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Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey review – Sadly, he doesn’t meet a cyclops

Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey review – Sadly, he doesn’t meet a cyclops

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter As light-entertainment schedule-filler television goes, you can’t really fault the logic behind Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey. The four-part series, in which the actor and presenter explores the Mediterranean locales that inspired Homer’s ancient Greek epic The Odyssey, arrives just a couple of weeks after Christopher Nolan’s lavish, phenomenally popular film adaptation came out in cinemas. It’s safe to say there hasn’t been this much interest in The Odyssey in centuries. Grant’s Channel 4 series plays dumb on this front – not really alluding to Nolan’s film or The Odyssey’s re-emergent relevance – but the thinking here is obvious. One of the big problems that Very Modern Odyssey runs up against is that the most resonant moments of Homer’s story were not historical, or even geographical, but magical. Grant travels around the places Odysseus passed through on his journey – …

‘Iron fist’ doesn’t work with Iran: Former US hostage in Tehran | Politics

‘Iron fist’ doesn’t work with Iran: Former US hostage in Tehran | Politics

Published by Sam Flores

Former US hostage John Limbert says Washington ‘can’t bomb and assassinate its way to a better relationship’ with Iran. “We can’t dictate to the Iranians, and the Iranians can’t dictate to us,” argues John Limbert, one of the American captives held in the US embassy in Tehran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Limbert, who went on to become US deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran, tells host Steve Clemons that US leaders believe that “all we have to do is drop more bombs and the Iranians will do what we want”. And Iranian leaders believe that “all we have to do is keep attacking ships in the Strait [of Hormuz], and the Americans eventually will do what we want”. Published On 2 Aug 20262 Aug 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.

Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.

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For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed every Y Combinator founder he could find on LinkedIn until one gave him an angel check for his first company at age 17.   That company, now the YC-backed Nozomio, is an API index for AI agents — a tool that helps AI agents find and use software services — and has raised more than $6 million in funding to date. “I either win or lose, and a lot of young founders have the same mindset,” he told TechCrunch. “They just want to win.” Young founders like Rakhmetzhanov are building under a new set of pressures. Investors are throwing more capital at them, yet the expectation to hit that “north star” milestone — the one big number investors are chasing — hasn’t relaxed, and every misstep along …

Air Pollution Doesn’t Just Dull Minds. It Dulls Teams

Air Pollution Doesn’t Just Dull Minds. It Dulls Teams

Published by Jenni Sidey

Picture a locked room, a countdown clock, and a group of strangers who must combine clues, argue over theories, and assign tasks fast enough to escape before time runs out. It is a strange setting for psychological research. It is also, as it turns out, an excellent one. A study published in the Journal of Economic Psychology used data from over 15,000 live escape-room games at a single London venue, played between 2018 and 2022, to ask a simple question: Does air pollution make teams worse at working together? The surprising answer is yes, and the effect is not small. We already knew pollution could dull individual minds. In one striking study, researchers tracked professional chess players across tournaments and found that a rise in indoor fine particulate matter increased a player’s odds of making a costly error, with the effect growing worse as the clock ran down. These were elite players, trained for years to think clearly under pressure, and even they were not immune. Related research has found similar penalties for pollution in …

Drag Race star’s PrEP ad has a conservative activism group raging — but it doesn’t even mention sex

Drag Race star’s PrEP ad has a conservative activism group raging — but it doesn’t even mention sex

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A conservative group has launched a campaign opposing an advertisement that raises awareness of the HIV prevention drug PrEP, despite it not mentioning sex, HIV or the LGBTQ+ community. The clip in question, known as “PrEP Wisdom”, is funded by ViiV Healthcare and stars RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage. In the 35-second commercial, Visage explains various questions that patients considering using PrEP might have for their doctors. When they launched the advertisement at the start of June, Viiv Healthcare said in a statement that the intention of the spot is to “empower people to make informed decisions about long-acting injectable (LAI) HIV prevention, beyond the dosing schedules.” It is estimated that 2.2 million people in the United States could benefit from using PrEP, which significantly reduces the likelihood of contracting HIV through sexual contact. It is estimated that around 25% …

America doesn’t need new politicians. It needs a more political competition.

