The Max Holloway point down to the canvas at closing moments of a fight has become an iconic and popularized move in the MMA world. Unfortunately, not every fighter is Max Holloway, as was shown in Louisiana on Saturday night. During Saturday’s American Kombat Alliance 48 event in Marksville, Byron Walker faced Glen Norman in an amateur welterweight bout. Norman …
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SpaceX just fired up its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight. The company conducted a “static fire” trial with the 171-foot-tall (52 meters) Starship upper stage at its Starbase site in South Texas on Thursday, briefly igniting one of the vehicle’s six Raptor engines. “Starship single-engine static fire demonstrating …
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Cutting corners: Receiving a layoff notice is always hard, but the way the message is delivered can make the experience even more painful. The latest example: Atlassian’s termination notification to 150 employees through a pre-recorded video. The restructuring not only highlights concerns about impersonal layoff announcements but also reflects the increasing influence of AI on jobs in the technology industry. …
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A new telescope built to to track fast-moving space objects caught a comet from beyond the solar system moving across the sky — before anyone even knew it was there. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently captured rare footage of the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS — only the third interstellar object discovered. What’s more impressive: The observatory …
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If you had grown up with the original “Naked Gun” trilogy (1988-1994) like writer/director Akiva Schaffer, chances are you, too, would’ve thought a 2025 franchise reboot was a horrible idea. Schaffer, 47, watched the original “Naked Gun” countless times in middle and high school, but his “trepidation and pessimism” when he got a call about the remake went beyond the …
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TikToker Jamie Duff (@duffdiy) posted a video detailing his conversion of an old work van into an impressive, off-grid tiny home. One commenter said they “would happily live in this right now.” @duffdiy The full tour of my new Tiny Home 🚛🛠️ #tinyhome #diy #vanconversion #ireland #fyp ♬ original sound – nicole Duff said there was quite a learning curve …
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By naming its game world “Philabieldia,” did a Japanese video game developer just give a shoutout to the real-life city of Philadelphia? That’s how some local gamers are interpreting a recent trailer. Nintendo held a Nintendo Direct event Thursday, announcing several new games coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 console from partner developers. And one game by Square Enix, “The …
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SpaceX launched its eleventh operational astronaut mission for NASA today (Aug. 1), sending the four Crew-11 astronauts on a flight toward the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1543 GMT) today. Atop the rocket was the company’s Crew Dragon Endeavour …
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Some pet parents must have felt the glare from their dogs when they show some love to other animals. To provide the perfect example, this Instagram video shows how a Golden Retriever named Daisy becomes “jealous.” Her owner captures a few moments where the furbaby gives her a major side-eye whenever the latter pets her sibling. In the caption, the …
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Just hours after the long-awaited release of her new single, “The Subway,” Chappell Roan has shared a music video for the song, a ballad she performed for the first time more than a year ago, at the 2024 Governors Ball festival. The clip, directed by Amber Grace Johnson (Jorja Smith, FKA Twigs), is a New York City-themed fantasy that features the singer …
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