Amazon Great Freedom Festival 2024 sale will kick off on August 6 for users in India. At 12am IST or midnight, the sale will be live for Amazon Prime users in the country, while non-prime users will be able to access the sale 12pm IST or noon on the same day. The leading e-commerce site
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In 2004, scientists at the University of Manchester first isolated and investigated graphene, the supermaterial composed of single-layer carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal honeycomb lattice. Since then, it has become a wonder, with properties that make it extremely useful in numerous applications. Among scientists, it is generally believed that about 1.9% of carbon in
Japan’s benchmark stock index The Nikkei has seen its biggest fall in four decades this morning amid fears of a looming American recession in the world’s biggest economy. Nintendo, Capcom, SEGA, and more, saw stock fall sharply with Nintendo suffering the most losses with shares down more than 15% this morning. Here’s the damage which
Earlier this week Hasbro announced the latest additions to their Marvel Legends role play line – a pair of items belongning to Spidey’s #1 foe – the Green Goblin. With pre-orders open as of ‘Spider-Man Day’ (August 1st) – you can now pre-order you very own Green Goblin mask or electronic pumpkin. Both are inspired
The indie/arthouse market is showing some breadth as Kneecap has a great debut, CatVidoFest as well, and holdovers like Didi and Sing Sing are kind of raking it in considering how few screens they’re on. As more wide releases and tentpoles show up and take flight a rising tide may be raising indie boats –
As any queer person can attest, a small-town street can change from serene to sinister in the blink of an eye. It’s this contradictory nature that fuels the unapologetically queer fire of Haze, which had its International Premiere at the 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival. Written and directed by Matthew Fifer (Cicada), this suburban horror
AraabMuzik scored the new Harmony Korine movie Aggro Dr1ft, and, today, he’s released his music for the film on a new soundtrack album. Find the stream, as well as an Edglrd-produced video for “Medieval,” below. Aggro Dr1ft is the first feature film that AraabMuzik has scored. The movie stars Travis Scott, and it premiered last
WhatsApp is said to be working on several new features for the Android platform. According to a feature tracker, one of the features introduced in the latest WhatsApp for Android beta app update is a new in-app dialler. This feature is speculated to make WhatsApp calling convenient by allowing users to make calls directly from
July 21 was the hottest day ever registered globally, according to preliminary data published Tuesday by the EU’s climate monitor. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said the global average surface air temperature of 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.7 degrees Fahrenheit) on Sunday was the warmest in their record books, which go back to 1940. It
Kai Cenat, one of the fastest rising and biggest streamers on Twitch, has given his home a massive maker to bring attention to the demand for a Bloodborne remaster.
Ah, Bloodborne. Requests for a remaster/ remake/ PC port are arguably PlayStation fans’ version of “new Smash character?” in Nintendo Directs, albeit an increasingly
Book Riot follows a lot of news every week in addition to the stories we cover for Today in Books. Here’s the highlight reel, accompanied by links to a bunch of other interesting news that didn’t get the full treatment this week, just for All Access members. All Access members, read on for the best
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “What Happened To Nightcrawler?” Depression can affect anyone at any time. For Kurt Wagner, the mutant known as Nightcrawler among his X-Men peers, had been suffering from the condition for months now. Ever since the god-like alien known as the Beyonder had teleported Earth’s mightiest superheroes to
One of the most anticipated upcoming horror movies on the 2024 movie schedule is the forthcoming Alien: Romulus. So, to hype it up, the star of the latest installment in the legendary sci-fi movie franchise, Cailee Spaeny, shared her childhood memories of watching the original Alien and her experiences working with practical Xenomorphs. The young
Did you know there are not one, but two found footage movies based on Frankenstein, or if you’re a purist, Frankenstein’s monster? They are drastically different from one another, but they both have their merits. Found footage films started their rotation back in 1999 with The Blair Witch Project. That cycle would slowly trail off
Sam Fender has previewed two unreleased songs at his Boardmasters show last night (August 3) – watch fan-filmed footage below. READ MORE: Sam Fender on the cover: “This album is probably the best thing I’ve done in my life” The Geordie recently played a show at Plymouth Pavilions, where he gave two unreleased songs their live
