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Scary Movie 6 reviews split over jokes but praise surprise cameos

Scary Movie 6 brings the Wayans family back after 25 years. Directed by Michael Tiddes and written by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans and Rick Alvarez, the film is being billed as a legacy sequel to the first two entries. Reviews have been decidedly negative, with

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Sydney, Cairns and Uluru: a 12-day route through Australia

Australia stretches from twinkling harbour cities to desert monoliths and reef-fringed coastlines. For many British travellers the problem is fitting those iconic stops into a single trip without endless planning or overspending. Book a multi-city trip with Qantas and you can unlock discounted Qantas Explorer fares to more than 45

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Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition coming to Switch 2 on Aug. 28, 2026

Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, which ran poorly for some players at last year’s Gamescom and prompted publisher restrictions on footage, has a Switch 2 release date after a delay for polish. FromSoftware and Bandai Namco say the port will arrive on August 28, 2026, roughly 14 months after the

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All Good Things: Ryan Gosling Thriller Based on a True Crime

All Good Things, a 2010 thriller starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst and directed by Andrew Jarecki, takes its story from a chilling real-life case. The screenplay by Marcus Hinchey and Marc Smerling drew inspiration from the crimes tied to real estate heir Robert Durst, and the film tracks a

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I wore the Oura Ring 5 for 24 hours and it fixes my Ring 4 problem

I wore the Oura Ring 5 for a day, and the most obvious change is its size: it's visibly smaller and lighter than the Oura Ring 4. The new design is about 40% smaller and thinner, and Oura also advertises one extra day of battery life. To achieve

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Your Assignment Has Been Made

Your assignment has been made. Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for. You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that

Sports

Man Utd extend veteran goalkeeper Tom Heaton for one year

Manchester United have confirmed that goalkeeper Tom Heaton has signed a one-year contract extension and will remain with the first-team squad. The 40-year-old rejoined his boyhood club in 2021 and will continue at Old Trafford for the upcoming campaign. Heaton has been praised for his influence behind the scenes, acting

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The 20 best songs about football, from Rod Stewart to The Fall

This selection runs from Rod Stewart's Touchline (2021), a sentimental song about fathers, sons and the touchline, through a wide range of styles — pop, punk, indie, rap and dub — to The Fall's Kicker Conspiracy (1983) at number one. Early- and mid-list highlights include Sultans of Ping

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Chase Infiniti's custom Mejuri necklace is one-of-a-kind; her earrings under $200

Chase Infiniti won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Drama Series at the 2026 Gotham TV Awards for her role in The Testaments, wearing a custom pink Louis Vuitton gown with a matching silk tulle and organza stole. Her Mejuri necklace was made just for her: a 9.36-carat Brazilian green

Tech

Computex excess feels tone-deaf as hardware prices climb

Computex has always indulged in excess: exotic GPU materials, lavish gaming rigs and enough RGB lighting to be a spectacle. This year the extravagance sits oddly beside the reality of rising prices in the gaming hardware market, making some of the show’s flash feel out of step with what

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Nihon Falcom's Ys Origin is an JRPG gem for lovers of action RPGs

Ys Origin, released in 2006 for Windows PC, was designed as a starting point for Nihon Falcom’s long-running series and has since become a cult classic. It arrived 19 years after the original Ys and was localized for the West by XSEED Games six years later; it is now

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Elsie Hewitt shows Pete Davidson what he's missing and more star snaps

Elsie Hewitt is all smiles while picnicking in the park. Jennifer Lopez hops on a ride on the subway in NYC, and Lizzo flaunts her figure while out on the beach. Michael C. Hall and Uma Thurman relax between takes on the set of "Dexter: Resurrection" in NYC.

