Touched

On the 16th of January, almost a month left until the official release of “Dune: Part 2“, Denis Villeneuve’s assistant had an urgent flight to the palliative care facility located about 130 miles north of Quebec City with a very special mission. A terminally ill man made an unusual wish before his last breath: to see the long-awaited sequel to 2021’s “Dune: Part 1”.Official worldwide release of “Dune: Part 2” was scheduled on 1st of March, 2024https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Way9Dexny3wImage credits: Warner Bros…

Happy holidays, Pushing Buttons readers!For the past few weeks you’ve been sending in your favourite games of 2023 and what you’re most looking forward to in 2024. It’s not too late to share your thoughts on the latter, but now it’s time to share your favourites of this year.It says a lot that despite there being a total of 50 on the Guardian’s own games-of-the-year and games-you-might-have-missed lists, you’ve still come up with some fresh recommendations. When I was a kid you could reasonably play pretty much every…

An experiment has finally revealed how it might feel to touch a quantum superfluid.Physicists dunked a special, finger-sized probe into an isotope of helium cooled to just a smidge over absolute zero, and recorded the physical properties therein.It is, they say, the first time we have gleaned an inkling of what the quantum Universe might feel like. And no one had to get horrific frostbite, or ruin an experiment, to find out for real."In practical terms, we don't know the answer to the question 'how does it feel to touch…

Will 2024 be the year that Lana Del Rey finally wins a Grammy? Hours after the Recording Academy announced the nominees for next year’s Grammy Awards show, the singer shared her excitement for the news of her nominations, thanks to her album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? “I woke up so very excited about these Grammy nominations, five,” she said amid laughs. “And we’re singing on I think two of the other albums that are nominated to with Jon and Taylor.” (She refers to Swift’s Midnights and…

My earliest reading memoryMy maternal grandmother, a primary school teacher, taught me to read at a very early age. While I can’t recall learning to read, I remember that the earliest books I fell in love with were “readers” from her school classroom, before I was even old enough to attend school. Having easy and early access to books shaped my whole life.My favourite book growing upThe Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. I read it when I was around 10, and it was my first experience of a story that was also a mystery or a…

Bel Powley has revealed that a senior crewmember on a project she worked on when she was younger “touch me inappropriately.” During a recent interview with The Independent, the actress — who stars in NatGeo miniseries A Small Light, which premiered May 1 — detailed her experience working in the industry in her early 20s. “I’ve had someone grab my arse and basically touch me inappropriately before,” Powley said. “I was too scared to say anything. I was too scared to rock the boat.”…

A video of Busta Rhymes throwing his drink at a woman who touched his butt has gone viral on social media.In the video, which began making the internet rounds on Tuesday, the veteran rapper can be seen walking with a group as a woman approaches him from behind and taps him on the rear. Rhymes instantly turns around and tosses his beverage, spraying the woman who invaded his personal space — and anyone else in the splash zone.The Shade Room later identified the woman in the video as Nikita Mathis, owner of Platinum Plus…

A woman was seen invading Busta Rhymes’ personal space, resulting in a drink being thrown at her. On Tuesday, footage of the “I Know What You Want” rapper went viral after a spectator posted a video of him splashing a drink on someone in public. Rhymes was spotted walking in an unknown location among a group of people when a woman came up close behind him, reached out, and touched his butt. Due to a lack of boundaries, the rap icon became agitated and threw his drink at the stranger. With bystanders being splashed, people…

For a guy who once said he wasn’t going to be on many future earnings calls, Elon Musk has a hard time staying away. Last night, Tesla reported its third quarter earnings, and Musk was front and center, making boastful claims about his company’s future (bigger than Apple and Saudi Aramco), dropping hints about Tesla’s next vehicle platform, hyping the much-delayed Cybertruck, and even offering some commentary on his on-again, off-again deal to buy Twitter. Musk defended the company’s performance despite missing delivery…

We’ve been waiting years and years for the Pixel Watch to finally be real. Because it’s taken so long for Google to show us its own smartwatch, expectations are high for the company to deliver something impressive. We were able to get a preview of the Pixel Watch ahead of its full launch at the Made By Google event in Brooklyn today, and honestly I’m very taken by its design. The device is only available in one size: 41mm, though there are various band options. It’s fairly dainty, at about the same size as the small Apple…