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Alienware 32 QD-OLED MSRP $1,200.00 “The Alienware 32 QD-OLED is as good as gaming monitors get.” Pros Fantastic HDR gaming Incredible out-of-box color accuracy Excellent console monitor High resolution, fast refresh rate Three-year warranty is great Fairly affordable…

Aardman Animations had an international box office smash at the beginning of this century with much-loved stop-motion comedy Chicken Run, in which flightless feathered heroes spoofed Animal Farm and The Great Escape by making a thrilling break for freedom. Now comes the sequel, mixing stop motion with computer animation in the sleek new style towards which Aardman moved a few years after that, based on the original look of the action figures.This follow-up is cowritten by Karey Kirkpatrick, John O’Farrell and Rachel…

Tick … Tock … The lights dim and a ticking clock echoes through Glasgow’s Hydro. It heralds the arrival of Iron Maiden, theatrical stalwarts of British metal, and their new show themed on the passing of time. Pairing their 1986 classic Somewhere in Time with 2021’s critically praised Senjutsu, The Future Past tour unearths under-sung treasures from Maiden’s deep discography to give them their moment in the dry ice. With a jump-scare bang, Bruce Dickinson is suddenly centre stage, clad in a steampunk trench and shades,…

The upcoming macOS 13.3 update looks set to fix an issue that some people have been dealing with since macOS 13.2 was released earlier in 2023.The bug, which doesn't appear to affect everyone, broke SMB file sharing for those who are on a network and share files with other computers or storage devices.Multiple reports suggest that this latest macOS Ventura update will fix the issue, with those who have installed the latest beta saying that their shares are working once again.Incoming fixWhile Apple hasn't yet confirmed…

Following its launch no later than May 2027, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will survey the same areas of the sky every few days. Researchers will mine these data to identify kilonovae – explosions that happen when two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole collide and merge. When these collisions happen, a fraction of the resulting debris is ejected as jets, which move near the speed of light. The remaining debris produces hot, glowing, neutron-rich clouds that forge heavy elements, like gold and platinum.…

Singin’ in the Rain was not exactly conceived as a masterpiece. Arthur Freed, head of the musicals unit at MGM, had a back catalogue of songs – not all of them classics – that he’d co-written for various films at the studio between 1929 and 1939, and had the idea of stringing them together as a song score for a single new musical. Screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green were hired to cobble a story around the disparate tunes; Howard Keel, a stolid bass-baritone in the MGM stable who had acquitted himself respectably…