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Month: April 2025
English singer/songwriter superstar Charli XCX became a pop culture zeitgeist moment unto herself thanks to all things Brat Summer. She took over the charts, won a few Grammys, joined the list of current and upcoming Saturday Night Live hosts for its historic Season 50, and jump-started a full-fledged movie career with projects like Gregg Araki’s
We’ve all heard of the “hear me out” trend, but if you haven’t, well… hear me out. Broadly, the idea is to wink, wink, nudge, nudge about some ostensibly objectionable fictional character you otherwise find kind of sexy. Or really sexy. Picture “hear me out” cakes topped with printouts of Shrek or Sully from Monsters
Curtis Harding has announced a 2025 UK and European headline tour – check out all the dates below. The Atlanta native released his first new track in four years, ‘There She Goes’, earlier this month, a track Harding has described as “my poetic description capturing the beauty and duality of the ideal woman.” “This perspective
Meta is working on a new technology called Private Processing for WhatsApp that allows users to access artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a private and secure environment. On Tuesday, the Menlo Park-based tech giant shared a first look at the technology and how it is ensuring both data security and transparency at the user level.
When getting ready to take exams, it can sometimes feel as though there’s no way all the information you need to remember is going to fit in your brain. But there are ways to create the right conditions to make your studying as efficient as possible. My research into the science of memory shows that
Far Cry 4 may be over a decade old, but it remains a fan favorite in Ubisoft’s emergent open-world franchise. Today, the publisher announced and released a current-gen patch that improves the performance of the Kyrati adventure, bringing it to modern gaming standards. Beginning today, those playing the PS4 or Xbox One versions of Far
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t sent a pretty good chunk of change to lucky fans who dialed a phone number just in time. On April 29th, two mysterious video billboards popped up in Times Square, New York City. One billboard featured a timer set for 60 minutes and a phone number (315-669-8263) alongside
EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Folktales. A July 25 theatrical release is planned. The acquisition puts the filmmaking duo behind the Oscar-nominated Jesus Camp back in business with Magnolia. The new documentary, which had its world premiere in January at the Sundance Film
There might be no other horror movie this year that is creating the most buzz than Weapons. And after watching this creepy trailer we can see why. You might argue that 28 Years Later is the most anticipated, but Weapons has been shrouded in secrecy. Until now. Originally Pedro Pascal was supposed to star in
MIKE and Tony Seltzer have shared another taste of their forthcoming collaborative album, Pinball II. “WYC4” follows lead single “Prezzy.” The British rapper and producers Jadasea co-stars with MIKE in the new song’s music video, directed by Ian Lopez. Watch it below. Pinball II—MIKE and Tony Seltzer’s sequel to 2024’s Pinball—is out on May 7.
Global smartphone shipments recorded a slight year-on-year (YoY) growth of 0.2 percent for the January-March period (Q1) in 2025, according to a new report by market research firm Canalys. Markets including India, Latin America, saw notable declines in Q1 2025, while China and the US recorded growth. Samsung secured top spot in the first quarter
A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been unmasked in all its enormous, invisible glory. Just 300 light-years away, at the edge of the Local Bubble of space, astronomers have discovered a huge, crescent-shaped cloud of molecular hydrogen, the basic building
Italian studio 3DClouds is well versed in making racing games – it’s put out everything from the futuristic Xenon Racer to Paw Patrol Grand Prix – and its devs say their latest self-funded project is all of that experience culminating in something they’ve been keen to deliver for years. Formula Legends is the simcadey racer
X-Men fans aren’t exactly starving for a new Scott Summers Marvel Legends action figure—Hasbro has made sure Cyclops fans have been eating good these last few years. And after releasing Cyclops in his familiar blue and white X-Factor costume in 2019, Hasbro is back at it again with the blue and yellow Cyclops right off
There are a lot of upcoming book adaptations on the way, but the one I’m most hyped about lately is the movie version of the latest Hunger Games novel, Sunrise on the Reaping. Not only does the book itself have fans thinking about seeing specific moments on the big screen, but the casting updates so
