Scientists are always looking for the next weird and wonderful material, and they’ve just found it: A bosonic correlated insulator to give it its technical name, which is both a new material and, indeed, a whole new state of matter. It’s a lattice formed from a layer of tungsten diselenide and a layer of tungsten
Image: Nintendo Life / Nintendo Update [Tue 20th Jun, 2023 06:18 BST]: We’ve got some good news and some bad news – Legend of Zelda amiibo are back in stock in North America. They seem to be getting restocked in waves on websites like Best Buy and Amazon, so you might be in luck depending
Morgan Wallen‘s son Indigo took a dog bite to the face … and now the boy’s mother is looking to rehome the pooch. Play video content Instagram / @jombo_imkt The country music star’s ex-girlfriend, KT Smith, says her Great Pyrenees bit the two-year-old child she shares with Morgan, and the kid needed stitches. Morgan’s ex
The place where the lost things go isn’t one of the most frequently-occurring story tropes, but it’s certainly one of the more compelling. In the Wizard of Oz universe, L. Frank Baum created the Valley of Lost Things, a location in Merryland where anything lost in the real world will eventually turn up. Danielle Page
Genre filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak) made headlines last week when he announced via THR that he plans to soon focus exclusively on animated films. “Animation to me is the purest form of art, and it’s been kidnapped by a bunch of hoodlums. We have to rescue it. [And] I think that we can Trojan-horse a lot
A smattering of ancient rock walls along the river Nile in Sudan appear to represent the oldest known hydraulics system of their kind. New findings suggest people living in the ancient empire of Nubia in northern Sudan were manipulating the river to their advantage as far back as 3,000 years ago. River ‘groynes‘ are rigid
Remember Chocobo GP? The game released on the Nintendo Switch last year. Unfortunately, the game became rather infamous for its micro-transactions and a few characters that couldn’t be unlocked in-game and for free. Earlier this month, the game had been removed from the Nintendo Switch eShop, and now we know why. A few days ago,
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
Russell Simmons had a Father’s Day worth forgetting … as his estranged family is accusing the music mogul of being a gaslighting expert who’s rattled their last nerves. The day took a sour start when Russ’ oldest daughter Ming effectively burned her dad and wished her MOTHER, Kimora Lee Simmons, a Happy Father’s Day. Russ
Nick Cannon had a busy Father’s Day weekend, which kicked off with him celebrating the birthday of his second pair of twins … and ended with seeing some of his other children too. Every year, folks wanna know what Nick’s up to mid-June … and every year, he rises to the occasion — making pit
Joanie, The Scammer After spending two weeks talking about dinosaurs with Tammy and the T-Rex and then Jurassic Park last week, it seemed like a good time to revisit a very serious, very somber contemporary classic: Ari Aster‘s 2018 family melodrama, Heredtiary, just in time for its 5th anniversary. In the film, grieving diorama creator Annie (Toni
An object orbiting a star 1,400 light-years away is seriously confronting our notions of what’s possible in the Universe. It’s a brown dwarf, the curious category of objects that straddle the gap between planets and stars, but it’s on such a close orbit with its very hot host star that its temperature exceeds a blistering
If you’re going to pick a movie to steal from, you could do a lot worse than Innerspace. Yep, this isn’t your traditional shoot ’em up foray into space: this is a run through the human body. You’re Dennis Quaid, flying through the body of Martin Short, clearing out toxins with a machine gun. Well,
News The Weeknd and Moses Sumney Share New Songs From HBO’s The Idol: Listen Sumney wrote “Get It B4,” which appears in the latest episode of the series By Madison Bloom June 19, 2023 Facebook Twitter Still from The Idol (Courtesy of HBO). Facebook Twitter Following the third installment of HBO’s The Idol, the Weeknd
Despite its connection to Yellowstone and promos leading into the 1883 premiere, how this story would unfold was somewhat of a mystery. 1883 Season 1 Episode 1 and 1883 Season 1 Episode 2 revealed that the expansion of the United States and all that it stood for wasn’t for the weak. And if there’s anything
Beware! Spoilers for the work of Stephen King abound. Stephen King has always been a self-referential writer. In addition to his poignant memoir On Writing and a multitude of forwards and afterwards in his Uncle Steve voice, the Master of Horror tends to inject his fiction with characters that bear a striking resemblance to his
