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Primer vistazo a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson en 'Smashing Machine'

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson luce irreconocible en el primer vistazo de su próxima película “Smashing Machine”.

Johnson publicó la foto en Instagram Martes en la mañana. Los fanáticos notarán que se deshizo de los tatuajes y la calva para interpretar al ex luchador de MMA Mark Kerr en la película A24, que marcará el debut en solitario de Benny Safdie. Safdie también escribió la película.

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La estrella de la WWE pasó largas horas en su Pentágono preparándose para la película y está perfeccionando sus habilidades en artes marciales mixtas.

Se han publicado vídeos de su entrenamiento. Instagrammanteniendo a los fanáticos actualizados sobre su progreso.

El lunes compartió una foto con el propio Kerr, quien también ayudó a entrenarlo.

“Todavía está persiguiendo la máquina que puede acortar la distancia con una velocidad y potencia aterradoras”, escribió el actor de Fast Five. “Estaré siempre agradecido por su invaluable conocimiento, fue lo suficientemente generoso como para transmitirlo a mí y especialmente a la hermandad que compartimos. Estar con Mark y sentir su presión y fuerza; no es de extrañar que fuera el campeón de peso pesado de la NCAA. UFC y VALE TUDO.

La película también reúne a Johnson con su coprotagonista de Jungle Cruise, Emily Blunt. Ella interpretará a Dawn Staples, la esposa de Kerr.

La producción de la película comenzó esta semana. No hay información sobre la fecha de estreno de la película.



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Dwayne The Rock Johnson está irreconocible

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La película también llega inmediatamente después de The Iron Claw, la dolorosa y brutal mirada de Sean Durkin a las tragedias que plagaron a la familia de lucha libre profesional de The Von Erich. “The Iron Claw” fue rechazada en los Oscar, pero recibió muchos elogios y devolvió la lucha profesional al espíritu cinematográfico a lo grande. Por supuesto, todo esto no importaría si la película no funcionara, y es difícil imaginar a Johnson, quien tiende a interpretar a héroes cotidianos en Everyman, en un papel como este.

La primera imagen parece prometedora, ya que transmite la energía de una posible escena climática en el ring al representar a la estrella rodeada de acción. Dos entrenadores parecen estar animando al luchador a su izquierda, la mujer de la derecha parece preocupada y un par de piernas en primer plano probablemente pertenecen a la chica del ring que señala la siguiente ronda del combate. En general, el ambiente aquí es un caos artístico, lo que viniendo de un Safadi es definitivamente una buena señal.

“The Smashing Machine” llegará a los cines en 2025. Aquí está la versión completa y sin recortar de la foto.

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Edifier speakers rock slick MacBook Pro rig [Setups]

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If you’ve read much of Cult of Mac’s computer setups coverage, you know we love good audio. And we love it more when it’s high-value, where the sound is great despite affordable pricing. Edifier R1280T speakers meet that mark.

Edifier is a brand that has long lived in that space. And today’s MacBook Pro and PC laptop setup makes good use of a pair of powered Edifier bookshelf speakers that even MacBook Pro’s fine set of six can’t really compete with (outside of portability).

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Edifier R1280T speakers rock MacBook Pro and PC laptop setup

YouTuber and Redditor MiRealEscape showcased the sleek-but-not-quite-complete setup in a post entitled, “Macbook Pro Setup version 1.0.” He runs a 14-inch M1 Pro MacBook Pro and a PC laptop, along with a 28-inch Asus 4K display, a PlayStation 5 and other peripherals, through an Orico 15-1 Thunderbolt 3 USB-C Docking Station bristling with ports.

“This is my semi-complete MacBook Pro Setup. I also swap it out with a windows laptop for my remote work,” he said. “For my personal use, I do content creation as I started a YouTube channel where I test out home office and gaming tech mostly. Hence the lazy cable management as I swap things in and out a lot.”

