This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s mid-year check-in season. This and more in today’s collection of book links. Barnes & Noble Picks the Best Books of the Year…So Far Barnes & Noble continues its recent format for best books list: grouping titles not
While technology has been able to do amazing things in the entertainment industry and create objects, and worlds that we might never see otherwise, there is some clear love among many film fans for the way things used to be. Both movie fans, and the actors themselves, often criticize green screens and think some directors
Creep is one of the greatest found footage films ever conceived. Both the original film and the sequel surpassed fan’s expectations by a mile. However, 7 years later, fans had lost hope that they would receive a third installment to this iconic franchise. Luckily, Creep’s creator and villain, Mark Duplass, gave fans some hope today
J Hus has pulled out of his headlining slot at this year’s edition of Parklife Festival, citing “unforeseen circumstances”. The festival’s organisers took to X/Twitter to announce that the rapper will no longer be performing at the bash. The announcement comes just three days before the festival is set to take place. J Hus was set
Telecom operators have installed over 3 lakh 5G mobile sites within 10 months of launch of the service, Union Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday. The 5G sites have been installed across 714 districts. “The world’s fastest 5G rollout continues. Over 3 lakh 5G sites installed in 714 districts,” Vaishnaw said on social media
Doom, defeat, and despair will get us nowhere in an environmental catastrophe, and yet all too often the negative news drowns out the positive. While it’s true that human activity is wreaking havoc on the natural world, there are glimmers of good. On World Environment Day, it’s worth considering our hopes for the future as
Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive is laying off roughly 95 employees, the company has announced. The majority of those that will be affected – 70 of the 95 – work at the studio’s Montreal, Canada, office, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. As for why, the company cites restructuring as it pursues a clarified vision around
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for a new shipment of toys and collectibles from Diamond Select Toys! Arriving at your local comic shop are five new items, from All Elite Wrestling, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rebel Moon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! It’s the best of all worlds! Find a store near you at comicshoplocator.com, or
Broadway box office held fairly steady as the industry settled into a post-Memorial Day summer, with most productions reporting some slippage from the holiday traffic highs. In all, the 35 productions grossed $33,662,845 for the week ending June 2, down about 5% from the previous week (but up 8% over last year at this time).
The Disney+ series “Goosebumps” is coming back for a brand new second season that will feature a new cast, new setting, and new story, and the full cast has now been announced. For starters, the previously announced series regular cast for Season 2 includes David Schwimmer (Anthony), Ana Ortiz (Jen), Sam McCarthy (Devin), Jayden Bartels
Halsey has released the new song “The End.” She co-produced the track with Michael Uzowuru and Alex G, the latter of whom also plays guitar on the song. Listen to the single below. On Instagram, Halsey shared photos and videos of herself receiving treatment. She captioned the post, “long story short, i’m Lucky to be
OnePlus 13 is expected to go official towards the end of this year, but there have been a couple of rumours about its specifications. Recently, an early leaked render of the alleged handset showed us an all-new design with a revamped rear camera unit. Now a tipster has shed some light on the camera specifications
WASHINGTON — NASA will extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope by switching to a mode where the spacecraft operates on a single gyroscope, having rejected for now commercial proposals to reboost or repair it. The agency announced June 4 that one of three remaining gyros used to control pointing of the telescope had
Destiny 2 players booted up the game en masse yesterday excited to experience The Final Shape expansion for on launch day. But while these guardians were keen to see the defeat of The Witness firsthand, they’ve been able to witness very little as error messages and server issues plague the game a full day later.
I’m knee deep in Gold Key UFO goodness. I didn’t realize UFO Flying Saucers #1 (1968) covers the entirety of Project Blue Book. As soon as I get finish reading this epic comic book, I will continue with the Charlton Comics binge. Please stand by… Post navigation View original source here.
If you’ve spent the past few years craving more antics from Detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, this is a great week for you, as Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back reprising their roles first introduced in 1995 for the fourth installment of their buddy cop series, Bad Boys: Ride or Die. This time
I love a good B-movie. Nine times out of 10, I will take lighthearted silliness over a film that takes itself too seriously. And if ever there was a movie that no one could accuse of taking anything the least bit seriously, that film is Slither. This early career effort from legendary director James Gunn is a glorious sendup
Queens of the Stone Age have announced the final shows of their ‘The End Is Nero’ world tour with The Kills in support. They will wrap up their world tour with a short run of US dates in the autumn, starting in Boston on September 28. They will then move on to Cincinnati on October
YouTube is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its minute-long vertical video format, Shorts. Dubbed Dream Screen, this feature will add a custom green screen image generated by AI to the videos. This feature is likely aimed at users who prefer to use creative backgrounds to stand out in the videos or be
New research finds Earth’s surface was first sprinkled with fresh water some 4 billion years ago, a whole 500 million years earlier than previously thought. A team of researchers from Australia and China used isotopes of oxygen trapped in ancient minerals to determine when the first signs of fresh water may have dampened the skin
Samples from the far side of the Moon are now en route back to Earth. China’s Chang’e-6 mission landed on the Moon over the weekend, and it has since collected a sample of lunar regolith. That material began its journey to Earth late yesterday with the successful departure of Chang’e-6’s ascent vehicle. This will mark
Magdalena Herrera has a lot of responsibilities. On top of trying to finish high school, she works a part-time job and is the sole caregiver for her grandmother. Mags has a lot of secrets as well. She’s hooking up with a girl who has a boyfriend. And every night she disappears down a trapdoor in
Hasbro’s next generation of BEYBLADE Tops, BEYBLADE X, is now available at Amazon, GameStop, and Target. They will also be on shelves at Walmart in the middle of this month. The new line features the BEYBLADE X XTREME Battle Set, which is the perfect starter, packed with all you need to begin your quest for
It’s not all doom and gloom at the global box office as a handful of films reached milestones this week. 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has topped $300M worldwide, while Paramount’s IF and Sony/Alcon’s The Garfield Movie crossed the $100M mark. Through Tuesday, Apes is at $178.1M international and $306.8M global; this past weekend was its third frame.
Black Mirror season seven is currently in production and The Hollywood Reporter released some information about what’s in store for viewers of this popular anthology series. They spoke with series creator and writer Charlie Brooker who says they are halfway through filming the latest season, “it’s all quite mad right now,” he told the trade
Sam Shepherd has released his first Floating Points single of 2024. The new song, “Del Oro,” comes with a moody video that has artwork by Akiko Nakayama. Watch it below. Shepherd released just one track last year, “Birth4000.” The British electronic musician’s most recent album remains Promises, his landmark 2021 collaboration with Pharaoh Sanders and
It seems to be an open secret that Apple is in the early stages of developing a foldable iPhone. The Cupertino tech giant is yet to confirm its existence, but it has been registering different patents for foldable technologies for some time now. A new report by TrendForce says Apple may not launch its own
WASHINGTON — Iridium Communications, a provider of mobile satellite communications, on June 4 announced a new five-year contract valued at $94 million — with a potential total value of $103 million — to provide communication support services to the U.S. Department of Defense. The contract, awarded by the Space Systems Command’s Commercial Space Office (COMSO)
Image: Nintendo Life Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, it’s time to celebrate Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s Vivian, and Alana does it with Pride. Nintendo’s track record with LGBTQIA+ characters has been… mixed, to say the least.
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. “The Frumpy Duckling” In the sleepy medieval village of Riverdale, all of the squires chased after the fairest ducklings in the land. Betty and Veronica, to be more precise. Their beauty could enchant men to perform unthinkable acts of courtship and bravado. Some would say the pretty