‘Less Star Wars – more Blade Runner’: the making of Mass Effect 2’s Bafta-nominated soundtrack

found 2025 › Feb › 14 (Fri) @ 17:08 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A blind audition, a fruitful collaboration, a tense creative fallout: composer Jack Wall’s journey through the Mass Effect universe was as epic as the player’s

Mass Effect is some of the best science …

Trump and Musk launch mass layoffs at several US federal agencies

found 2025 › Feb › 13 (Thu) @ 20:02 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Termination notices sent to Department of Education and CFPB as Musk pushes to ‘delete entire agencies’

US politics live – latest updates

Mass layoffs have begun at several US agencies as Donald Trump…

‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled

found 2025 › Feb › 10 (Mon) @ 10:40 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licence

Thousands of artists are urging the auction house Christie’s to cancel a …

Secret CIA documents reveal how US prepared to defend against an alien invasion

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 23:43 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Mass UFO sightings gripped the US in the early 1950s, many of which appeared over Washington DC. A document details how the CIA managed the situation by 'debunking' the reports.

Docs detail how CIA secretly 'debunked' mass UFO reports in the 1950s

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 21:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Mass UFO sightings gripped the US in the early 1950s, many of which appeared over Washington DC. A document details how the CIA managed the situation by 'debunking' the reports.

Trump’s immigration crackdown also targets legal pathways to enter US

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 15:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Thousands left hopeless as new administration has been relentlessly and systematically dismantling safety nets

Mass deportation – at least in theory – is apparently popular among the American people.

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‘How many more Gisèles are out there?’: Pelicot trial jolts fight against sexual violence

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 18:41 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Mass rape case in France has stirred up strong emotions and advanced a new feminist discourse, observers say

It was during a workshop on macramé near Barcelona, between bouts of tugging on ropes and t…

Mass grave of babies is found in British cemetery just yards from unmarked site where 300 bodies were discovered

found 2024 › Dec › 18 (Wed) @ 13:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

A second unmarked mass grave has been uncovered in a Manchester cemetery just a matter of yards away from the plot where 300 bodies were discovered earlier this year.

Assad's killing fields: Mass graves containing 'sacks full of human bones' are discovered near Damascus as Syrians dig up horrors of dictator's regime

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 16:44 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

An alleged mass grave in the Baghdad Bridge area near the Syrian capital features deep trenches filled with human remains, believed to belong to slaughtered civilians.

Thirty years after Rwanda, genocide is still a problem from hell

found 2024 › Dec › 13 (Fri) @ 17:58 UTC

a story from The Economist › International

Mass killings are at their highest level in two decades