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Movie Theater Chain iPic Files for Bankruptcy

iPic Theaters, a cinema chain that specializes in dine-in service, has filed for bankruptcy protection for a second time. The company is pursuing a sale through Chapter 11 in Florida federal court as it grapples with lighter attendance and declining ticket sales. iPic says

The RCW 36 nebula: A cosmic hawk and its baby stars

This image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), seems to have captured a cosmic hawk as it spans its wings. While the dark clouds in the middle of the image make up the head and body of the bird of prey, the filaments extending away from the body to the left and right

France and U.K. Get Roped Into Trump’s Iran War

France and the United Kingdom have entered the Iran conflict. French President Emmanuel Macron ordered France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle , to move from the Baltic to the Mediterranean Sea. In a prerecorded speech that aired on French television

HyperCard Changed Everything

This video traces the history of Apple’s HyperCard from Vannevar Bush’s idea of the Memex to the Mother of All Demos to the Xerox PARC Alto to Bill Atkinson , the inventor of HyperCard, who said: HyperCard is a software erector set. It lets people put things together without

Key GOP senator criticizes Pentagon strategy in Colby hearing

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) criticized the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy (NDS) blueprint Tuesday, saying it ignores the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war and does not say much about Washington’s interests in the Middle East given the emergent

Trump shifting goals, expectations for Iran war: dangerous!

If the mission is defense, say that. If it’s deterrence, define it. If it’s regime change, own it. But shifting goals in real time, while lives and markets hang in the balance, is not strategy, it’s uncertainty. And uncertainty is a dangerous place to wage war.