PlayStation Plus had a big June with the rollout of the two new tiers, but that doesn’t mean its original tier is going away. PlayStation Plus Essential, said lowest tier, will still get a few games every month. Sony recently announced what the PlayStation Plus Essential July 2022 lineup is, and it includes Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, and Arcadegeddon. This game will be available from July 5 to August 1.Crash Bandicoot 4 is arguably the biggest title and users will get access to the PlayStation 4 original and PlayStation 5 upgrade.…
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An animated dive into the dusty Milky Way reveals the outlines of our galaxy taking shape as we look out further and further from Earth. Based on new data from an interactive tool that exploits data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission and other space science data sets, astronomers have created an animation to model dust in the Milky Way. The work was presented this week at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022) at the University of Warwick. The animation shows the cumulative build-up of dust looking from Earth’s local neighbourhood to ~13000 lightyears towards the galactic centre –…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Confession: I am a linguistics nerd. Nowhere near Tolkien-levels, but I will totally judge your science fiction/fantasy novel on whether you have considered languages as part of your world building. As a book lover, conlangs are my love language — that’s Constructed Languages. They are complete yet fictional languages created as part of the worldbuilding in storytelling. You could argue that every language is constructed in some way, but there is a difference between the natural evolution of language in society over many…
Black Mirror Season 6 is moving ahead at Netflix, and we have some casting details to prove it. Variety has revealed the award-winning drama will feature a string of new faces for its forthcoming season. Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), Kate Mara (House of Cards), Josh Hartnett (Penny Dreadful), and Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) have all landed roles in the next chapter of the anthology series. They will be joined by Danny Ramirez (No Exit), Clara Rugaard (The Rising), Auden Thornton (This Is Us), and Anjana Vasan (We Are Lady Parts). There are still many more…
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not have the power to regulate power plant emissions will seriously hamper U.S. efforts to slow climate change. So says Christine Todd Whitman, who served as EPA administrator under George W. Bush for three years, and was New Jersey’s first woman governor. Whitman says the ruling will also kill worldwide confidence in U.S. climate action—which could lessen the resolve of other big polluters, such as India and China, to cut their own emissions. In an interview with Scientific American, Whitman called the Court’s decision “a body blow” to…
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas revealed on Mother’s Day that their daughter Malti Marie, who was born in January via surrogate, is finally home after an over 100 day stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). People now has details about what the family of three’s first days together have been like.A source told the outlet that Chopra and Jonas had been waiting to bring their baby girl home since day 1 and are “thrilled” to have her there with them now. “Their daughter is doing well,” the source said. “She is still tiny, but catching up every day.…
Twitter Blue subscribers can now modify the navigation bar in the app on Android devices. The feature, which was previously exclusive to iOS, allows you to remove the Spaces icon from the centre of your navigation bar (and of course, remove some of the other tabs if you want, too).According to The Verge, if you’re sick of having to extend your finger over the Spaces tab to access your DMs and alerts, custom navigation lets you display as few as two tabs at a time or maintain all five that are displayed by default.The Spaces tab was first tested by…
Drake became the sixth member of the Backstreet Boys on Saturday, July 2nd by making a surprise appearance during the boy band’s tour stop in Toronto. At the very end of the show, the quintet brought the rapper out to help them perform their classic hit “I Want It That Way” for his hometown crowd, but not before Drizzy told the enraptured audience about his personal connection to the song. “At 13 years old, I had a bar mitzvah,” he explained per Rolling Stone, “and at my bar mitzvah, for the first time in my life, this girl I was…
Daredevil is ready to fully rejoin the Marvel Cinematic Universe.After Charlie Cox made a brief cameo as lawyer Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin turned out to be the surprise villain in Disney+’s Hawkeye, it seemed like a matter of time before both characters became more central to the MCU. And sure enough, The Hollywood Reporter says both will soon appear on the upcoming Echo TV series starring Alaqua Cox. The show is in production now.Their report claims both Cox and D’Onofrio have “joined the series” and that on the show there will be a “plotline in which Daredevil, whose alter…
