At the Venice Film Festival, Celebrating a Different Kind of Filmmaking
Venice Immersive highlights projects that use virtual, augmented and mixed reality to create immersive digital worlds.
Month: August 2025
Maurice Tempelsman, Diamond Magnate and Jackie Onassis’s Companion, Dies at 95
[A private and politically connected gem merchant, he was thrust into the public spotlight when his personal relationship with the former first lady became known in the late 1980s.
PM awards Rs2.5m each to three shepherds who saved 300 lives
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday awarded cash prizes to three shepherds from Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) who saved around 300 people by warning of an impending glacial lake outburst in the Ghizer district. Sharif presented cheques of Rs2.5 million each to Wasit Khan, Ansar and Muhammad Khan at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad, praising their … Read more
Sports Round Up
Top quote  Raducanu: “I think now is the first time that I feel like I can come back to the US Open and really enjoy the memories. Britain’s Emma Raducanu says she is finally seeing the US Open as her “happy place” Side Quote De Bruyne: Of course it’s a nice moment, I just tried to put … Read more
Katyusha, Russia-born panda, enjoys her birthday cake
Katyusha, Russia’s first locally born giant panda, enjoys a treat behind her enclosure during a media event celebrating her second birthday at the Moscow Zoo on Sunday, August 24, 2025. Born to Ding Ding and Ru Yi – a pair of pandas on loan from China – she has become the first-ever giant panda born … Read more
Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple Over Claims It Favors OpenAI
Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, claimed that its Grok chatbot app was being artificially suppressed in Apple’s App Store.
New Study Shows Heat Waves Make People Age Faster
Exposure to heat waves over just two years could add up to 12 extra days of age-related health damage.
Inflation Sweetener? Denmark Plans Tax Cut on Chocolate and Coffee.
[The Scandinavian country has proposed scrapping its tax on chocolate, cake and other sweets, as well as coffee, to help consumers cope with high food prices.
Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant
Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results.
Impossible’s composer, Lalo Schifrin dies at age 93
Argentinian composer Lalo Schifrin, the genre-blending film and television composer behind the musical scores of Mission: Impossible, Bullitt, and Cool Hand Luke, died Thursday at the age of 93, leaving behind a career of nearly 100 works scored. Famed composer Lalo Schifrin, who created themes for a host of hit Hollywood films and television shows, including the instantly recognisable … Read more
