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How Toronto International Film Festival Is Planning To Expand Its Global Footprint & Widen Its Focus

Two years ago, after the screening of the Partition drama Qissa at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Irrfan Khan sat down with his co-stars and director for a...

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Sustainable Development

Intel Promises $50 Million for Quantum Computing Research

On Friday, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich published an open letter pledging to invest $50 million in long-term quantum computing research. Keywords here are long-term: While 2022...

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Movies

True Review Movie - The Transporter Refueled review

Critics rating: 2 Stars

Cast:  Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Gabriella Wright, Tatjana Pajković, Wenxia Yu, Radi...

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Movies

True Review Movie - Welcome Back

Critics rating: 1.5 Stars*

Cast:  John Abraham, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Shruti Haasan, Shiney Ahuja, Paresh Rawal. Read More

TV

True Review TV - Intrigues And Valour At Prime Time

I, a history buff, have been drawn to two current shows on weekdays at Prime Time -- Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat on Colors and Bharat Ka Veer Putra Maharana Pratap on Sony. ...

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Festivals

Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context.” So wrote Mary McCarthy in her charming, philosophical tra...

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Trending

Japan Is Building A Giant Robotic Lettuce Factory

Indoor lettuce-growing is in vogue. And it’s being taken over by robots.In 2016, Japanese vegetable production company Spread plans (pdf) to begin building a lettuce ...

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Health

The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violati...

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Hollywood

eGirl Power Aims To Stand Up To Gender Inequality

As Ariana Grande fearlessly tweeted, misogyny and gender double standards are still deeply embedded in the US. Her mantra: No woman belongs to any other person but herself....

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Sustainable Development

What Is a Gravitational Wave Detector, and Why Do We Want to Send One to Space?

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime. They’re a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but while we’ve seen indirect eviden...

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