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Culture

What links Guns N’ Roses, Taylor Swift and Kate Bush? The Saturday quiz

The Saturday quiz asked 15 questions, including: What is Ikea’s all-time bestselling item of furniture; which country had a mosque on its national flag until 2021; which sisters shared one eye and one tooth between them; and which fortified wine is an ingredient of tiramisu. Answers to questions 1–

Culture

Stunt doubles: Hollywood's behind-the-scenes safety superstars

From blockbuster movies to television shows, stunt performers create many of the most thrilling moments on screen. They take on dangerous action — car chases, high-speed fights and rooftop leaps — while adding a layer of safety by using expertise to prevent set accidents. For example, though Pedro Pascal voices the title

Culture

Death Wish 2.0 adds a fourth episode and expands a classic Blood mod

It is a good time to be a fan of the ye-olde FPS Blood. After Nightdive released its second overhaul of Monolith's debut, the studio has been updating the remaster with enhanced versions of some of the shooter's best mods. The first of those updates arrived

Culture

Crimson Desert's clumsy controls led to 13 accidental misdeeds

Crimson Desert's controls feel awkward, and the game's convoluted systems and quirky physics only compound the problem. It took me several hours to get used to the inputs; until then I kept doing things I didn't intend. A few were harmless, but most landed

Tech

How to get a free iPhone 17 from T-Mobile this weekend

T-Mobile is running several iPhone deals tied to plan sign-ups and trade-ins this weekend. One offer lets you get any model of the iPhone 17 free when you sign up for an Experience More plan and trade in an eligible device. You can also sign up for almost any T-Mobile

Culture

We have no desire to be a media empire, says Palworld publishing head

John 'Bucky' Buckley, Pocketpair's head of publishing and communications, said the company isn't trying to turn Palworld into a "media empire." He framed the game's fledgling spinoffs as responses to player demand. Speaking at GDC 2026, Buckley pushed back on

AI

Players Debate Whether Crimson Desert Paintings Are AI-Generated

Crimson Desert’s launch week has been turbulent: players criticizing convoluted controls, investors selling the developer’s stock, and reviewers offering mixed opinions. Now users are debating whether the action-adventure game incorporates AI-generated art. Since the game came out on Thursday, several players have shared screenshots of in-game paintings they

Crypto

Strategy (MSTR) on track for second-biggest BTC buying quarter

Strategy (MSTR), already the world's biggest corporate holder of bitcoin, has purchased 89,618 BTC so far this year, taking its total to 761,068 BTC. With two Mondays remaining in the quarter, the company could announce additional buys, putting this on track to be its second-largest quarterly

Culture

Blade and Its Sequels Move to Peacock After 1998 Hit

Marvel’s first live-action attempt, Howard the Duck (1986), was a critical and commercial flop. Twelve years later the studio scored its first successful live-action picture with Blade, and that film has now found a new streaming home. Released August 21, 1998, Blade was a techno-horror starring Wesley Snipes and

Culture

8 Game-Changing Crime TV Shows That Totally Rewrite Genre Rules

Crime drama once offered warm, simple tales of heroic policing and moral certainty, but contemporary series focus on more piercing and profound themes. That shift unfolded over decades through a series of shows that pushed boundaries, from pioneering cop dramas of the 1980s and 1990s to defining highlights of the

Sports

Vlahovic included in Juventus squad; Zhegrova’s place to be decided

Dusan Vlahovic has been named in Luciano Spalletti’s squad for tonight’s Serie A match at the Allianz Stadium against Sassuolo (Matchday 30, 8.45 pm). He felt discomfort during yesterday’s final training session and underwent a decisive test this morning before being cleared to return after more

Politics

Elon Musk offers to pay TSA agents' salaries during shutdown

Elon Musk said he would like to pay the salaries of Transportation Security Administration agents who have gone unpaid during the partial government shutdown, as many agents have stopped showing up for shifts and passengers face hourslong security lines at airports across the country. "I would like to offer

