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Photos by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images and Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images. Remix by Danny Peterson. A jury has largely sided with Johnny Depp in his defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. The jury ruled that Heard would have to pay Depp $15 million for defamation, according to coverage from the Law & Crime Network. The jury mostly ruled against Heard’s counter-lawsuit against Depp, but they did rule in favor of one of her claims and determined Depp must pay Heard $2 million. Depp appears to be…

The number of smartphones in use in Brazil continues to surpass the base of personal computers in the country, representing 52% of active devices, according to new research. There are 242 million smartphones currently in use in Brazil, while personal computers -- desktops, notebooks and tablets -- represented 210 million devices. The numbers were unveiled in the 33rd edition of an annual study on corporate use of IT in Brazil, which was carried out by the Applied Technology Center of business school Fundação Getúlio…

Jigsaw not quite falling into place Bloober Team almost ended up tackling a very different horror franchise than Blair Witch. In a new interview, Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno says the studio was offered the chance to take on several horror IPs including Saw, but passed on them for Blair Witch. Speaking to IGN during the Digital Dragons games conference in Poland, Babieno described how the Blair Witch deal came to be. Bloober was in talks with multiple major movie studios, but passed on offers. Then came Lionsgate. Lionsgate…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In one of the first demonstrations of its kind, the Flinders University-led international study questioned hundreds of adults about acts of self-punishment which managed to garner their sympathy for the offender. …

Apple is preparing to swap the proprietary Lightning port on its iPhones next year for the nearly universally-embraced USB-C, claims company analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a pair of tweets, Kuo said Apple was going to make the change in 2023, basing this claim on an unspecified “survey” (presumably of component manufacturers, from whom Kuo seems to get a lot of his information for predictions about future Apple products). Kuo said that adopting USB-C “could improve iPhone’s transfer and charging speed in hardware designs,…

Myriad animals don the brilliant shifting hues of iridescence, making them stunning to marvel at, but why natural selection so widely favored such structural colors has been somewhat of a mystery.  Shifting metallic sheens have evolved independently many times across the animal kingdom, from dazzling hummingbirds to skinks shining in rainbow to jewel-like flies. In some animals, where the iridescence is more prominent in one sex than the other – as in peacocks – sexual selection has clearly played a role.But in many…