Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera…
NBA franchise the New Orleans Pelicans are the latest American sports team to agree to play in Australia, after officials locked in a two-match exhibition series against NBL sides Melbourne United and South East Melbourne Phoenix in October. Organisers are hoping to sell out the matches at 14,000-capacity Rod Laver Arena, held on the weekend…
In 2020 I reviewed a film premiering on Amazon called The Vast of Night, a small southwestern town drama that felt part Twilight Zone, part Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Its debuting filmmaker was Andrew Patterson, and I started my review predicting that based on that movie he was destined to become a very…
The U.S. power grid added more capacity from solar energy in 2024 than from any other source in a single year in more than two decades, according to a new industry report released on Tuesday. The data was released a day after the new U.S. energy secretary, Chris Wright, strongly criticized solar and wind energy…
Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was arrested on Tuesday in Manila, after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity in his war on drugs in which, human rights groups say, tens of thousands of Filipinos were summarily executed. He was taken into custody at the airport…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More We’ve been hearing a lot about AI agents — tools powered by generative AI models that can perform actions without much human supervision or intervention. But they still remain largely a novel curiosity for most people,…
The Cowboys made another free agency move on Monday night. They struck a one-year, $4.75 million deal with offensive lineman Rob Jones, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Jones has spent the last four years with the Dolphins, and he started all 17 games for the team last season. He should be a solid veteran presence…
Bradley Cooper took a surprise guest role in the season premiere of The Righteous Gemstones and now people think he’s going to win an Emmy. [Just Jared]Monica Barbaro had a mostly-great awards season, style-wise. [Go Fug Yourself]Britney Spears is back to dancing on social media. She posted a video where she’s dancing to Justin Timberlake’s…
Fears over the future health of the global economy are continuing to rattle markets around the world, as investors grapple with the reality of tariffs and fresh signs that consumers are pulling back on spending. After the S&P 500 suffered its worst day of the year on Monday, the sell-off continued into Asia trading on…
Gunmen attacked a position held by Syrian security forces in Damascus overnight, a war monitor said on Monday, raising fears that the deadly violence sweeping Syria’s coastal region could spread to other parts of the country. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has monitored the Syrian conflict since 2011, said that unidentified gunmen…
