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Jalopnik.com 

How NASCAR Decided A Winner In Its Closest-Ever Finish

A photo finish isn’t just an illustrative expression. Some finishes in racing are so close that only photography is precise enough to determine the finishing order conclusively. A slit-scan camera helped to determine a winner in Sunday night’s AdventHealth 400, the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history. Kyle…

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Top Stories (uk) - Google News (ru) 

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: This handsome blockbuster harks back to the days of the Hollywood Western - The Telegraph

  1. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: This handsome blockbuster harks back to the days of the Hollywood Western  The Telegraph
  2. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review – future simians swing through cinematic jungle  The Guardian
  3. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes Review – 'These apes are still strong'  Empire
  4. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes receives overwhelmingly positive early reviews  The Independent
  5. ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Wes Ball’s... Читать дальше...

NBC4i.com 

LifeWise Academy buys aquatic center in Hilliard for $2.8 million

HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) - A former central Ohio aquatic center is the future home of a growing organization that focuses on religious instruction for public school students. LifeWise Academy purchased the Aquatic Adventures Ohio building, located off Cemetery Road and Interstate 270 in Hilliard, for $2.8 million. Joel Penton, the founder and CEO of LifeWise, [...]

The Verge 

The world’s largest carbon removal plant is here, and bigger ones are on the way

Climeworks’ Mammoth direct air capture plant in Hellisheiði, Iceland. | Image: Climeworks

Mammoth, the largest industrial facility yet built to filter carbon dioxide out of the air, just powered up in Hellisheiði, Iceland. It’s run by Swiss climate tech company Climeworks, whose clients include JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, among others.

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review – future simians swing through cinematic jungle - The Guardian

  1. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review – future simians swing through cinematic jungle  The Guardian
  2. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes Review – 'These apes are still strong'  Empire
  3. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes receives overwhelmingly positive early reviews  The Independent
  4. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: This handsome blockbuster harks back to the days of the Hollywood Western  The Telegraph
  5. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review — bland, lazy... Читать дальше...

Rock Paper Shotgun 

Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece

Confident design is one thing, but there is confidence, and then there’s the almost reckless certainty required in both your game’s sturdiness and the player’s curiosity to trust a feckless, glitch-hungry, poking-and-prodding player with Prey (2017)’s GLOO Cannon. Here is a first-person game set in a sprawling, multi-tiered, metroidvania-esque space station - one boasting multiple-bathroom verisimilitude - which then immediately gives the player a gun that lets them bypass the level gating by... Читать дальше...

Technology Review  

Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life

Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict the structures not only of proteins but of nearly all the elements of biological life. It’s a development that could help accelerate drug discovery and other scientific research. The tool is currently being used to experiment with identifying everything…