With a mass of around three-quarters of our Sun crammed into a ball that could sit comfortably inside Manhattan, the compact object XMMU J173203.3-344518 is certainly remarkable. Weird, even. Maybe bizarre. But is it strange? A new study by astrophysicists from the University of São Paulo and the Federal University of ABC in Brazil confirms
While streamers typically get by on thrifty marketing budgets, pushing content largely on their menus, most motion picture studios, like Universal, still have all the superpowers in the world to blast a movie out of a canon. But here’s something to keep in mind as we detail Universal’s promo playbook below in propelling Illumination/Nintendo’s Super
David Paton, Ian Bairnson, and Stuart Tosh of Pilot (Photo by Gems/Redferns). News Pilot’s Ian Bairnson, Guitarist on Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights,” Dies at 69 Bairnson, who was also a member of the Alan Parsons Project, had been living with dementia By Madison Bloom April 9, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Ian Bairnson—the Scottish guitarist
The very first update for Sonic Frontiers came out last month, but attention is already turning towards the next update, which is expected to release in the next few months. There was also a leak recently suggesting that Sonic’s iconic Spin Dash move was coming to the game. Well, Sonic Frontiers director Morio Kishimoto has
With Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened arriving later this week, Frogwares has released the game’s launch trailer, which as you might expect, contains plenty of Lovecraft vibes to get Cthulhu fans excited. Touted as a “full remake and substantial rewrite” of their 2006 title, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened pits the titular Holmes and his faithful sidekick
Home runs are exhilarating – those lofting moments when everyone looks skyward, baseball players and fans alike, anxiously awaiting the outcome: run or out, win or loss, elation or despair. Over the past several Major League Baseball seasons, home run numbers have climbed dramatically, including Aaron Judge’s record-breaking 62 homers for the New York Yankees
When The Exchange wrote about Sweden’s startup scene at the end of last month, we said we’d revisit the Nordics this week. Well, a promise is a promise. But after spending hours watching YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day pitches this week, we also couldn’t help but try to connect the dots: Are Scandinavian startups making
Oscilloscope Laboratories’ Cannes Jury Prize Winner and Independent Spirit international film winner Joyland led New York’s Film Forum to one of its biggest opening weekends for a foreign language film in nearly a decade, taking in north of $21k on one screen, the distributor said. Buoyed by strong reviews and strategic marketing, the film by Saim Sadiq sold out nine showtimes,
Play video content Instagram / @houseofloren Tom Sandoval is moving on from the Scandoval — and he’s doing it by getting back onstage and singing his heart out. The ‘Vanderpump’ reality star got under the spotlight this weekend with his band, The Most Extras, for 2 live gigs where he the guys apparently played to
It’s been nearly 3 weeks since Amanda Bynes was first admitted to a mental health hospital, and while her release date is still undetermined … those around her are already formulating a plan to make sure she stays on the right path. Sources close to the actress tell us both Amanda and the medical staff
8-Ball Pocket has the power to make you reminisce about your favourite snooker or pool game. Mine’s Side Pocket, with a bit of Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker, if you’re asking. It got me reminiscing because I had an itch that I wanted a pool game to scratch, and 8-Ball Pocket completely failed to scratch it.