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I never change weapons in RPGs, and I've made Josh Sawyer's life hell

I get specific images in my head of who I'm playing and how I'm playing them. It'll be a cold day in hell before you catch me using anything but a revolver and light armour in New Vegas, or dual flintlock pistols (and light

Tech

CRN SIG Seminar, 17 June 2026

The CRN SIG Seminar is scheduled for 17 June 2026 and will include a discussion on ASTRA Whitepapers. Details TBA. Meeting connection: Join the Meeting. crn, sig, seminar, astra, whitepapers, 17 june, 2026, meeting, meeting connection, details tba

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Elden Ring Tarnished Edition gets Nintendo Switch 2 release date

Bandai Namco announced Thursday that Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition will arrive on Nintendo Switch 2 on Aug. 28. The release brings the 2022 open-world action-RPG to the console in its complete form, bundling the base game with the 2024 expansion Shadow of the Erdtree. Switch 2 owners will also get

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Daniel Radcliffe's Vietnam War Thriller Casts Jonathan Groff

Daniel Radcliffe's independent Vietnam War thriller Trust the Man has cast Jonathan Groff to star opposite him. The project comes from writer-director Will Graham, co-showrunner of Amazon's Daisy Jones & the Six, and is being produced through his Invitation Media banner alongside Tonia Davis and Max

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Apex Group Joins Tokenized Real Estate Fund on Goldman Sachs Platform

Apex Group is providing fund management services for a tokenized real estate fund whose shares are being issued on Goldman Sachs’ Digital Asset Platform (GS DAP). The vehicle was developed with Goldman Sachs alongside digital asset exchange Archax, real estate manager LRC Group and interoperability provider Ownera. Apex’s global

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Which Taylor Sheridan World Do You Belong In?

A ten-question quiz places you in one of four Taylor Sheridan worlds: Yellowstone, Landman, Tulsa King, or Mayor of Kingstown. Sheridan’s settings are brutal and complicated, built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. He doesn’t write heroes so much as people who do what they have

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How to watch Mexico vs Serbia anywhere with a VPN

Mexico and Serbia meet in a friendly that will kick off at 5 Jun 2026, 03:00. If you run into geo-restrictions while travelling or want to access a stream from another country, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) can change your virtual location and secure your connection so you can

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2026 World Cup's Carbon Footprint Could Be Double Qatar's

The 2026 FIFA World Cup, set to feature 48 teams, 104 matches and 16 host cities across North America, could produce about 7.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, an independent assessment by Greenly estimates—more than double the official emissions reported for the 2022 tournament in Qatar and

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Editors' Father's Day book picks

Editors have put together a Father's Day reading list with something for every dad: a witty LitRPG adventure, sports history, cookbooks, children's stories and classic fiction. Highlights include Dungeon Crawler Carl, a creative tale about a vet and a cat competing in an intergalactic game show;

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$649 Asus ROG Strix XG34WCDG ultrawide is the cheapest it's ever been

Many PC components and peripherals remain overpriced, especially DRAM and SSDs, but OLED monitors are bucking that trend. The Asus ROG Strix XG34WCDG is currently available for $649 on Amazon, the lowest price yet and $350 below its launch MSRP. The XG34WCDG is a lower‑priced counterpart to the ROG

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Should You Outsource Your Morning Routine to a Chatbot?

“I let A.I. decide my morning routine — here’s how it’s going,” the influencer Grace Lemire tells the camera, yawning and stretching. She inputs parameters into the Anthropic chatbot Claude — she calls her version Claudia — and it replies with a schedule: 7 — wake up; 7:15 — skincare &

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Lego reveals biggest set ever, the 12,060-piece Sagrada Família

Clear some shelf space: The Lego Company revealed its biggest set ever, the 12,060-piece Lego Architecture Sagrada Família. It outpaces the previous record-holder by more than 1,000 pieces and makes the recently revealed The Lord of the Rings: Minas Tirith set look small by comparison. Part of the

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Ace Combat 8 channels Top Gun: Maverick's jet-powered thrills

2019's Ace Combat 7 felt like the breakthrough the series needed, and Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve leans into that momentum by channeling Top Gun: Maverick's jet-powered spectacle. I spent time with the opening missions and came away impressed by a clearer onboarding process and