The contract is in support of a new ground system to collect and process data from missile warning satellites WASHINGTON — SciTec, a small business based in Princeton, New Jersey, won a $272 million contract to develop software to analyze data collected by the U.S. military’s early-warning infrared satellites. The Space Systems Command announced the
Amazon has made a string of startup acquisitions over the years to build out its robotics business; now, the e-commerce leviathan is taking an interesting turn in that strategy as it expands its industrial warehouse capabilities. Amazon is acquiring Cloostermans, a company out of Belgium that is a specialist in mechatronics. It’s been building technology to
News The Comet Is Coming Share Video for New Song “Technicolour”: Watch The latest from their forthcoming album Hyper-Dimensional Extension Beam By Allison Hussey September 9, 2022 Facebook Twitter (Photo by Fabrice Bourgelle) Facebook Twitter The Comet Is Coming have shared another new song from their forthcoming LP Hyper-Dimensional Extension Beam. It’s titled “Technicolour,” and
Writer/Director Jalmari Helander delivered a delightfully wicked twist to Santa Claus in 2010’s genre-bender Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Helander’s latest, Sisu, sees the filmmaker reteaming with some familiar Rare Exports faces for another crowd-pleasing genre-bender, this time an R-rated journey through Lapland near the end of World War II. The period action adventure goes hard on hyper-violence and
Play video content TMZ.com Murray Bartlett is going up against his own guys at the Emmys this year — and while you might think he’d be a little competitive … the guy’s just here for a good time. We got the Aussie actor — who’s the lead star of HBO’s hit limited series, “White Lotus”
The Story of Film: A New Generation opens at two dozen theaters this weekend — Laemmle Royal in LA, Museum of the Moving Image in NY, Music Box Theatre in Chicago and Brattle in Cambridge. It’s a mix of arthouses, cinematheques, museums and even a few multiplexes for Mark Cousins’ follow-up to his 15-hour, 2011
We learned a bit more about Amy Hennig’s upcoming Marvel game from Skydance News Media at today’s Disney & Marvel Game Showcase. While the title is still shrouded in secret, we at least got a hint at its setting. We also found out the playable character roster, and it seems like it’s going beyond just
The rim rock crowned snake is said to be the rarest legless slitherer in North America. Not only does this small snake spend most of its life underground, hiding in crevices or burrowing beneath rocks, but only about 26 individuals are known to exist. These survivors are confined to what’s left of southern Florida’s pine
For 25 years, beginning with her National Book Award-winning story collection, Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has devoted vast amounts of her creative energy to vividly imagining several generations of a family and their friends living in central New York. In Natural History, the publisher tells us, Barrett “completes and connects the lives of the family
GPS in its many regional flavors has become a ubiquitous feature in phones, smart watches, cars and other connected devices, but for all the location-based features that it helps enable (mapping being the most obvious) it has a lot of shortcomings: it can be slow and inaccurate, it can contribute to faster battery drain and,
Play video content TMZ.com YG is fully focused on his upcoming sixth studio album “I Got Issues” and the West Coast rhymer fulfilled a dream by getting Nas on one of his tracks. The proud Bompton rapper recently held an L.A. listening session for the sturdy new project, and tells TMZ Hip Hop he was
The popularity of Hocus Pocus has grown with each passing year, paving the way for the long-awaited sequel Hocus Pocus 2 to debut on Disney+ on September 30, 2022. Fresh out of D23 tonight, watch the brand new Hocus Pocus 2 trailer below! The film is being billed as “the spooky sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic,” with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy all
Anna Kendrick makes almost every movie she chooses to appear in better, even if the movies that she chooses don’t challenge her too deeply (cough cough Noelle) or ask her to show that much range. Sometimes, as in say the Pitch Perfect movies, she’s playing a variation of the personality we often see from Kendrick
Silver’s ultimate plan has finally come to light! Thanks to some finesse by Daniel and Johnny and Kreese falling for their trap on Cobra Kai Season 5 Episode 7, we know what Silver’s ultimate plan was this whole time. Global Domination. The arrival of Sekai Taikai on Cobra Kai Season 5 Episode 8 led to
Last week, we asked you venture into The Last of Us Part I and explore the rebuilt game’s photo mode using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Ayghan shares Joel and Tess wearing gas masks in a spore-ridden building. gamingbyframe shares a full body portrait of a Bloater against a black backdrop. josetheduuudee shares
