Christina lives in Grangeview, Texas, population 12,000, where she’s used to being one of the only Asian American students in her classes. She’s dealt with teachers who struggle to pronounce her last name and classmates who make fun of her lunch. When she explains that her dad is from Thailand, another student corrects her: “I
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More doom and gloom for smartphone manufacturers, as global smartphone shipments experience the third consecutive decline this year. Per numbers from Canalys, shipments dropped a lowly 9% last quarter, marking the worst Q3 for the category since 2014. Apple is a rare bright spot among the numbers, with some positive growth as the rest of
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How much did you pay for your last gaming headset? Was it a couple of hundred quid? A little bit less perhaps? Maybe you settled on something like the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 MAX for around a ton, or the RIG 500 Pro HX Gen-2 for less still.  Well, if your wallet cannot
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Beating expectations is worth something again Anna Heim 9 hours I don’t know if anyone’s really noticed, but Netflix had a pretty great third quarter, thank you very much. The streaming platform added 2.41 million subscribers when it only expected 1 million. It also beat analysts’ financial expectations, with $7.93 billion in revenue rather than
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When something leans too heavily on nostalgia to entertain, it’s often a sign that it can’t stand on its own without praying on your sentimentality. The Last Hero of Nostalgaia, ironically, is at its best when it’s drumming up gags that are funny and clever even removed from its constantly referential concept. This colorfully pixelated
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Decades of reinforcing neural connections can make the adult brain stubbornly resistant to rapid changes. Should our brain’s structure trap us in cycles of dark moods and thoughts, disorders like chronic depression can be extremely hard to shake. According to new research, some patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) can have their brains ‘rewired’ within
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On October 21st, Dark Sky Films will bring the highly anticipated release of SINPHONY: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology to theaters and digital/VOD platforms. What makes this particular anthology unique? These nine visions of horror were conceived of and curated entirely on Clubhouse, the audio-based social media platform for casual, drop-in audio chats with friends and new people around the world to tell stories,
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EXCLUSIVE: In an unprecedented move, Netflix and major exhibition circuits in the U.S. and UK recently agreed a 30-day theatrical window for Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. This comes after years of discussions on finding “a way forward to show their high-quality productions on our screens,” says Tim Richards, founder and CEO
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Equity goes live at TechCrunch Disrupt Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. And for the first time in the history of the show, the TechCrunch pod that opened up Disrupt on the big stage. Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann
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News Duval Timothy Announces New Album Meeting With a Judas Tree, Shares “Mutate”: Listen The song leads the Kendrick Lamar collaborator’s Help follow-up, out November 11 By Nina Corcoran October 19, 2022 Facebook Twitter Duval Timothy, photo by Isabella Timothy Facebook Twitter London-based pianist and multidisciplinary artist Duval Timothy has announced a new album. It’s
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Author Marina Budhos has previously explored the experiences of immigrants, particularly Muslim teens after 9/11, in two acclaimed YA novels, Ask Me No Questions and Watched. We Are All We Have is set in 2019, after the U.S. Department of Justice implemented a zero-tolerance policy toward illegal immigration. The novel follows 17-year-old Rania, whose late
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James Corden has at least 2 NYC restaurant owners in his corner … they say he’s been a model customer, despite some alleged nasty behavior at other establishments. While James was briefly banned at Big Apple hotspot Balthazar, the owner of some of NYC’s top restaurants tells us JC was always super polite and cordial
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From Producer by Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the Final Destination franchise, enter The Willowbrook this November. In the film… A renowned wellness influencer invites one of her recently overdosed followers to seek recovery at her small-town manor. Once the follower arrives, she realizes the dark world existing within the manor is not what she–nor millions
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