Floods are devastating. They rip asunder communities, wipe out neighborhoods, force the evacuation of thousands of people every year and recovering from them can take years — assuming recovery is possible at all. The U.S. government estimates that floods in recent decades (exclusive of hurricanes and tropical storms) have caused an estimated $160 billion in
Play video content BACKGRID Britney Spears‘ boyfriend is as hopeful as her fans she’ll return to performing, and seems to think it could happen soon … but admittedly he’s got his fingers metaphorically crossed. Sam Asghari was leaving an intense and sweaty workout at Bas Rutten’s Elite MMA Gym in L.A. Wednesday when he blurted
New “Jeopardy!” host Mike Richards is apologizing for some insensitive remarks he made about women on his old podcast … he says it’s “a terribly embarrassing moment of misjudgment.” Here’s the deal … Mike used to host a podcast from 2013 to 2014 when he was the executive producer at “The Price Is Right” and
Just a few days ago was the official world premiere for Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and there was at least one major surprise on the Red Carpet when none other than Sir Ben Kingsley appeared. Previously appearing in the MCU as “The Mandarin” aka Trevor Slattery in Iron Man 3
Rueben Martell’s Don’t Say Its Name opens with a hit and run. Kharis (Sheena Kaine), a young Indigenous woman, is walking on a back road when she’s struck and killed. Her assailant isn’t seen, but her death has immediate ramifications that extend far beyond her grieving mother Mary Lynne (Carla Fox); it winds up affecting
Those distributors with new movies this weekend will find they can easily blame any soured performance at the box office on the delta variant and vaxx cards being required at NYC, San Francisco, and New Orleans cinemas. But, let’s not forget one huge thing: It’s late August, and that means it’s the season for lower
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. HBM2 (High Bandwidth Memory) has been in-market for a few years now, but the various companies working on HBM3 have kept its specifications close to the chest. Technologies like HBM2E have extended baseline HBM2 performance while new capabilities, like Samsung’s
In a significant achievement, physicists have produced a two-dimensional supersolid in the lab for the first time. That may sound incredibly mind-bendy, but it’s a feat researchers have been working towards for more than 50 years. Supersolids are strange materials with atoms arranged in the ordered structure of a solid, yet they can flow without
Databricks, the open-source data lake and data management powerhouse has been on quite a financial run lately. Today Bloomberg reported the company could be raising a new round worth at least $1.5 billion at an otherworldly $38 billion valuation. That price tag is up $10 billion from its last fundraise in February when it snagged
News Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl) Scores New Video Game Battlefield 2042 A collaborative effort with her husband and collaborator Sam Slater By Noah Yoo August 18, 2021 Facebook Twitter Hildur Guðnadóttir, February 2020 (TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Hildur Guðnadóttir—the composer behind Joker and the HBO series Chernobyl—has revealed her next project: Hildur
Days of Our Lives will take viewers beyond Salem next month. Peacock has announced the five-part spinoff kicks off Monday, September 6, with new episodes made available daily. The limited series finale is set for Friday, September 10. Lisa Rinna is set as the lead of the spinoff, reprising her role as Billie Reed. Eileen
phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly
Michael B. Jordan is without a doubt one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood right now. In the last few years alone, the A-list star has landed roles in high-profile productions like Black Panther, Creed II, and Without Remorse, and he has other things lined up. Of course, in order to play characters in
The first official gameplay trailer for Life is Strange: True Colors has just been uploaded to YouTube, and it shows our nervous newcomer hero Alex Chen exploring the record store in the town she’s just moved to. It’s already looking miles more impressive graphically than the original Life is Strange, with subtle facial expressions and
The partially mummified remains of an urbane Pompeii resident have been discovered in a tomb outside the city center erected before the famous eruption that buried the town in ash. According to the inscriptions on the tomb, the deceased was a man named Marcus Venerius Secundio, who was in his 60s when he died and was, at