On Friday we focused on the Orico 15-1 Thunderbolt 3 USB-C Docking Station serving as a nexus between the computers and peripherals. On Monday we get more into MiRealEscape’s impressive audio side of the setup.

Affordable but outstanding audio gear: Edifier R1280T speakers

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MacBook Pro has nice speakers, but powered bookshelf speakers tend to top them.
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MiRealEscape’s setup impresses all around, but nowhere more-so than in its thoughtful array of affordable and high-quality audio gear. Whenever someone packs more than two or three audio elements into a home computer setup, you know they take it seriously.

Rather than relying on the M1 Pro MacBook Pro’s six good built-in speakers, this setup pumps its sound out to Edifier R1280T powered bookshelf speakers slightly elevated on Kanto stands. That’s a near-field audio monitor use — the sound is essentially pointed at the user’s ears, like in a studio.

Edifier made its reputation on high-value gear (low cost, great sound) over the past couple of decades. The well-regarded R1280T wired speakers cost a mere $99 a pair, one active and one passive with dual RCA input, on Amazon right now (normally $120). Edifier says the speakers are most commonly used with turntables to get the most out of vinyl records.

Here’s how it describes the speakers:

If you’re looking for affordable and versatile bookshelf speakers with uncompromising sound the R1280T bookshelf speakers is your go-to 2.0 speaker system. Featuring a 4-inch bass driver and a calibrated, flared bass reflex port, this bookshelf speaker system delivers robust, rich bass notes that are full of presence and depth.

Along with the Edifiers, MiRealEscape uses a FocusRite Vocaster Two audio interface with a Shure SM7DB microphone as well as Audio Technica ATH-M50X headphones. We’ll cover his interface and mic in more depth in the next Setups post.

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How to watch WrestleMania XL 2024: live stream The Rock, Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns from anywhere

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The biggest weekend in wrestling has been amped up to 11, as The Rock himself is returning to the squared circle for the first time in eight years. The Most Electrifying Man in All of Entertainment is joining forces with The Head of the Table for a Saturday night tag team match that will shape Roman Reigns’ Undisputed WWE Universal Championship showdown with Cody Rhodes on Sunday. Here’s where to watch WrestleMania XL live streams where you are.

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That means Reigns and Rhodes are essentially headlining both nights at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and if, as speculated, this is the end for the long-serving champion, WWE are leaving nothing to chance. 

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Is the Mars rover’s rock collection worth $11 billion?

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An image from NASA's Mars Perseverance rover taken while it drills for rock samples.

The Perseverance rover drills a rock core from the edge of the ancient river delta in Jezero Crater on Mars.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Scientists are on edge as they wait for NASA to answer two of the most consequential questions in Mars exploration. Where on the red planet will the Perseverance rover collect its final rock samples? And can NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) even afford to fly the mission’s hard-won samples — the prize at the end of a decades-long quest — back to Earth?

Over the past few years, Perseverance has been exploring an ancient river delta in Mars’s Jezero Crater, with the aim of finding signs of past life. The rover’s belly is now stuffed with 17 tubes of Martian rock, dirt and air that scientists say represent an astounding geological collection. “The science is only getting better as we see what Perseverance keeps collecting,” says Laurie Leshin, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. But the rover’s instruments aren’t sophisticated enough to determine whether molecules in the samples point to signs of life, or to determine the samples’ age, and so reveal something about the history of Mars. For that, laboratories on Earth are needed.

However, bringing Perseverance’s samples back could cost as much as US$11 billion, an independent panel concluded in a scathing engineering analysis last year. That’s more than NASA can afford. By the end of this month, it and ESA are supposed to find a cheaper way to achieve Mars sample return — or risk leaving the carefully collected rocks where they are.

Adding to the drama, Perseverance’s planners are debating what other science the rover should do before it has to stop exploring. The original mission plan was to explore the ancient river delta and then drive up out of the crater — where there are even older rocks that could tell scientists more about the history of Mars. But as Perseverance approaches Jezero’s rim (see ‘Epic journey’), some engineers are advocating for it to turn around and wait at a lower altitude, where it might be safer and cheaper to pick up the samples.