America doesn’t need new politicians. It needs a more political competition.

Published by Jenni Sidey

“Hey, Yang, where’s my thousand bucks?” It’s a question entrepreneur and political commentator Andrew Yang hears a lot. So often, he turned it into the title of his new memoir, Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks? and Other True Stories of Staggering Depth. It’s not a bad question to ask. Universal basic income (UBI) was a core talking point of Yang’s energizing but ultimately unsuccessful 2020 presidential campaign, as well as his run for mayor of New York two years later, where he hoped to test its potential in a city-wide pilot study. It is, however, far from the only question worth asking Yang. Though he has spent the past few years on the political sidelines, many of his once unconventional talking points — UBI, ranked-choice voting, and the dysfunction of the two-party system — have become far more mainstream. Between AI threatening white-collar jobs and political polarization creating opportunities for independent candidates, one wonders whether Yang was ahead of the curve and the rest of us have finally caught up. If so, what then …

TCL Tab A1 Plus Review (2026): Cheap Tablet That Doesn’t Feel It

TCL Tab A1 Plus Review (2026): Cheap Tablet That Doesn’t Feel It

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TCL also offers what it calls Magic Hub, a kind of side drawer where you can stash clips of text or photos for later use. Magic Hub lives in a sidebar on the right side of the screen, and while I’ve used it a little on TCL’s phones before, it’s much more useful here, especially when used with a split-screen view. I frequently need to clip a bit of text from one tab to another, and while I can do this manually, it’s easier and faster using Magic Hub. To further extend the usability, TCL supports what it calls extend mode, which lets you use the Tab A1 Plus as a second monitor for your laptop or PC. There’s also mirror mode, which mirrors your main screen, though I’ve never had much use for it. There are quite a few AI-based tools baked into the A1 Plus if that’s your thing, including Gemini, Writing Assist, and Smart Translator. They work on-device (offline), so while they offer more privacy and are fine for basic requests, their …

Comer warns Fauci: Biden’s pardon doesn’t cover testimony this week

Comer warns Fauci: Biden’s pardon doesn’t cover testimony this week

Published by Sam Flores

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) warned Dr. Anthony Fauci that the presidential pardon he received does not extend to his awaited hearing at Capitol Hill. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is set to testify before a Senate panel Wednesday, following Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) release of… Source link

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI

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Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded on Monday afternoon to murmuring in the industry that his company somehow supports efforts by the U.S. government to ban open-weight Chinese models, or possibly open-weight models generally. “Anyone who has read my past writing should know that I don’t regard such bans as a useful measure, but let me state it clearly so that there is no doubt: Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” he wrote, emphasis his own. His response came after Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang took to X (his first post on the platform) to share an open letter on Friday in which Nvidia and a long list of other AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia urged policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. While that letter did not mention China specifically, the debate in the industry has centered on allegations that Chinese AI labs are growing in capability often by stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts. One method is distillation, …

The New PocketBook Era Lite e-reader reveals a killer feature Kindle still doesn’t have

The New PocketBook Era Lite e-reader reveals a killer feature Kindle still doesn’t have

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Summary Built-in Libby: borrow library ebooks and audiobooks natively—big win over Kindle. 7-inch E INK Carta 1300, IPX4 splash-proof, Bluetooth 5.1 and text-to-speech; reader-focused. Launch $149.99 — cheaper than Paperwhite; runs Linux, so no Android apps or Kindle app. ​The PocketBook Era Lite is a new 7-inch black-and-white e-reader with an E INK Carta 1300 e-paper display, designed as a reading-focused alternative to the standard PocketBook Era. It’s cheaper and all about reading, going head-to-head with the Kindle Paperwhite, and one huge game-changer for library lovers — it has Libby built in. Related This is the better Kindle alternative that most people don’t consider Kobo beats Kindle on library books, format flexibility, and physical buttons The PocketBook Era Lite’s Libby integration changes how you use an e-reader Kindle users are going to hate this. Libby lets you borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your local library for free — over 5 million people use it every week! With Libby built in, you can browse, borrow, and read library books right on the Era Lite. This means …