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Air guitar world title returns home to Finland after 25 years

Air guitar world title returns home to Finland after 25 years

OULU, Finland (AP) — Finnish air guitarist Aapo “The Angus” Rautio plucked victory from thin air on Friday night, grabbing the world championship title for his homeland for the first time since 2000. This year’s Air Guitar World Championships reached the climax with a final Friday evening on a square in the western city of Oulu. It’s the 28th edition …

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Astronomers trace massive cosmic explosion back 12 billion years. ‘This is the most distant event where we can directly see light escaping from around stars’

Astronomers trace massive cosmic explosion back 12 billion years. ‘This is the most distant event where we can directly see light escaping from around stars’

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An X-ray jet blasts through wreckage surrounding a supernova. | Credit: NASA/Swift/Cruz deWilde Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in …

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Katee Sackhoff Didn’t Act For Nearly 3 Years After ‘The Mandalorian’

Katee Sackhoff Didn’t Act For Nearly 3 Years After ‘The Mandalorian’

Despite getting to play around in a galaxy far, far away, Katee Sackhoff took some time to find “The Force” again after appearing in the Star Wars franchise. The actress, who starred as Bo-Katan Kryze on The Mandalorian, recently explained how the role “just broke me” and led to a nearly three-year hiatus from onscreen acting roles. “I lost all …

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Mandalorian’s Katee Sackhoff Didn’t Work for 3 Years, Lost Confidence

Mandalorian’s Katee Sackhoff Didn’t Work for 3 Years, Lost Confidence

“The Mandalorian” actor Katee Sackhoff, who starred as Bo-Katan Kryze in the “Star Wars” show, has opened up about the struggles she had playing the character and finding work in the last few years. On a recent episode of her podcast, “The Sackhoff Show,” she discussed with her former “Battlestar Galactica” co-star Tahmoh Penikett how playing Bo-Katan on “The Mandalorian” …

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Obsession, blackmail and Instagram: inside Lurker, the year’s most compelling thriller | Thrillers

Obsession, blackmail and Instagram: inside Lurker, the year’s most compelling thriller | Thrillers

If Tom Ripley lived in LA in 2018 and was really into lo-fi bedroom pop, he might look something like the main character of Lurker. The debut feature from Alex Russell, The Bear and Beef writer-producer, is an elegantly creepy thriller about one super-fan’s scheme to become close to his musical idol, transposing author Patricia Highsmith’s “two-man theme” into a …

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Bungie CEO Pete Parsons steps down, following years of criticism, layoffs, and that infamous classic car collection

Bungie CEO Pete Parsons steps down, following years of criticism, layoffs, and that infamous classic car collection

Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has stepped down from his position after over two decades at the studio. Parsons has been much-criticised by fans and employees alike in recent years, in particular following multiple rounds of layoffs at the studio. In a public statement, Parsons said he’s “decided to pass the torch” – an ironic use of words when Bungie has …

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YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

YouTube is celebrating 10 years of its YouTube Music app on Thursday with the launch of new features that bring it closer to rival Spotify and others. The app will now include “Taste Match” playlists, which are playlists that combine multiple users’ overlapping interests, similar to Spotify Blend. The app will also start notifying users of upcoming releases, merch, and …

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They Filmed a Star Dying for 130 Years — The Astonishing Truth Behind Its Final Moments

They Filmed a Star Dying for 130 Years — The Astonishing Truth Behind Its Final Moments

Astronomers have directly observed the transformation of a dying star over a span of 130 years, marking one of the most extraordinary long-term studies in stellar astrophysics. The results, published in The Astrophysical Journal in August 2025, focus on the planetary nebula IC 418, also known as the spirograph nebula. Researchers documented a dramatic rise in the temperature of the central …

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After a few chilly years, the real estate market is looking a little warmer : NPR

After a few chilly years, the real estate market is looking a little warmer : NPR

An aerial view of single family homes earlier this month in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America After mortgage rates shot up three years ago, the housing market slowed. And the newest numbers from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show only a glint of improvement: Sales of existing homes rose …

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