Paul Avgerinos, a Redding-based composer who runs Studio Unicorn on Sanfordtown Road, won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album last night. He won for his album ‘Grace,’ which was released last year. This is the first Grammy for Avgerinos, who was featured by the Pilot in December. In addition to producing albums of meditative and spiritually inspired music, many of his single tracks have been featured in feature films and […]
While most of us are just getting used to the idea of 3D printing, scientists are already working on technological marvels that operate two dimensions deeper. Researchers at the University of Southampton have succeeded in recording and retrieving five dimensional digital data using a quartz crystal. The ‘Superman’ memory crystal is a futuristic storage technique with unprecedented features – including a 360 terabyte per disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1000°C […]
Jennifer Aniston wiped away tears on Sunday during a televised tribute to legendary television director James Burrows. The 47-year-old actress joined her Friends castmates as they gathered to celebrate the career of the 75-year-old director during the two-hour special Must See TV: An All-Star Tribute to James Burrows on NBC. Aniston took to the stage to honor Burrows along with Friends co-stars Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt […]
And it can’t even be driven on public roads. It’s not the highest price ever paid for an Aston Martin that’s starred in a James Bond film. But it comes close. The Aston Martin DB10, which was made for the latest James Bond film Spectre, sold Thursday at a special auction at Christie’s in London for £2,424,500, or about $3.5 million. The car was initially expected to sell for between […]
The fairy tale performs many functions. They entertain, they encourage imagination, they teach problem-solving skills. They can also provide moral lessons, highlighting the dangers of failing to follow the social codes that let human beings coexist in harmony. Such moral lessons may not mean much to a robot, but a team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology believes it has found a way to leverage the humble fable into […]
She has already had quite a successful 2016 as she has taken home a Golden Globe and performed an amazing rendition of the US National Anthem at the Super Bowl. And if that wasn't enough, Lady Gaga made her mark on the catwalk. The 29-year-old singer joined the likes of Kendall Jenner as she took to the catwalk during the highly-anticipated Marc Jacobs runway show as part of New York […]
The world needs Leonardo DiCaprio to finally win his Oscar. It just does. It's required for our society to function normally once more, instead of crumbling under the weight of our collective sleepless nights; haunted by the sad puppy-dog eyes of a man who wants something so badly, and yet has been so continually refused it. Until then, The Line has created the perfect game through which to vent all your […]
The release date of the new, smaller iPhone has been revealed. The iPhone 5se and the new iPad Air 3 are both scheduled to be released on 18 March, according to a new report. That puts the release of the small phone just three days after its expected launch date, at an Apple event on 15 March. Apple usually waits a week or more before actually putting its phones on […]
There's a lot of music out there and only so many awards to go around, but theRecording Academy has given out more than 7,500 trophies (half of those belong to Beyoncé and Taylor Swift) over the years. Ask yourself how Joan Rivers, Zach Braff and even Creed have won Grammys, when Queen, The Who and Diana Ross have never been recognized by the academy. Frankly, it's a little mind-boggling, but not […]
