Leaps

In a quiet studio at Sadler’s Wells theatre, three dancers in black leggings are making purposeful angles with their bodies in some pretty leftfield contemporary dance moves. One looks familiar: lean and muscular, a tattoo of a flaming phoenix between her shoulder blades, a Celtic band around her arm. She bends forward and one leg sweeps high into the air behind her. It’s Melanie Chisholm, AKA Mel C, AKA Sporty Spice, rehearsing with the choreographer Jules Cunningham.Chisholm is known for conquering the world with girl…

Image: Sony PicturesGet a glimpse of the timeline shenanigans coming to The Flash’s final season. There’s a bevy of new production photos from The Walking Dead: Dead City. The composer of the Joker sequel has begun, uh, composing, John Carpenter denies a rumor, and much more await in today’s Morning Spoilers.All You Need Is BloodDeadline reports Mena Suvari, Eddie Griffin,and Logan Riley Bruner are attached to star in All You Need Is Blood, a new zombie-comedy from director Cooper Roberts. The story is said to follow “a…

Actor Tom Cruise leapt out of a jet yet again! But this time to express gratitude to `Top Gun: Maverick` fans as the plane sped through the atmosphere. The official handle of `Top Gun` tweeted the video along with a special message from the sets of `Mission: Impossible`. The camera pans to see Christopher McQuarrie, who will be directing `Dead Reckoning` and is making a return to the `Mission: Impossible` franchise. Along with Cruise and David Ellison, McQuarrie co-wrote `Top Gun: Maverick` and produced the action…

via Netflixx It would be absurd to think that the controversy surrounding Netflix’s decision to replace Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia with Liam Hemsworth from the fourth season of The Witcher onward is going to die down any time soon. If anything, fans are even more outraged now that they’ve had a while to process the news, and they aren’t backing down from wanting to restore their rightful White Wolf come hell or high water. In other news, a fantasy prequel that anyone but the most ardent fans of the…

Unlikely team-ups are a comic book staple, both on the page and off. Not only do you occasionally see odd couple pairings like Wolverine and Deadpool, but sometimes comics creators with a longtime affiliation on one side of the aisle make a dramatic leap to work for their former competitors — like, for example, former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, who will now be plying his trade at DC Comics. The news comes from DC Comics publisher and chief creative officer Jim Lee’s New York Comic-Con panel, as Quesada…

Magic Leap's second take on augmented reality eyewear is available. The company has started selling Magic Leap 2 in 19 countries, including the US, UK and EU nations. The glasses are still aimed at developers and pros, but they include a number of design upgrades that make them considerably more practical — and point to where AR might be headed. The design is 50 percent smaller and 20 percent lighter than the original. It should be more comfortable to wear over long periods, then. Magic Leap also promises better…

Cockroach Turned Superman! Cyborg Technology is Taking New Leaps A team of scientists engineered in Singapore, a system for creating remote-controlled cyborg technology cockroaches equipped with a tiny wireless control module. A cockroach fitted with a “backpack” computer and infrared camera, controlled by electrodes, could help locate warm bodies in the rubble of buildings destroyed by earthquakes. The ultra-thin electronics and flexible materials allow the “cockroaches” to move freely. This project turns the…

You, along with millions of others, may already have driven this supercar in its original, virtual form as part of the Gran Turismo video game series. Now, it's coming to life in the flesh, as a sold-out limited edition with a screaming V10 engine. In the video game, it's called the McLaren Ultimate Vision Gran Turismo, or VGT, and you can zoom it around the game's many tracks alongside a bevvy of other fantastical VGT concepts from more than 25 other manufacturers. These came about when Gran Turismo founder Kazunori…

It looks like ethereum's mega-upgrade is happening. Finally. After years of delays, the "Merge" seems all but certain to take place in September, with the cryptography underlying the blockchain undergoing a radical shift to a system where the creation of new ether tokens becomes far less energy-intensive. "It's an exciting time for the ethereum ecosystem," said Omar Syed, co-founder of smart contract platform Shardeum. "I think there will be drama surrounding the Merge, but I don't think there will be any technical…

Foam products and furniture maker Vitafoam saw its profit for the nine months to June quicken by about 33 per cent on the back of higher income from its home market Nigeria, which provided 99.99 per cent of sales for the period, according to its newly issued earnings report. Revenue totalled N35.7 billion up from N26.8 billion, the document seen by PREMIUM TIMES showed. But spikes in inflation of Africa’s biggest economy in the period meant cost of sales, at N23.5 billion, would gnaw away at the bulk of that…