Ancient archaeological discoveries can be confusing, exciting, intriguing, educational – and occasionally just a little creepy, as a new excavation of a 2,500-year-old graveyard site in Norway has proved. Here’s the creepy part: the main cluster of graves, comprising 39 individual bodies, were all for children under the age of six – based on a
Month: August 2024
You may recall that, back in March, Inti Creates announced a new game called Card-en-Ciel. The game is a rogue-lite card-based battle RPG, and it is just 1 of 5 games that Inti Creates has on its 2024 game release calendar. If you have been curious to learn more about the game, then there’s some
Playwright and director Mai Sennaar’s debut novel, They Dream in Gold, crackles. Her prose is elemental, flowing like a river at times, then burning like fire, heightening the reader’s senses until all five mingle into one. Over the course of 400 pages, Sennaar moves swiftly back and forth across continents and generations to tell a
Lady Gaga gives her co-star some pointers. Joker: Folie A Deux star Joaquin Phoenix shared had some advice that Lady Gaga gave him about singing while working on the film. He talked to Empire Magazine about the highly-anticipated comic book follow-up. Now, his Arthur Fleck is far from a professional performer in the first Joker movie. But, the
We’re all coming down from Comic-Con International, and we’re all busy unpacking everything we’ve seen there, so here’s a round-up of some of the reveals shown by Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant LTD! From Marvel to Star Wars, from Disney to Godzilla, from House of the Dragon to John Wick, from Matrix to TMNT,
‘Kneecap’, the name of the Irish hip hop group, and the music biopic about — and starring — the groundbreaking trio, opens today on 700+ screens, following up a U.S. tour last fall and leading into another one. The hybrid documentary, which was a buzzy Sundance title when Sony Pictures Classics nabbed it, recently
Although it wasn’t as well-received as other films in the trilogy, MaXXXine is still a great film. If you didn’t get a chance to see it in theaters, never fear it’s now digitally available to rent or own on Amazon — just a month after its theatrical release. This is director Ti West’s period tryptic
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have come together once more for the new album Vultures 2. Their second ¥$ album, after February’s Vultures 1, is out now, and features guest spots from Young Thug, 070 Shake, Future, Playboi Carti, Kodak Black, Don Toliver, Lil Durk, and two of West’s children, North and Chicago. The
The Realme 13 Pro series is here, and I’ve been using the Realme 13 Pro+ for a couple of weeks. While it’s not a major upgrade over the Realme 12 Pro+ in terms of sheer numbers, there are a couple of hardware changes that make it better to use. And there are also new AI
Every now and again, the night sky lights up with a spectacular explosion that blazes with the most energetic light our Universe can produce. Known as gamma-ray bursts, they can release in a few seconds what our Sun will emit over its lifetime. Now scientists have found a never-before-seen signal buried in the spectrum of
World of Warcraft: The War Within, is almost here. It’s an ambitious looking expansion, taking players deep underground to lands and cultures unseen up until this point. But according to associate design director Maria Hamilton and lead prop artist Jordan Powers, this new selection of zones was built on the back of one special zone.
