Road 96 reviewThis political road trip is rendered an exciting and entertaining time by its cast and the deliberately piecemeal nature of its storytelling, rather than the story itself. It’s good to make words work hard for you, the lazy little ingrates, and Road 96‘s title is grafting pretty hard. It’s referencing both the name
F.E.A.R. was the kind of shooter where, even after all the enemies were dead, you’d keep firing your gun anyway just to watch the world around you pop, ping and crumble. Like Craig, I was skeptical that the F.E.A.R.-inspired Selaco could recreate that kind of destruction in the GZDoom engine, but no, I was wrong.
Until recently, Steam had an exploit that could’ve let you add unlimited funds to your Steam Wallet. Discovered by security researcher “drbrix”, the storefront had a way users could fake the value of their deposits by changing a few words in the email address associated with the account. Valve have patched the exploit now though,
Talkdesk, a provider of cloud-based contact center software, announced $230 million in new Series D funding that more than triples the company’s valuation to $10 billion, Talkdesk founder CEO Tiago Paiva confirmed to TechCrunch. New investors Whale Rock Capital Management, TI Platform Management and Alpha Square Group came on board for this round and were
Aforza, developing cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies, announced a $22 million Series A round led by DN Capital. The London-based company’s technology is built on the Salesforce and Google Cloud platforms so that consumer goods companies can digitally transform product distribution and customer engagement to combat issues like unprofitable promotions and declining
Houston-based ThirdAI, a company building tools to speed up deep learning technology without the need for specialized hardware like graphics processing units, brought in $6 million in seed funding. Neotribe Ventures, Cervin Ventures and Firebolt Ventures co-led the investment, which will be used to hire additional employees and invest in computing resources, Anshumali Shrivastava, Third
Mobile field service startup Youreka Labs Inc. raised an $8.5 million Series A round of funding co-led by Boulder Ventures and Grotech Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. The Maryland-based company also officially announced its CEO — Bill Karpovich joined to lead the company after previously general manager at IBM Cloud & Watson Platform. Youreka
Box has been in an ongoing dispute with activist investors Starboard Value over control of the board, an argument that is expected to come to a head on September 9th at the annual shareholder meeting. In an effort to show shareholders that the numbers are continuing to improve under the current leadership, Box took the
YNW Melly is facing a possible death penalty as he sits in prison awaiting trial for murder, but he’s passing the time by producing an album behind bars. Sources close to YNW Melly tell TMZ … the rapper had been working on “Just a Matter of Slime” for the better part of the last 8
Mike Dean had the whole music world thinking he might’ve abandoned ship on Kanye West‘s forever-delayed album — but the guy says he seeing it through, despite some weird tweets. The legendary producer and hitmaker was the subject of a lot of conjecture over the past 24 hours due to what people perceived as warnings
Usher took major heat earlier this year after being accused of throwing fake money at real strippers — but when you see this … his so-called “bucks” are A-OK in context. Check out these videos taken from one of Usher’s Vegas residency shows from this past weekend — during which an exotic dancer took the
2:31 PM PT — Cardi just added more context to the controversy, she wrote, “Rumors is doing great. Stop trying to say the song is flopping to dismiss a woman emotions on bullying or acting like they need sympathy. The song is top 10 on all platforms. Body shaming and callin her mammy is mean
Jay-Z‘s latest hustle is big-time gambling … he’s signed on with some heavy hitters in a bid to open a sportsbook in NY, and the move could make him a pioneer in the billion-dollar industry. TMZ has learned Jay’s name is on one of the applications submitted to the NY Gaming Commission requesting approval for
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
When plants first ventured onto the land, evolving from freshwater-dwelling algae, more than 500 million years ago, they transformed the planet. By drawing carbon dioxide from the air, they cooled Earth, and by eroding rock surfaces they helped build the soil that now covers so much land. These changes to the planet’s atmosphere and land
This week Danny and Alex and Chris took to Twitter Spaces to chat about the current state of the crypto economy, and hang out with friends in a live Twitter Space. We’re doing more of these, so make sure that you are following the show on Twitter. As a small programming note, I forgot to
