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via Marvel Studios If you take the online panic at face value – which you definitely shouldn’t – then the Marvel Cinematic Universe is on its last legs after becoming so big and unwieldy that there’s no other outcome than the bubble bursting in spectacular fashion. While it can’t be argued that the Multiverse Saga hasn’t been the greatest stage of storytelling the franchise has ever seen, there’s not an IP in the industry that boasts a 100 percent success rate, but that was always going to happen when the…

Remember when Nvidia’s graphics card connectors and cables kept melting, leading to destroyed GPUs — and potential fire risks — all over the world? Well, Asus reckons it has the solution, but it raises some major questions of its own. At the Computex trade show in Taiwan, Asus showed off its new concept for a future graphics card that forgoes the 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector altogether. After all, the thinking seems to be pretty straightforward: your power connectors can’t melt if they don’t exist. Asus So how does…

The author of Babel and The Poppy War, Rebecca F Kuang, has said she finds the idea that authors should only write about characters of their own race “deeply frustrating and pretty illogical”.Speaking at the Hay festival, the author, who was born in China but moved to the US when she was four, said that there is a “really weird kind of identity politics going on in American publishing”. She is “sympathetic” to an extent, as it is coming from “decades of frustration of seeing the same racist, uncritical, under-researched,…

Image Source : VODAFONE IDEA Vodafone Idea (Vi) launches 2 affordable Prepaid Plans worth Rs 99 and 128: Details Vi, the third-largest telecom service provider in India, has recently implemented a significant modification to its two prepaid plans. This alteration primarily concerns the validity period of these plans. According to TelecomTalk, Vi has reduced the…

Google’s Project Starline simply aims to take video conferencing to an entirely new level. It does this in a way no other brand has, by bringing real-time 3D effects to the subject in the display. By doing this, the viewer will be able to feel as though the person they are talking with is sitting right in front of them. Google first gave a look into this vision at their 2021 I/O event with the prototype of the technology. This prototype came with a rather complex design and a lot of cameras, microphones, and sensors to…

Orcas living off Europe's Iberian coast recently struck and sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar. Scientists suspect that this is the third vessel this subpopulation of killer whales has capsized since May 2020, when a female orca believed to be the originator of this behavior suffered a traumatic encounter with a boat.In most reported cases, orcas are biting, bending and breaking off the rudders of sailboats. So how did they learn to imitate this behavior – and why?We asked Dr Luke Rendell, who researches learning,…

via Lucasfilm Star Wars has always been quite strict about the divide between the Light and Dark sides of the Force. Aggressive and violent powers like tossing lightning and choking people are always seen as a path to corruption. Sure, you might fling some electricity at your opponent with the noblest of intentions, but it won’t be long until you’re wielding a red lightsaber, wearing a black hood, cackling evilly, and getting all wrinkly. The vast Star Wars extended universe has regularly tried to showcase…

Of the many films that dramatise the deranged behaviour of celebrity fans, one of the most popular is Der Fan, a German production from 1982 about a teenage girl obsessed with a pop singer. It begins predictably enough – she writes him dozens of letters – but the ending is a little less orthodox. When he doesn’t reply she intercepts him outside one of his gigs, hangs out in his dressing room, has sex with him, kills him with a statue, chops him up and puts the dismembered body parts in a freezer. Unsurprisingly, it has…

Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh shared her insight on the possibility of a sequel for A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once. A film about a mother who learns about the multiverse through another version of her husband won Best Picture at the 2023 Oscar awards and made a massive sweep during this year’s award season. Yeoh spoke during the Kering Women in Motion talks during this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where she spoke about her experience as an actress and how times…

Here are the top 5 reasons why investing in meme coins is a bad idea in the future While memes are marketed as fun and light-hearted, there can be a dark side to cryptocurrency editions. Not only is price extremely volatile, with many meme coins falling 99% or even to zero in the current bear market, but many accusations of foul play and bad intentions against creators, who are often anonymous. Here are the 5 reasons why investing in meme coins is a bad idea: Scam: Some meme tokens are also directly aimed at scamming…