A new study identifies which parts of our airways are getting clogged with microplastics as we inhale about 16.2 bits an hour. That’s a credit card’s worth of microplastic going into our respiratory system a week. We’re also eating and drinking these plastic particles, as microplastics are now everywhere, including in our veins. They’re in
Asteroid City delivered a massive jolt to the arthouse and specialty world this weekend as the Wes Anderson film presented by Focus Features blew past records with an estimated $790k three-day gross and $890k estimated for the four-day weekend in just six theaters. That’s a per-theater average of $132,211 for the three days, and $148,901
Pixel Ripped 1978 just came out and Pixel Ripped 1995 just got its first trailer for PSVR2, so that just leaves Pixel Ripped 1989, the first game in the series. Developer Arvore has talked vaguely about a Pixel Ripped 1989 PSVR2 port in the past, and now the team has given another update on it
A ghost delving into memory and a first-person 3D puzzle game might seem like an odd mixture but developer Rogue Sun does an admirable job threading the two in Tin Hearts. [embedded content] The core conceit of the game is that you must guide a troop of windup toy soldiers from start to finish, doing
Milton Powell — aka, Big Pokey, a longtime Houston rapper — died this weekend after a scary fall onstage that came out of nowhere … and which ultimately took his life. The Texas-based MC collapsed at a bar in neighboring Beaumont late Saturday night. Video is circulating showing Pokey standing on what appears to be
The long-awaited story-based DLC for The Callisto Protocol has finally been revealed in “The Final Transmission”. The DLC will launch as a timed exclusive on PlayStation consoles on June 27, with other platforms getting the DLC on June 29. Accompanying the announcement is a teaser for “The Final Transmission”, which doesn’t reveal much in terms
Engineers have demonstrated something marvelous. Almost any material can be used to create a device that continuously harvests energy from humid air. It’s not a development that’s ready for practical application, but it does, its creators say, transcend some of the limitations of other harvesters. All the material needs is to be pocked with nanopores
Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/DC’s The Flash sped into 78 overseas markets this weekend, grossing $75M, below the $85M-$95M we saw coming into the frame. With domestic’s slow-crawl three-day included, that makes for a $139M global opening. This is lower than projections, with general audiences not rushing out to see the deeper universe pic. As
Before Escape Academy, Coin Crew Games produced location-based entertainment (LBE) experiences such as escape rooms and arcade cabinets. Producing an escape room called Space Squad in Space is how Wyatt Bushnell and Mike Salyh met, placing them on the path to founding Coin Crew Games. The original goal for the studio was to design casual
News Big Pokey, Houston Rapper in Screwed Up Click, Dies at 45 A pillar of Texas hip-hop, he fainted during a performance last night and later died at the hospital By Nina Corcoran June 18, 2023 Facebook Twitter Big Pokey, photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Houston rapper Big Pokey, an integral part of
The home Pete Davidson smashed into with a Mercedes-Benz is no more — it’s like gone gone, nothing but a mound of dirt for some mysterious reason. The 2-story Bev Hills house, which used to sit at the intersection of famed Rodeo Drive and a smaller street was recently razed, just the outline of its
The long-awaited story-based DLC for The Callisto Protocol has finally been revealed in “The Final Transmission”. The DLC will launch as a timed exclusive on PlayStation consoles on June 27, with other platforms getting the DLC on June 29. Accompanying the announcement is a teaser for “The Final Transmission”, which doesn’t reveal much in terms
WASHINGTON — Operating under a veil of secrecy pierced only by the ignition of the rocket’s engines, Rocket Lab launched the first suborbital variant of its Electron vehicle June 17. The vehicle, called Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE), lifted off from Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia, at
On June 27th, Riot’s hero shooter Valorant will get a team deathmatch mode. Teams of five will be able to do battle without the need to buy weapons at the start of each round, Counter-Strike-style, as they do in the main game. There will also be three new maps to play on.