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Xbox changes continue with new console boot animation

It feels like not a day goes by at the moment without some Xbox news, and today is no different. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma just announced that Xbox owners will get a new boot up sound and animation next week. The console boot animation is the new Xbox logo, complete with a slight

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Spacemoth – “Internet Fantasy”

“Do We Exist?” stopped us in our tracks. The lead single from Spacemoth’s Inward Eye cracked this site’s weekly list of the best new songs, and it has us checking for what else Maryam Qudus has in the queue. The Oakland musician released a second advance single today, one that

Iceage – “The Weak”

Iceage’s new album For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter is coming this month. So far the Danish post-punk band have shared the singles “Star” and “Ember,” two songs that indicated they’d be going towards a more smoothed-out sound. Today’s new single “The Weak,” however, gets a

Webb and Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, studying clusters at different stages of evolution. Their findings show that more

Tennessee unveils GOP-favored redistricting proposal

Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a proposal for a new congressional map that would heavily favor Republicans this November by splitting up the state's sole Democratic district. The map would put a target on Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), who represents the state’s only

CNN mogul and founder Ted Turner dead at 87

Ted Turner, the media mogul who founded CNN and presided over the outlet at it reshaped the cable news business, died on Wednesday at the age of 87. Turner began his career in the media business as an account executive with Turner Advertising Company in the 1970s and launched

What can singing mice say about human speech?

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in brain complexity. A study published in Nature suggests otherwise.