Back in March 2000, Bill Gates took the stage at that year’s Game Developers Conference and unveiled the first-ever Xbox prototype. It was not shaped like a box, but instead the letter X, designed to demonstrate the third millennium power of Direct X, a modified version of which powers the original Xbox. Anyway, it was
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By Howard Bloom The big question in astrophysics right now is whether our solar system has been penetrated by a giant spaceship.  A spaceship from a distant solar system. And from a distant civilization. A spaceship that deliberately cruised past three separate planets, then hid behind the sun.  Why swing behind the sun? Says Harvard astrophysicist Avi
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Call them psycho-biddy films, hagsploitation, hag horror, whatever you like, the sub-genre has been chugging along since at least the 60s, beginning with Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?. Once focused on aging starlets and wealthy recluses, the genre has evolved into a wide array of horrific tales centered around older women. Sometimes off-the-wall entertaining. Sometimes
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The Grammy nominations are out and fans of some of the snubbed artists – Lorde, The Weeknd, Gracie Abrams, Benson Boone – are not happy. Earlier today (November 7), the Recording Academy revealed the full list of nominees for the 2026 Grammys, which are set to be presented at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on February 1. Kendrick Lamar was the big winner with
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Finding a fingerprint on the casing of a fired bullet was once a nearly impossible task. But scientists have at last achieved a breakthrough. Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland have now shown they can recover human fingerprints from super-heated bullet cases. Even better, the prints appear at the “highest level of detail”, including pores
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My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. “A Nest Of Serpents – Part Four: The Nest Breath ” Sorcery can be a powerful ally if one chooses to employ it. For Conan, he despised the practice no matter who wielded it. So, when the Darfarian shapeshifter known as Zula clutched a magic amulet around
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Après Ski To Erin Isakov, a lifelong skier and cofounder of ski apparel brand Erin Snow, “Skiing isn’t just a sport; it’s a way of life” and après ski, or after-ski time, is best filled with “glamour, refreshments, vistas, and revelry following a great day on the mountain.” In Après Ski: The Scene, the Style,
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For half a century, satellites have chased the same prize: ever sharper pictures of Earth. Each advance brought more pixels and greater clarity, but only in terms of how things looked. Now, a different kind of technology is emerging, one that reveals the biochemical composition of man-made and natural objects: hyperspectral imaging. By capturing hundreds
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Hollywood can look forward to Thanksgiving box office history repeating itself with a robust Wednesday-Sunday domestic opening expected from Disney‘s Zootopia 2 with $125M-plus. That result could make the sequel to the 2016 Disney original animation title the second-highest opening ever over the Thanksgiving box office behind last year’s Moana 2 ($225.4M) and possibly ahead
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SEVENTEEN starts Seungkwan and DK are due to launch a new sub-unit, Pledis Entertainment has confirmed – find out more below. READ MORE: SEVENTEEN – ‘Happy Burstday’ review: a double-edged showcase of individuality Earlier this week, South Korean news outlet ChoSun revealed that the two K-pop stars are reportedly working on new music together, suggesting the
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The Addams Family is everywhere again, thanks to the success of Wednesday, Tim Burton’s runaway hit Netflix series. There’s a bingeable show, merch, food tie-ins everywhere from Wendy’s to Cheetos, and so much more. It’s a new boom time for the franchise, and it all started back in 1991.  The family as a concept has
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Damon Albarn has released another song from the forthcoming Gorillaz album The Mountain. The new single, “The God of Lying,” features Idles. Check it out below. Albarn wrote “The God of Lying” with Idles frontman Joe Talbot. He recorded it in London and Devon, England, and Mumbai, with bansuri player Ajay Prasanna and percussionist Viraj
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In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of “universal constructor.” The theory was further detailed in the 1966 book, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, a collection of von Neumann’s writings compiled and completed by a colleague after his death.
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Battlefield 6 has just received a server-side update that is bound to make the game’s entire player base happy, or at least those who had been waiting for it to arrive after the developer first discussed plans for it. The long-awaited overhaul of many of the game’s Challenges and Assignments is here, altering the requirements
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Captain America/Black Panther team-up game Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed, and will no longer release early next year, according to a statement from developer Skydance Games This marks yet another delay for the long in the works game, which was originally scheduled to release in 2025. It was pushed off to “early
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