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Image Credit: Chris Chew/UPI/Shutterstock Meg Ryan, 62, hilariously accused Billy Crystal, 75, of making it “easy” for her to fake her onscreen orgasm for a legendary scene from their 1989 romcom, When Harry Met Sally. “The scene came really naturally to me, and I really have Billy to thank for that,” the blonde beauty said during the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.  “I’ve actually never been around anyone who made faking an orgasm easier,” she quipped. “So thank you, Billy.” Billy collected an award for lifetime artistic achievement alongside actor and rapper Queen Latifah, singer Dionne Warwick, pop icon Barry…

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Why space parachutes are so hard A new lawsuit alleging safety issues at Blue Origin News from Loft Orbital, Relativity Space and more SpaceX is known for its vertical integration, but one component it’s been outsourcing is parachutes — until earlier this month, when the company quietly acquired parachute vendor Pioneer Aerospace after its parent company went bankrupt. The Information first reported the news. Saving a vendor from dissolution — which would’ve likely been Pioneer’s fate, given the bankruptcy of its parent company — seems like a strong gesture on the part…

This achievement positions them, with IBM, as front runners to reach quantum utility for real-world use cases. The experiment was run with Algorithmiq’s proprietary error mitigation algorithms on the IBM Nazca, the 127 qubit Eagle processor, using 50 active qubits x 98 layers of CNOTS and thus a total of 2402 CNOTS gates. This significant milestone for the field is the result of a collaboration between the two teams, who joined forces back in 2022 to pave the way towards achieving the first useful quantum advantage for chemistry. Quantum computers, when operated, still have high levels of errors that stand…

Bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific has released a presentation outlining its plans to emerge from bankruptcy in early January 2024. The presentation is based on the third amended joint Chapter 11 plan filed on Nov. 16 and includes an audio commentary by CEO Adam Sullivan.Common shareholders and holders of two series of convertible notes are being planned for separately. Common shareholders will receive new shares exchanged at a ratio of 25:1, to provide them with $1.08 per pre-exchange share. Planned Core Scientific indicators through 2027. Source: Core ScientificNoteholders will receive $1.628 on every $1 of face value for notes due…

Water is often the go-to resource for heat transfer, being used in large-scale cooling operations like data centers that power the internet and nuclear power plants that power cities. Discovering dynamic phenomena to make water-based heat transfer more energy and cost efficient is the ongoing work of Jonathan Boreyko, associate professor and John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow in mechanical engineering. Boreyko and his team have published extensively on the topic of water and the way it can move, with members of his Nature-Inspired Fluids and Interfaces Lab producing water droplets that leap propelled by surface tension and frost that…

Homes in Littlehampton and Wick were damaged as the tornado left a three-kilometre trail of destruction on October 28. Tornado investigators found damage to roof tiles on buildings in the area, smashed car windows and lost fence panels after visiting the scene after the incident. The worst damage, however, was found in North Street in Wick, where one house had lost its roof, which was flung by the tornado into the gardens opposite. Roof tiles were scatted up to 50m away, with roof insulation found as much as 350m away from the house. One witness described how he “heard a…

Location : The A19 northbound between the junctions with the A182 Easington and the A182 Murton. Lane Closures : Lane one is closed. Reason : Flooding. Status : Currently Active. Lanes Closed : There is one of two lanes closed. Source link

Wonka review and star rating: ★★★★ Don’t take any notice of the saccharine posters for Wonka: the primary-coloured, heavily CGI’d images make this origin story look sugary-sweet. It is that, but it’s also much more. Bringing back one of Roald Dahl’s most famous characters is a formidable undertaking but Paul King and Simon Farnaby’s new universe does Dahl’s imagination justice. In many ways, Wonka is the pristine golden ticket: sweeping musical numbers set in factories and workhouses where eccentric types produce chocolate or clean linen (wait and see on that last part). If you want to view paradise, you’re definitely…

The Gaelic with Immersion Programme has received a long-term funding commitment from the College of Arts & Humanities at the university. This announcement will establish Gaelic with Immersion as an integral part of the College’s Celtic & Gaelic diverse programme offering. In 2017, the College commissioned a feasibility study to consider an immersion experience in Glasgow and this revealed a demand for more intensive language opportunities amongst students and adult learners. Two years later in October of 2019, the Gaelic with Immersion Programme was offered to students at the university after it was awarded £455,000 from the Scottish Funding Council to…

Image Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock It’s been nearly one year since Stephen “tWitch” Boss tragically died, and as the anniversary of his death nears, his wife, Allison Holker, 35, took to Instagram on December 2 to reflect on her somber emotions. The proud mother-of-three shared what appeared to be new headshots and took to the caption to express her “grief” following tWitch’s passing. “Grief never ends .. but every season of challenge has an expiration date,” her caption began. “Keep believing and keep dancing through.” The 35-year-old and the late DJ were married for nearly a decade until he died on…