Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. How do you change the narrative when you’re a pop star navigating a very public breakup at the same time the entire world has deemed you a laughingstock for taking a cringey trip to space, all coming just months …
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Jakks Pacific has brought a stacked lineup of collectibles to San Diego Comic-Con, covering franchises like The Simpsons, Nintendo, DC x Sonic, and Dog Man. IGN has an exclusive first look at the entire lineup being revealed at Jakks Pacific’s SDCC panel. Check out the slideshow gallery below for a closer look at all these new figures, along with pricing …
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After a three-year silence, a developer behind the ambitious Fallout: Bakersfield has revealed a new trailer for the Doom total conversion mod that transforms id’s shooter into the original Fallout, and it almost looks too good to be true. Developer Alexander “Red888guns” Berezin is one of the leading developers behind the project. The mod looks to recreate Fallout 1’s Ghoul …
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Digital Extremes is hosting its 10th TennoCon this weekend to celebrate 12 years of Warframe and the beginnings of its new IP, Soulframe. Ahead of the celebration, we saw a new gameplay demo of Soulframe presented by Digital Extremes CEO Steve Sinclair, Soulframe creative director Geoff Crookes, and senior community manager Sarah Asselin, and spoke with two members of the …
Read More »ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. caught the New York Yankees off-guard with a spectacular throw to end the third inning in the Atlanta Braves’ series-opening 7-3 victory Friday night. The All-Star right fielder threw out Jorbit Vivas at third base when Vivas was trying to tag up on a deep fly to the corner in right. “His accuracy is …
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was adapted from David Epstein’s Substack newsletter, “Range Widely,” and references the story “The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene” that he wrote for ProPublica in 2016. That story also became an episode of …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero,” scientists reported Wednesday, when new worlds begin to gel. “We’ve captured a direct glimpse of the hot region …
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Image: The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company announced back in February that Mega Evolutions, the super-powered form changes introduced in Pokémon X and Y, are coming to the Trading Card Game this year. Now, we know these Pokémon are the stars of one of the next card sets launching in September, simply titled Mega Evolution, and we may have our …
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“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For more than 50 years, scientists theorized that an electromagnetic wave could be reflected temporally—not just spatially. Scientists have been unable to confirm the existence of time reflection due to the amount of energy required to …
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to breaking records. On Dec. 24, 2024, Parker made history by flying closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. The probe reached a distance of just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from the solar surface, entering the outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona. During this flyby, …
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