Apple Intelligence features have started to roll out in preview with the iOS 18.1 developer beta update. As per the Cupertino-based tech giant, these features are first rolling out in the US in English and will be expanded to other regions later. However, the European Union (EU) and China will be two regions where these
The Australian government this week announced it would spend A$18 million over four years on a new centre aimed at keeping safe the undersea cables that power the nation’s internet. The Cable Connectivity and Resilience Centre is tasked with protecting the critical undersea telecommunications cables throughout the Indo-Pacific region from deliberate interference from malicious actors,
What is wind? Where does it come from, and why does it blow? Why are storm winds so strong? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? Read on for answers to these “blue-sky” questions and more! Earth, Wind, and Water The simplest definition of wind is air in motion. Wind is generated by
As part of their SDCC panel, Skybound gave an insider look at the upcoming G. I. Joe #1 comic. Part of the ‘Energon Universe’ G.I. JOE #1 debuts on Wednesday, November 13 from the superstar creative team of writer Joshua Williamson, artist Tom Reilly, and colorist Jordie Bellaire (W0rldtr33). At the SDCC panel, Williamson and Reilly
The boys are at it again, with yet another milestone crossed. Including Thursday’s numbers, Deadpool & Wolverine has licked the six-century global box office milestone, now counting $630.4M worldwide. Is it bittersweet that this means D&W has overtaken the lifetime of Hugh Jackman-starrer Logan’s $619M global (likewise an R-rated movie and one which is heavily referenced
A new sci-fi series is in development, set to plunge humanity into a race to thwart the end of the world. Legendary Television has acquired the television rights to adapt Seveneves, the award winning sci-fi novel by Neal Stephenson for the small screen, Deadline reports today. Seveneves follows “how the best scientific minds come to
DJ Randall, the influential UK drum’n’bass DJ and producer, has died, Mixmag reports, citing his representatives. He was 54 years old. Born in east London, Randall became a fixture of the UK dance scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s, helping shepherd acid house towards breakbeat, hardcore, and jungle in warehouse venues and on
Oppo A3X 5G was launched in India on Thursday. The smartphone features a 6.67-inch HD+ LCD screen with 1,000 nits of peak brightness level, twice-reinforced Panda glass protection, and Splash Touch technology. It comes with a MIL-STD-810H shock resistance certification as well. The phone is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity chipset and packs a 5,000mAh battery with
Updated 11:15 p.m. Eastern with Axiom Space comment. LOGAN, Utah — Two Indian astronauts will soon start training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, with one of them flying to the International Space Station on an upcoming private astronaut mission. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced Aug. 2 that two of the four members of
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s check out the box art designs themselves. North America Image: Capcom / Launch Box North America’s design looks like the quintessential Mega Man Zero artwork, huh? It’s a nice composition, and our protagonist is looking suitably badass. The way that his hair
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. “Fairy Tale Team-Up: Robyn Hood & Van Helsing” Somebody has been dumping corpses in the back alleyways of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the Infernal Court is beginning to take notice. Last night, the vigilante known as Robyn Hood crashed a nightclub called Ambrosia Lounge in search of the
As the past three Deadpool movies can attest, Ryan Reynolds would win an Olympic gold medal in movie marketing (if it were a sport). And, one of the most hilarious ways that the Wade Wilson actor has promoted Deadpool and Wolverine is through a Wolverine popcorn bucket that mocks the viral Dune bucket from just
Image credit: Slobodan Pikula / © Screen Gems Anna Halberg and Spenser Cohen’s 2024 theatrical release Tarot was welcomed with mixed emotions. Some loved its over-the-top kills and stellar creature design by Trevor Henderson. Others weren’t fans of the dialogue and the liberties taken when it came to the rules of tarot. But recently, the
A brass band switched up Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ into a Donald Trump diss outside his appearance at the NABJ conference this week. The former president was speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday (July 31), and a brass band took the chance to mount a mini-protest. The
Leading telecommunications services provider Bharti Airtel on Thursday, announced that it surpassed the 2 million 5G user mark on its network in Tamil Nadu. Airtel in a statement claimed it was the first to roll out fifth-generation mobile system (5G) in the country and Chennai was one of the first eight cities to get ultrafast