Does "Wuthering Heights" Herald the Revival of the Film Romance? Emerald Fennell's new movie may be mediocre, but its popularity demonstrates the strength of a genre that Hollywood has all but abandoned. The important thing about adaptations isn't what's taken out but what's put in. Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights"--or, as she'd have it, " 'Wuthering Heights,' " complete with scare quotes--is the season's second Frankenstein movie, because Fennell takes bits and pieces from Emily Brontë's novel and, adding much of her own imagining, reassembles them into a misbegotten thing that wants only to be loved. And paying audiences seem to love it, even if many critics don't.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The golden silk, a luxury once reserved for Roman emperors, has been recreated by modern scientists. In a study published in Advanced Materials, a research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) announced they have successfully produced the 2,000-year-old textile known as Sea Silk. They accomplished this using threads from the common pen shell, farmed along the Korean coast. The team's work also explains the origin of the material's characteristic golden hue and its famed resistance to fading over millennia.

Revival is an innovative live audiovisual performance and music improvisation by our artist collective K-Phi-A, blending human and AI musicianship to create electronic music with audio-reactive visuals. The performance features real-time co-creative improvisation between a percussionist, an electronic music artist, and AI musical agents. Trained in works by deceased composers and the collective's compositions, these agents dynamically respond to human input and emulate complex musical styles. An AI-driven visual synthesizer, guided by a human VJ, produces visuals that evolve with the musical landscape. Revival showcases the potential of AI and human collaboration in improvisational artistic creation.

Observing the tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) hype that has swept over the world in the past few years, science fiction writer Ted Chiang staked out a contrarian position. "Artificial intelligence," he insisted, was just a "poor choice of words … back in the '50s" that had caused "a lot of confusion." Under the rubric of intelligence, verbs such as "learn," "understand," and "know" had been misappropriated to imply sentience where none existed. The right words, he suggested, would have been "applied statistics." Chiang was correct that AI has always been a fuzzy term used to market specific technologies in a way that has little inherent connection to cognition.

This week, a new range of Google smartphones capable of AI image generation has been launched. But for an increasing number of people, the appeal of a less cutting-edge piece of equipment is proving hard to resist: the point-and-shoot camera. The US footballer Megan Rapinoe was seen snapping from the stands at the Paris Olympics. The model Alexa Chung captioned a recent Instagram of her with a camera: "Just another Millennial with a dependency on Snappy Snaps, fighting digital threat with an analogue mode. " A recent glimpse of home life for Rihanna and A AP Rocky showed a disposable camera lying among the clutter.

Peridot, a video game from the makers of Pokémon Go, is using AR to energize audiences of all ages. Niantic launched the game officially on May 9, making it available for download both on Google Play and the App Store. Inspired by the popular pet games of the late nineties and early aughts like Tamagotchi and Neopets, the app allows users to "hatch" a creature and watch it explore the world around them. Unlike Tamagotchi, the pet sims will keep their owner's company for however long without dying. Players are presented at the start of the game with three eggs.

When you think of hot-selling PC games, you probably think of the annual Call of Duty refresh or Rockstar's latest magnum opus. However, the all-time record just went in a (somewhat) unexpected direction. Blizzard claims that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, an expansion for its 16-year-old MMO, is now the fastest-selling PC game "of all time." Gamers bought about 3.7 million copies worldwide in the game's first full day of availability, pushing past the 3.5 million of the previous record holder -- conveniently, Blizzard's own Diablo III. The developer was also keen to point out that World of Warcraft was enjoying a revival before the launch.

The technology industry has cheered the Union Budget 2020's thrust on the technology sector applauding various announcements including the Rs. While presenting the Union Budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that technology, will be used for better monitoring of the economic data, building a preventive regime for diseases under Ayushman Bharat, capturing and protection of intellectual property rights, improving agriculture and sea-ports and delivery of government services. A new scheme for incentivising domestic manufacturing of electronics specifically mobile phones will also be announced, she added. Debjani Ghosh, President, NASSCOM said, "Budget 2020 and the finance minister's speech has well-articulated India's vision on not just being a leading provider of digital solutions, but one where technology is the bedrock of development and growth'. Nasscom welcomed the announcements on Quantum Computing, Data Center policy, IPR portal, CoE etc, along with the removal of Dividend Distribution Tax which was a long pending demand from the industry. It, however said that the Budget lacked focus on accelerating service exports from the country. "The technology services sector has been a key contributor to India's exports and GDP, NASSCOM had recommended that new investments by services companies in SEZs should also be eligible for the lower rate of 15%.

Sony Corp. plans to start selling its revamped Aibo robot dog in the United States from September following its domestic revival in January. Sony, which regards the new Aibo as symbolizing the revival of its innovative spirit, aims to use the product to raise its presence in overseas markets. The original Aibo was launched in 1999 and terminated in 2006. Improved with advanced artificial intelligence and communications functions, the second-generation Aibo develops a unique character depending on how its owners interact with it. The U.S. version only recognizes English and will be priced at $2,899, including a three-year data fee.

The U.S. cotton market has remained stable since its spike in 2011, when China executed its cotton reserving and fiber hoarding plan. It is believed that U.S. cotton demand and price were artificially kept low because there are always worries that China would unexpectedly unleash its cotton stockpile, about half of the global storage. However, U.S. cotton price finally showed a revival in recent days. The ICE July cotton futures closed at 95.21 cents a pound on Tuesday, June 12, the highest level for a front-month future contract in the last 6 years. The revival could be attributed to multiple factors, with an emphasis on the worries about insufficient rain in the cotton-growing areas and the newly issued import quotas from China.