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Culture

Great Directors Who Never Won the Best Director Oscar

For many filmmakers, an Academy Award for Best Director is the highest honor, but some of cinema's most influential artists never won that prize. The ten directors highlighted here include names whose films reshaped genres and inspired later generations, even when the Academy did not award them the

Crypto

Nasdaq and NYSE owner lean on crypto exchanges to put $126T market onchain

Wall Street’s biggest exchanges are moving to put the $126 trillion equity market on blockchains, and they are partnering with crypto exchanges to do it. Over the past week Nasdaq and Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, struck deals with digital asset venues to

Culture

HBO Max to Remove Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel at End of March

HBO Max will remove Henry Cavill’s first Superman film, Man of Steel, from its streaming library at the end of March. Cavill had been the face of the DCEU for years, appearing across six films (two if you don’t count his brief cameos in The Flash and Black

Sports

Rooney picks Tom Hardy for MOTD film before joking he's 'Prison Break' guard

Wayne Rooney and Micah Richards traded jokes while imagining a Match of the Day movie. The banter began with Richards suggesting Denzel Washington for himself, only for Rooney to quip that the towering Bob Sapp would be a better fit, setting a playful tone for the rest of the exchange.

Culture

Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz hold hands at 'SNL' afterparty

Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz were photographed holding hands while arriving at a "Saturday Night Live" afterparty in New York City, keeping their heads down as they made their way into the venue. Styles, in a leopard-print cardigan and jeans, escorted Kravitz through a crowd. The "Blink

Crypto

Buterin calls to simplify Ethereum node setup

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted a proposal, a pull request, that would merge the backend programs used by nodes to interact with the Beacon Chain, which handles consensus and staking, and the protocol’s execution layer into one unified code structure to simplify node setup. Node runners, or validators, currently

Culture

Abubakar Salim tours his PC: 'My desktop is so bad that even my wife...'

Abubakar Salim is both an actor and the founder of Surgent Studios. He first learned PC games with Windows classics like Pinball, Minesweeper and Solitaire, and later played Bayek in Assassin's Creed: Origins before appearing in the Ridley Scott-produced drama Raised by Wolves. Surgent Studios has released Tales

Culture

'What Happens at Night': Cast, Plot, and Everything We Know So Far

Martin Scorsese is directing What Happens at Night, adapted from Peter Cameron's 2020 novel with a screenplay by Patrick Marber. Principal photography commenced on Feb. 24 in Prague and is expected to continue into late spring/early summer before moving to New York City. The cast assembled so

Culture

Mark Wahlberg’s Pre-'Uncharted' Video Game Disaster Lands on Free Streaming

Though not part of the DC or MCU, Mark Wahlberg has long appeared in video game-based projects. Most recently he played Victor “Sully” Sullivan in Sony Pictures’ Uncharted opposite Tom Holland; Ruben Fleischer directed, and the film — which also featured Antonio Banderas and Tati Gabrielle — grossed $407.1 million worldwide

Sports

Man City plan summer move for Tottenham right-back Pedro Porro

Manchester City are preparing a summer approach for Tottenham right-back Pedro Porro as they seek a specialist to replace Kyle Walker. With Spurs embroiled in a relegation battle, City would be ready to capitalise on any mass exodus by bringing the Spaniard back to the Etihad. Porro has been one

Politics

Cory Booker calls both parties ‘feckless’ for ceding war powers to Trump

Democratic US senator Cory Booker criticised both parties for ceding congressional war powers to Donald Trump, calling them 'feckless' and warning their decision could embolden the president to attack Cuba, North Korea and other countries. 'I’m going to be one of those Democrats [who] say I

Culture

Moved for a 7-month relationship; risky, but best decision I made

I moved states for a new relationship after seven months of long-distance. Tim and I met online; he lived in Minneapolis and I lived in Chicago, where I had sworn I would never leave after college. Friends and family warned me against moving so soon, but the idea of a

Culture

Harry Styles' 'MAHAspital' SNL Sketch Imagines The Pitt Run by RFK Jr.

