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Casting notices for production hint that acclaimed prequel play to hit Netflix series could open in New York City in 2025 Three months after Stranger Things: The First Shadow opened in London, the stage play based on the hit Netflix series is already plotting its move to Broadway. According to Broadway World, casting notices for the Broadway run of the acclaimed play have already been posted, with an estimated opening date sometime in 2025. Like the London production, Stephen Daldry is listed…

Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey shared the real reason he moved from California to rival Texas in 2014: a family crisis.The “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Magic Mike” star relocated his wife and three kids from Malibu to the Lone Star State in 2014 and this week opened up about the decision in a profile in Southern Living. They shed light on what the magazine described as McConaughey’s “home field advantage” and what others might call a “Texodus.”“Ritual came back,” the 54-year old said, “whether that was Sunday church,…

Instead of the alternating three-note theme song, would Steven Spielberg’s Jaws have been such a great horror film with a short-but-eerie show tune, or just some over-the-top creepy effects thrown together instead? I don’t even want to begin imagining it. The theme song worked so well to create fear around the monster shark, and for almost half a century, it has become synonymous with suspense. What’s even scarier is the fact the iconic theme almost wasn’t used by Spielberg. Thankfully, John Williams, who has composed…

The House of Representatives is moving to review the parameters of the 2024 budget due to the depreciation of the Naira against major currencies. The House, on Thursday, mandated its Committees on National Planning and Economic Development, Appropriation and Finance, to review the parameters in the budget, particularly the exchange rate. This resolution followed a motion of urgent public importance moved by Kafilat Ogbara (APC, Lagos) during plenary. The naira was on a free fall for months following the decision…

Remedy is lowering the official minimum system requirements for Alan Wake 2 on PC. The sequel launched in October without full support for Nvidia’s GTX 10-series of GPUs because Remedy opted for mesh shading that’s part of DirectX 12 Ultimate and not supported by GPUs like Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD’s RX 5600 XT.Now, Remedy has “optimized rendering for GPU’s that don’t support mesh shaders,” meaning the minimum GPU requirements now include the GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon RX 5600 XT instead of the more powerful…

The luxury of staying at home rent-free is a privilege, not afforded to many. The moment you turn 18, you are often expected to become independent. You might have to say goodbye to free food, internet, and most importantly, free rent. This poster, though he has been living with his parents, has been paying a weekly rent of $60. However, with a recent job promotion, his rent needs to increase. This has sparked some drama as he plans his exit from the family home.More info: RedditHaving a roof provided by family is a gift…

Quantum traffic laws applied to the 3D streetscape of a specific kind of crystal can put the brakes on electron rush hour.In a search for novel materials that can contain bizarre new states of matter, physicists from Rice University in the US led an experiment that forced free-roaming electrons to stay in place.While the phenomenon has been seen in materials where electrons are constrained to just two dimensions, this is the first time it's been observed in a three-dimensional crystal metal lattice, known as a…

Indian startups have now approached the country's top antitrust watchdog in order to force Google to reinstate the apps it delisted for policy reasons on Friday. Google had removed around 200 Indian apps including Naukri, 99acres, Bharat Matrimony and Kuku FM and the tech giant later reinstated only around 15 of these applications.  According to a Reuters report…

Anthropic, a startup born out of OpenAI defectors, claims its new chatbot, Claude 3, has broken new ground for the AI world. The updated AI chatbot, released on Monday, outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini’s most advanced models, potentially crowning a new king in the AI world. Anthropic released three tiers – Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku – which range from most to least capable.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“Opus shows us the outer limits of what’s possible with generative AI,” said Anthropic in a blog…

While there are valid reasons for operators to move slowly -- since they run networks that support critical infrastructures and need to consider regulatory repercussions when there is a downtime -- the challenge now is to look at how to move them beyond the GenAI testing phase and into commercial launch, he said. There also has been so much hype around GenAI that telcos need to sieve through the noise and figure out how they should leverage the technology to deliver real value, said Jarich, who was speaking to ZDNET…