No one yet knows what threat plastic pollution poses to human health, but the recent realization that we are drinking invisible fragments of plastic along with our water is making many understandably uneasy. To stop microplastics and nanoplastics from penetrating deep into our bodies and brains, researchers at the University of Missouri have come up
Month: August 2024
Nvidia has finally pulled the wraps off the industry’s worst-kept secret, a “new” RTX 4070 with GDDR6 memory. The previous version came with GDDR6X memory, but due to a shortage, Nvidia has swapped it out for slightly slower memory, although it says performance will be “similar.” Everything else about the GPU is the same, including
The historical romance centers on a British teen falling in love with an American soldier during the second World War. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown is reportedly developing Nineteen Steps, a movie based on her debut novel, at Netflix. The star, who has a long history with the streaming giant, will release the novel next month.
Before he played Doc Brown opposite Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly in the Back to the Future movies (a role first offered to Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh), Christopher Lloyd left his stamp on the science fiction genre on an established franchise. The Taxi star was cast to play Kruge, the main villain in Star Trek III:
After gracing fans with the 1996 PC port of Resident Evil back in June, fans have been waiting for the port of 1998’s Resident Evil 2 to show up on GOG. That day will be coming soon enough, as GOG has announced that Resident Evil 2 will arrive on the site on August 27. GOG
Following the split of Black Midi, Geordie Greep has shared details of a debut solo album called ‘The New Sound’. Check out the lead single ‘Holy Holy’ and new tour dates below. The announcement of the new material comes just days after Greep and bandmate Cameron Picton confirmed the “indefinite” end to the band on
Oppo F27 5G was launched in India on Tuesday as the latest entrant in the company’s F series. The new handset is powered by a Dimensity 6300 chipset from MediaTek, along with 8GB of RAM. It features a 50-megapixel primary camera, while selfies are handled by a 32-megapixel selfie camera. The Oppo F27 5G runs
Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “model collapse”. But how realistic are these predictions? And what is model collapse anyway? Discussed in 2023, but popularised more recently, “model collapse” refers to a hypothetical scenario where future AI systems get progressively
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube775k We’ve been waiting for news of Tintin Reporter: Cigars of the Pharaoh on Switch for a while now (ever since it was first teased back in 2022, to be precise), but it looks like we won’t have to wait too much longer. Publishers Tintinimaginatio and Microids have finally revealed
The latest Assassin’s Creed Shadows demonstrates how different the two protagonists will play. Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches this November, finally bringing players to feudal Japan after years of fans begging developer Ubisoft to take the franchise there. Shadows is set at the tail-end of the Sengoku period and puts players in the shoes of two
SUNDAY AM UPDATE: So much for the doldrums of August. Between Alien: Romulus and the near $100M-grossing Sony/Wayfarer Studios movie’ It Ends With Us, it’s clear we’ve shaken off all the strike jitters. Disney continues to keep the shine on its 20th Century Studios brand with their own fingerprints on storied franchises as Alien: Romulus
Welcome to The Overlooked Motel, a place where under-seen and unappreciated films get their moment in the spotlight. I hope you enjoy your stay here and find the accommodations to be suitable. Now, please take a seat and make yourself comfortable. I have some misbehaving guests to ‘correct.’ Watch the latest episode: There are few things
Jason Isbell was one of several musicians who took the stage at the opening night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention earlier tonight. Onstage at United Center in Chicago, Illinois, the Americana singer-songwriter performed “Something More Than Free,” the title track from his 2015 Grammy-winning studio album. Watch a replay of the moment below. Back
Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company’s legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not
TAMPA, Fla. — Globalstar has secured permission to start deploying up to 17 improved direct-to-smartphone connectivity satellites next year despite SpaceX objections. The Federal Communications Commission authorized the proposed satellites Aug. 16 and extended the company’s operating license by 15 years to 2039. However, the U.S. regulator deferred deciding on plans to deploy another nine satellites,
