Earlier this week, Charli xcx took a trip down memory lane. Sitting with BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, she reflected on her previous appearances as a performer at Reading Festival over the years. She was hard on herself in the way you can be when confronted with your younger, more idealistic, carefree self. “It’s cringing me out, if I’m honest,” she said of her 2017 performance. Her review of her 2019 show? She didn’t like her fringe much, she added. “This is a collection of some of the worst hairstyles and hair dyes ever throughout Reading & Leeds, it seems.”…
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In yet another reality’s Seattle (still with me?), Ryan finds Amanda. She says that Jason2 is not the one she came here with. She originally arrived with OG Jason. She then tells Ryan that Jason2 kidnapped Jason1 in an attempt to steal Daniela. Ryan says Jason2 abandoned him there with nothing but the clothes on his back and nowhere to go, but when he went to visit his sister, he didn’t calculate how things could be massively different. The Ryan in this world died years ago. He told her the truth and she actually believed him, but things still felt off for him. Months later,…
As fall slowly rolls in, I’ve been on the hunt for some fresh pieces that’ll breathe new life into my existing wardrobe. I recently did a deep dive into Banana Republic’s new arrivals for early fall, and some of the pieces are just too good to keep to myself. Since I don’t believe in gatekeeping, I’ve curated a selection of the 13 specific items worth taking a closer look at from this latest drop.Are you into rich textures, beautiful fabrications, and pretty silhouettes? If you said yes to all three, then it’s your lucky day. In the mix of Banana…
President Donald Trump interrupted Nvidia’s all-hands staff meeting on Thursday morning when he called CEO Jensen Huang midway through, three sources who witnessed the interaction tell WIRED.Nvidia’s all-hands meetings typically involve Huang presenting or answering questions, on stage, to in-person staff at the company’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters, while thousands of remote employees tune in to a virtual livestream. During the meeting on Thursday, Huang received a call on his mobile phone, which he stepped aside to take.Staffers could clearly hear Trump’s distinctive voice through Huang’s onstage microphone, although they couldn’t make out what he was saying. Less than a…
August has a way of making ordinary days feel a little more memorable. It’s a month for lingering a little longer, saying yes to unexpected plans, and finding small pockets of joy wherever they appear. And what better way to fill those moments than with a story that pulls you in, keeps you guessing, or makes you forget the world around you for a while? From page-turning escapes to unforgettable characters, these books are ready to give your August reading list something new to get excited about. 📚✨ Anywhere But Here: Wren & Willow (Tuckaway Bay Book 6) by Madeleine…
The tiny, now-extinct human relative known as a hobbit had an even more human-like body than previously thought, and probably walked upright somewhat slowly, anthropologists have discovered by studying their hip bones.But with a more primitive walking style than modern humans and lack of hunting and cooking, the species still differs significantly from Homo sapiens — so with the new findings, the mystery of the hobbits’ origins has only deepened.”Based on just the hip bones, Homo floresiensis looks generally like humans and other genus Homo species and probably could have moved a lot like humans,” Kristi Lewton, a biological anthropologist…
A new movie starring the late Power Rangers legend Jason David Frank is heading to theaters, and will see him reunited with former Power Rangers stars. The Legend of the White Dragon, a new action movie starring Frank, is out in theaters now, and sees Frank appearing with several of his Power Rangers stars, including Jason Faunt, Cerina Vincent, and Ciara Hanna. Other stars in the movie include Aaron Schoenke, Rachele Brooke Smith, Michael Madsen, Andrew Bachelor, David Ramsey, and Mark Dacascos. The Legend of the White Dragon is available now as part of a special three-day theatrical event, tied…
In what is believed to be among the first of its kind, a Goodwill-branded record store is nearly ready to open its doors to customers.Think of it as a place where the resale business is more focused on music rather than donated clothing.How to Find Goodwill’s New Record StoreLike shopping for just about anything at Goodwill, which operates as a non-profit organization, finding desirable album titles can be hit-or-miss, especially when you consider that stores are stocked by donations while also competing with actual record stores and online resale sites.READ MORE: 21 Underrated 1990s Albums Every Rock Fan Should Own on VinylThat…
Lauren Smith/Paramount+ Paramount+’s “Lioness” is gritty, intense, and a vastly different beast to the other Taylor Sheridan TV shows which revolve around ranches, oil, and familial drama. The action-thriller sees Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara lead a covert team of CIA operatives as they untangle global threats from the inside. Each season sees her recruit a new operator, but the core team always stays the same — including Bobby, the leader of the Quick Reaction Force. If the fierce and methodical fighter looks familiar, that’s because she’s played by actor Jill…
