Two people are dead and more than a million were in the dark after a series of severe weather bringing heavy rain, thunder, and strong winds swept over much of the East Coast yesterday evening. Read more...
Lees meerWegovy, the popular obesity treatment, also seems to offer heart health benefits. On Tuesday, Novo Nordisk reported the results of a comprehensive clinical trial evaluating the drug’s efficacy in preventing heart attacks and strokes in overweight or…
Lees meerI know that the Demeter travelogue portion of Dracula takes literally less than ten pages in the whole book, but those epistolary passages (well known to anyone who follows Dracula Daily, as we have just sailed through the traumatizing passages) ar…
Lees meerApple is reportedly testing out just how much juice it can squeeze from its highly anticipated M3 processor, with the next M3 Max set to hold a surprising amount of graphical capability to power the company’s next main laptop offering.Read more...
Lees meerFollowing several delays and over $1 billion in losses, Boeing claims its troubled Starliner program will be ready to launch crews to the International Space Station (ISS) by early 2024 as it works to resolve two safety hazards on its capsule.Read m…
Lees meerThe back-to-school season has a different feel now than in the pre-pandemic days. Today, hybrid learning is a given for many students, and having a reliable computer is table stakes for even grade schoolers, not just high school and college students…
Lees meerThe race for song of the summer is seeing a dark horse candidate overtake what we thought were frontrunners. The latecomer is a Eurodance banger called “Planet of the Bass” from memer and pop genius DJ Crazy Times with vocals from elusive chanteuse …
Lees meerThe mermaid (and merman) of the moment might be popping up on screens right now in Barbie, but Disney would like to remind you that The Little Mermaid also came out this year. If you didn’t make it to the theater to see Halle Bailey’s star-making tu…
Lees meerProsecraft.io, a site that used novels to help power a data-driven project to display word count, passive voice, and other much more subjective, writing-style markers such as vividness, shut down today after authors protested the project. Prosecraft…
Lees meerFrom iconic directors and legendary actors, to big corporations and famous name brands, it seems everyone in Hollywood has something incredible to say about William Friedkin. The legendary, Oscar-winning filmmaker behind The Exorcist, The French Con…
Lees meerA new study published by a number of British researchers reveals a hypothetical cyberattack in which a hacker could leverage recorded audio of a person typing to steal their personal data. The attack uses a home-made deep-learning-based algorithm t…
Lees meerA notorious 500-pound black bear responsible for a spate of home invasions over the last year was finally successfully captured in Lake Tahoe on Friday. The female bear, known as “Hank the Tank,” broke into 21 different homes with three cubs in tow.…
Lees meerAcross various slices of entertainment, crunch and overwork have become big problems. Though it’s been commonly talked about in video games in recent years, those discussions have bloomed over into animation, as we saw with Spider-Man: Across the Sp…
Lees meerZoom updated its Terms of Service on Monday after a controversy over the company’s policies about training AI on user data. Although the policy literally says that Zoom reserves the right to train AI on your calls without your explicit permission, …
Lees meerSharknado—the knowingly goofy horror comedy about a tornado that dumps hungry ocean predators all over Los Angeles—turns 10 this year. Though it started off as a made-for-TV affair, it eventually transcended that label to become a full-fledged pop-…
Lees meerNoah Schnapp had a massive year in the wake of Stranger Things season four. The 18-year-old actor publicly came out on TikTok, mirroring Will Byers’ journey on the Duffer brothers’ supernatural horror show. Schnapp recently spoke to Variety about ho…
Lees meerA day spa in Northern California might be the source of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. Over the weekend, local health officials reported three cases of the bacterial illness, including two deaths, among recent customers of the Zen Day S…
Lees meerThe Star Wars Rebels heroes are back in a new fight led by Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) to stop the threat of Thrawn. The continuation of the Dave Filoni universe that started with Star Wars: The Clone Wars makes the jump from animation to live-action in…
Lees meerMore than 100 million Americans living on the East Coast are on the lookout for severe weather conditions that could form this week beginning Monday afternoon.Read more...
Lees meerThe same weekend a film mentioning Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League crossed a billion dollars at the box office, a film that also relates to Snyder’s story had reason to celebrate. David Ayer, the director of 2016's DC film Suicide Squad, said on…
Lees meerPayPal is diving into the messy world of crypto with a new stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, aptly and uninventively named PayPal USD. The company’s entrance into the industry comes at a time of deep regulatory uncertainty as federal agencies and …
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