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Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has passed away. On Thursday, March 7, a statement published on the official Dragon Ball website announced that Toriyama had passed on March 1 due to an acute subdural hematoma. He was 68 years old. Toriyama was an acclaimed manga artist and character designer who first gained mainstream recognition in Japan through his sci-fi comedy manga Dr. Slump, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1980 to 1984. In 1984, Toriyama began publishing Dragon Ball, a martial arts adventure manga…

Imagine being mid-flight when a part of your plane rips out, leaving a yawning hole at 16,000 feet above ground. On a January 5 Alaska Airlines flight, the emergency door plug — usually fitted seamlessly into the aircraft’s fuselage — on the Boeing-made plane blew out. Luckily, the seat next to the panel was empty, and there were no fatalities. Federal investigators are still trying to figure out exactly why the door plug didn’t stay put. Boeing’s reputation in the public, meanwhile, has taken yet another nosedive. The…

Barnes & Noble is having a buy one, get one 50% off sale, giving you the opportunity to stock up on essential board games, graphic novels, and fiction through Jan. 31. There’s no limit to how many times you can take advantage of this promotion — just add two participating titles to your cart, and you’ll save half on the item of lesser value. In addition to a massive selection of books and graphic novels, you’ll also find some amazing discounts on board games. This sale not only features some of the most crucial…

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman has a lot of opinions, and he’s going to make sure you hear them. How Ackman came to be a main character at the center of not one but two academic plagiarism scandals is a messy tale indeed. It started with Ackman amplifying allegations of academic dishonesty leveled against Harvard University president Claudine Gay by right-wing activists; Gay resigned from her post in early January due to the controversy. Ackman, who is Jewish, first set his sights on Gay after she failed, in his…

Elon Musk apparently took a break from training for his upcoming battle royale with Mark Zuckerberg to do a new, incredibly unpopular thing to Twitter this weekend. In a bout of inspired stupidity, Musk tweeted out a new edict Saturday: from now on, anybody who doesn’t pay for Twitter will only be able to read a certain number of tweets per day. The subsequent uproar from platform users apparently encouraged some of them to seek refuge elsewhere, namely, on Twitter’s competitor site, Bluesky. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl…

Apple iPhone is one of the most popular smartphones across the globe and over the last couple of years, the smartphone has seen a surge in sales in the Indian market, especially during Flipkart sales. After being in the country for 25 years, Apple recently inaugurated its first store in the country. Apple BKC and Apple Saket stores saw a great footfall as CEO Tim Cook inaugurated the official retail outlets. The stores recorded great sales in the initial days but does it offer a better deal as an ecommerce platform than…

The 21st century equivalent of the souped-up hot rod, a modded PC packed to the gills with glowing LEDs and other over-the-top adornments can be a unique way to show off your wild personality, or now even your Zen-like temperament, with a new PC case featuring a tank on top you can turn into a fully-functional and relaxing aquarium full of fish.Chinese PC case maker MetalFish has recently added the Y2 Fish Tank Chassis to its lineup,which gets straight to the point when it comes to the case’s most marketable feature.…