By Howard Bloom President Donald Trump told Al Jazeera on Wednesday, August 26th that we are on the brink of “achieving a very great victory” in Iran. But that does not appear to be true. In fact, we have entered a great stalemate. We’ve gone for 28 days without major attacks in the Iran War. We’ve lost more than we think. But have we won anything? The two big prizes in this war are Iran’s nuclear bomb-making capability and the Strait of Hormuz. As you know, one fifth of the world’s oil flowed through the Strait of Hormuz before…
Sean O’Kane / TechCrunch: a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI” — Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm’s aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.” View Original Source Here
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Scientists may have found a way to regenerate the neurons that are lost due to conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, a new laboratory study hints.The research, published Aug. 26 in the journal Cell Biomaterials, suggests that reducing levels of a key protein in another type of cell in the brain, called astrocytes, may convert those cells into neurons. The adult brain has a limited capacity to produce new neurons, at baseline, and an even more limited ability to replace neurons lost to disease.If successfully developed into a treatment for humans, this new approach could replenish lost neurons and thus restore brain…
A wave of what is known uninspiringly as “hopecore” is sweeping through theatres. At surface level these films inspire hope, turning often apocalyptic worlds on their head – Project Hail Mary, Mickey 17, Disclosure Day, to name a few. If you dig a little deeper, you usually only find some half-baked ideas about how being nice to one another would solve all the world’s ills. This week, it’s Ridley Scott’s turn to add to this growing vibe shift with The Dog Stars. The year is 2035 and a virus has wiped out most of humanity, leaving only a few gruff countrymen – (Josh Brolin…
Andrew W.K. has resurfaced to share his first new album in five years, Temptation to Exist. Serving as the hard-partying rocker’s first release since 2021’s God Is Partying, the new project is thoroughly a jazz album, not unlike André 3000’s recent left-turn effort, New Blue Sun. The tones on Temptation to Exist are smooth and meditative, often rooted in piano and regularly blooming into cinematic arrangements. Those who are looking for W.K.’s typical hard rock and life-of-the-party stylings will have to look elsewhere. It’s not the first time Andrew W.K. has taken to the piano for an experimental effort, previously mining similar territory…
The action-packed sci-fi drama “The Last Ship” has a new home on Netflix, and subscribers should rush to watch Eric Dane and Adam Baldwin command the sea. Originally airing on TNT from 2014 to 2018, the five seasons of “The Last Ship” follow the crew of a United States Navy destroyer as it navigates a world in which a pandemic has killed the vast majority of the population. Given that “The Last Ship” enlisted celebrated action filmmaker Michael Bay as an executive producer, it predictably thrilled audiences with its heart-pounding battle sequences — whether…
As I write this story, I can see my closet door cracked open behind my laptop screen. Inside is a somewhat chaotic collection of jeans stacked on a hanging shelf: think dark indigo and classic light washes, baggy silhouettes and straight-leg cuts. Needless to say, I’ve built up a pretty well-rounded denim lineup over the years. But as any fashion person worth their salt knows, no two denim brands are quite the same. And lately, one has been in particularly heavy rotation: Calvin Klein.Calvin Klein, after all, has been championing denim since 1978, when the namesake designer debuted his first…
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from designating Anthropic a national security risk over a dispute about the use of its AI models, ruling that the designation amounted to unconstitutional retaliation.The decision handed down by US district judge Rita Lin in California vacated the February 27 decision by defense secretary Pete Hegseth to label Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” and make the company ineligible for federal contracts. The ruling also lifted an additional punitive measure by Hegseth that prevented contractors or suppliers to the US military from doing business with Anthropic, a position Lin called “arbitrary, capricious, an…
Dear Voracious Readers, Last week, we shared some of the most exciting new books coming this fall, and thanks to the enthusiastic response from all of you, we’re back with another round of must-read releases! Without further ado, check out these upcoming titles that deserve a top spot on your TBR. You may want to start making room on those bookshelves. We would love to know which ones you can’t wait to read. From hidden gems to the most talked about titles published today, BookTrib curates books so you don’t have to. Switzy by Emma ClineLiterary Fiction Anything Emma…
Scientists have uncovered an ancient shark “graveyard” in the middle of the Egyptian desert.Fossilized teeth from seven shark species dating back millions of years were discovered in the Abu-Tartur Plateau — located in Egypt’s Western Desert — between 2020 and 2022, offering new insight into the desert’s watery past. The researchers detailed their discovery in a study published Aug. 18 in the journal Cretaceous Research”This study provides evidence that the area now occupied by the plateau was once a sea with flourished marine life, with environmental conditions suitable for its development and prosperity, including favourable temperatures, sunlight, and appropriate oxygen…
Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom role in Avengers: Doomsday includes performance capture. The Russo brothers shared the detail in their latest interview. While speaking to Empire Magazine, Joe Russo called Downey Jr.’s performance “a combination of things,” where digital effects played a key role. Anthony Russo added, “I think Downey had a lot of the same fun on this with Doom. He was on set performing everything. Because of the way we’re creating the character with a digital layer, we also get a second pass at him in terms of what we can do on a digital level.” Downey had…
David Byrne is once again adding to his decades-long concert-film legacy with the upcoming Who Is the Sky? Helmed by The Brutalist writer-director Brady Corbet, the forthcoming project, a follow-up to 2023’s Spike Lee-shot American Utopia, was filmed over multiple nights in Byrne’s hometown of Baltimore during his most recent tour. Release details will be unveiled at a later date.“When Brady told me he wanted to shoot our show in 70 millimeter (70 millimeter!) I didn’t realize what a difference it would make until I saw some frames he sent me,” Byrne wrote in a statement. “He was right, it…
Disney/Sarah Shatz Hulu will continue to feel “Furious” for the foreseeable future: The streamer has renewed its freshman crime drama for Season 2, TVLine has learned. The pickup comes four days before the show’s Season 1 finale releases Monday, August 31. Hailing from series creator Elizabeth Meriwether (“New Girl”), “Furious” — which TVLine named one of the best shows of 2026 thus far — stars Emmy Rossum as Alice Black, an FBI agent on the hunt for a mysterious and calculating female serial killer (played by Lola Petticrew, who was…
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Meta’s AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google” — Under its splashy agreement with state AGs, Meta gets to flaunt the high road, while dragging its competitors. View Original Source Here
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book? I was listening to a congressional hearing, and I still don’t know why I had even tuned in. I guess I heard the word “deepfake” and stopped to see what the conversation was all about. Turns out, Congress was begging for new laws around deepfake videos and AI. Witness after witness kept laying out worst-case scenarios, which just kept giving me more and more novel ideas, and they warned of what could happen if these tech tools go unchecked without real guardrails. One witness called the technology…
Archaeologists working at a Stone Age site in Turkey have discovered a unique depiction of a person sitting on the back of a leopard. The 11,000-year-old statue may reflect the culture’s fascination with virility and masculinity, experts say.The statue was unearthed this summer at Karahan Tepe (also written as Karahantepe), a Neolithic site in southern Turkey, according to an Aug. 25 translated statement from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.The unique statue, which measures about 28 inches (70 centimeters) tall, was made in “a style unlike anything seen before,” Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey’s minister of culture and tourism, said…
There is something distinctly meta about the films of the Trans New Wave, but not in the way we usually mean when referring to a film as metacinematic. Where most examples of metacinema let us in on the fact that we are watching a film, the Trans New Wave goes beyond this self-awareness and often makes us aware of the complex history of trans representation in cinema. This need to break our sense of disbelief in this way comes from the particular position that contemporary trans practitioners find themselves in: one of hyper-visibility and the self-surveillance that comes with it, attempts to…
Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer — a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single — by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor the late, great Dolly Parton, whose workers anthem “9 to 5” reached No. 1 in February 1981. Dolly Parton was well on her way to becoming a crossover superstar when the movie 9 to 5 was released in December 1980. She had reached No.…
Gregg Deguire/Getty Images Beloved actor Tim Curry, who died on August 25, 2026, leaves behind an impressive body of work that includes iconic roles in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Clue,” and the “It” miniseries. Audiences who grew up watching Nickelodeon in the late ’90s and ’00s might also remember Curry for perhaps his most “smashing” role: Nigel Thornberry in “The Wild Thornberrys.” Curry voiced the eccentric, enthusiastic aristocrat-turned-wildlife documentarian for 90 episodes of the show, which premiered in 1998 and ran for five seasons before ending in 2004. “The Wild…
Welcome to The Who What Wear Podcast. Think of it as your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the fashion-and-beauty world. Subscribe to The Who What Wear Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Wedding Expert Sunna Yassin Shares Where Wedding Trends Are Headed in 2027 – YouTube Watch On For Sunna Yassin, wedding-planning expert and co-owner and principal of Bash Please, there’s a shift happening in how couples are thinking about their weddings. “I think we’re just seeing celebration over performance, for sure, and really, really seeing atmosphere over decoration,” Yassin…