Month: May 2023

Travelers arrive for flights at O’Hare Airport on May 25, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Memorial Day air travel surpassed pre-pandemic levels, showing how consumers continue to shell out for trips despite persistent inflation. The Transportation Security Administration screened 9.79 million people from Friday through Monday, up slightly from the holiday
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Penelope Schleeman never thought she’d write a bestseller, but she’s trying to make the most of it. In the wake of her debut’s unexpected success, she departs her teaching job for Hollywood in order to adapt American Mermaid for the big screen. But as her co-writers’ suggestions tug and twist her beloved protagonist’s story further
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Queensgate is betting its portfolio of nanopositioning stages – core building blocks for cutting-edge scientific instrumentation used in applied optics, microscopy and metrology – will yield game-changing performance gains from a relentless strategy of incremental innovation Industrial metrology: an ongoing R&D collaboration with NPL scientists is helping UK nanopositioning specialist Queensgate to enhance end-to-end QA
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Talk about legs — or, more appropriately, wings: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick is still playing in Japanese cinemas a full year on from its debut. Continuing on from a stratospheric and super-leggy run, the sequel, on its 365th day of release, became Tom Cruise’s biggest film ever in the market. In doing so, it overtook
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WASHINGTON — Greg Kuperman, program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Strategic Technology Office, worries that innovations emerging from the commercial space industry will never reach potential customers in the U.S. military.  A key reason for that, Kuperman told SpaceNews, is that discussions about next-generation technologies, particularly in the space sector, quickly veer
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David Byrne, March 2023 (Mike Coppola/Getty Images) News David Byrne’s Here Lies Love Musical Opposed by Broadway Musicians’ Union The American Federation of Musicians’ Local 802 claims the production violates the union’s contract with the Broadway League by using pre-recorded tracks instead of a live band By Allison Hussey May 30, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook
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When Jordan Firstman rolled up to this year’s Sundance Film Festival to promote his movie Rotting in the Sun in an oversized shearling-trimmed leather coat and white tights, worn proudly with a lusciously hairy bare chest, it was a rare serve that stopped even the most jaded Park City locals dead in their tracks. It
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