If you’ve been asking yourself where all the romantic comedies went, the answer is simple: to streaming services. However, at the end of last year, audiences got the rare opportunity to see a rom-com in theaters with Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell’s Anyone But You, ensuing commercial profit. The movie is an outlier for the
Actor Wesley Snipes made a surprise appearance in Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine, reprising his role as Eric Brooks, aka Blade, a half-vampire “daywalker” who hunts vampires. In the process, Wesley Snipes’ Blade wound up shattering two Guinness World Records. Snipes appearance in the film means that he’s earned the distinction of “longest career as a live
Drive-by Truckers, Eric Church, Killer Mike and more are set to perform at former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday. The Carter Center is marking the milestone with a tribute concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia on September 17. The event, titled ‘Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song’, will also feature performances from
X – the microblogging platform owned by Elon Musk – has been gradually adding a slew of features since the billionaire’s takeover in 2022 when it was still called Twitter. The latest feature which could soon be introduced on X is the ability to edit direct messages (DMs), according to information provided by an employee on
The punishing heat experienced around the Mediterranean in July would have been “virtually impossible” in a world without global warming, a group of climate scientists said Wednesday. A deadly heatwave brought temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to southern Europe and North Africa, where such extreme summer spells are becoming more frequent. Scorching
After years of setbacks, Boeing finally launched the Starliner crewed demo flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in June. This mission was supposed to be a quick jaunt to space and back, taking just eight days. However, glitches in Starliner have extended the mission by months, with astronauts Wilmore and Williams cooling their heels
Josh Hartnett in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Trap‘ Warner Bros. FRIDAY MIDDAY UPDATE: The summer box office rebound continues with, of course, Deadpool & Wolverine, bound to soar, but Warner Bros.’ Trap actually set to seize a bunch of cash. Friday for the M. Night Shyamalan directed is $7.2M (including those $2.2M previews) for what’s a
Image via A24 Alex Garland’s latest polarizing A24 film, Civil War, was made available digitally after a successful theatrical run earlier this year. At the time, it broke records for A24 when it raked in $113.6 million worldwide. The film also faced a notable AI controversy and has sparked countless social media posts debating a
Justin Timberlake has submitted a not guilty plea to a revised misdemeanor charge in connection to his June arrest for driving while intoxicated in Sag Harbor, New York, CNN reports. The singer’s drivers license was also suspended in the state of New York by Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace. Timberlake attended the hearing virtually
Apple predicted that its new artificial intelligence features will spur iPhone upgrades in coming months, helping the company reemerge from a sales slowdown that has hit its China business especially hard. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, speaking on a conference call Thursday to discuss third-quarter results, said that upcoming Apple Intelligence features will provide a
LAS VEGAS — NASA is not reconsidering plans to select only one company to develop an Artemis lunar rover, despite a setback in another program procuring key elements of the lunar exploration effort as a service. NASA announced in April that it awarded feasibility study contracts to three companies — Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and
Image: Nintendo Life Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube773k Masahiro Sakurai is once again delving into his video game knowledge with a video all about the intricacies of NES and Famicom audio. What begins as an introduction to the consoles’ different audio processing channels (pulse, triangle, noise and DPCM), soon turns into a history lesson
Wednesday morning, July 31st, at 2 am Iranian time, Israel appears to have assassinated one of Hamas’ top three leaders, Ismail Haniyeh. Apparently Israel nailed Haniyeh with an explosive that blew up a few rooms of the luxury government apartment building in which the leader of Hamas was staying. Why was Haniyeh in Iran’s capital,
I had a great interaction at work on Wednesday, where I got to register a first-time voter! In our area, most voters register themselves online, so it’s pretty cool to register someone in person. Hang onto those positive library interactions, though, because this last week hasn’t had the greatest news updates…multiple bomb threats, two disbanded
Patrick Mahomes is the final 99 Club member in Madden NFL 25. Madden NFL 25 has finished its annual “Ratings Week” by announcing the full ratings for quarterbacks and linebackers. As many expected, these two lists include one last member of the 99 Club with Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes. The dynamic signal-caller has long
My fellow Emily Henry fans get excited because we just got some massive news about Brett Haley’s upcoming book-to-screen adaptation of People We Meet On Vacation! After a ton of speculation about who could play Alex and Poppy in the rom-com, we finally know who has been cast as them. While the news about a
Reboots, sequels, and requels, oh my! Who can keep up? Well, apparently Brandy Norwood that’s who. With the announcement that I Know What You Did Last Summer is getting hooked into another chapter, the singer and actress wasn’t aware of it even though she is a legacy star in the franchise, having played Karla in
Kesha unknowingly used a “real butcher knife” for her performance of ‘Backstabber’ at Lollapalooza 2024. The pop singer played her set at the Chicago branch of the festival yesterday (August 1), where she played hits such as ‘TiK ToK’ and ‘We R Who We R’. However, Kesha also put on a theatrical performance of ‘Backstabber’
Honor Magic 6 Pro 5G has been launched in India on Friday (August 2). The flagship phone runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC and boasts a 6.8-inch LTPO display. It features a triple rear camera setup comprising a 180-megapixel periscope sensor. The handset has a 50-megapixel front camera and is backed by a 5,600mAh