The Long-Term Plan to Scrub Carbon From the Sky
Microsoft is pulling back from efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere. But the nascent industry’s proponents say they are thinking in decades, not years.
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Inside the Radical Release Strategy for Sundance Winner ‘Ricky’
“Sometimes you’ve got to be bold about it,” Sheryl Lee Ralph says. The Emmy winner is among the first to log onto a Zoom conversation about her new film Ricky, and before all have even arrived, nicely sums up their movie’s journey of defying expectations. Coming from first-time feature director Rashad Frett with a producing…
Questions raised over whether £3.8m government grant awarded to Wrexham AFC was lawful | Wrexham
Wrexham AFC, the football club part-owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, was given a £3.8m government grant without a contract or a finished state aid assessment in place, raising questions over whether the award was lawful. The club has received £18m in taxpayer-funded grants – far more than any other in the…
Sam Altman’s ‘human verification’ company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping
,Among them, is a new tool called Concert Kit that could help bands and artists fight back against ticket scalping bots. The new feature relies on the revamped World ID, the orb-based verification system that scans users eyeballs and faces to create a “proof of human” signature that lives on users’ mobile devices. “It’s basically…
Macron demands assurances after Iran opens Strait of Hormuz | Military
NewsFeed French President Emmanuel Macron said he welcomed the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the Lebanon ceasefire, as the US and Iran declared the key waterway open. His comments came as European leaders discuss a post-war Hormuz maritime force. Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social media…
Guadalajara’s Premio Maguey Features Oscar-Winning ‘The Sea Inside’
The Guadalajara Film Festival’s (FICG) prominent LGBTQ+ strand, the Premio Maguey, is marking its 15th year, a milestone they have dubbed Queerciañera, fusing the words queer and quinceañera, Latin America’s hallowed coming-of-age celebration for girls turning 15. Since it was launched in 2012, the first queer film award to be launched in Mexico and Latin…
Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
The company, which owns the social media app Snapchat, said it was laying off about 1,000 employees as it increased its reliance on artificial intelligence.
What next for South African opposition firebrand Malema after his five-year prison sentence?
The sentence raises huge questions marks over the political future of one of South Africa’s most controversial politicians.
Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults
April 17, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults By K. R. Callaway edited by Claire Cameron Scientists have long studied…
AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026, though, no blood is required. All you do is sit down at a laptop and have Claude or ChatGPT write the story for you. That seems to be the takeaway…