Video games may be filled with mutant enemies and extraterrestrial terrors, but there’s something to be said about games that rely on existing creatures to scare unwitting players. While real world animals might seem tame compared to the imagined beasts of fiction, an evening watching Animal Planet will likely convince you that there’s nothing scarier
The latest bit of brilliance from the field of robotics is a tiny micro-motor that can identify, trap, and transport individual cells. It’s a serious feat of engineering that could find uses from medicine to air purification. Importantly, both electric and magnetic fields can control the machine – and the latter will be vital if
Apple is gearing up to open its first retail store in India to the public later this month, roughly two decades after the company began selling products and services in the South Asian nation that has grown to become the second largest internet market. The iPhone-maker on Wednesday shared the barricade of its first retail
Seventeen-year-old Alonda is a straight-A student who never gets in trouble and does whatever her strict, overprotective guardian, Teresa, asks of her—all while keeping her dreams locked up tight inside. But when the sweltering June heat has her fleeing to the window of her Coney Island apartment in search of a cool breeze, Alonda spots
Earlier this week Hasbro revealed some new products to coincide with the fifth episode of The Mandalorian. There was a reveal for The Vintage Collection and another for the Black Series. For The Vintage Collection, the reveal was a Tusken Raider four-pack, and for the Black Series a Pyke Soldier which both featured very heavily
The 1975’s Matthew Healy, August 2022 (Joseph Okpako/WireImage) News The 1975’s Matthew Healy Is No Longer a Director at Dirty Hit Limited Healy was made a director at Dirty Hit Limited—the private limited company behind the 1975’s British record label, Dirty Hit—in 2018 By Matthew Strauss April 7, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter The 1975’s
Do you have your tissues ready? Coming off their reunion in The Company You Keep Season 1 Episode 6, Simon and Birdie meet up again in The Company You Keep Season 7, and their heartbreaking conversation leads to many tears for both parties. Ahead of the packed hour, TV Fanatic was lucky enough to get
A new job listing for developer Hangar 13 hints that Mafia 5 could be in early production. The description of the job post on LinkedIn hints to a prior report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier that the developer hopes to greenlight a sequel to Mafia 4 while it is being made. Early Mafia 5 production would
“I think shit is going to get a lot worse out here.” Nat (Sophie Thatcher) says this aloud to what remains of Jackie’s body the day after the starving survivors of the plane crash descend upon her charred corpse. She’s not wrong; all signs point to mounting tension and catastrophe for the group. Episode three
HOUSTON — As preparations for the Artemis 2 mission ramp up, NASA has established a congressionally mandated office to oversee planning for that and future missions to the moon. NASA announced March 30 it had created the Moon to Mars Program Office within the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. The office will focus on integrating
At the Star Wars Celebration in London, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars spinoff “The Acolyte” will premiere on Disney Plus in 2024. The series is set at the end of the High Republic era before the events of the main Star Wars films. Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae will be staring in the leading roles.
The judge in a case brought by meme stock shareholders against AMC Entertainment declined to approve a settlement unveiled earlier this week that would have allowed the exhibitor to move ahead with plans to convert its AMC Preferred Equity units (APEs) to common stock, among other measures. AMC on April 3 entered into a binding
Taylor Swift and her longtime boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, have reportedly broken up … but it sounds like there’s no drama she’ll have to sing about in the aftermath. ET broke the news Saturday, reporting that the couple split a few weeks ago … but that the uncoupling was “amicable” and “not dramatic,” which isn’t always
With five new Multiplayer maps, four new game modes, and a new Special Ops Raid, prepare for a massive content offering in Season 03 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0. Alejandro and Valeria return to settle the score, Resurgence expands to Al Mazrah, and Ranked Play for Warzone
The slasher and the actioner seem like two disparate types of movies, however, both often feature a high degree of suspense, lengthy chases, and a lot of death. A slasher villain will hunt down hapless victims, whereas an action hero may go after one enemy or a whole group of them. Grisly kills and an
Ask any pet owner if their beloved companion has a personality and you’ll most often get an emphatic “yes”. But now tiger researchers can nod along too – a study published Wednesday reveals that the world’s largest felines have individual character traits. The behavior of the 248 Siberian tigers observed through a personality test showed
It’s that time of the week, folks: Week in Review (WiR) time. If you’re new to WiR, it’s the newsletter where TechCrunch recaps the week in tech that was. We get it — you’re a busy person. We all are. So what better way to catch up on what’s happened than in a summarized, bullet-point
Elizabeth Banks genre comedy, Cocaine Bear, will be debuting on Universal’s streaming service Peacock 50 days after its theatrical debut. The movie is based on a true situation that went down in 1985 whereby a drug cartel’s lost cocaine stash air dropped in the Georgia woods, and wound up in a bear’s nose. Cocaine Bear
Cover art of Arthur Russell’s Picture of Bunny Rabbit News Unreleased Arthur Russell Songs Compiled for New Album: Listen to “The Boy With the Smile” The song, previously available only in live form, leads Picture of Bunny Rabbit, a 9-track set of mid-1980s recordings By Jazz Monroe April 7, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter A