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Google's earthquake warning system for Android is supposed to provide notices in time to reach safety, but that might not have happened following the quake in Turkey on February 6th. BBC investigators claim that none of the hundreds of people they talked to in three Turkish cities received an alert before the first tremor hit. Only a "limited number" got an alert for a second tremor, investigators say. We've asked Google for comment. Product lead Micah Berman tells the BBC millions of people in Turkey received earthquake…

How bad can Batgirl really be? Warner Bros. shocked the entertainment industry last year by canning the practically complete movie, explaining that this was simply because it wasn’t very good. But this is the studio that put out the theatrical cut of Justice League and The Flash, so can it really be such a cinematic nightmare that it must never be seen by the viewing public? Knowing that the practically complete Batgirl is just sitting on some dusty hard drive over at Warner Bros. is driving fans crazy, but perhaps it’s…

Now that Barbie is making a big pink splash on theater screens this week, some moviegoers are remembering another Warner Bros. movie with a strikingly similar plot and message that came out just last year. The Olivia Wilde-directed Don’t Worry Darling wasn’t necessarily a box office failure, per se, but it did have a much more lukewarm critical reception than Barbie now has. Barbie boasts an impressive “Certified Fresh” 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes while Don’t Worry Darling is “Rotten” at 38 percent. What is remarkable…

Even though MG India loads up their EVs with more practical features and tons of creature comforts, they are only able to manage a fraction of what Tata manages to sell. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Tata is thrashing MG in India when it comes to EVs…

It’s a matter of Hollywood legend nowadays that Cillian Murphy‘s involvement in Batman Begins started with a failed audition to portray the caped crusader. However, the actor and director Christopher Nolan are now opening up about how the screen test that seemingly went nowhere at the time actually may have kicked off the chain of events that resulted in Murphy landing the lead role in Oppenheimer almost two decades later. Even when Nolan was perusing headshots for prospective Bruce Wayne candidates, the Memento director…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends There’s something so viscerally wrong about seeing Halo on a Mac. Apple’s computers aren’t known for gaming, sure, but Halo, in particular, looks out of place. It’s Microsoft’s star child, and it’s the franchise Microsoft has hung its hat on for 22 years. But the game was originally designed for the Mac, and now, you can play it right on your MacBook. Apple’s recent Game Porting Toolkit makes all kinds of Windows games playable on the Mac — in theory. Considering the franchise’s storied…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGreta Gerwig has named the two celebrity cameos she tried and failed to achieve for her star-studded Barbie film.The director’s much-hyped film stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as the main doll and her partner Ken. You can read the first reactions from the film’s premiere here.Emma Mackey, Issa Rae, and Hari Nef are among the actors playing other Barbies, while Simu Liu, Ncuti…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie raised money for charity by mandating “pink day” on the set of Barbie, and fining her co-stars and crew members if they failed to wear a pink item of clothing.The Australian actor, 33, stars as the titular Mattel doll in Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming comedy co-starring Ryan Gosling as Barbie’s boyfriend, Ken.In a new interview with People, Gosling, 42, explained the…

Tuffy, the immature red-tailed hawk who was “adopted” by a family of bald eagles and studied closely by a group of astonished Bay Area birders, has been found dead.The fledgling raptor’s body was found on the ground Wednesday morning, following two days of increasing concern over the animal’s health.The cause of death was not immediately known but was most likely starvation, said Doug Gillard, a professor of anatomy and physiology at Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward. Gillard found the body Wednesday morning and…

Following a series of setbacks that has hindered the next-generation Vega launcher, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking into what caused the rocket’s motor to fail during a recent static fire test.What Drew John Boyega Back Into Sci-Fi? | io9 InterviewESA established an Independent Enquiry Commission to investigate an anomaly that occurred during Vega-C’s static fire test on June 28, further delaying the thirdlaunch of the medium-lift rocket, European Spaceflight reported. Vega-C made its debut in July 2022,…