Though the director himself has said his piece about it all, fans of David Ayer‘s Suicide Squad movie from 2016 continue to rally behind the “#ReleaseTheAyerCut” movement online. Earlier today they began to push the hashtag for the director’s cut of the film to the tune of over 300k tweets and with it came some
Play video content Peacock Kevin Hart‘s awkward exchange with Don Cheadle over the actor’s age has folks split smack down the middle on whether it was staged … but either way, it’s pretty hilarious. Don sat down for an interview on Kevin’s Peacock streaming show “Hart to Heart” … and the interview seemingly goes south
Play video content TMZSports.com A fight between Aaron Carter and Lenny Dykstra is NOT gonna happen … so says the singer himself, who tells TMZ Sports the ex-baseball star is too old and fragile to step in the ring with him. As we previously reported, the former All-Star slugger called out the pop star earlier
Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing a remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger for Legendary Entertainment, and we’ve learned that filming has now wrapped. Writer/Director Blair himself made the announcement this afternoon on Twitter. Find the tweet below. In the 1984 original, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that New Line’s 8-Bit Christmas will premiere exclusively on HBO Max on Nov. 25th, in all countries where the service is available, meaning U.S. and Latin America. Here in the U.S., that date is Thanksgiving Day, a prime time for watching holiday movies on the couch. 8-Bit Christmas will be distributed by
Another Friday means that Kit and Krysta are back to bring fans another episode of Nintendo Minute. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has received very little content in the past year or so, but that hasn’t stopped the release of a lot of merchandise related to the game. It’s also back-to-school time, so this week’s Nintendo
This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its major sixth assessment report on the physical science of climate change. The details are grim, if getting more precise as better and more comprehensive data becomes available. As my colleague Mike Butcher summarized yesterday, it’s “stern and blunt in its conclusions.” While many of the
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is all about family, and star Simu Liu says his immigrant parents are “proud” after seeing a Chinese-language poster for Marvel’s first Asian superhero movie. The latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, releasing only in theaters on September 3, follows martial arts hero Shang-Chi (Liu), who
News Nanci Griffith, Folk and Country Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 68 The Grammy-winning artist was best known for “Love at the Five and Dime” and her cover of Julie Gold’s “From a Distance” By Matthew Ismael Ruiz August 13, 2021 Facebook Twitter Nanci Griffith performs in London, February 3, 2010. (Photo by Christie Goodwin/Redferns) Facebook Twitter
Horrors Elsewhere is a recurring column that spotlights a variety of movies from all around the globe, particularly those not from the United States. Fears may not be universal, but one thing is for sure — a scream is understood, always and everywhere. Prime Cruz’s The Debutantes brings grim meaning to the phrase “You only
During the segment of the Prime Video documentary Val, the Top Gun legend shares a lot of behind-the-scenes home videos, as well as quite a few interesting tidbits about his initial relationship with the movie. Initially, Val Kilmer was saddled with the role of the smart ass Lt. Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, competition to Tom Cruise’s
Ninjas have been a mainstay of games and films for about as long as I can remember. In fact, I fondly remember watching American Ninja as an impressionable young man, wanting to be a ninja so bad it hurt. Yet I also remember playing games like Shinobi on the Sega Megadrive back in the day.
An ancient fragment of clay tablet dating back to 3,700 years ago, during the Old Babylonian period, contains what is now the oldest known example of applied geometry, a mathematician has discovered. That’s more than a millennium prior to the birth of Pythagoras. And this history-altering artifact, known as Si.427, had just been sitting in
When Salesforce announced its new business video streaming service called Salesforce+ this week, everyone had a reaction. While not all of it was positive, some company watchers also wondered if there was more to this announcement than meets the eye. If you look closely, the new initiative suggests that Salesforce wants to take a bite