Hull is set to submit its bid to become the UK’s latest recipient of the UNESCO Creative City of Music award. The designation is awarded by the United Nations agency to a number of cities around the world that have “identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development” and that aim to establish
Month: December 2024
Huawei secured the top spot in the global wrist-worn wearable shipments with significant year-over-year growth, as per the latest report by market research firm IDC. The Chinese tech brand has surpassed Apple to grab the top spot in global wrist-worn wearable shipment for the first three quarters of 2024. Xiaomi came in third, while Samsung and BBK
WASHINGTON — Liechtenstein became the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords Dec. 20, bringing the total number of signatories to more than half of a key United Nations body. Rainer Schnepfleitner, director of Liechtenstein’s Office for Communications, the government agency responsible for space issues, signed the Artemis Accords in an event at NASA Headquarters
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) A few months ago, the Switch finally received Pizza Tower, an indie action platformer that’s gotten a lot of praise for how well it channels Nintendo’s long-dormant Wario Land series. Yet developer Tour de Pizza wasn’t the only team inspired by Wario. Summitsphere’s Antonblast is a wild and wonderful action
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “–The Last Frankenstein!” Dracula has been defeated, but the Frankenstein Monster stands grieving over the deceased body of Carmen the gypsy. Was she the monster’s one chance at true love and affection? It mattered not, for in the next few minutes, his emotions would turn from total
The highly anticipated A24 drama Babygirl has been generating buzz for its steamy sex scenes performed by Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson and the taboo romance at the center. While erotic thrillers can be fun for an audience, the craft of directing intimate scenes is unique, and lately has been re-examined. The use of intimacy
There might be no other show other than Lost where fans got excited about a series finale as season five of Stranger Things. It has finally finished filming. Now comes the hard part: the editing process and post-production work. Netflix says the final season will drop in 2025. They also posted some great behind-the-scenes production photos
Alfa Anderson, the singer of some of disco group Chic’s biggest songs, including “Le Freak,” “Good Times,” “My Forbidden Lover,” “At Last I Am Free,” “I Want Your Love,” has died. The band’s Nile Rodgers shared the news on social media, but he did not disclose a cause of death. Anderson was 78 year old.
OnePlus Open 2 is expected to launch next year, as the company’s second foldable smartphone. The Chinese smartphone maker did not launch a successor to the first-generation OnePlus Open in 2024, and a tipster has now shed some light on when we can expect the handset to be unveiled. It is expected to make its
Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of livestock. Exactly why it was done remains a mystery. In the 5,700-year-old dig site of Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, archaeologists uncovered the remains of five male sheep that showed clear evidence of having their horns artificially
Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe, has been hard at work on supporting Stardew Valley with updates. The game is still receiving new content on all platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, even though the game originally released more than 8 years ago. In fact, the PC version of the game was recently updated to version
Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King is not as regal as hoped in its global debut. The cume through three days of international box office play is $33M, which, with the domestic outlook, portends a $125M worldwide start through Sunday. That’s far off pre-weekend projections of a $180M worldwide debut. Domestically, as Anthony has detailed, is
A live-action Masters of the Universe movie is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel Films, and Deadline reports that the project has found its Skeletor in Jared Leto, along with a few of Skeletor’s henchmen. Masters of the Universe has now been set for theatrical release on June 5, 2026, with Travis Knight (Bumblebee) on
Normani has teased the possibility of a new full-length album in 2025, saying she is working on a “whole new body of work”. The pop/R&B star and former Fifth Harmony singer released her debut solo album ‘Dopamine’ in June this year, including the singles ‘Wild Side’, ‘1:59’ and ‘Candy Paint’. Now, in a new interview
With the cricketing world gearing up for the Indian Premier League beginning later this month, Jio has come up with new Cricket Plans for new and existing users. With truly unlimited True-5G data that comes with all the Cricket Plans, Jio users can watch live matches through multiple camera angles in 4K clarity across screens.
Two US astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will remain there at least until late March, NASA said Tuesday as it announced another delay in the mission to bring them home. Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, and were due to
When your game(s) of the year largely consist of psychological horror and back-to-back, brutal boss fights — as mine did — you’ll almost definitely need something mindlessly relaxing to kick back with. Sure enough, as I wrapped up my time wandering around the streets of Silent Hill 2, an adorable, unsuspecting game began doing the
Sara always had an outsize impact on her best friend, Magda. Even after her death, Sara still manages to coerce Magda into going on a road trip. With Magda at the wheel and Sara’s ashes on the front seat, Anna Montague’s moving and surprisingly humorous debut, How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (9
Across the nearly two decades The Holiday has warmed rom-com lovers’ hearts, it has become one of the best Christmas movies to watch around this time of year. In recent years, there have been whispers of a sequel being in the works along. With that, fans of the film have been calling for a reunion
‘Tis the season for warm beverages and Christmas horror movies. Luckily, there is a seemingly never-ending supply of festive frights, with more joining the ranks yearly. 2022 saw Violent Night turn David Harbour into a vicious (and hot) Santa, while Joe Begos’ Christmas Bloody Christmas had Twitter clutching its pearls over language. 2023 gave us
A new movie from Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, which shares a title with his forthcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, has received a North American release date of May 16, 2025, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The suspense thriller stars the Weeknd alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, with director Trey Edward Shults (known for the
iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are no longer listed for purchase in Switzerland, and the company is expected to discontinue sales of its smartphones across the European Union (EU), two years after they were launched, according to a report. The company will stop selling another smartphone that was also introduced in 2022 — the
A living time capsule frozen in the depths of Lake Enigma in Antarctica contains a unique ecosystem that has been isolated from the rest of the world since its surface permanently froze. Now, scientists have retrieved samples of the unique microbes, which have survived in a massive chamber of liquid fresh water below more than
Dangerous solar weather seems to be a fixture in the news. Every few days, another potentially disastrous sunspot crosses the face of the Sun. As we approach solar maximum, the solar flares are coming faster and faster. Mostly, it means Earthbound viewers get more than our normal share of nights illuminated by the aurora. More
Paramount is moving up The Running Man out of the Nov. 21, 2025 corridor which is where it was up against Wicked: For Good, to Nov. 7, 2025. Paramount will also have access to Imax screens which is a big plus. This leaves a spot open for a male-skewing film. They also set a release
It’s been speculated over the past few months that Courteney Cox will return to the Scream franchise for the upcoming sixth sequel. Critical thinkers would assume she would, but it wasn’t confirmed until yesterday. Cox has played Gale Weathers, the hard-nosed journalist, for nearly three decades. The release of Scream 7 on February 27, 2026,
Charli XCX and Post Malone have each received additional Grammy nods. The Recording Academy shared the additional nominations for the 2025 Grammys yesterday (December 20). The latest batch of adjustments to the nominee list saw both artists given Best Recording Package nods for serving as art directors on ‘Brat’ and ‘F-1 Trillion’. Both records were
Instagram is working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to reimagine their videos. The AI-powered video editing tool is built on Meta’s Movie Gen AI model, an early research project that can generate videos from text prompts. On Instagram, instead of letting users generate videos from scratch, the feature will
I’m a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able to help me out. Could I just prompt ChatGPT to pick a personalised gift for my cousin Johnny and have it shipped in time to reach him? Alas, the cheerful chatbot couldn’t help, telling me
Ollie Reynolds, Staff Writer I never want to belittle the incredible achievement CD Projekt Red and Saber Interactive managed in porting The Witcher III to the Nintendo Switch, but when I recently booted it up for a fresh playthrough, I just couldn’t cope with the visuals. It was nice back in 2019, but not anymore.
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