Hunts

via Yash Raj Films Any kind of thriller is an easy sell to the streaming masses, and while Netflix’s viewership charts have been swamped with serial killer content recently, subscribers have decided to take a break from murder and mayhem to focus on a good old-fashioned heist story instead, with Kuttey the latest beneficiary of the crime caper’s ongoing popularity. Per FlixPatrol, the Hindi actioner has has become a Top 10 hit in 23 countries around the world, and it’s making up some serious ground on the rest…

Johnson might wish he’d hired Ronghui Gu. Gu is the cofounder of CertiK, the largest smart-contract auditor in the fizzy and unpredictable world of cryptocurrencies and Web3. An affable and talkative computer science professor at Columbia University, Gu leads a team of more than 250 that pores over crypto code to try to make sure it isn’t filled with bugs.  CertiK’s work won’t prevent you from losing your money when a cryptocurrency collapses. Nor will it stop a crypto exchange from using your funds inappropriately.…

Scientists have discovered something intriguing in a new type of organism that actually eats viruses. The organisms, which are known as virovores, don’t just eat viruses accidentally, either. These organisms actually go out of their way to support a diet that snacks on viruses. The discovery of the organisms that eat viruses came when researcher John DeLong from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln set out to see if any microbes actively ate viruses. To do this, DeLong and his team collected samples of pond water…

After holding fire during much of the pandemic, big pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co. have been pulling the trigger on multibillion-dollar outlays for companies with approved products and technologies that can fuel new sales. To date, the companies have been making mostly small- and midsize deals, often for launched products, to avoid the challenges of digesting large rivals and limit the risks that an experimental drug doesn’t…

By ESA/Hubble November 20, 2022Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391, which lies around 670 million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, J. DalcantonStealing the spotlight in this image from the <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics…

The dungeon crawler makes its way to PC Dungeon-crawling RPG Kowloon High School Chronicle is making its way to PC via Steam. Arc System Works is releasing the updated version of the PS2 RPG onto Steam on November 10. This remastered version has already been released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Now, PC players will get a chance to check out this older dungeon crawler. The Steam page is live here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgFfhjaPoZc Kowloon High School Chronicle first launched for PlayStation 2 in…

From paring back its real-estate footprint, to limiting corporate swag, to controlling cloud-computing costs and hiring more junior staff, the streaming giant is taking a range of steps to reduce spending, people familiar with the situation say. Netflix said it lost nearly one million subscribers in the June quarter, citing heightened competition. The company has laid off more than 400 employees this year and has said it would hold steady its spending on new movie and TV programming. But the cost-cutting efforts are going…

Image: Universal The political landscape around the world has never been so divisive. The debates have never been more incendiary and so much has changed with social media that we’ve strangely never been further apart. So obviously, it’s a perfect time to revisit an incredibly controversial film which pits the left wing and the right wing against each other in bloodsport, as seen in recent Netflix chart climber The Hunt. Made during the peak of Donald Trump’s presidency and an increasingly scary world about…

At 4am, Gregg Donnenfeld sits bolt upright in bed. Finding his pen and notepad in the dark, he jots down the words “Roman numerals in artwork = Caesar cipher?” before going back to sleep. Donnenfeld is a lawyer who lives in upstate New York with his wife and daughters. Instead of gold doubloons or pieces of eight, he’s hunting a token worth $10,000 (£8,000), and the treasure map is not a tattered parchment, but a children’s book filled with simple, bright illustrations.Xavier Marx and the Missing Masterpieces by Hilary…

via Wild Sheep Content The world of B-tier action thrillers is awash with titles that are hardly barometers of cinematic excellence, with a deluge of hard-hitting genre flicks arriving on what feels like a weekly basis. However, this year’s Hunting Ava Bravo has reached rarefied air that many of its peers can only dream of, by becoming one of the most popular titles on a major streaming service. As per FlixPatrol, journeyman director Gary Auerbach’s latest feature has landed on the Prime Video Top 10 in 20…