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As Video-Game Media Struggles, Star YouTuber Launches New Outlet  Bloomberg Source link

Micheal Ward, the BAFTA-winning star of “Top Boy,” “Small Axe” and “Eddington,” has been charged with rape and sexual assault. The 27-year old has been charged with two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault by the Metropolitan Police, according to the BBC. Variety has reached out to Ward’s reps for comment. The alleged offenses relate to one …

A lot of people swear by Star Wars Outlaws these days, but that doesn’t change the fact that the game was a colossal flop upon launch. Embattled Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot recently commented on the catastrophic open world outing, admitting that it failed to meet expectations, and blaming its underperformance on the “choppy” nature of the Star Wars brand overall. …

The red supergiant Betelgeuse likely has a companion star, astronomers have confirmed. Long theorized to share an orbit with Betelgeuse — an extremely bright star that may go supernova in the next few thousand years — a sun-size companion star has finally appeared in unique observations taken with the Gemini North telescope high on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. If confirmed, the …

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star cluster in a giant elliptical galaxy. Just a few years after its 1990 launch, Hubble discovered that galaxies throughout the …

Hulk Hogan between matches during WrestleMania in Los Angeles in 2005. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris Carlson/AP Hulk Hogan, one of the biggest stars of professional wrestling, has died. The police and fire departments in Clearwater, Florida, put out a statement stating they responded to a medical call for a cardiac arrest this morning. Hogan was pronounced dead …

Anne Burrell, the Food Network chef beloved for her wit and talent in the kitchen, died by suicide last month after being found unresponsive in her Brooklyn home, New York officials said Thursday. The cause of death was confirmed by New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, citing acute intoxication from multiple substances. Without identifying Burrell, the fire …

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A century-old hypothesis that Betelgeuse, the 10th brightest star in our night sky, is orbited by a very close companion star was proved true by a team of astrophysicists led by a scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in the paper “Probable Direct Imaging Discovery of the Stellar …

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the Université de Montréal has achieved the most precise study to date of the L 98-59 planetary system, and confirmed the existence of a fifth planet in the star’s habitable zone, where conditions could allow liquid water to exist. Volcanic planets, a sub-Earth, and a water world Charles …