By any financial measure, James Cameron is the most successful director in the history of Hollywood. That's not an exaggeration, because Cameron's Titanic was the highest grossing movie of all time for over a decade before it was surpassed by his next film, Av... More »
What just happened? Linux has long been the versatile open-source workhorse behind everything from web servers to Android phones. A significant milestone now enables the penguin mascot to showcase its capabilities in even more areas, especially where precise r... More »
Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew they had a problem in North Carolina. What they were frantically trying to learn was how big it would be.Word had reached the former president’s high command on Thursday that a “bad” story was coming about Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson... More »
The biggest theater chains in the US and Canada are giving their cinemas a major upgrade in hopes of enticing more people to watch movies outside of their homes. According to Variety, they're planning to spend $2.2 billion to modernize 21,000 screens over the ... More »
Follow along with the latest Middle East updates as Israel-Hezbollah tensions escalate.Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah traded cross-border attacks overnight and into Thursday, continuing a pattern of strikes after two extraordinary days in which hand... More »
Children with difficult temperaments, including personality tendencies such as irritability and having a hard time being comforted, are only slightly more likely than other children to have insecure attachment relationships with one or both of their parents, a... More »
Tom Bombadil isn’t wholly knowable. That’s how he was introduced to me, someone who read the Lord of the Rings books a long time ago as a kid, and has since mostly fielded Bombadilisms via friends better versed in the world of Tolkien. But what I knew about hi... More »
It’s time for a roundup of things you should have on your radar if you’re a mystery lover. I’ve got two new releases, backlist series that are inspired by Sherlock, and some news.Before I dive into all that, though, I have some streaming recommendations for th... More »
The clicks of gas stoves being ignited, the scrape of heavy-bottom pots against stovetops, the heated whispers of a bustling kitchen — you’d think that I’m on the set of a Top Chef episode, but I’m actually at Griffiths Middle School in Downey, California, wit... More »
We had a lot of praise for Final Fantasy 16 when it arrived last year on PS5, bringing excellent visuals with stable performance - at least at 30fps. The PC version has the potential to boost visuals further while allowing for much better frame-rates at the sa... More »
This looks like something out of a video game, but it's for real. Some parkour masters can scale a building by jumping back and forth between two facing vertical surfaces, zigzagging upward. Seriously, check it out right now, I'll wait. (It's the move that sta... More »
Everyone was laughing at LL Cool J. It was the fall of 1984, and the 16-year-old rapper also known as James Todd Smith was full of confidence as he jumped on the mic at a block party in his native Queens. Not only had he recently inked a record deal, but he’d... More »