WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Starship prototype successfully carried out a brief suborbital flight May 5 after four previous vehicles were destroyed during or shortly after landing. The Starship SN15 vehicle lifted off from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, test site at 6:24 p.m. Eastern. The vehicle flew to an altitude of approximately 10 kilometers before descending
Month: May 2021
Facebook’s controversial policy-setting supergroup issued its verdict on Trump’s fate Wednesday, and it wasn’t quite what most of us were expecting. We’ll dig into the decision to tease out what it really means, not just for Trump, but also for Facebook’s broader experiment in outsourcing difficult content moderation decisions and for just how independent the
Trey Songz walloped a bartender with his fist at a concert, then went right back to watching the show … so the bartender claims in a new lawsuit. The singer’s being sued for battery by a man who says he was tending bar around midnight at the Hollywood Palladium on May 9, 2019 … and
The new film in question, Persuasion, will be an adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1817 novel. There won’t be any corsets, calling cards or horse-drawn carriages – this version will be set in the present day. The plot, however, is classic Austen: Anne Elliot, a young woman from a wealthy family (Dakota Johnson), crosses paths with
Nintendo has perhaps the longest, most illustrious track record in the history of the games industry, so if you’re hoping to learn the best ways to design and create your own video games, you’d be hard pressed to find a better instructor. While the gaming giant has released titles like Super Mario Maker 2 to
Returnal’s first post-launch update dropped this week just as the developer Housemarque promised it would on Tuesday. Also expected were the contents of the update with the patch notes detailing mostly stability fixes and other improvements for parts of the game that were negatively impacting players’ experiences. The update should be out now for everyone’s
The official account for Netflix‘s “Stranger Things” over on YouTube is teasing a special little *something* for tomorrow, uploading a mysterious video with a cryptic caption. The video’s description reads, “Due to technical difficulties, Hawkins National Laboratory will be closed until further notice. We will be back in service tomorrow at 9:00AM ET.” As for
Our feline friends certainly wow us with their cleverness – they can fetch things, open doors, navigate seemingly impossible obstacles, and even understand basic instructions (when they feel like it, anyway). At other times, they can be hilariously silly. Any cat lover is familiar with their quirks, such as seemingly endless joy at knocking things
Competitors Volvo AB and Daimler Trucks are teaming up to produce hydrogen fuel cells for long-haul trucks, which the companies say will lower development costs and boost production volumes. The joint venture, which is called cellcentric, aims to bring large-scale “gigafactory” production levels of hydrogen fuel cells to Europe by 2025. While the two companies
News Iceage Share New Song “High & Hurt”: Listen The new song from Seek Shelter launches a new Adult Swim Singles Program By Evan Minsker May 5, 2021 Facebook Twitter Iceage, photo by Mishael Phillip Facebook Twitter Iceage are back with another song from their new album Seek Shelter before it arrives this Friday, May
Former Bachelorette contestant Tyler Cameron was spotted earlier this week holding hands with his rumored girlfriend, Camila Kendra. Whisperings of the pair’s relationship have been circulating online for months, though neither Tyler nor Camila have gone Instagram official. Fans have caught them out and about in New York City in the past, but the couple still kept
By Stephany Nunneley5 May 2021 16:21 GMT Resident Evil Village reviews have landed and we’ve rounded up the scores for you. It’s time to take a look at Resident Evil Village reviews ahead of its release this Friday, May 7. Watch on YouTube The tenth main installment in the series, REV is a narrative sequel
Pick a winner, Shaq!! The NBA legend had a massive bat in the cave while working the desk for “NBA on TNT” on Wednesday … and decided to go mining for the nose gold live on-air!!! Shaq, along with Candace Parker, Dwayne Wade and Adam Lefkoe were wrapping up coverage on the Clippers vs. Raptors
In 2020, news surfaced that Legion creator Noah Hawley would write and direct a Star Trek movie for Paramount Pictures, and apparently, it would have been mind-blowing. The film has since been put into stasis while Paramount moves forward with other Star Trek film projects. Composer Jeff Russo — whose work includes Star Trek: Discovery,
