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Do you fondly remember playing 8-bit adventures on the NES and original Sega consoles? Titles like Contra, Ninja Gaiden, and Mega Man 2, all from the late ‘80s, provided a unique gaming experience that’s hard to replicate today with modern technology. Hard, sure, but it’s
Hollywood may be synonymous with moviemaking, but Los Angeles has historically been fickle about supporting a major film festival. AFI Fest, which will unfurl the red carpet for opening night on Wednesday, hopes to certify its status as the city’s landmark festival, especially
The “Family Guy” Christmas special at Hulu has set its official premiere date. The special, titled “Gift of the White Guy,” will premiere on Hulu on Nov. 25. This marks the second of two Hulu exclusive “Family Guy” specials, with the first being the Oct. 14 Halloween special
Company mandates are infuriating employees
Titan OS has announced a partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment for the launch of Sony One Channels. As part of the partnership, the company will roll out the Sony One FAST channel portfolio on selected Sony’s Android TVs and Philips Smart TVs already running Titan OS,
A new method that research teams can use to measure and compare different forms of proteins and protein complexes helped reveal a previously unseen molecular signature of how algal genomes are controlled during the cell cycle. The publication, "pyMS-Vis, an open-source Python
A "doomsday vault" in the Arctic designed to safeguard the world's plant diversity has received a new deposit of thousands of seed samples, including Palestinian ones amid war and hunger in Gaza, it said on Wednesday.
If you live in the UK or are familiar with its wide range of accents and dialects, you can probably tell the difference between a posh or upper-class accent, (think the "King's English") and one more associated with the working class (such as Cockney).
Apart from the breathtaking sight of vast blue waters or the rhythmic sound of crashing waves, the vivid smell of the sea ties us to the rhythms of nature and the ebb and flow of the tides. The salty freshness of a coastal breeze or the distinctive scent of seaweed can
RHS says ensuring access to green space as part of housebuilding push could help ease pressure on NHS Requirements for gardens and the planting of trees must be included in Labour’s planned new rules for housebuilders, green groups have said. The Labour government is drawing up
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Imagine you are visiting a new city for the first time, and dinner time rolls around. How do you choose a restaurant? You could just check reviews and go to the highest-rated option. But how can you be sure that the reviewers share your food preferences, your spice tolerance,
Hulu has given out a pilot order to Nick Paley’s comedy “Phony” with Connie Britton now set for a lead role, Variety has learned. The pilot is described as a coming-of-age mystery. The official logline states that it follows “a teenager who wakes up in the hospital after a car
Chicago indie rockers Friko caught our ears earlier this year with Where we’ve been, Where we go from here . That was their debut album, but they were working on music together for years before that. They’re documenting some of that history on a new expanded edition of the
If you've ever watched a large flock of birds on the wing, moving across the sky like a cloud with various shapes and directional changes appearing from seeming chaos, or the maneuvers of an ant colony forming bridges and rafts to escape floods, you've been observing what
Former President Obama briefly “lost” himself while rapping Eminem lyrics at a rally in Detroit while campaigning for Vice President Harris in the battleground state. The superstar rapper made brief remarks Tuesday, offering support for the vice president and arguing she would
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Nearly two dozen full-time motion capture workers at the XCOM and NBA developer are seeking better job security and wages to maintain long-term careers in theindustry.
A new series of ads from Vice President Harris’s campaign hit at former President Trump for his recent claim that he will be a “protector” of women by highlighting the dangerous medical situations women face in states with abortion bans. The ads, called "You Will Be
Should our future by decided by the bosses of big tech firms? For Nobel economics prize winner Simon Johnson, giving too much power to a handful of billionaires will come at the expense of public interest.
Twenty-one workers at 2K Games’ Petaluma, California, motion capture studio filed for a union election on Tuesday, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees announced Wednesday in a news release. The group is looking to the National Labor Relations Board to
The continuing global loss of biodiversity is making it increasingly necessary to rapidly collect and analyze genetic information on endangered species. In a joint project, the Department of Human Genetics at Bioscientia Institute for Medical Diagnostics GmbH in Ingelheim am
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200,000 light-years from Earth, lies the young star cluster NGC 602. The local environment of this cluster is a close analog of what existed in the early universe, with very low abundances of elements
Spectrometers are technology for reading light that date back to the era of famed 17th-century physicist Isaac Newton. They work by breaking down light waves into their different colors—or spectra—to provide information about the makeup of the objects being measured.
The Still Talkin That Shit! Tour coming to seven lucky cities in November
Right-wing lawmakers voted in favour of funding "external physical barriers" as part of the 2025 budget, though the resolution was eventually voted down.
Financial services firm Baird has downgraded its rating on McDonald’s to neutral due to increasing concerns over an E. coli outbreak linked to the chain’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers. Read more...
The number of people who voted on Wisconsin’s first day of early voting in person for the 2024 election has surged past the number of people who voted on the first day of in-person early voting for the 2020 election. The Wisconsin Elections Commission said that 97,436 people
Scientists have discovered dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong for the first time, the city's government announced on Wednesday, adding that the species remains unknown.
The cryptocurrency market is experiencing a downturn, closely mirroring the decline in the stock market. On Wednesday, Bitcoin saw a significant drop of over 2.5% in the past 24 hours, with its price hovering around $65,000. This decline has dashed hopes of breaking the $70,000
With no power, no water and soon-to-spoil food, Asheville residents fired up their grills and emptied their freezers for communal meals Erin Kellem’s Asheville, North Carolina neighborhood is a short drive from the city center, but feels remote. The Haw Creek area’s culs-de-sac
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The unregulated carbon dioxide removal industry is calling on the U.S. government to implement standards and regulations to boost transparency and confidence in the sector that's been flooded with billions of dollars in federal funding and private investment.