Culture

Crimson Desert bounties and how to catch each

Bounties are scattered across Hernand in Crimson Desert, sending you after individual wrongdoers even as larger forces roam the land. Posters begin appearing in Hernand once you reach Chapter 2; picking one up marks the target's last known location on the map. A short quest in north Hernand

Culture

Max Burkholder says Kingdom Hearts was therapy during his child acting career

For Max Burkholder, Kingdom Hearts 2 isn’t just nostalgia — it’s closer to survival. The 28-year-old actor, best known as the star of Peacock’s Ted, says his childhood was defined as much by save files as by call sheets. Working steadily from a young age taught him that

Culture

Adriana Lima's signature scent can be yours for under $25

Adriana Lima says her go-to fragrance is an unusually simple mix: Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Body Oil layered with Avon Skin So Soft Bath Oil. She told the interview she loves body oils and keeps a “big bottle” of the latter $21 product, which has been on the market for

Tech

The Last Caretaker update adds sharks with frickin' laser beams

Oceanic survival sim The Last Caretaker has an uncertain tone: is it a melancholy adventure about being the last sentient being on an abandoned Earth, an optimistic sci-fi story about ensuring the long-term survival of the human race by growing people in vats and launching them into space, or a

Culture

Critical Role's Schemers table reshapes the D&D adventuring party

Critical Role Campaign 4 has moved into Dol-Makjar and introduced a table that feels fundamentally different from the Soldiers and Seekers. The season adopted a West Marches–inspired format that splits the 13-player cast into three tables, and the Schemers have been described as focused on "intrigue, espionage, skulduggery,

Culture

Best thing I ever ate? My first In-N-Out burger in LA

Cheeseburgers live in the deep wiring of my childhood: the ketchup, mustard and pickles on molten cheese sit alongside the scent of my father’s aftershave and the warmth of my mother’s hug. Moving to Los Angeles for college, I thought I knew burgers, but my first visit to

Culture

They Will Kill You review: Zazie Beetz leads bloody action thriller

They Will Kill You feels like an adrenaline shot to the chest; it's a little messy, but that mess makes it feel made by a person rather than a committee. Writer-director Kirill Sokolov's third feature — his first in English — is a delightfully deranged, blood-soaked genre mash-up

Culture

Stranger Things Star's Love Letter to Blockbuster Finally Hits Streaming

Videoheaven, a 172-minute documentary by Alex Ross Perry narrated by Maya Hawke, is now streaming on The Criterion Channel in the U.S. The film is compiled entirely from archival news footage and clips of movies and television that feature video stores, delivering a concentrated dose of rental-shop nostalgia. Perry

Sports

Tottenham to welcome Evangelos Marinakis despite legal threat

Tottenham will welcome Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis to the directors' box for Sunday's Premier League meeting, despite his previous threat of legal action after a failed pursuit of Morgan Gibbs-White last summer. The relationship had been strained by alleged confidentiality breaches and a dispute over a

Culture

Daniel Radcliffe charms in Every Brilliant Thing's Broadway run

The production strips away elaborate sets and puts the audience at its center, with Daniel Radcliffe moving through the house and greeting theatergoers with a chipper “Hello, I’m Dan.” That casual approach collapses the wall between star and spectator, turning Radcliffe from Pop Culture Icon into a fellow performer

Culture

Star snaps: Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Shay Mitchell, Simone Biles

Jennifer Lopez basks in the glow of her Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace. Rita Ora flew from LA to Austin, Texas, right after the Oscars and dived into a plate of ribs. Henry Samuel, 20, and his mom Heidi Klum shared matching shades and poses, while Alexandra Daddario sipped

Culture

How to open the Bluemont Manor Strongboxes

Solving the Bluemont Manor strongboxes in Crimson Desert uses puzzles rather than melodies. You won't need a key to enter the room, but you'll need a mask to steal the items at the end. You might also have to complete the first two stages of the

Politics

SBF praises Trump, backs Iran strikes amid pardon speculation

Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving a 25-year sentence for fraud, has renewed public praise of U.S. President Donald Trump by backing strikes against Iran in a post on X written through a proxy using prison-approved communications. He framed the move as necessary to counter nuclear risk and said the