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The beautiful musicians Eric Clapton will never stop playing: “It’s not about technique”
Eric Clapton has long credited his enduring feel for music not to technical mastery but to a lifelong devotion to blues simplicity, drawing on early influences to keep his playing emotionally grounded even as he explored other genres. This matters because it explains how a guitarist celebrated as a “guitar god” avoided creative stagnation, deliberately…
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MPs reject assisted dying bill as 9/11 remembered and Kirk marks Charlie’s death
UK MPs voted down the assisted dying bill 286-270, Israel says it destroyed a huge Hezbollah tunnel complex, and America marked 25 years since 9/11 as Erika Kirk honoured her husband a year on.
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The 10 Most Enjoyable Sci-Fi Movies Ever Made
This Collider feature rounds up ten science-fiction films picked not for prestige or depth but for pure entertainment value—the movies audiences turn to purely to switch off and enjoy the spectacle. The list favours fun, rewatchable titles over “serious” sci-fi landmarks such as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Interstellar, spanning big blockbusters and cult favourites…
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How to farm Stellar Ice and Contaminated Metal in No Man’s Sky
This guide explains how players can farm two resources, Stellar Ice and Contaminated Metal, introduced in No Man’s Sky’s Cosmos update. Both materials require new equipment and processes not previously used in the game, and knowing how to obtain them helps players make the most of the update’s added content. To collect Stellar Ice, players…
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Virtual reality pioneer Polyarc ends operations after 12 years
Polyarc, the Seattle-based studio behind the virtual reality games Moss and Moss: Book II, has closed after nearly 12 years, according to a post on the company’s LinkedIn page. At least 29 staff members are now seeking new employment, and the closure marks the end of one of the earliest and most acclaimed studios working…
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Study shows AI language models prioritise fuel efficiency over animal welfare
A new benchmark called HarvestBench, developed by researchers from Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML) and the University of Warwick, has found that AI language models will readily “kill” animals in a simulated environment to save fuel or effort, with some models doing so at very high rates. The study is intended to test whether AI…
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Random rewards enrich classic game-theory contests
Researchers have used a mathematical model to study how classic game-theory contests, such as the prisoner’s dilemma, the game of chicken and rock-paper-scissors, behave when rewards fluctuate randomly over time rather than remaining fixed. Traditional versions of these games assume static payoffs, which limits their usefulness for modelling real-world behaviour, where the risks and rewards…
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Khosla Ventures launches inaugural New York office on 14th Street this autumn
Khosla Ventures is opening its first office outside its long-time Menlo Park home on Sand Hill Road, with a new outpost planned for 14th Street in New York this autumn. The announcement, confirmed by veteran investor Keith Rabois at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in New York, marks a notable shift for a firm that has never…
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Houthis seize shipping strait as drone attacks force Saudi pipeline shutdown
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have made major territorial gains around the Red Sea, seizing Perim (Mayyun) Island and the port city of Mokha, giving them control of the entire western coastline and greater command over the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a vital global shipping chokepoint. The advance coincided with drone strikes launched from Iraqi territory that forced…