Panic

By Faith Karimi | CNN The 911 call starts with a jarring observation: “A car just went through my neighbor’s house.” Anne Heche had crashed her blue Mini Cooper into a home in Los Angeles on August 5, and the caller, as heard in a recording obtained and published by TMZ, was unaware that the veteran actor was behind the wheel, or that anyone was still in the car at the time. The caller told the dispatcher that the car was about 10 feet into the house. Everyone in the home was accounted for, the caller said, adding that he…

Chinese chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) on Friday reported a 42% jump in second-quarter revenue but also said the sector was facing some "panic and uncertainty". A slowdown in demand for smartphones in particular has driven down prices for certain chips, co-CEO Zhao Haijun told investors on an earnings call. His remarks echo comments from other chip companies which have warned that a weakening global economy and a re-balancing of supply and demand might soon lead to a glut for some types…

The Small Press Spotlight is getting ready for Halloween a little early. Honestly? I hate summer. I love the fall and all things spooky, so I have no problem offering horror/Halloween books right now in this sweltering August weather. This week, we take a look at Vicious Circus: Satanic Panic, the next chapter in the horror saga from Flatline Comics. A Kickstarter campaign for the book is currently running and will end on August 14–get your pledges in now! Read details below: “At the height of 1980’s Satanism paranoia,…

Anitta, J Balvin with Ryan Castro, Marshmello x Khalid and Panic! at the Disco are set to perform at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards. The show will be broadcast live from Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Anitta will make her VMA debut with a performance of her single “Envolver,” which topped the Billboard Global Excl U.S. chart in April. The song, from her fifth studio album Versions of Me, has climbed as high as No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart and No.…

Colin Farrell has revealed that he experienced panic attacks while filming underwater scenes for the forthcoming film, Thirteen Lives. The Ron Howard-directed feature is based on the true story of the rescue mission to save a football team trapped in a cave in Thailand in 2018.Farrell plays John Volanthen, one of the divers involved in the rescue. At the film’s premiere on Thursday (28 July), the actor admitted that he struggled with filming some of the underwater scenes.“It was scary,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “I’m…

A man looking at his laptop with concern. Image: Getty/DeagreezA sneaky new phishing attack attempts to manipulate victims into entering their username and password by claiming their account will be deleted if they don't - and it uses a countdown timer to pile on the pressure. Detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Cofense, this phishing attack begins with a message which claims to warn the recipient that an attempt to login to their account from a location they haven't used before has been blocked – and that they…

Solar winds from the snapping of a gigantic "canyon of fire" filament on the Sun are set to slam into the Earth today (20 July) or tomorrow (21 July), triggering a weak G1 geomagnetic storm.  Sun watchers first spotted solar filaments as dark, thread-like lines against the Sun's bright background on 12 July, according to SpaceWeather.com.Then, on 15 July, a filament that had snaked its way down our star's northern hemisphere erupted, carving out a roughly 238,880-mile-long (384,400 kilometers) and 12,400-mile-deep…

Playdate, an upcoming handheld gaming console from US-based Panic, will become available in July for pre-orders, and shipping is likely to start later in the year. The device will offer two new games every week during the first season, but you won't know what you will be getting until the games arrive. Panic  had originally planned one game every week, but it recently announced it has decided to double the number — so instead of 12 games the first season will have 24 different games over 12 weeks. Panic also made a series…

"There was a time in my life where I used to sleep 3 to 5 hours a night. I'd be on set all day and in the studio all night and doing junkets and filming videos on the weekends," she wrote Jennifer Lopez. Pic/AFP Singer Jennifer Lopez recalled "feeling physically paralysed" during severe panic attacks she experienced in her late 20s. In the latest edition of her On the JLo newsletter, Jennifer opened up about she changed her…

The Comixology Originals series The Panic is a different flavor of horror story. Sure, the series from writer/letterer Neil Kleid and artist Andrea Mutti tells the story of an apocalyptic catastrophe striking New York City, but it does so from the perspective of a group of subway commuters who happened to be trapped in an underground tunnel when the events occurred. The large-scale apocalypse combined with the smaller-scale claustrophobia of the action is amped up even further by the addition of elements from recent…