With a new feature called Yelp Connect, Yelp is allowing users to go beyond customer reviews and see “what the restaurants have to say for themselves.” That’s according to Devon Wright, Yelp’s general manager of restaurant marketplaces. He explained that with Yelp Connect, restaurants will be able to post updates about things like recent additions
Breaking News Getty Ric Ocasek‘s cause of death has been revealed — The Cars frontman died of heart disease. According to NYC’s Chief Medical Examiner … Ocasek died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. In layman’s terms, that means he had heart disease caused by high blood pressure. Pulmonary emphysema is also listed as a
As unlikely as it may be, the final member of the Jim Lee X-Men Marvel Legends figures lineup that Hasbro needed to create wasn’t one of the more obscure characters like Jubilee or Bishop—it was actually among the most popular and iconic: Storm! But at long last, the Vintage X-Men Marvel Legends Storm figure is
It takes a couple of episodes to really get going, but ultimately, Season 3 of the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things is so awesome that it would’ve been worth the wait even if that wait had begun all the way back in 1985, the year in which it’s set. Heck, the premiere alone delivers chills (seriously
The teaser trailers for American Horror Story: 1984 aren’t just marketing, they could be serving as a prequel to the new season. The ninth season of Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology series is set to pay tribute to the beloved ’80s slasher era of horror, while the show’s tenth season is already in development to debut
To say that there’s a war between Marvel fans and DC fans would be an understatement. While there are many people who are reasonable and can enjoy both superhero universes for what they offer, others tend to choose sides and consider entertainment as an ongoing battle of cultures. It’s been like that for comic book
Just one of the amiibo being sold early US retailer Walmart appears to be selling a number of upcoming amiibo ahead of time, with figures being spotted in-store well before their official release date. The new wave of Super Smash Bros. figures set to launch this Friday (Ivysaur, Squirtle, and Snake) have all been found
Reader question: I heard that carbon dioxide makes up 0.04 percent of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4 percent or 4 percent, but 0.04 percent! How can it be so important in global warming if it’s such a small percentage? I am often asked how carbon dioxide can have an important effect on global climate when its
When Plaid announced its $250 million Series C investment, last year, it left out a couple of key investors. Today it revealed that Mastercard and Visa had also quietly participated in the round. For a company like Plaid, which builds APIs to enable customers to access their bank accounts inside applications in a seamless way,
Multimedia entertainment company VIZ Media will mark the 20th anniversary of NARUTO with a national brand campaign, the YEAR OF NARUTO, launching at the upcoming New York Comic Con 2019 (NYCC). The beloved action/adventure franchise has become synonymous with Japanese pop culture and exemplifies the massive international popularity of anime and manga. To celebrate NARUTO’s
Exclusive Getty Brian Turk — who starred in HBO’s “Carnivale,” and had countless appearances in hit shows — has died … TMZ has learned. The veteran actor passed away Friday due to complications from cancer, according to his rep. We’re told he was diagnosed a year ago, but that his cancer recently became terminal. He’s
Refresh for latest…: New Line/Warner Bros’ It Chapter Two had its second reading at the global and international box office this weekend, after screaming to the 2nd highest worldwide opening ever for a horror movie last session. With the sophomore frame’s extra balloons, the franchise has now crossed $1B worldwide. The split on Chapter Two
A live-action version of Cable blessed homes across the world recently when the trailer for Deadpool 2 hit the internet, and oh boy, Josh Brolin looks awesome as the time-travelling leader of X-Force. He’s going to be a major part of the newest superhero starring super-powered mutants. But who is Cable, and where does he
Mario Kart Tour is about 10 days away from launch! To celebrate the upcoming release, Nintendo has unveiled a live-action trailer in which a bunch of Toads are hard at work constructing the Tokyo course. You can check it out in the embedded video below. Mario Kart Tour is on track to arrive on September
Silicon has had a very good run as the material upon which all of our electronics are based, but it’s starting to reach its limits. Now there’s a new contender for running our computers and smartphones: carbon nanotubes. Scientists just made the largest working computer chip to date out of this hugely promising material. And
Andreessen Horowitz has led a $15 million Series A in US-based job matching platform for nursing vacancies, Incredible Health. Other investors in the funding round include NFX, Obvious Ventures, Precursor Ventures and Gingerbread Capital. To date the recruitment startup has raised a total of $17M. The California startup’s pitch to nursing professionals and hospitals is
Ric Ocasek, best known as the founder and frontman of the iconic new wave and power pop band the Cars, has died. The New York Police Department confirmed to Pitchfork they responded to a call reporting an unconscious man. The man, identified as Ocasek, was found in bed and pronounced dead at the scene. He
For one night only, Riverdale is going to put aside some of the teen angst and gangster warfare. Wednesday’s episode is an evening of music and fun, and we can only cross our fingers that this year’s musical has a much happier ending than last year’s murderous event (RIP Midge). To get you in the
42 minutes ago As any Horror fan worth their weight in blood will tell you, we’re quickly approaching that time of the year when thrills and chills are in high-demand. Some like to get their fill in the theater or simply stream the scares, while others like to take a more live-action approach. That’s where
Credit: Dark Horse Comics Credit: Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse has announced a new true crime comic book series that explores the dark tale of a WW2-era killer in occupied Paris, as announced via AIPT!. The series, titled The Butcher of Paris, tells a fictionalized account of the real story of Marcel Petiot, a serial killer who
Microsoft began aggressively purchasing new developers at E3 2018 and their shopping spree hasn’t stopped. At XO18 they acquired two more and at E3 2019 Double Fine joined Xbox Game Studios. If you include their Age of Empires team and Global Publishing Division that would put 15 developers under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella. Many
PARIS — The European Union’s equivalent of a foreign ministry is starting a new effort to promote the need for sustainable space operations, but that effort will not initially include any new regulation of European satellite operators. Carine Claeys, special envoy for space and head of the Space Task Force for the European External Action
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World Red Eye J Lo celebrated the premiere of her new movie “Hustlers” in grand J Lo fashion … with back-to-back parties and a surprise trip to a Miami theater. J Lo hit up South Beach Saturday night and partied at David Grutman‘s newest restaurant, Papi Steak. Grutman presented J Lo with a massive cake
During this age of reboots and revivals (and even parody revivals), it tends to feel inevitable that every treasured TV show from our past will one day be dragged back into the zeitgeist with a quirky new take. Luckily, it doesn’t sound like Friends will ever get that treatment. Deadline reports that Friends‘ creators Marta
The Parks & Recreation series finale included a couple of time jumps, the last one showing an ambiguous ending for Leslie Knope: did she actually become President? Parks and Recreation was created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and aired from 2009 to 2015 with a total of seven seasons. Throughout the series, viewers got to
Ready or not, here New York Comic Con 2019 comes! We’re under one month out from NYCC 2019 now, and while it’s unclear exactly how full of new announcements and products this year’s show will be (and we likely won’t know until the event actually begins), we at least now know a handful of the
Hideo Kojima has cemented himself as one of the legends of the video game industry via the Metal Gear Solid series. And now the visionary is looking to continue that with Death Stranding on PS4. That said, what games does Kojima like to play when he’s not making critically-acclaimed titles himself? Well, the former Konami
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Komodo dragons – the biggest, fiercest, most impressive lizards on our planet – just got that much more amazing. A new discovery shows that under their scaly skin, these animals are completely covered in mail-like armour built out of tiny bones, from nose to tail-tip. Why would something as formidable as a Komodo dragon (Varanus