EPIC JOURNEY. Map shows route of the Perseverance rover which has been exploring the Jezero Crater on Mars for 3 years.

Source: Nature adaptation from NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL/Brown University

John Mustard, a planetary scientist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, wants the rover to stick to the original plan. The rocks currently on board are “great, but they’re not sufficient to be the transformative samples that we want them to be”, he says. “They’re not Apollo-scale,” he adds, referring to the Moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and 1970s that revolutionized scientific understanding of the Moon and Earth.

He and other scientists pressed the case for exiting the crater last week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. All eyes are now on NASA to see what it decides.

“Right now what we can say is, we’re committed to [Mars sample return] being the best value,” says Lindsay Hays, acting lead scientist for Mars sample return at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. “My focus is really on making sure that we get as much science out of what we can get.”

A long quest

NASA has been working on various concepts for bringing rocks back from Mars since the 1980s. Perseverance, the fifth in a string of increasingly sophisticated Mars rovers from the agency, landed in Jezero in 2021 to maximize scientists’ chances of finding signs of past life, if it ever existed. Jezero was once filled with water: a river flowed into it that created an ancient delta similar to those on Earth, which can preserve organic material — usually the remnants of plants and other organisms that came from upstream.

So far, Perseverance hasn’t spotted any obvious signs of ancient life, such as fossils, with its cameras. The best chance of finding past Martian life would be to analyse the rocks the rover has collected for materials rich in carbon, including organic compounds, that might have been created by the decay of long-dead organisms, says Tanja Bosak, a geobiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. This analysis would need to happen on Earth.

Two of the rock cores are particularly promising for this; they are fine-grained mudstones from the delta that could have trapped organic material. Other cores collected by Perseverance include once-molten rocks from the crater floor that could be analysed to determine the age of that region; sedimentary rocks from the river delta that hold a history of how Mars’s climate and habitability changed through time; and rocks from the delta’s edges that appear to have interacted with deep groundwater, another potentially habitable environment, for long periods.

Stay or go?

The rover is currently exploring a narrow band of rock near the crater’s rim that is rich in carbonate minerals. On Earth, carbonates commonly form along lake shorelines and can preserve evidence of life. But scientists are still debating whether Jezero’s band represents an ancient shoreline.

In the coming months, the rover will roll onto the rim; after that, the question is whether it will leave the crater. If so, it would explore ‘basement’ rocks from around 4 billion years ago — older than the 3.5-billion-year-old delta — and fossilized hydrothermal vents that could have been a haven for Martian life.

Image of a rock sample collected by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover.

When Perseverance drills a rock core such as this one, collected in October 2023, with its robotic arm, it then seals the specimen in a sample tube for safekeeping.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

But going to this region, known as Nili Planum, might involve more risk than NASA is now willing to take. One concern is that Nili Planum is several hundred metres higher than the crater floor, so the atmosphere above it is thinner, making it more difficult — and expensive — for a sample-retrieval mission to land there.

Scientists are also concerned about how much farther the rover can physically roll before it gives out. Perseverance has travelled nearly 25 kilometres since landing, but mission scientists think it might be able to cover another 70–90 kilometres. If this is confirmed by testing at JPL, it might be able to reach some of Nili Planum’s most intriguing rocks, which are around 16 kilometres from the rover’s current location, and then make it back into the crater for pick up. If Perseverance does die unexpectedly, it has already left a backup collection of ten cores on the floor of Jezero Crater.

Budget constraints

Now the focus turns to money and how much NASA can invest in bringing the samples back. The mission is part of NASA’s planetary sciences portfolio, which currently spends $2.7 billion annually.

NASA has said it doesn’t want to spend more than 35% of its budget on the mission to retrieve the samples in any given year. “Whatever we implement for Mars sample return is going to be done in the context of a balanced planetary science portfolio,” Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary sciences division, told the conference. But the uncertainty about how much funding might be available to work on Mars sample return forced JPL to lay off 8% of its employees last month.