Developer Angry Demon Studio has announced that their “future Viking horror” title Apsulov: End of Gods will be headed to consoles this summer, courtesy of publisher Digerati. The title will be released digitally for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch. Physical editions of the game will be released for
Scientists have discovered a new type of uranium that is the lightest ever known. The discovery could reveal more about a weird alpha particle that gets ejected from certain radioactive elements as they decay. The newfound uranium, called uranium-214, is an isotope, or a variant of the element, with 30 more neutrons than protons, one fewer neutron
With cybercrime on course to be a $6 trillion problem this year, organizations are throwing ever more resources at the issue to avoid being a target. Now, a startup that’s built a platform to help them stress-test the investments that they have made into their security IT is announcing some funding on the back of
Britney Spears is itching to talk to the judge in her conservatorship case next month, but not to end the conservatorship … it’s all about giving her dad his walking papers. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Britney does not feel trapped in the 13-year-old conservatorship. As one source put it, “She has 99%
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In the wake of Amazon Prime Video clicking 175 million customers, the streamer’s acquisition of Skydance/Paramount’s Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse drew 2.3 million U.S. households in its first weekend according to Samba TV. That number beats the 1.6M Samba TV households which streamed Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm over its first weekend of Oct. 23-25. The third party
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Lawsuits occasionally offer fascinating windows into the internal debates within companies. The Apple vs. Epic lawsuit that kicked off this week has already given us a new perspective on Sony’s approach to crossplay between the PS4 and other consoles. While
This is the way! As the world counts the minutes until The Mandalorian Season 3 begins, Diamond Select Toys has teamed up with the Disney Store to offer a dynamic PVC sculpture of the show’s star. It’s the first-ever Star Wars Gallery Diorama of the Mandalorian, and it’s in stores and online now! Depicting the
Director Nia DaCosta‘s take on Candyman is set to debut in theaters later this year, with an all-new photo from the upcoming revival offering an intimate glance at Anthony McCoy, played by Watchmen‘s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. While this new look at the film might not be the most frightening image we’ve seen, it does pique
What an hour! While there were decent cases and New Amsterdam Season 3 Episode 10 covered some social commentary, it was the relationships that sparked most of the interest. Lauren and Leyla, Max and Helen, and Floyd and Malvo are all in various stages of romantic entanglements right now. Floyd and Lauren took different things out of
Announced today, Damian Mc Carthy’s feature debut Caveat has been acquired by Shudder, with the horror movie set to arrive on the horror streaming service on June 3, 2021. Ben Caplan (Band of Brothers, Call the Midwife), Jonathan French (A Soldier’s Voice) and Leila Sykes (Missing Something) star in a movie written and directed by Mc
It’s called Dunbar’s number: an influential and oft-repeated theory suggesting the average person can only maintain about 150 stable social relationships with other people. Proposed by British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar in the early 1990s, Dunbar’s number, extrapolated from research into primate brain sizes and their social groups, has since become a ubiquitous
In March 2020, Tame had a digital event suite for offline corporate events. But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard pivot into providing a highly customizable virtual events platform, primarily used by companies for their sales events. The result is that it has now raised a seed round of $5.5m, a large round
News Mitski Shares New This Is Where We Fall Song “The End”: Listen The track is narrated by Chris Miskiewicz, the co-creator/writer of the graphic novel and co-writer of the song “The Baddy Man” By Madison Bloom May 4, 2021 Facebook Twitter Mitski (Photo by Debbie Hickey/Getty Images). Facebook Twitter Mitski has shared a new
It’s been a fast and furious 20 years. The first film in the blockbuster Fast & Furious franchise, aptly-named The Fast and the Furious, premiered in 2001. At first glance, it seems like your average testosterone-fueled action flick. However, a lot of thought went into the film’s female characters. When it comes to Letty Ortiz,
Games journalism Twitter (yes, it’s a thing) is having an absolute field day with the ongoing Epic V Apple trial, which is being broadcast to anyone who wants to listen — you just have to dial in. This is basically our version of The Bachelorette, full of twists, turns, betrayals, and leaked emails. It’s a