Cool as a sea cucumber – new evidence on how sea cucumbers produce self-defence chemicals may lead to medicines and healthy compounds. Credit: Frithjof Kuepper University of Aberdeen Genome mining techniques have helped to explain how sea cucumbers produce defensive chemicals that enable them to fend off foes in the murky depths. Sea cucumbers are a food delicacy in south Asia where their cultivation is a multi-million-dollar industry. The molecules they produce to defend their ecological niche at the bottom of the ocean are highly valued for their medicinal properties. These curious marine animals produce a category of molecule known…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. TW: disordered eating, depression I have always been a reader who prefers epics that are published in volumes and look a lot like bricks. It is one of the only aspects of my life in which I prefer the journey over the destination, and if a series has either a dragon or an “adventurer” on the cover and “volume 1” on the spine, it is guaranteed that I will at least give it a go. In general, I will automatically swipe left on…
Today Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for Five Days at Memorial, a powerful new limited series based on actual events and adapted from the book of the same name. The series comes from Academy Award winner John Ridley and Emmy Award winner Carlton Cuse, who both also serve as directors. Starring an award-winning ensemble cast that includes Vera Farmiga, Cornelius Smith Jr. and Emmy-Award winner Cherry Jones, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a local hospital. “When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital…
Photography courtesy of Getty Images The regressive decision comes at a time when fashion has never embraced individual freedom more. By Natalie Michie Date June 27, 2022 In many ways, designers are signalling the dawn of a new age. Dopamine dressing, the metaverse, gender fluid clothing and other trends have liberated fashion from its stuffy traditions. But the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has turned back the clock to a time when few people had such bodily autonomy. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the 1973 landmark ruling that legalized abortion nationwide on June 24. As a result, abortion rights will…
While face-to-face classes are back after the COVID disruptions of the past two years, our research suggests at least some Australian universities intend to continue with fully online assessment. Students say they think cheating is easier online. There is some evidence it increased with the shift online.Yet our research, covering 41 Australian universities, has found little evidence of changes in their academic integrity policies (which apply to all courses) and practices (which may differ from subject to subject) to counter these problems. Our particular interest was in computing courses.The use of software to automatically monitor students during online exams, known…
Actor and musician Jack Black let slip on the latest episode of SmartLess that a new Tenacious D “concept album” is on the way.Talk about exciting news for D fans. Tenacious D are the comedy rock duo of Black and fellow rocker-actor Kyle Gass. They starred in 2006’s Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny after first finding onscreen notoriety with their late-’90s HBO show. They last released the studio album Post-Apocalypto in 2018. And despite their contributions to several projects since, a new Tenacious D album in 2022 feels about right.On Monday (July 11), actor and SmartLess co-host Jason Bateman (Ozark, Arrested Development) — perhaps playing into…
Netflix has successfully acquired the rights to the film adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel titled The Electric State, which will be directed by Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo. Leading the sci-fi drama film is Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown, who has been attached to the project since 2020. Production is scheduled to begin this fall.This marks the Russo Brothers’ latest collaboration with the streamer ahead of the long-awaited debut of their upcoming global spy thriller The Gray Man, starring Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling. Meanwhile, The Electric State will be Brown’s fourth feature with Netflix after Enola Holmes…
The waters off Hon Mun island are a popular diving spot in Vietnam. Vietnam has banned swimming and scuba diving at a popular central tourist spot in an attempt to revive its damaged coral reef, officials said Monday. The communist nation boasts more than 3,200 kilometres of coastline with crystal clear waters, vibrant sea life and sandy beaches that are a huge tourism draw. Coral reefs across Southeast Asia have been badly hit by global warming, with scientists warning their degradation could have devasting environmental and economic knock-on effects. Recent photos taken off Hon Mun island—about 14 kilometres from the…
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The January 6 hearings have dominated the news cycle over the past few weeks and now have made their way over to Jeopardy!, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by viewers. Two harmless clues on the Wednesday, July 6, episode of the long-running game show had some Jeopardy! fans wondering if the show was getting political. Both clues related to members of the January 6 Committee, Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson. The clues appeared under the category “The Representative From…,” the first being, “Wyoming: This woman starting in 2017, taking the seat her dad had won nearly 40 years before.” Contestant…
