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Tomorrow Corporation When I sat down to demo World of Goo 2 at this year’s GDC, I noted to the developers on hand how surprising it was to see a sequel after so long. “It’s been, what? Ten years?” I said. I was very far off the mark: They noted that the original World of Goo launched in 2008. After playing a few levels (and having an existential crisis over time’s rapid passing), I’d find myself wondering how such an obvious slam dunk didn’t come sooner. Like its predecessor, World of Goo 2 is a physics-based puzzle…

A senior leader of the MS-13 street gang who was one of the FBI’s most wanted gang fugitives was quietly arrested earlier this month at the California-Mexico border on narco-terrorism charges, authorities said.Freddy Ivan Jandres-Parada, 48, also known as Lucky De Park View, was taken into custody on March 7 by federal authorities at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego County, sources told The Times. Federal officials did not disclose any details about the arrest. MS-13 gang leader Fredy Ivan…

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.Version 3 of Claude launched this month. It’s a powerful new alternative to ChatGPT.AI tools are evolving quickly. Claude, Google’s improved Gemini and Microsoft’s new Copilot have joined ChatGPT in creating a remarkably competitive AI arena. Read on for an update on about Claude, noting its strengths and limitations and some suggested ways to use it.What is Claude?Claude is an…

Sydney Sweeney is aware of the Euphoria memes, and is crediting her new horror film Immaculate to them. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Sydney shared how she was already working on Immaculate when Euphoria season 2 had come out and the internet wanted her to be cast in a horror film given her terrified reactions in the show. (Also read: Sydney Sweeney doesn’t care about the negative response to Madame Web: ‘I was just hired as an actress') Sydney Sweeney played Cassie Howard in Euphoria. What…

Sharon Stone’s bitter public feud with Billy Baldwin is nothing new and goes back to long before she claimed this week that she was pressured to have sex with him in order to improve their on-screen chemistry and his less-than-stellar acting in the 1993 erotic thriller “Sliver.” Indeed, the feud goes back to that infamous film, Stone’s follow-up to her blockbuster 1992 hit “Basic Instinct.” Stone didn’t want the younger Baldwin brother to play her mysterious seducer in the sexually charged “Sliver,” about a New York book…

Anne Hathaway said she refuses to let an Oscar get in the way of her having fun with her movies.The Academy Award-winning actress faced a barrage of questions online after taking up the role of Solène — a 40-year-old single mom — in the movie The Idea of You. Her character, Solène, has an unconventional romance with a 24-year-old British boy band singer, Hayes Campbell (played by Nicholas Galitzine).The rom-com is based on Robinne Lee’s 2017 novel with the same title. The writer previously told Vogue that the idea for…

The post-1945 American novel was usually in some deep way about anxiety: the anxiety of living in America, with its enormous postwar wealth and its correspondingly enormous social pressures and opportunities. The great hope of its characters, like the great hope of America generally, used to lie in social mobility: up, up, and away! But in the 21st century, to hear young writers tell it, the social pressures have won. Anxiety, in the contemporary American novel, has given way to defeatism and pointillist satire: finely…

In 1958, 17-year-old Rose Dugdale was one of 1,400 young women who curtseyed before Queen Elizabeth II in the most prestigious event of the summer’s debutante season. It was the last time that the well-bred daughters of the most aristocratic and affluent families in the country would be presented to the monarch in a ritual that dated back 200 years. Princess Margaret, with characteristic hauteur, would later say: “We had to put a stop to it. Every tart in London was getting in.”For the fiercely independent Dugdale, being…

We’re all familiar with road rage, but apparently, parking lot rage often presents itself too. For some reason, people tend to feel entitled to a spot that they had their eye on, even if someone else got there first.One woman recently had an encounter with a furious Target customer who decided to harass her and her husband for simply having the parking spot that she wanted. Below, you’ll find the full story that was recently posted on the Mildly Infuriating subreddit, as well as a conversation with Mark Arnold, The…

Halfway through writing her new book Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley had what her mum called a “midlife crisis”. “I realised that the stuff that I was doing, and the way that I was making sense of what I was doing, was having a really negative impact on me and my mental health,” she says. “Just everything ... feeling constantly on edge, not really being able to engage with people in honest and open ways. There was a point at which I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this any more.’”Twenty-nine may sound a bit young…