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The short film featured in VR title Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond Respawn Entertainment and Oculus have staked a claim in the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 2021 Oscars for its in-game film, Colette. Colette is a 25-minute documentary made by Anthony Giacchino and Alice…

Facebook just won its first Oscar. “Colette,” from the social giant’s Oculus VR group and EA’s Respawn Entertainment, picked up the trophy for documentary short subject Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards. The 24-minute film follows former French Resistance member Colette Marin-Catherine as she travels to Germany for the first time in 74 years. “Colette” was created for…

Certainly, one of the biggest things to come from Chevrolet in recent years has been the all-new C8 Corvette. The C8 Corvette is now entering its third model year, and changes to the car are minimal. While the car carries over unchanged, there are three new colors for buyers to…

The Meyer Shank Racing-Honda driver was one of the stars of qualifying, on a day when two Team Penske-Chevrolets failed to graduate from Q1 and no Chip Ganassi Racing-Hondas made it beyond Q2. Harvey set his best lap on Lap 2 in the Firestone Fast Six, and was beaten by…

In pub quizzes in years to come, questions might be asked about what the acronyms NIAC, NPHET and the latest one VRG stand for. Over a year ago, most people had never heard of these terms. They have now become part of everyday language. The VRG is the Vaccine Rollout…

The top 15 in the 24-car field were covered by just half a second in opening practice for Round 2 in the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series, with the top 20 were covered by one second. And pacesetter Newgarden of Team Penske-Chevrolet set a 60.8029sec lap of the 1.8-mile street course…

"Here comes the sun," George Harrison once wrote; "It's been a long cold lonely winter..." For music fans, this latest lockdown has perhaps bit hardest of all. Starting just before Christmas, it's kept us separated from family and friends, and pinned our lives down away from the places that bring…

Pour son 95e anniversaire, la reine Elizabeth II rend hommage à son défunt mari, le prince Philip. Quelques jours à peine après avoir assisté aux funérailles du duc d'Édimbourg, la monarque a publié un communiqué exprimant sa gratitude pour les bons vœux qu'elle a reçus. "J'ai reçu, à l'occasion de…

The Talagon is the biggest ever car to sit on VW's MQB platform, and it's available with a turbocharged VR6 The Shanghai Auto Show is now underway, which means all sorts of weird and wonderful Chinese market exclusives are emerging. Skoda, for instance, is showcasing the long-wheelbase Octavia Pro we…

Animals display a variety of gaits and walking speeds. It is commonly assumed that they minimize locomotor energy expenditure by selecting gait kinematics tuned to the natural frequencies of relevant body parts. In a new study, Pasha van Bijlert, a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Naturalis Biodiversity Center,…