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Netflix's 'One Piece' Season 2 Episode Runtimes Revealed

Netflix will release the entire second season of its live-action One Piece on March 10, with all eight episodes available at once. The new season adapts the first half of the Baroque Works / Alabasta saga. Episode runtimes are hefty, with most episodes running a little over an hour. Episode 1

Business

HBO Max Combining With Paramount+ Could Change Two Things

If the Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery merger clears the final regulatory hurdles, HBO Max subscribers could see meaningful changes in how they access the service. The most immediate shift would likely show up in the app and content library. Paramount president David Ellison has repeatedly emphasized plans to bring HBO

Tech

BunsenLabs Carbon: lightweight, customizable Debian desktop

BunsenLabs Carbon is a minimal, elegant Debian-based distribution and the successor to CrunchBang Linux. Built around the OpenBox desktop, it blends elements of Bodhi Linux and Ubuntu: a vertical panel with a desktop menu, a green theme, a Bodhi-style right-click menu and Conky on the desktop. Customization is central to

Sports

How to watch Aston Villa vs Chelsea: kick-off time and live streams

English-language live streams are available on USA Network (USA), TNT Sports (UK), Stan Sport (Australia), Fubo Canada (Canada), JioStar (India), SuperSport (South/Sub-Saharan Africa), Astro (Malaysia) and beIN Sports MENA (Middle East). Kick-off is on 4 Mar 2026 at 14:30 EST and 19:30 GMT, with Villa Park hosting

Culture

Paris Hilton poses in bathtub photos showing off skincare brand

Paris Hilton posed in a bathtub in a carousel of Instagram images to promote her skincare brand Parivie Beauty. She appeared nude but covered with soap bubbles, captioning the post: “Eyes first. Always. Tomorrow. @ParivieBeauty TikTok Shop + Parivie.com.” Her blond locks were swept up with strands falling loose, creating

Culture

Esoteric Ebb is the best Disco Elysium-like RPG since Disco Elysium

Esoteric Ebb is the best game like Disco Elysium that anybody's made since Disco Elysium. Where Disco was surreal noir, Esoteric Ebb leans into classical fantasy, approaching Dungeons & Dragons with a sensibility close to Shrek. It’s madcap and impressively reactive, with an inventive approach to combat

Culture

Retirees discover a new world through dance

At 71, former solicitor Suzanne Tarlin found herself saying, “I need to move,” and joined senior ballet and contemporary classes at a community centre. She recalls the first session as “Terrifying,” but praises teachers as “incredibly patient and good-humoured,” and notes many people attend week after week. Tarlin went on

Culture

Every Monsterverse Character Played by Multiple Actors

The Monsterverse spans decades, so several characters are portrayed by different actors to reflect changing perspectives and the passage of time. This approach contrasts with other shared universes, where actor continuity is often preserved. Recent entries like Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and the series Monarch:

Culture

John Wayne Called a Scene in True Grit His Best Performance

True Grit, adapted from Charles Portis’s novel, casts John Wayne as the aging U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn — a cantankerous, hard‑drinking lawman many considered past his prime. The story follows Cogburn’s reluctant partnership with young Mattie Ross and the Texas Ranger La Boeuf as they hunt her

Sports

Premier League proposes cap on compensation for EFL academy players

Premier League clubs have approached the EFL with a proposal to cap the compensation fees paid when signing youth academy prospects from lower-division teams, aiming to modernise the financial framework and curb rising costs for domestic talent. The current transfer of young players involves training compensation, appearance-related bonuses and sell-on

Science

Visuomotor Control Laboratory develops oculometrics and COBRA screening tool

The Visuomotor Control Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center conducted neuroscience research to clarify links between eye movements and brain function. The team developed hardware and software to validate oculometrics as measures of visual motion perception and used voluntary eye movements—saccades and smooth pursuit—as a model system to

Crypto

Iran’s stablecoin lifeline survived the bombs

When airstrikes hit on February 28, Iran’s Central Bank directed exchanges to halt trading in the USDT–toman pair overnight to slow a rapid repricing of the currency, highlighting how deeply stablecoins have been woven into the country’s financial plumbing. In the weeks before the strikes, analytics firms

