All posts tagged: Doom

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE, Whose Style Icons Are Jadakiss and MF Doom

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE, Whose Style Icons Are Jadakiss and MF Doom

Published by Jenni Sidey

Where are you guys shopping before tour? MIKE: I’ve got spots. Lowkey, every time I go to LA, I hit Dover Street [Market]. Earl Sweatshirt: I feel like people don’t know about the Nepenthes store in LA. I was talking to a homie that worked there last time. They have all of that shit. All the Needles, all the Engineered Garments. MIKE: Nepenthes is tough. I love it. Earl Sweatshirt: But it’s off the [beaten path]. You’re not going to stumble across it. MIKE: There’s this spot 18 East [in New York] that has hella good blanks. Maybe hit up Margiela for just the one-off. Earl Sweatshirt: I hit Dover. I check downstairs at the H.Lorenzo in LA. They always got the Japanese pants. I’m at Stone Island. I’m at Margiela. I’m at RRL. Are there any newer brands you guys are fucking with? Earl Sweatshirt: I’m fucking with Dertbag. That’s my dog forever, Phil [Post]. He’s just a guy. Just an actual real legend. I like what my dog’s doing at Saint Mxxxxxx. Cali …

Obama’s Tower Of Doom Is Harder To Get Into Than America Itself

Obama’s Tower Of Doom Is Harder To Get Into Than America Itself

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In yet another jaw-dropping display of elite hypocrisy, Barack Obama’s Chicago Presidential Center – long derided as the “Tower of Doom” – now requires proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency just to enter a ticket giveaway for its grand opening ceremony on June 18, 2026. While Democrats in Washington relentlessly push policies that treat America’s borders like an open invitation, the Obama Foundation has quietly imposed strict eligibility rules for its own high-profile event.  The sweepstakes for two free tickets, complete with a potential $1,500 travel stipend for winners living 100 miles or more away, is explicitly limited to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents who are legal residents of the 50 states, D.C., or Puerto Rico and at least 18 years old. HYPOCRITE: The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago — opening this June — is restricting entry to its grand opening ticket giveaway to only U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. Kayleigh McEnany: “Why do we have stricter standards for the Obama library than for voting?”… pic.twitter.com/SbIuZDVIxv — RedWave …

Commentary: Amid the Iran war, is it all doom and gloom for Singapore-listed REITs?

Commentary: Amid the Iran war, is it all doom and gloom for Singapore-listed REITs?

Published by Sam Flores

UNCERTAIN AND FOGGY OUTLOOK Last year and 2026 were supposed to be cyclical rebound years for S-REITs after three years of high interest rates which spiked their borrowing costs and suppressed money available to dividend payouts. Market watchers were also anticipating a stronger REIT IPO pipeline this year compared to 2025, driven by easing interest rates. But the war in Iran has thrown a huge spanner in the works. The US Federal Reserve, at its last two rate-setting meetings in January and this month, has already paused its rate cuts as it adopts a wait-and-see attitude. The fear is that if the war in the Middle East drags on, the resultant energy shock will fuel global inflation. If central banks respond by hiking interest rates, rising financing costs could again weigh on REIT players, many of whom have significant bank borrowings. Already, Australia’s central bank has moved with a rate hike this month. Moving ahead, S-REITs are likely facing the sum of all fears: unpredictable and ugly geopolitics, potential energy shocks, supply chain crunch, slowing …

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried? | Games

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried? | Games

Published by Sam Flores

It sounds like the opening of a sci-fi film, but US scientists recently uploaded a copy of the brain of a living fly into a simulation. In San Francisco, biotechnology company Eon Systems created a virtual insect that knew how to walk, fly, groom and feed in its virtual environment. Researchers in Australia, meanwhile, have taught a petri dish containing 200,000 human brain cells to play the iconic 90s shooter Doom. One experiment has pushed a brain into a computer; the other has plugged a computer into brain cells. Both stories have been hailed as scientific breakthroughs, but have also sparked inevitable fears about the prospects of lab-grown humans and digital clones. Should we be concerned? It was Australian startup Cortical Labs in Melbourne that taught a dish of lab-grown neurons to play Pong in 2022. Now it has built what it describes as “the world’s first code-deployable biological computer”, running on living human tissue rather than silicon chips, which is happily playing the 1993 shooter Doom. double quotation mark At first it didn’t know …

