I’ve found Julio; I saw the perfect actor in this short film, De Tripas, Corazón. He’s incredible: his eyes, the way he manages silence ...’”

Eventually, the brothers realised they were talking about the same person: Gael García Bernal, who was then just 21. The son of theatre actors, he had become a star in his early teens on the Mexican soap opera El Abuelo y Yo (Grandpa and I) before decamping to London to study at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Iñárritu plucked him out mid-term for Amores Perros and he stole that movie as the twitchy-hipped tearaway who was every bit as feral as his champion rottweiler. His mutable features could switch from cherubic to lupine to gravely smouldering; his nerve endings felt exposed like frayed electrical wires.

In the wake of Covid-19, We Are One: A Global Film Festival is taking the experience online. But cinema is a bigger encounter

Every year, at Cannes (and other festivals) there’s a plaintive argument about what Cannes (or other festivals) are really all “about”. Some Savonarola-type person will dash the glass of rosé out of your hand, throw your canape into the Med and tell you Cannes is not about red-carpet narcissism, not about stars preening in the flashbulb glare of celeb-worship, not about L’Oréal sponsorship, not about getting drunk at a million late-night parties. It’s about the movies, about cinema itself.

Of course. And that’s what the new Covid-19-related We Are One: A Global Film Festival appears to offer: the 10-day online festival, beginning 29 May, curated by Jane Rosenthal of the Tribeca film festival, featuring arthouse films (though not the big-ticket Hollywood items) from Cannes, Venice, Berlin and many more, streaming for free in return for an optional donation to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 fund. So there you have it. A festival with all the frills and extras and flummeries stripped away. Just you, in your bedroom, with your laptop, communing with cinema. Isn’t that what it’s all about?

Donald Trump takes a jab at the South Korean film Parasite, best picture at this year's Oscars, telling supporters in Colorado that the US has 'enough problems with South Korea', and: ‘Can we get Gone With the Wind back?’ He also dismisses Brad Pitt, who – during his Oscars speech said his 45-second slot was more than John Bolton received at the US president's Senate impeachment trial. Trump calls the actor a 'little wise guy'

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Video games can fill the productivity and social void in this unusual time

During these long, mundane physically-distant days, stretching on into an uncertain future like an ever-lengthening beigeish corridor, it’s impossible not to miss hanging out with friends. Especially the kind of hanging out where you’re not really doing anything in particular, not talking about any one thing—just kind of being. As we continue to stay physically […]

Rahul Gandhi seems to have descended into a spiral of far Left, subversive standpoint since Narendra Modi swept to power at the Centre and the Congress started losing state after state.

Early in life, babies gain billions of viruses that target gut bacteria – but breastfed babies are less likely to pick up viruses that infect human cells

Some dogs and cats may be passing gut microbes to their owners that withstand last-resort antibiotics, which can be needed to fight off pneumonia from a coronavirus infection

English football will take a financial hit from the coronavirus era, and a former FA technical boss says structural changes could follow.

Batman Forever star Val Kilmer recalls an incident on the set that crystalized for him why he needed to quit the franchise.

In just a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has crossed borders and oceans, killing thousands, sickening millions, and forcing millions more to reckon with the economic and personal chaos of closures and lockdowns. Yet as the global infection count rises, the crisis has also given rise to acts of ingenuity. The pandemic has set off…

Sharon Osbourne hoped seeing their father''s battle with addiction would put her children off, but she was wrong.

Analysis: As the president declares victory over the coronavirus amid a rising death toll, his clear focus on extricating himself from responsibility becomes clearer.

Arbery, who would have turned 26 on Friday, was shot to death after being chased by two men who thought he was a burglar.

So-called gynandromorphs are rare, but they can teach us a lot about development and evolution

One detects an active infection; another signals that the virus has already left the body. Both are critical for tracking the spread of disease

The fourth installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 crisis

While COVID-19 stymies travel, help conserve those things—from cacti to manta rays—that will beckon you later

What hasn't changed much in the past two month and may not change by the fall is the political fortunes of the NDP and Sask. Party.

Coronavirus restrictions are lifting across the nation, and before long you’ll get back to some normalcy. I’m not taking any chances with bringing germs into my house. Tap or click for the at-home “airlock” trick I use to make sure everything is disinfected, inspired by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.

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New video footage released by Russian authorities shows the moment a plane's emergency landing resulted in a crash which killed 41 people in Moscow in 2019.

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Rumours that Kim Jong-Un is in a "fragile condition" after apparent heart surgery have been denied by South Korean officials.

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Fears that Transport for London may have to axe services because of a cash crisis were downplayed today.

It comes after headteachers warned the earliest date they could reopen is June 1, and planning would need to begin "very soon" to achieve it.

The Foreign Secretary has confirmed the Government is following reports of Kim Jong Un's death "very closely".

The Government's testing tsar has said he is "confident" that the 100,000 daily target for coronavirus tests will be met on Thursday.

London hospitals are trialling the innovation — and maker plans delivery service to send out thousands

Boris Johnson has urged Brits to "keep going" during the coronavirus lockdown in a series of posts on Twitter.

An experimental medicine that appears to help coronavirus patients recover faster has been given the green light for emergency use by US regulators.

Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds named their newborn son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas after their grandfathers - and the NHS doctors who helped save the Prime Minister's life as he battled coronavirus.