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Love it or hate it, you have to admit Temu had a banger year. Launched in late 2022, the Chinese-owned ecommerce site, known for selling a vast array of astonishingly affordable goods, took only two years to become a household name in the…

How so?One example is the early vampires from Balkan and Slavic lore very often didn't drink blood. They would strangle their victims or fornicate with their victims to death. If they did drink blood, very often it was from the chest. It…

From Inside Out 2 to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, all but one of the 10 highest-grossing movies of 2024 were sequels (Wicked was the only outlier). Which really shouldn’t surprise anyone. For decades, the top of the box office has been ruled by…

Games with Black leads and characters were derided as forced. Female characters deemed unattractive or masculine were suffering from “DEI chin.” Dragon Age: The Veilguard, was criticized by far-right trolls for its customization options,…

In games, as in film, Indiana Jones has had a rough patch. The intrepid archaeologist's recent big-screen exploits have met with lukewarm reception at best, with 2008's The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and 2023's The Dial of Destiny both…

Lauren Goode: I don't remember that.Zoë Schiffer: I think she did.Michael Calore: I don't know why everybody's looking at me.Lauren Goode: Yeah. Mike, what's your recommendation?Michael Calore: Mine is actually weirdly ties into this…

This unusual situation meant that as internet sleuths worked to discover as much information about him as possible, platforms such as YouTube and Instagram were working to shut down his accounts. X initially shut down Maglione’s account,…

David is one of dozens of “pals” programmed with a backstory, personality, and set of expertise aligned with common user interests, from cooking to yoga and astronomy. Users can use their smartphone to video call or text with a pre-existing…

Every night in the darkest, most depressing depths of the pandemic, one TV show, which I watched over and over, helped get me through. Midnight Diner, a series on Netflix set in a Tokyo restaurant, became a healing balm and a reminder of…

When his eldest son was young, Tyler Slade found himself, “very, very depressed”. His wife was recovering from a difficult ­pregnancy, and he was struggling at work.“I was really low,” he says, “and I went AWOL for a few days. I got…