Without a doubt, the right dietary supplements can make a huge difference to your health and wellbeing. However, the good ones may come with a surprisingly hefty price tag. It’s understandable that you may want to give them a miss for the sake of your wallet. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to put off investing in your health – it’s just a case of finding the best deals. Amazon Prime Days may be long gone, but there are still plenty of big discounts available. Act fast though, they may be gone soon! You can currently save 32% off…
Alessandro Vigilante. PHOTOGRAPHY VIA IMAXTREE.COM “There are no more rules today about whose body or body type can go scantily clad.” By Connor Garel Date June 29, 2022 My mother used to complain about the cost of “incomplete clothing.” Made restless by our suburban neighbourhood, we would sometimes drive to the shopping mall one town over, and, to my preadolescent horror, she would suddenly become a kind of fashion critic. If I tried my luck in a fitting room and slipped on a pair of lightly distressed jeans, she’d draw her face into a cartography of distaste, sigh the wearied…
While manufacturers have successfully increased the water-repelling nature of smartphones, they are still far from “waterproof”. A water-resistant product can usually resist water penetration to some extent, but a waterproof product is (meant to be) totally impervious to water.Last week, Samsung Australia was fined A$14 million (roughly Rs. 76 crores) by the Australian Federal Court over false representations in ads of the water resistance of its Galaxy phones. The tech giant admitted that submerging Galaxy phones in pool or sea water could corrode the charging ports and stop the phones from working, if charged while still wet.Similarly, in 2020, Apple…
That evening, with zero sign of their friends, a massive feast is laid on by the mine’s cantankerous Captain, who performs a long speech encouraging all to indulge as this is to be the workers’ last night before returning to their families. With good reason for suspicion the protagonists feign gluttony and consume as little as humanly possible. Unfortunately, as they later find, even that’s not quite enough. Night falls, they hide and as the workers fall comatose, the wardens, overseen by the Captain, make preparations to pump their poisoned stomachs. It turns out the purpose of the mine is…
The image above to the left is an illustration from Thor: God of Thunder, written by Jason Aaron and drawn by artist Esad Ribic, with Thor mourning the death of Falligar the Behemoth. On the right, is a still frame from the new movie Thor: Love and Thunder directed by Taika Waititi. As you can see, the two images are almost identical. Aaron served as a creative consultant on Love and Thunder, and the movie draws heavily on his Thor comics, including a series of stories where Jane Foster acquires Thor’s hammer and becomes the Mighty Thor herself. (Sound familiar?)Those are just a couple of…
Want to find the best Garmin deals available right now? We’ve got you covered. Our roundup of today’s best Garmin smartwatch deals is detailed in full below, so scroll down to pick your next purchase. But did you know Garmin sells more than just smartwatches?Garmin is now best known to the public for its high-tech smartwatches and GPS-tracking systems but they also produce navigation and tracking equipment for aviation, marine and automotive purposes. Having been founded in 1989, the Kansas-based company has supplied systems for the military, sailors, helicopter pilots and ocean-faring anglers, as well as personal trainers and the…
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In the latest indication that the 90 Day Fiance franchise is fizzling out, TLC has announced the cast for 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After Season 7. The series will include six returning couples as they navigate the next chapter of their relationships, and honestly, some of these cast members have had too many chapters for the tired storylines they’ve been peddling. We have Angela and Michael, Elizabeth and Andrei, Jovi and Yara, Ed and Liz, Jenny and Summit, & Kim and Usman. Angela and Michael’s story hasn’t progressed in years, and beyond the contrived drama between them, there doesn’t…
Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite titles will become one of yours, too. Monica Ali has been open about the loss of confidence and resulting depression that kept her from bookstores, new novels, literary festivals, speaking invitations and writing for years. A little more than 10 years have passed since her…
Infinix Note 12 5G Series will launch in India on July 8, the company has announced. At least one smartphone in the series will come with a 108-megapixel main camera sensor and an AMOLED display. It will retail on Flipkart. The series is expected to come with the Infinix Note 12 5G and Note 12 Pro 5G smartphones. Infinix is marketing the handset in line with the release of Thor: Love and Thunder by using lines “Thrill and Thunder” and claims that the phone has a design as sleek as a ‘lightning bolt’.Infinix posted on its Twitter handle that the…
Since the beginning of heavy music, whether that be Sabbath and Zeppelin or even their classical forefathers, there’s been a concern that such dark, aggressive sounding music must be something truly evil. Connections to Satan have been made repeatedly, with some ultra-conservatives blaming metal for various societal woes, such as violence, depraved sex, or social distortions.At times, these claims have resulted in high-profile affairs, such as when Tipper Gore formed the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an infamous 1985 campaign against bands they thought exemplified corrupting influences in children, such as AC/DC, W.A.S.P. and Judas Priest. Although unified moral panics…