Rosamund Pike Feared ‘Doom’ Movie Was Career-Ender

Rosamund Pike Feared ‘Doom’ Movie Was Career-Ender

Published by Daniella Wilson

Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike says her 2005 action role killing zombies on Mars in the video game adaptation Doom, where she starred opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, could have ended her acting career. “So when I was making Pride & Prejudice and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise,” Pike told the How to Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast. It wasn’t A Minecraft Movie or Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, evidently, especially after her initial co-star, Ray Winstone, dropped out. “So suddenly I’m in this film with the Rock, and I realize how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,” Pike recounted of meeting Johnson, as nice as he was buff, on their first day on set. “There were people pepping him up, there were weights on the set. Every time a gun was brought out, it was a holy relic for the Doom fans. There was a whole routine before takes… I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my …

Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints doom with Helseth’s gleaming trumpet | Classical music

Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints doom with Helseth’s gleaming trumpet | Classical music

Published by Sam Flores

Audiences can be fickle. The Hallé’s latest programme featured one of the world’s most celebrated trumpeters, a UK premiere from one of the world’s most high-profile living composers, and one of this country’s most successful young conductors – yet the Bridgewater Hall yawned with empty seats. Whatever the reasons, those who decided against booking missed an exhilarating evening. It started politely enough, with the rollicking baroquery of Britten’s Courtly Dances from Gloriana. A set of Tudorbethan pastiches, these dances encourage orchestral good behaviour. But conductor Alpesh Chauhan also allowed glimpses of a harsher, modernist world outside in the viciously chirrupping winds and off-kilter repetitions of the central Morris Dance and the gleeful snaps and rattles of the closing Lavolta. A Hallé co-commission, Nico Muhly’s trumpet concerto Doom Painting was composed for Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth and inspired by the instrument’s biblical roles. Muhly’s note on the piece points to distinct sections featuring the trumpet as a ceremonial instrument, as an expressive fixture of depictions of the apocalypse, and as a jubilant feature of the …

Computer run on human brain cells learned to play ‘Doom’

Computer run on human brain cells learned to play ‘Doom’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in Australia believe their neuronal chip is well on its way to powering a new generation of hybrid organic technologies. “This was a major milestone, because it demonstrated adaptive, real-time goal directed learning,” Brett Kagan, Cortical Labs Chief Scientific and Chief Operations Officer, said in a recent video announcement. It’s taken years to cross the Doom benchmark. In 2021, Cortical Labs debuted DishBrain—an early biocomputer utilizing around 800,000 human nerve cells. These neurons were connected to a small processing chip capable of interpreting and directing electrical activity similar to a standard silicon-powered device. Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM on a CL1 To showcase DishBrain’s potential, engineers successfully trained their biocomputer to play Pong. The classic, 2D game is often a test case for computational neuroscientists because it …

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught “mini-brains” consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong.” “The amazing aspect is how quickly it learns, in five minutes, in real time,” Cortical Labs chief scientific officer Brett Kagan told New Scientist at the time. “That’s really an amazing thing that biology can do.” Just under a year since the startup launched the CL1, the “world’s first code deployable biological computer,” the company is upping the ante considerably. In a YouTube announcement, the company claims to have taught living human brain cells how to play the seminal video game “Doom” — a far more complex, three-dimensional game environment from “Pong” — to showcase how far the tech has come over the last four years. It’s the natural evolution of a well-established meme. We’ve seen the game being …

Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?

Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?

Published by Sam Flores

On Feb. 7, 2026, Chasity Verret Martinez won a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Louisiana House. That’s an outcome that might not mean very much to people outside of the state or even outside her Baton Rouge-area district. But Martinez is a Democrat who took 62% of the vote in a district that had given Donald Trump a 13-percentage-point victory in the 2024 presidential race. And her win came a week after Democrats seized a Texas Senate district that had supported Trump even more strongly – a result that immediately triggered concern in Republican circles. Because fewer people turn out for special elections, they’re considered an early predictor of partisan enthusiasm heading into regularly scheduled elections. And with the 2026 midterm elections less than nine months away, analysts are already scrambling for indications of the likely outcome. As a political scientist who studies congressional elections, I’m interested in the question of whether special elections can really tell us which way the political winds are currently blowing. Democrats, of course, are hoping …