International film is supposedly entering a new golden age, one where streaming has made once inaccessible films easy to watch in entirely new markets. We saw the payoff of easier access in 2020, when Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite nabbed not only the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, but also the Best Picture Oscar.

“Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films,” Bong Joon-ho said in his acceptance speech. It was a declaration that seemed to herald a new wave of awards for popular international movies. But in 2023, the big-ticket Oscar nominations overlooked one of the year’s few foreign blockbusters: RRR. Unfortunately, its snub for International Feature isn’t a big surprise, because it’s been doomed from the start.

A telescope instrument originally designed to measure the effects of dark energy recently helped astronomers make an incredibly detailed image of our galaxy.

The image you’re seeing spans just 6.5 percent of the night sky, but it contains 3.32 billion stars — and each one is visible as a separate point of light, not part of a big, bright blur. Harvard University astronomer Andrew Saydjari and his colleagues compiled the image from 12,400 photos, taken in visible and infrared light using a telescope perched atop Cerro Tololo in Chile.

As promised, The Browser Company is bringing its Arc browser to mobile.

The scrappy startup began sharing snippets of the mobile version on TikTok last week with the most surprising teaser: It's bringing skeuomorphism — the design language where digital interfaces resemble real-world objects and textures — back from the dead.

While the TikToks show various design mockups that draw on skeuomorphism — software design that Apple popularized with the launch of iPhone and later ditched in iOS 7 — Nate Parrott, who is leading product design for Arc on mobile (and The Browser Company's first hire), says the phone version won't be a full-blown return to stuff like the brown leather in the iPhone's original Notes app or the green felt in the Game Center app.