Korea’s ‘artificial Sun’ reactor has made headlines this week by officially sustaining plasma at a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for more than 20 seconds. The team at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device reached an ion temperature of above 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit). According to New Scientist,
Today is Disney+ Day, and, as part of its perks, the company is offering Disney+ subscribers a new AR experience in conjunction with the short film “Remembering,” starring and produced by “Captain Marvel” Brie Larson and directed and written by filmmaker Elijah Allan-Blitz. The eight-minute-long movie features a companion augmented reality app that allows users
Now playing in theaters, Barbarian has been earning rave reviews from critics – including our own Meagan Navarro, who awarded the film 4.5/5 stars – and the horror movie debut from writer/director Zach Cregger is sure to shock and surprise horror audiences for many years to come. Read nothing. Have nothing spoiled for you. Just
News Sex Pistols’ John Lydon Makes Statement on the Death of Queen Elizabeth II “Send her victorious,” the singer wrote By Madison Bloom and Eric Torres September 9, 2022 Facebook Twitter John Lydon, June 2022 (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Yesterday (September 8) Queen Elizabeth II died at her Scotland estate Balmoral Castle
Shares of Cineworld rose Friday after a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge granted Regal Cinemas’ parent Cineworld immediate access to up to approximately $785 million of a financing facility, providing sufficient liquidity for the giant theater chain to meet ongoing obligations, including to vendors, suppliers and employee salaries and benefits. The shares, traded on the London
Gremlins’ Gizmo has finally landed in MultiVersus, just a few days later than originally advertised. The Warner Bros. licensed brawler’s also been given an update that’s meant to improve hitboxes and hurtboxes, and rebalances characters. Watch the introductory trailer for Gizmo below. He’s a mogwai, you know, not a gremlin. I was misinformed!
One secret of the past that can be revealed through the study of skulls and skeletons is how frequent violence was amongst our ancestors. However, with their preserved soft tissues, mummified remains can be an even more telling indicator than bones alone. That brings us to a new analysis of three pre-Columbian South American mummies,
And we’re back! Yes, today was the second day of pitches from Y Combinator, a U.S. startup accelerator with global outreach that conducts demo days twice a year. This year’s Summer 2022 cohort gave us hundreds of batch companies to consider. For participating founders, it’s a critical day; for investors, it’s a buffet; for us
Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) is back with psychological horror movie Blood, and Deadline reports today that Vertical Entertainment has scooped up North American rights. Deadline notes in their report, “While the feature will be released to both theaters and digital platforms, a release date has not yet been disclosed.” Michelle Monaghan (“True Detective”) stars
Pusha T‘s 2013 Kanye West-produced track “Numbers on the Board” is a war anthem, of sorts, for the government of Ukraine … and Pusha is here for it. The war-torn country’s Ministry of Defense fired off a tweet Wednesday listing various Russian casualties, and it used the lyric — “I put numbers on the board”
The NFL will honor Queen Elizabeth II before the 2022-23 season kicks off … with the league holding a moment of silence, TMZ Sports has learned. Tributes throughout the sports world have been pouring in on Thursday … with many athletes, organizations and events sharing condolences over the passing of Her Majesty. In addition to
Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt are about to travel back in Hollywood history, again. The two previously worked together on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Now, these two and a fun ensemble cast are traveling further back to the 1920s in the film Babylon. While this reunion of two of the best
All of the new heroes coming to Overwatch 2 will not be immediately playable at launch, and that’s because you’ll need to unlock them on the free track of the game’s battle pass. Overwatch commercial leader and vice president of Blizzard Jon Spector revealed this on Twitter last night following leaks and rumors that stated
The Sun has been up to some pretty intense shenanigans lately, but a recent eruption on the far side looks to be absolute science gold. On the evening of September 5 GMT, an enormous coronal mass ejection (CME) was recorded exploding on the far side of the Sun, sending a radiation storm out across the
The America Library Association reported 729 book challenges in 2021 that impacted nearly 1,600 titles, the highest number of challenges the organization has recorded in 20 years. Despite this increase in challenges, only 43% of the librarians who took the School Library Journal’s (SLJ) 2022 Controversial Books Survey reported facing a formal book challenge— which