Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has laid out a new strategy for what she describes as a "return of Xbox." In a joint memo with Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty, Sharma and Booty lay out their vision for the future of Xbox that will be judged on daily active players
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma held an all-hands meeting this morning and laid out her strategy for a "return of Xbox" with employees. While rebranding Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox was part of the agenda, Sharma also revealed that Xbox is looking into "reevaluating" Xbox exclusive games
Lord of the Rings and Planet of the Apes star Andy Serkis on why his Animal Farm needed a fart joke and a happier ending than George Orwell's novel.
Film will focus on Blink-182 drummer's life and career as well as his recovery following 2008 private plane crash
Steam's free-to-keep promotion is offering a great side-scroller with Nocturnal, which PC gamers can download completely free of charge.
Maika Monroe will return to horror in the upcoming film Victorian Psycho
The Chicago-reared, Vermont-based folk singer-songwriter Hannah Frances released her stunning album Nested In Tangles last fall. Today she’s back with the deluxe edition, headlined by a new collaboration with harpist Mary Lattimore, who adds layers of beauty to the meditative
I’ve never seen anything like these photos before. In October 2024, Rachel Moore had a close encounter with a humpback whale in French Polynesia and took these photos of the whale’s eye. Moore wrote of the experience: This moment of eye contact was beyond my wildest dreams.
In this new edition of The Ring, broadcast from the European Parliament in Brussels, MEPs Dirk Gotink (EPP) and Maria Ohisalo (Greens) go face-to-face on the growing housing crisis in Europe.
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, entrepreneurs Tina Knowles and Ashley Graham explain how they have blazed trails to build powerful media and retail brands in highlights from a day’s worth of conversations held at Variety’s annual Entertainment Marketing Summit.
Anthropic's tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending weeks insisting the AI model is so capable at cybersecurity that it is too dangerous to release publicly, it appears the model fell into the wrong hands anyway. According to
Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, is laying off about 8,000 employees — and eliminating another 6,000 open jobs — as it is in the midst of a companywide shift to artificial intelligence. The job cuts were announced in an internal memo to Meta staffers from the company’s
President Trump is hosting an event at the White House on Thursday afternoon centered on health care affordability. Trump is expected to announce a new deal with pharmaceutical company Regeneron, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, as part of his "Most
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) on Thursday accused conservative media personality Tucker Carlson of engaging with a "dangerous" campaign of "misinformation" after recently saying he regrets supporting President Trump. Huckabee Sanders told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on
The war has spilled out of Iran and engulfed the region, leaving several thousand people dead, mainly in Iran and Lebanon, and continues to destabilise the global economy.
National Urban League President Marc Morial on Thursday slammed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a “nakedly political” move to strike civil rights advancements made by the organization. Acting Attorney General Todd
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The Irish band’s classic 1993 song is everywhere right now, from Love Story to a recent Fetty Wap album. What is it about that lush romanticism that speaks to us?
In an extremely rare fatal encounter, the 58-year-old was killed as she was walking in a mountainous area, her son told rescuers.
Fiber-optic drones developed in Ukraine are reaching the region, offering Hezbollah a cheap, precise weapon that can bypass Israel's electronic defenses
House Republicans grumbling about the structure of a “skinny” reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement — and their skepticism about prospects for passing another GOP-only funding package this year — are creating hurdles for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as he aims to
The EU move to generating electricity from renewable sources has been impressive. In 2025 over 47% of the EU’s electricity was generated from renewable sources. In the third quarter of the year that figure rose to 49.3%. For the first time more electricity was produced across
For nearly 15 years, A24 has been releasing premium independent films of all genres from science fiction to horror and dramas to coming-of-age movies. And now, you can get a piece of the entertainment company’s films with their screenplay book series. Starting at $59.95 on
Spotify, a Sweden-based company founded in April 2006, is the largest music-streaming platform of them all.
Sergei Kamzin and Leonid Shorsher are Russian entrepreneurs whose business careers are closely tied to JSC City Invest Bank, an active St. Petersburg-based bank registered by the Bank of Russia on 30 December 1994, holding a universal banking license. Their story may be of
Here there be monsters The post Massive Intelligent Octopuses Once Stalked the Primordial Oceans appeared first on Nautilus .
Fifa has no plans to replace Iran with Italy at this summer's World Cup according to sources, after the switch was proposed by US President Donald Trump's special envoy.
By Joshua McElwee ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT, April 23 (Reuters) - Pope Leo on Thursday firmly condemned the killing of protesters in Iran, after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the Catholic leader last week for not doing so while speaking out against the U.S.-Israel war
(.) By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - Iran's use of a swarm of small, fast boats to seize two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz could undermine suggestions U.S. forces have disabled its naval threat and reveals the challenges facing reopening one of the
Study of fossilised beaks shows patterns of wear and suggests some ancient species were up to 19 metres long Giant “kraken-like” octopuses that used powerful beaks to crunch through bones of prey were among the most formidable predators of the Cretaceous oceans, according to
Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine food chain
Discovery Channel has set the premiere date for Season 22 of its hit franchise “Deadliest Catch,” and has shared further information on how the show will address the death of rookie crew member Todd Meadows. “Deadliest Catch” returns on Friday, May 8 at 8 p.m. ET on Discovery
These wildfire warnings are in place up and down the country, from Texas to North Dakota and Minnesota
Talent agent Elizabeth Wiederseim has found a new home at Paradigm, Variety has learned exclusively. Wiederseim was formerly an agent at WME, but was impacted in a round of layoffs at that agency in March. She will be based in Paradigm’s LA office. Many of the clients she
When an earthquake rupturing along a fault hits a barrier, it creates a seismic signature called the “stopping phase.” Scientists have isolated this and could use it to better predict earthquake risk
Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.
Semiconductor stocks are powering the U.S. equity market to records and traders are predicting that means a big swing in shares of Intel after earnings tonight.
The EU confirmed its long-term commitment to Ukraine by finalizing a landmark €90 billion support loan. The loan was meant to become operational at the start of April, but had been blocked by Hungary over its disput with Ukrain over the Druzhba pipeline, which delivers Russian
Ikea shared a sneak preview of three pieces from a new experimental collection, set to be fully revealed at an annual company event on May 13th. One of the pieces is an inflatable chair that looks like a far cry from the cheap and lumpy inflatable furniture popularized in the
The US has accused Senator Kok An and his affiliates of “defrauding Americans”.
The United States did not always have a Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant founded it in 1870 to help suppress the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern states and enforce federal civil-rights protections for formerly enslaved Americans. On Tuesday, Justice Department
[Premium Times] The four selected Nigerian startups focus on leveraging artificial intelligence to bridge gaps in financial inclusion and communications.
We now know who killed Floyd Smernitch — and the man behind him could be headed to the Emmys stage. “DTF St. Louis,” the HBO Max limited series, is materializing as a formidable contender in this year’s Emmy race, with star David Harbour now positioned as a major player for his
Little Tree Kingdom is not so sweet as it appears.
The proposed reauthorization of the so-called Section 702 law includes some new oversight and penalties for abuses of the spy authority.
Millions of current and former Capital One customers should soon start receiving payments from the bank’s $425 million settlement – and it takes just a few steps to check if you’re eligible.
Amazon boss Andy Jassy has embarked on a broader project to reduce corporate bureaucracy, including an internal hotline for calling out excessive red tape.
