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When it comes to going out with style, nothing comes close to the end of a white dwarf. Their thermonuclear self-destruction ranks among the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, forcing the star to wink out of existence in a blaze of glory.  At least, that's the idea. A discovery confirms some white dwarfs fake their deaths with a lackluster performance, only to go on shining even brighter than before.Ten years ago, supernova SN 2012Z was spotted in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1309, glowing briefly in a swan song…

Some Windows 10 users have been given a treat they weren't expecting this week thanks to an error from Microsoft. It appears a bug in the firm's update schedule gave owners of unsupported PCs the chance to download the very latest version of Windows 11. If you weren't already aware, Windows 11 caused a fair amount of controversy when it launched last year with this software not working on machines that didn't have the latest processor with TPM 2.0 security.This piece of hardware makes things far more robust by offering an…

Someone get Nick Cannon’s stork a veterinarian because that poor bird’s back probably hurts. The Masked Singer host went on the Lip Service podcast on Tuesday and answered some questions about rumors that he had some more babies on the way. “When you say ‘on the way . . . ‘ What count are you at? Let’s just put it this way . . . the stork is on the way,” Cannon said. Responding to a question that he could have three children showing up this year, he added, “I don’t know, it could be.” Cannon joked by saying, “If you…

Guardians of the Galaxy is now a behemoth franchise within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but director James Gunn has harkened back to when everybody thought it’d flop, in a ruthless way. When Marvel announced a Guardians of the Galaxy film was in development 10 years ago at San Diego Comic-Con, there was an air of a last roll of the dice. Marvel had just had supreme success with Iron Man and The Avengers, but bringing in complete and utter unknown characters, and then giving them a $200 million budget seemed a…

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Actor Chris Sullivan and wife Rachel Reichard are set to welcome their second child. The couple, who shares 21-month-old son Bear, broke the pregnancy news on Instagram after Sullivan finished filming for the final season of NBC’s popular series, This is Us. “We have wrapped my final scenes for #thisisus. What an incredible six years these have been. With every end, there is a new beginning,” he wrote on Instagram on Thursday alongside a video of his son Bear revealing the baby news. Sullivan and…