This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Fiction Longlist for the 2024 National Book Awards The final and most closely-watched longlist for The National
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has selected 10 companies to compete for up to $290 million in contracts over the next five years to provide commercial satellite imagery and data analytics, aiming to bolster the government’s global monitoring and intelligence capabilities. The agency announced Sept. 13 that the following vendors will be
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Warner Bros.’ Todd Phillips sequel Joker: Folie à Deux hit tracking with a $70M+ projection. The studio, similar to what they did with the original 2019 movie, Joker, took the pic to the Venice Film Festival for a world premiere, however, critical reviews came back at 62% fresh. By the way, before we rush to
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London Grammar‘s Hannah Reid has opened up about the impact of motherhood on her artistry. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – London Grammar: “I always end up being the only female in the room” Speaking in a new interview, the frontwoman explained that she worried that the birth of her son would change her creative output. “I
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iPhone 16 series was launched at the company’s “Its Glowtime” event at Apple Park on September 9. Apple’s latest smartphone lineup brings several hardware and software upgrades over the iPhone 15 series, including the inclusion of Apple Intelligence – its suite of artificial intelligence (AI) features. However, one upgrade which the Cupertino-based tech giant did
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Anyone who has read a considerable amount of my work likely knows I take in a lot of true crime content. For me, it has much to do with an empathetic response to the victims’ plight. I want to see them get justice and I want to see their families get the closure they deserve.
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WhatsApp for Android is reported to soon integrate a two-way voice chat feature for the in-app artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Meta AI. Now, a new report claims that the voice mode feature will also include multiple voices of public figures, allowing users to customise their experience of interacting with the chatbot. Additionally, other voices from
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The Dark Wives I’m a latecomer to the Vera Stanhope series: I’m not a total newbie, but I definitely have some back catalog to catch up on, especially as author Ann Cleeves’ latest, The Dark Wives, is a crackerjack mystery. Rosebank Home is a halfway house for troubled teens. At the moment, it is also
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India will appeal against a ruling of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) trade dispute settlement panel which ruled that the country’s import dues on certain information and technology products are inconsistent with the global trade norms, commerce ministry sources said. They said that the ruling will not have any adverse impact on domestic industry. The
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Human-driven changes to the natural environment have knock-on consequences that aren’t immediately obvious: air pollution, for example, has now been linked to an increase in the frequency of lightning in thunderstorms. Researchers from James Madison University (JMU) in Virginia looked at data from more than 500,000 thunderstorms across Washington, DC, and Kansas City over the
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Space Marine 2 appears to be the current hotness. It’s popped off on Steam, hitting an impressive player count entirely with early adopters before smashing that figure once again as soon as the gates were thrown open by the game’s public release. The result is multifaceted. Not only do 40K fans get a loving send-up
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Fanhome, the leader in subscription-based collections and models, delights fans of POWER RANGERS as it announces the launch of the Megazord build-up model subscription, under license by leading toy and game company Hasbro. Assemble an incredible replica of the POWER RANGERS Megazord that stands more than 60cm (nearly 2 feet) tall when built. The model
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Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests. The
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