Welcome to a hospital where Tylenol's considered dangerous, but a cold plunge in blue jeans is covered by insurance (maybe). The March 14 episode of Saturday Night Live delivered the faux trailer for a new series "for people who love The Pitt, but can't stand

Culture

The SpongeBob Movie already adapted Homer's Odyssey

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, due July 17, adapts the ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer and has become one of 2026’s most anticipated films. Homer's poem has rarely been filmed, and Nolan’s version is widely expected to make a major impact. Fewer viewers realize that

Culture

Fargo Leaving HBO Max at the End of March

Head over to HBO Max by March 31 to stream Fargo, the Coen Brothers’ sixth feature together, which will leave the service at the end of March. Part dark comedy, part crime flick, the movie centers around a police chief (Frances McDormand) who is knee-deep in the investigation of a

Sports

Raphinha hat-trick leads Barcelona to 5-2 win over Sevilla

Barcelona re-established a healthy lead at the top of La Liga, beating Sevilla 5-2 to move back four points clear of Real Madrid. Raphinha stole the show with a hat-trick, two penalties and a looping, deflected strike early in the second half that effectively settled the game. The champions took

Culture

Chet Hanks resurfaces with Rita Wilson at Oscars party after Colombia trip

Chet Hanks stepped out with his mother, Rita Wilson, at a pre-Oscars CAA party on Saturday night, arriving with Hanks walking shortly behind his mother. He wore an all-black suit for the event. Wilson, 69, chose an all-black ensemble of a silk shirt, skirt and cropped blazer. The "Sleepless

Culture

What GTA 6's multiplayer should learn from 6 months in GTA RP

I've spent a few thousand hours of my life living in GTA Online, Steam tells me, and I've also spent time in FiveM's roleplaying scene. At this stage I'm familiar with both the official multiplayer offshoot and its unofficial, player-made counterpart, and

Business

Prue Leith on business, TV and life at 86

A photograph from the year she won businesswoman of the year captures a moment of triumph: popping champagne, buying an expensive gold necklace on impulse and favouring kaftans and long dresses at home so she could avoid stockings and tight garments. Her husband, John Playfair, once told her the first

Culture

Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' Is a Major Streaming Success on Paramount+

Tom Cruise's $1.4 billion action sequel Top Gun: Maverick remains a streaming hit on Paramount+, still popular four years after its release. Cruise is often called Hollywood's last true movie star, and the film's continued audience interest underscores that standing. Cruise returned with

Culture

Young Sherlock Tops Prime Video Charts as The Bluff Climbs to No. 2

Prime Video’s current charts are led by Young Sherlock, which shot to the top following its March 4 debut. The series, based on Andrew Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes novels, features Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Natascha McElhone, Joseph Fiennes and Colin Firth, with Guy Ritchie directing. Frank E. Flowers’s

Sports

Pisa v Cagliari: CM's player ratings

Pisa delivered perhaps their best game of the season, staying competitive despite being reduced to ten men for most of the match. Nicolas (6.5) controlled things well, while Calabresi (6.5) was convincing before leaving injured and Albiol (6) made a solid impact after coming on. Caracciolo (8) was

Crypto

Bitcoin set for best week since September 2025 as tech correlation weakens

Bitcoin is on track to close its strongest week since September 2025, rising about 8.5% and trading above $71,000. Since the Middle East conflict began, it has outperformed equities and gold as institutional inflows return and broader market sentiment remains cautious. Using BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)

Tech

Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend

There are countless upgrades you could make to a gaming setup, but one small change feels like a genuine improvement: splitting the spacebar. Most keycaps are 1U, the bottom row is often 1.25U, the right shift around 2.75U, and a spacebar typically measures 6.25U. That makes it

Culture

JRPGs are moving beyond classic turn-based combat

At G-Star 2025, Katsura Hashino — director of Metaphor: ReFantazio and the last three mainline Persona games — laid out a vision he calls "JRPG 3.0," positioning the classics as 1.0 and the present moment as 2.0. He argued the transformation is beginning with combat, particularly a