Actress Priscilla Pointer has passed away. She died in her sleep yesterday, April 28, at the age of 100 — and just three weeks shy of her 101st birthday. She’s perhaps best known for Brian De Palma‘s Carrie, in which she played the on-screen mother to her real daughter, Amy Irving. Her other horror roles
Glastonbury 2025 is edging ever closer, with organisers now drip-feeding the individual line-ups for the festival’s many stages and areas after revealing the first wave of acts in early March. Check out a breakdown of the bill so far below. READ MORE: Glastonbury 2025: how to buy tickets, who’s playing and everything you need to know
Honor Magic 7 Pro was released in European markets in January, after its initial launch in China in October 2024. The Chinese smartphone brand might wait until October to unveil the Honor Magic 8 Pro as a successor to the current Magic 7 Pro model, but leaks surrounding the phone are already surfacing online. The
The lights are mostly back on in Spain, Portugal and southern France after a widespread blackout on Monday. The blackout caused chaos for tens of millions of people. It shut down traffic lights and ATMs, halted public transport, cut phone service and forced people to eat dinner huddled around candles as night fell. Many people
Nvidia released another driver this week, primarily to address issues with its new RTX 50 line of GPUs. The GameReady driver from mid-April also squashed a lot of bugs, but it seems that Nvidia kicked the nest with the RTX 50. The company is addressing issues with specific games and a weird problem with RTX
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. How THE GREAT GATSBY Took Over High School This year is the 100-year anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, so you are going to be hearing about it consistently through the year (including
Diablo 4 season 8 launched today with brand new boss powers, Apparition Incursion events, a new seasonal questline, and the new Reliquary battle pass system for obtaining themed cosmetics. It’s that last feature we’re primarily talking about today, because while I’m excited to check out everything new in season 8, I have a fairly urgent
Home News Moose Toys Returning to SDCC Bigger Than Ever With Two Booths Moose Toys’ return to San Diego Comic-Con is shaping up to be a blockbuster hit that will see the toy company from down under coming up on top with attendees as Moose is bringing Bluey toys to Comic Con for the first time ever.
Jeremy Renner’s snowplow incident garnered a considerable amount of attention back in 2023, as many feared for the fan-favorite actor’s well-being. At the time, he was run over by his 14,000 lb. snowcat while trying to save his nephew from being hit. Renner was subsequently airlifted to a nearby hospital, where it was ruled that
It’s been a very long time since I’ve been hit with a film that tests my own moral compass. However, Michael Pierro’s smartly written sleeper Self Driver will challenge anyone’s value system, especially when money is added to the mix. Along the lines of ABC’s “What Would You Do?” we are introduced to an everyday
Koffee, who now goes by Original Koffee, is back with her first single since her debut album, Gifted. The comeback track, “Koffee,” is released via Promised Land Recordings and features production from Ghanaian beatmaker GuiltyBeatz. Watch the Joshua Valle–directed video below. “Koffee” follows a quiet spell for the Jamaican singjay and guitarist, who did the
Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Monday expanded the availability of its 5G services to two more cities in India. Previously limited to the Mumbai circle where a majority of users are said to be enjoying high-speed internet with select prepaid and postpaid plans, the telecom operator has introduced its 5G network in Chandigarh and Patna in
TAMPA, Fla. — The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted April 28 to review its satellite spectrum sharing rules, opening a new front in the power struggle between legacy operators in geosynchronous orbit (GSO) and non-GSO (NGSO) upstarts. The agency adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to explore updating Equivalent Power Flux Density (EPFD) limits, set
Image: EA Electronic Arts is reportedly laying off between 300-400 staff, with 100 of those coming from Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi developer Respawn, Bloomberg reports. A spokesperson for EA told the publication that the Redwood City, California-based company has “made select changes within our organization that more effectively aligns teams and allocates resources
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