Crypto

'Liking Bitcoin' Is Not Enough, Says Former Trump Crypto Adviser

David Bailey, a former crypto adviser to the Trump administration and now CEO and chairman of KindlyMD, told attendees at the Bitcoin Investor Week conference in New York that political support for Bitcoin must go beyond rhetoric. “At the end of the day, liking Bitcoin is not enough,” he said,

Culture

‘Little House on the Prairie’ Two-Part Episode Rewrites the Series

When you think of Little House on the Prairie, images of the Ingalls girls running down a grassy hill probably come to mind. Netflix is betting on that cozy nostalgia with an upcoming adaptation that was already renewed for Season 2 ahead of its Season 1 premiere on July 9.

Sports

How to watch Manchester City vs Nottingham Forest — kick-off, TV and streams

Manchester City vs Nottingham Forest kicks off on 4 Mar 2026 at 14:30 EST and 19:30 GMT. English-language coverage is available on Peacock in the US, TNT Sports in the UK, Stan Sport in Australia and Fubo Canada, with regional rights also held by providers such as Jio/

Culture

Richie Akiva hosts Paris Fashion Week bash after pleading not guilty

A brush with the law is not keeping Richie Akiva from hosting a Paris Fashion Week party. Earlier this year the famed nightlife impresario pleaded not guilty to burglary and assault charges after allegedly beating his former pal Michael Morriatti in a Soho home. Akiva and an alleged accomplice were

Culture

OG Baldur's Gate games patched and available in $23 CRPG bundle

Beamdog has put out a surprise 2.7 beta patch for its enhanced Infinity Engine collection, 14 years after the original release. The update brings Apple Silicon support for Mac players, adds extra languages and a few other tweaks, and suggests the studio may keep tinkering with these classics. That

Culture

The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 release date revealed

A new teaser confirms The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 will arrive on Prime Video on June 3. The season will roll out three episodes per week. The animated series adapts Critical Role’s live‑play Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with the cast and founders reprising their original characters.

Culture

Even More 'Stranger Things' Spin-offs Are Coming

The original Stranger Things came to an end this week, but creators Matt and Ross Duffer revealed there are more projects in development than fans realized. They offered little detail on what those projects will explore, leaving plenty of room for speculation. Alongside the previously announced live-action spin-off and the

Culture

41 Years Later, Stephen King's Forgotten Werewolf Movie Finds a New Lair

Stephen King wrote the screenplay for Silver Bullet, a 1985 werewolf film adapted from his novella Cycle of the Werewolf and directed by Daniel Attias. Set in the normally quiet town of Tarker's Mill, the story follows a string of unexplained murders that leave vigilantes dead and the

Sports

100 days until the 2026 World Cup: five storylines to follow

The World Cup is 100 days away, opening with Mexico facing South Africa at the Estadio Azteca. This edition will include several firsts—the first time three nations have hosted and the first tournament with 48 teams—and it may be the last for figures such as Lionel Messi and

Culture

Sudoku 7,230 medium

Access the print version. Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading... sudoku 7,230, medium, print version, fill, grid, row, column, 3x3 box, numbers 1-9, puzzle

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Rebecca Gayheart celebrates daughter's 16th birthday days after Eric Dane's death

Rebecca Gayheart marked her eldest daughter Billie’s sweet 16 on Instagram, posting a throwback of Billie as a toddler with a huge smile, a large pink flower in her hair, a denim jumper dress and a pink ice cream cone. Gayheart captioned the post, “Happy Sweet 16 to the

Culture

Playing Leon in Resident Evil Requiem was 'uncharted territory'

Capcom tried to hide it for as long as possible, but fans managed to sniff out Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem long before the game launched, and his grizzled appearance still managed to surprise some players. "He's yet wiser to the world, he's been

Tech

This Android trick helps you tell scam messages from real ones

Spam and scam texts have become a daily nuisance, and some messages are crafted well enough to leave you unsure whether they’re legitimate. A helpful rule is to treat messages from unknown numbers as suspicious, but when in doubt Android offers a built-in way to help decide. Circle to