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The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will honor French cinematographer Yorick Le Saux with the 2026 Robby Müller Award, which “acknowledges the artistry of an exceptional image maker” and is handed out in collaboration with the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers (NSC) and Andrea Müller-Schirmer. At IFFR 2026, Le Saux’s recent films Father Mother Sister Brother and The Wizard of the Kremlin will feature in the festival’s Limelight strand. Le Saux is best known for his frequent collaborations with Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper) and François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 5×2). “His body of work includes many remarkable films with…

Lane Kiffin [[KIFF-in]], the head coach at the University of Mississippi, quit just weeks before the college football playoff season begins. To add insult to injury, he’s leaving to coach a big rival.

Skywatchers are in for a stunning spectacle this week when the second-biggest full moon of 2025, the Cold Supermoon, rises in the east at dusk and appears higher in the night sky than any other full moon of the year.Officially full at 6:14 p.m. EST on Thursday (Dec. 4), the moon will rise in the east within the constellation Taurus. Although the moon is technically full at a specific moment, it’s most visually impressive at the time of moonrise where you are, when it appears largest near the horizon.It’s the third of four “supermoons” in a row, and the second…

City skating in LondonLeicester Square in the West End of London has its first ice rink, encircling the statue of Shakespeare that has stood on the spot since 1874. Unusually for a London pop-up rink, there are tickets available every day for walk-up visitors, with skating sessions starting every 15 minutes from 10am to 10pm. A bar serves hot chocolate, mulled wine and mulled cider, and Christmas market stalls surround the rink. The attraction is run by Underbelly, best known for its shows at the Edinburgh festival fringe, and is raising money for the Angel Child Fund at The Brain…

Wherever you go in Ukraine, army recruitment ads are impossible to miss. They loom from skyscraper billboards, plaster street corners and hang from highway bridges.The ads are the work of individual units that recruit volunteers, rather than rely on conscription. The first ones appeared in the spring of 2023, and brigades have rolled out new ad campaigns every few months.Early ads pulsed with a call to arms, in keeping with the national drive to repel Russia’s invasion. But as the war ground on, enthusiasm waned and Ukraine struggled to recruit, the tone changed.More recent ads have reassured people that enlistment…

WINSTON SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA – FEBRUARY 01: Kyle Busch, driver of the #8 zone Chevrolet looks on prior to practice for the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium on February 01, 2025 in Winston Salem, North Carolina. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThere can be little argument that Kyle Busch has not had a season to remember. Again. After a second winless season in the NASCAR Cup Series, his lack of on-track performance has been scrutinized, picked apart, and every nut and bolt, chassis setup, and pit stop has been pored over with the kind of intensity you’d expect…

Raspberry Pi is increasing the price of several single-board computers in an attempt to offset soaring memory costs. The updates are being applied immediately and affect Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5, with prices increasing by $5 to $25 depending on the model and amount of RAM. The 16GB memory variants of the Compute Module 5 are also being raised by $20, now starting at $140.“The current pressure on memory prices, driven by competition from the AI infrastructure roll-out, is painful but ultimately temporary,” Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in the announcement. “We remain committed to driving down…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” now streaming on Netflix. There are many voices in the new Netflix docuseries “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” but some of the most intriguing are two of the jurors which delivered Sean “Diddy” Combs a split verdict in court this year. Jurors 160 and 75 both spoke as part of director Alexandria Stapleton’s project, giving intriguing information on how they interpreted the accusations against Combs in court, and how they think his celebrity might have influenced their verdict. Combs was on trial on charges of sex trafficking by force, transportation for…

Week 14 is going to be crazy. This is likely the last week before the Fantasy playoffs begin in your league, and it’s our final week with teams on a bye as players from San Francisco, New England, Carolina and the Giants are off.It’s not ideal to be without the stars from those teams during this important scoring period. And we had a few key injuries in Week 13 that could impact lineups, notably Amon-Ra St. Brown (ankle), Marvin Harrison Jr. (heel), Aaron Jones (shoulder) and Justin Herbert (hand).As always, we’ll provide you with replacement options off the waiver wire,…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. At roughly the length of a small school bus, anacondas are famously some of the world’s largest snakes. Now fossil evidence proves that these enormous reptiles are also glimpses of an ancient world. According to a study published on December 1st in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, anacondas reached their maximum length around 12.4 million years ago—and have remained giants ever since. Some of today’s largest animal species are puny compared to their Middle-to-Upper-Miocene megafauna ancestors. South America’s black caiman crocodile (Melanosuchus niger) grew up to…