Gamescom will be starting tomorrow, where many video gaming companies will have upcoming releases available to play at the show floor. However, one company that has had a history of having a very small presence at the event, if any at all, is Nintendo. This year is no exception, with the company announcing back in
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The next John Wick movie won’t be filming next year after all. The John Wick Universe is far from over. Although the eponymous hitman seemingly died at the end of John Wick: Chapter 4, the franchise already has a pair of direct sequels in development, in addition to the Ana de Armas-starring Ballerina spinoff. There’s
When Mila Kunis returned as her iconic character Jackie in That ‘90s Show, it was a cameo That ‘70s Show fans have been anticipating seeing since the sitcom’s final episode back in 2006. While it was disappointing that Jackie didn’t return for the spinoff series’ second season, Kunis will be returning to the big screen
Can you believe it’s been 21 years since Freddy threw down with Jason? The jury is still out on who won. This was the last film in which Robert Englund appeared in makeup as Freddy. It’s unclear when or if Freddy will return to a mainstream film, as there is some debate in the surviving
This past weekend, Deftones teamed up with System Of A Down for a one-off co-headlining gig – here’s what went down. The two bands took over San Fransisco’s Golden Gate Park on Saturday (August 17) which saw roughly 50,000 fans in attendance. The likes of The Mars Volta, Viagra Boys, and VOWWS served as opening acts
Foxconn’s chairman on Saturday defended its hiring practices after New Delhi ordered investigations following a Reuters report that the Apple supplier rejects married women from iPhone assembly jobs. “Foxconn hires regardless of gender, but women make up a big part of our workforce here,” Young Liu said during the opening ceremony for a hostel complex
No one is certain why Stonehenge was built. This world-famous monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire is thought to commemorate the dead, and is aligned with movements of the Sun and Moon. It consists of an outer ring and inner horseshoe of large “sarsen” and “trilithon” stones, and an inner circle and horseshoe of smaller
The upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2 isn’t all that far away, with its release date set for October 8. As such, previews have been well underway as the game goes through the final stages of development and receives a final layer of polish. While I talk about this at length in my preview, I
SUNDAY UPDATE: Alien: Romulus has chomped into a $108.2M global opening, including $41.5M from domestic and $66.7M at the international box office. The Fede Alvarez-directed sci-fi horror came in well ahead of expectations, aided, as we noted yesterday (see below), by an over-performance in China. The start there was $25.7M, making it the 2nd best
In the wake of their epic JAWS playset release, LEGO has announced this morning that Henry Selick’s iconic classic The Nightmare Before Christmas is getting its own LEGO set. Releasing this coming Halloween season, it’s another LEGO Ideas product, meaning the set originally began as a fan-made concept that other fans voted into becoming an
Over 30 people were injured when two gondolas of a Ferris wheel caught fire on Saturday night (August 17) at Highfield Festival in Leipzig, Germany, reports German news broadcaster Deutsche Welle. While most injuries were mild cases of smoke inhalation, four people suffered burns and one sustained injuries from a fall. Police said that the
iQOO Z9 Turbo+ is expected to be unveiled soon and join the iQOO Z9 Turbo, which was launched in China in April this year. Previous leaks and reports have suggested some key features of the purported smartphone. Now a tipster claims to have spotted it on a Chinese certification website that has hinted at the
The amazing Gaia mission to chart stars in the Milky Way Galaxy is also an expert asteroid hunter. Now, astronomers are reporting its success at spotting more moons of asteroids in our solar system. Once the Gaia data from its release 3 are confirmed, those observations will add 352 more binary asteroids to the known
High Numerical Aperture (NA) lithography machines just became available earlier this year. Intel was the first global foundry to purchase one in an attempt to one-up its rivals in the race to ever-shrinking nodes. Now, Samsung foundry has reportedly jumped on board the High-NA train; a new report states the company is joining Intel in
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