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Gaming🇺🇸 US
GameSpotEN

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s First DLC Is Out Now, Honors A Real Soldier Who Sustained Gruesome Injuries

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 released today, October 23, and the game's first DLC pack is available now. In keeping with Call of Duty tradition, the day-one DLC is a Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) pack , with proceeds going to Activision's charity that supports military veterans find new jobs after they leave the service. The CODE Valor Pack adds the real-l

Technology🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

IATSE Names Video Engineer Jillian Arnold First Labor and Technology Officer

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has become the latest entertainment organization to appoint a technology chief, naming video engineer Jillian Arnold as the union’s first labor and technology intelligence officer. In this role, Arnold will shepherd how IATSE navigates new technologies and their impact on the organization’s entertainme

World🇮🇱 IL
The Jerusalem PostEN

First Russian diesel from Putin-Trump deal heading for US, data shows

<img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_2813,w_5000/743315' alt='A drone view shows the Russian-flagged tanker Bratsk, which is under U.S. sanctions for links to the Russian state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot, near the Baniyas oil terminal, in Baniyas, Syria, April 8, 2026. (photo cred

Technology🇺🇸 US
The VergeEN

The first broken iPhone Duos are here

The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar spot on all of them: Some kind of problem shows up on the inner screen along the hinge and a strange […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Ti West’s New Short ‘Remnants’ Is the First Fully Immersive Apple Horror Film. What Does It Say About the Future of Movies?

As I looked up, raindrops fell directly into my eyes, sending a chill tingling up my shirt. I felt cold and damp. But I shouldn’t have, because in reality I was sitting in an anonymous conference room in Apple’s midtown offices. The sensation came midway through Ti West’s newest film, “Remnants,” a 27-minute chiller designed […]

Gaming🇺🇸 US
PlayStation BlogEN

Share of the Week: 007 First Light

Last week, we asked you explore the new Photo Mode in 007 First Light using #PSshare #PSBlog for a chance to be featured. Here are this week’s highlights: call_me_xavii shared Bond blasting at enemies with his Aston Martin WildJogurt shared a turtleneck-wearing Bond receiving mission orders lucaslu_ckli shared a stylist look at James’ Aston Martin […]

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
DeadlineEN

Dylan Douglas’ Movie Debut ‘The Hit On Hitler’ Heads To AFM With Bleiberg, First Look

EXCLUSIVE: Bleiberg Entertainment has acquired international rights to historical crime thriller The Hit on Hitler: Mobsters vs. Nazis, starring Michael Douglas’ son Dylan Douglas in his feature debut. Currently in post-production, the film will be presented to international distributors at the upcoming American Film Market in Lost Angeles in November. Based

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Lara Croft’s Inaugural Voice Actor Shelley Blond Recalls First Time She Saw ‘Tomb Raider’ Character: ‘I Thought She Was Very Sexy and Very Ballsy’

It’s been thirty years since Lara Croft was unleashed on the world via the hit video game “Tomb Raider.” Released first in Europe, on Oct. 24, 1996, for the Sega Saturn, the title broke the rules in every way: an action-packed video game for adults with a female lead player character. With her double handguns, […]

Climate🇬🇧 GB
The GuardianEN

Severe flooding in eastern Spain and UK hit by first named storm of winter

<p>Storm Adam brings torrential rain to Valencia, Alicante and Balearic Islands, as Storm Austen strikes England and Wales</p><p>Storm Adam brought torrential rain to eastern Spain earlier this week. In Pego, Alicante, 632mm fell in 36 hours, with 430mm of this falling in just six hours, while the Valencian town of Olivia received 600mm in 24 hours.</p><p>Th

Technology🇺🇸 US
The VergeEN

Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for "greater precision, consistency and control," according to an […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Laika’s First PG-13 Film, Brad Bird’s Neo-Noir and an Alzheimer’s Memoir: Animation’s Revolution Isn’t for Kids

The MPA gave “Wildwood” a PG-13 for “strong fantasy violence/bloody images, thematic material, suicide-related material, brief partial nudity and language,” which is a mouthful for any movie and an especially wild one for a stop-motion picture about a girl hunting for her kidnapped baby brother. It’s the first PG-13 in Laika’s 17 years as a […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Sony Pictures TV Signs Content Creator Thea Von Engelbrechten to First-Look Deal, Launches Animated Microdrama ‘Hazelwood’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Sony Pictures Television has sealed a multiyear, first-look deal with content creator Thea Von Engelbrechten, who’s behind the popular “Moletown Drama” social platforms — which boast 2.5 million TikTok followers and 1 million Instagram followers. As part of the deal, Sony has the first-look rights to develop and produce original series from Von Engelbrechten

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Chappell Roan Invites Christina Aguilera for ‘Coffee,’ and Fully Manages ‘Expectations,’ in First Night of Benefits at L.A.’s Shrine: Concert Review

It’s hard to single out any one song as the “secret weapon” of Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”; as the best pop debut of the 2020s, the entire album was pretty weaponized. But the ballad “Coffee” certainly counts as a sleeper — and Roan was not sleeping on it when […]

World🇦🇪 AE
The NationalEN

France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda after patient dies

France reported the first human case ⁠of the Shamonda virus usually found in livestock on Thursday in a hospital patient who died, though authorities said there was no risk to the general population. It is suspected that the victim was bitten ⁠by a midge carrying the virus in eastern France where it had circulated among animals this spring ​and ⁠summer, the

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