Dublin-based Evervault, a developer-focused security startup which sells encryption vis API and is backed by a raft of big name investors including the likes of Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures, is coming out of closed beta today — announcing open access to its encryption engine. The startup says some 3,000 developers are on its
Bhad Bhabie‘s got beef … but it’s not with another rapper. It’s with Airbnb. The “Gucci Flip Flops” rapper is pissed off at the vacation rental company to the point she’s threatening to file a lawsuit. Her problem? BB’s pissed Airbnb will let an 18-year-old like her sign up for an account on the site
Maki Kaji, known as the “Godfather of Sudoku,” has died at the age of 69 from bile duct cancer. Kaji did not invent Sudoku; variations of the game appeared in French newspapers in the 19th century, and modern Sudoku was created as “Number Place” by Howard Garns in 1979. However, Kaji is credited as the
By now, you’ve probably seen James Gunn’s handiwork in The Suicide Squad (if you haven’t, check out Meg’s review). Some of you gamers might have seen it and thought one particular scene looked kind of familiar. Well, that’s because it was. In an interview with Collider, Gunn talked about his filmmaking process, and one of
With the recent release of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, some DC fans might be wondering what their beloved supervillains will look like in the upcoming game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Little information has been given about the 4-player co-op experience, save for an action-packed cinematic trailer that revealed the premise of the game’s
The latest edition of Japanese gaming bible Weekly Famitsu is now with subscribers and this week’s edition contains four reviews which include Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX and Destroy All Humans! However, the highest review score in this week’s edition goes to Song of Horror for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Check out
One of the biggest questions we have about the Universe is: Are we alone as a technologically advanced species? This raises other questions: If aliens are out there, what would their technology look like? And, pertinently, how could we detect it? A new study has laid out some answers to these questions – at least,
Content warning: this post discusses some of the atrocities of Indian Residential Schools. This year, over a thousand children’s graves were discovered at former residential schools in Canada. In response, Book Riot is matching donations up to $2,500 USD to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. Scroll to the bottom of the post for how to
Play video content TMZ.com “FBoy Island” star Sarah Emig wants Garrett Morosky to save his apology … at least for now, ’cause she’s not in the mood for it after he embarrassed her on the show. We got Sarah hanging out with her co-star, CJ Franco, Monday outside the Peninsula Hotel in Bev Hills and
News Los Angeles County Requiring Masks at Outdoor Concerts and Festivals The mask mandate, which begins this week, is in place regardless of vaccination status By Evan Minsker August 17, 2021 Facebook Twitter The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (GAB Archive/Redferns) Facebook Twitter The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued a new order
We’ve found even more tapes and will be bringing them all to Shudder in V/H/S/94, the fourth installment of the Bloody Disgusting-produced horror anthology franchise from Studio71. It was announced today that V/H/S/94 will kick off horror fans’ month-long Halloween celebration when it premieres on Shudder this coming October 6, 2021! In V/H/S/94, after the discovery of a
Universal has set a release date of April 7, 2023 for Fast and Furious 10, Deadline can confirm. That returns the Fast & Furious franchise to its holy Easter weekend stomping ground where F7, the highest grossing title in the series was launched in 2015 to $147.1M domestic, and finaled at $353M domestic, $1.5 billion global. Universal followed with Fate
Rick and Morty has dropped a new trailer for Season 5’s big finale! The fifth season of the fan favorite Adult Swim animated series is unfortunately in the midst of a hiatus for the rest of the month, but it will be making its return this September for the final two episodes of the season
It’s possibly the most anticipated update for Marvel’s Avengers yet, but finally the chance arises for players to embark on some new adventures with the free Black Panther – War for Wakanda expansion. Available to players who already have the Marvel’s Avengers base game to hand, Black Panther – War for Wakanda is Square Enix’s
A huge reservoir that supplies water to tens of millions of people in the Western United States is at such low levels that populations it feeds must reduce their usage next year, the government said Monday. A chronic drought has left huge swathes of the country parched, as man-made climate change forces shifts in the