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2023-03-10

Journeyman Richard Bland makes a splash with backing for LIV rebels

Defectors eager to insist they were right all along as bickering between different factions shows no signs of abatingWe really are encountering the wackiest of times when an acerbic bulletin from Richard Bland can turn heads. Bland was the epitome of a journe…

2023-03-10

Wrath and awe: a short history of balloons and their power to fire up mob fury | Jeff Sparrow

Perhaps a long symbolic resonance explains the otherwise baffling battle raging in 21st century skiesOn 16 December 1784 – barely a year after the first crewed flight – a British cartoonist published a sketch entitled The Battle of the Balloons, depicting air…

2023-03-10

Sydney WorldPride opening concert: Kylie and Dannii Minogue gloriously launch season of golden hot pants

Live and Proud was a drag spectacular, with Casey Donovan and Charli XCX among the many highlightsAll of Sydney seemed filled with lovers on Friday night, as a 500-drone light display burst forth in the sky, morphing from a flower to a heart to a diversity sh…

2023-03-10

Oh, bother: the Winnie the Pooh slasher movie is a bloody mess

With rights now in the public domain, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey turns beloved children’s characters into killersIn the new film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, AA Milne’s beloved storybook bear embarks upon a murderous rampage, driven to homicidal ma…

2023-03-10

Birdwatch: why the ‘king among gulls’ is a true heavyweight

Though gulls can be hard to tell apart, the great black-backed gull is rarely mistaken for anything elseFor many people, gulls are at best ignored, and at worst hated. Even some birders dismiss them, perhaps because they can be tricky to tell apart, especiall…

2023-03-10

Anthony Albanese among 50,000 marching across Sydney Harbour Bridge for WorldPride

March helps draw to a close 17-day festival, which will wrap up on Sunday evening with a concert in the Domain More than 50,000 brightly-dressed people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday morning in support of pride and recognition of the long …

2023-03-10

Unexpected protein interactions needed to build flowers

A protein made for destruction turns to cooperation to build flowers.

2023-03-10

China wants to dominate the near space battlefield. Balloons are a key asset

In China's eyes, the newest superpower battlefield sits between 12 and 60 miles above the Earth's surface in a thin-aired layer of the atmosphere it calls "near space."

2023-03-10

OpenAI Says It Wont Steal Data From Those Who Use Its New API to Train ChatGPT

OpenAI, the makers of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, has practically become the tech world’s go-to for implementing AI. On Wednesday the company announce it’s making it easier for developers to jam large language models down the pipe of every app and site who wants it…

2023-03-10

Roblox Is Bringing Generative AI to Its Gaming Universe

The company aims to draw on the new technology’s code-writing ability to make its digital worlds even more customizable.