Much of the cost for Mars sample return comes from its complexity. According to current plans, NASA would build a lander to retrieve the samples and a rocket to carry them off the surface to orbit Mars. ESA would contribute a spacecraft that would capture the samples in Mars orbit and transfer them to Earth. ESA has not discussed its budget for Mars sample return as publicly as NASA has, but European planetary scientists have expressed “consistent and strong science support” for the programme, says Gerhard Kminek, ESA’s lead scientist for Mars sample return in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

If NASA and ESA can figure out a path forwards, the rock collection would touch down on Earth no earlier than 2033. Meanwhile, the agencies have competition: China has announced plans to return Mars rocks to Earth at around the same time.

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Back to the Rock season 2 trailer shows frantic Fraggles

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Jim Henson’s Fraggles learn to adapt to change and stick together after a dust storm in the season 2 trailer for Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.

The Emmy Award-winning kids musical comedy series returns to Apple TV+ March 29. Season two cast includes the return of Daveed Diggs plus new guest stars Ariana DeBose, Brett Goldstein, Catherine O’Hara, Adam Lambert and K-pop group aespa.

Fraggles deal with dust storm in season 2 trailer for Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

Here’s how Apple TV+ describes the upcoming Back to the Rock season 2 teased in Monday’s trailer:

Jim Henson’s fun-loving and musical Fraggles — Gobo, Red, Boober, Mokey, Wembley and Uncle Travelling Matt, appearing alongside new Fraggles and Doozers voiced by special guest stars. [They include] Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose, Emmy Award winner Brett Goldstein, Emmy Award winner Catherine O’Hara, Tony and Grammy Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Daveed Diggs, Grammy nominee Adam Lambert and K-pop group aespa. [Fraggles are] back with more epic, fun and zany adventures, this time with big changes affecting the Rock.

The Fraggles, Doozers and Gorgs will be forced to confront their past and celebrate their interdependence as they move through challenges together with hope, silliness and brand-new songs, all while dancing their cares away … down at Fraggle Rock.

Cult of Mac‘s highly opinionated critic had good things to say about season 1 of the show, calling a faithful reboot of a 1980s classic.

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The Jim Henson Company’s Lisa Henson, Halle Stanford and John Tartaglia, along with New Regency’s Arnon Milchan and Yariv Milchan, plus Matt Fusfeld and Alex Cuthbertson, serve as executive producers on Back to the Rock season 2. Co-executive producers are Dave Goelz and Karen Prell. Harvey Mason Jr. serves as executive music producer. Tim O’Brien co-produces along with Chris Plourde.

Apple’s partnership with The Jim Henson Company also includes Harriet the SpySlumberkins and Fraggle Rock: Rock On! shorts.

Kids can watch Fraggles and more on Apple TV+

All 13 episodes of Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock season 2 will premiere Friday, March 29. It joins season 1 of Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, the Night of the Lights holiday special and the original 1980s Fraggle Rock series. And you can stream bonus specials Down at Fraggle Rock, Doozer Music  and Fraggle Songs.

And that’s not all when it comes to kids and family fare on Apple TV+. You’ll also find the hybrid live-action/animated special The Velveteen Rabbit,  Academy Award and BAFTA Award-winning animated short The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse and BAFTA Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated animated film Wolfwalkers.

Get Apple TV+  by subscription for $9.99 with a seven-day free trial. You can also have it via any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.

After launching in November 2019, “Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 471 wins and 2,090 award nominations and counting,” the service said.

In addition to award-winning movies and TV shows (including breakout soccer comedy Ted Lasso), Apple TV+ offers a variety of documentaries, dramas, comedies, kids shows and more.

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MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPad Air and Rock Paper Pencil Kit From Astropad

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For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPad Air, an Apple Pencil 2, and two Astropad accessories. Astropad is known for the Astropad Studio app that turns the iPad into a drawing tablet for a Mac, but also for the Rock Paper Pencil and Darkboard iPad Stand, both of which are perfect for getting more out of Apple’s iPads.

