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Earth Sign, the first track on Brittany Howard’s second solo album, opens her record as ordinary mortals might strive hard to close theirs – with a transcendent sunburst of hope gilded by complex vocal harmonies, jazz drums and unconventional instrumentation. More highs follow on an outrageously great album that struggles candidly with love, but never puts a foot wrong musically.Howard first found fame, and multiple Grammys, as the frontperson of Alabama Shakes. Her 2019 solo debut, Jaime, earned her more of both. The…

"When life gives you lemons, make a sandwich" - creator of Lemon Sandwich comics. This quote should prepare you for the comics quite well as they make as much sense as this suggestion and are still funny in an absurd way.Lemon Sandwich comics often feature simple yet expressive illustrations that have unexpected and very twisted endings. Though the artist's humor is unapologetically bold in how ridiculous it is, they have already over 241K followers on Instagram!So, without further ado, let's dive into comics that range…

The successor to the OnePlus 11 is launching globally soon, but you can already get a sense of what's coming. June Wan/ZDNETOnePlus is doing that thing again; it's launching next year's flagship phone in China first, during the company's December anniversary, and will host the global unveiling a month or two later. Also: OnePlus' first-ever foldable makes Samsung and Google's look outdatedLast night, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau took to the stage to debut the OnePlus 12, a device that bears a strong resemblance to this year's…

The four-seat Aska A5 is the size of an SUV, but at the touch of a button it extends an array of electric propellers and converts to a cruise-capable eVTOL aircraft with an impressive hybrid range. The FAA has cleared it for flight testing.Last time I looked, the year 2000 was 23 years ago. When I was a young'un, the year 2000 was supposed to be the future. We weren't just supposed to have flying cars and jetpacks, we were supposed to be commuting vertically on the daily. Today, there are most certainly jetpacks,…

The metal bands for the Pixel Watch are, surprisingly expensive. When Google launched the Pixel Watch on its online store today, it immediately put the watch itself up for pre-order. You were also immediately able to start buying some of the other bands. Including the Crafted Leather, the Two-Tone Leather, the Woven, the Stretch, and the Active bands.Absent however, were the Metal Mesh and Metal Links bands. If you pop on over to the Google Store at the time of writing of this post, the accessories page for the Pixel…

Hey, remember PlayerUnknown? As in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG to your friends? Yeah, well Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, has provided details surrounding his latest gaming project, codenamed “Artemis,” which aims to be an open-source Earth-sized virtual environment supporting hundreds of thousands of players that can make or play whatever they want.Here’s the rub, though. Greene also wants users to be able to monetize what they make, essentially turning all user-generated content into NFTs. In an interview…

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Oscar-winning creator of movies such as Amores Perros, Birdman and The Revenant has now returned to his Mexican homeland for this quasi-autobiographical epic, sprawling across a personal magic-realist dreamscape where fact and fiction shapeshift into each other in ways which are technically stylish and massively insufferable.It’s a quite staggeringly self-indulgent and self-congratulatory film – somewhere on a continuum between Fellini and Malick – about a Mexican journalist and documentary…