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Rock Paper Pencil is a kit that includes a textured screen protector and Apple Pencil tip that combine to make writing and drawing on the iPad feel like you’re writing on a piece of paper. Astropad just recently overhauled the Rock Paper Pencil to make it an even better experience.

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The screen protector uses NanoCling technology so it adheres to an iPad using static cling, and it can be taken off and put back on as needed with no residue left on the iPad’s screen. With NanoCling, the screen protector fits right up to the display of the iPad to provide a flat surface with no gaps or ridges. Because of the slight friction from the texture of the screen protector, there’s more control over stroke output.

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Rock Paper Pencil’s pencil tip fits on to the Apple Pencil and can hold up to heavy daily use. There’s a wear-resistant copper alloy core inside with a palladium coating, and it is equivalent to an 0.7mm ballpoint pen for precision writing and sketching. Astropad includes two pencil tips with the kit, along with a protective storage sleeve so you can tuck away the screen protector when you’re not using it.

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Priced at $40, the Rock Paper Pencil kit works with all of Apple’s modern iPads, including the iPad Air, both iPad Pro models, the sixth-generation iPad mini, and the 7th-generation and later iPad.

For those who like to sketch and draw on their iPads, Astropad also makes the Darkboard Drawing Stand, an essential accessory for improving iPad ergonomics for artists. Made from a rigid foam material, the Darkboard can be used on the couch, in bed, or on a flat surface without causing stress on the arms and wrists.

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The foam material provides cushioning, and a polycarbonate frame holds the iPad in place at any angle so you can get comfortable positioning no matter where you’re at. If you have a desk or a table for Darkboard, it can be used vertically to turn the iPad into a mini Mac.

Astropad designed Darkboard with 1mm of space between the iPad’s display and the foam for device protection in case the Darkboard is dropped, and it leaves a cutout for the camera and charging port so you’re not losing any functionality. There’s also a little pocket for storing the Apple Pencil when it’s not in use, and grooved handles so it can be moved from place to place.

Priced at $100, Darkboard works with the 11-inch iPad Pro, third-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro and later, and the 10.9-inch iPad Air.

We have a 10.9-inch iPad Air, Darkboard, and Rock Paper Pencil kit to give away to one lucky MacRumors reader. To enter to win, use the widget below and enter an email address. Email addresses will be used solely for contact purposes to reach the winner(s) and send the prize(s). You can earn additional entries by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, subscribing to our YouTube channel, following us on Twitter, following us on Instagram, following us on Threads, or visiting the MacRumors Facebook page.

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Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano spews lava fountains while a lagoon of molten rock illuminates the night.

On Sunday, the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted for the fifth time in nearly four years, illuminating the night with lava fountains captured on video.

The U.S. Geological Survey released a video early on Tuesday depicting magma erupting from the summit crater of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and feeding a lake of molten rock.

Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, resumed erupting Sunday afternoon after a two-month hiatus.

When witnessing the eruption, the National Park Service (NPS) urged visitors to “stay safe and be respectful of the dangers and sacredness of Kilauea.”

While the Keanakkoi viewing area is closed due to high concentrations of sulfur dioxide and volcanic particles, the National Park Service stated that the best places to view the lava lake and fountains are Ukahuna, Klauea Overlook, and areas along the Crater Rim Trail, with the caveat that conditions can change.

On Monday, the alert level for Kilauea was reduced, as no infrastructure was in danger and there was no threat of significant ash emissions into the atmosphere outside of a small area within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Later on Monday, state health officials reported that the eruption had spread vog, or volcanic smog, to some areas of the Big Island, resulting in poor air quality. The emission of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide gas from Kilauea causes the vog.

Kilauea erupted for several weeks in June, demonstrating red lava fountains that posed no threat to nearby communities or structures.