Emma Stone wins her second Best Actress Oscar for 'Poor Things'
400+Mashable / 3h
Between delivering exquisite physical comedy and threatening to punch a baby, Emma Stone's performance in Poor Things has earned her her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Stone played the lead role of Bella Baxter, a resurrected woman with a child's brain, in Yorgos Lanthimos' critically acclaimed film. Prior to the Oscars, she also won the Golden Globe , BAFTA , and Critics' Choice Award fo
Godzilla Minus One Just Made Kaiju History With Its Oscar Win
500+Gizmodo / 5h
Godzilla is a titan of moviemaking, but now he’s toppled his loftiest goal yet: award season. Just announced at the 2024 Academy Awards, Godzilla Minus One —io9's favorite movie of 2023 —has won the Oscar for best VFX . Read more...
Millie Bobby Brown's new Netflix movie Damsel is a dud – watch these 3 great fantasy movies instead
70TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 21h
Millie Bobby Brown's latest Netflix venture Damsel, in which the Stranger Things' actor faces a fiery showdown with a dragon , is proving to be truly in distress after early reviews call it a flop. The new fantasy, adventure film currently has 48 reviews from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, totaling a subpar score of just 58% – audience reviews are not yet in as the movie only just started streaming
A 5-year subscription to this powerful VPN is on sale for under £40
Mashable / 29min
TL;DR : A five-year subscription to AdGuard VPN is on sale for £31.17, saving you 89% on list price. Unless you're living completely off the grid, we all have an online presence. And with that presence, there comes risk and vulnerability. If you don't already have a virtual private network (VPN), it should shoot to the top of your list. Using a VPN helps keep you safer online and less vulnerable
24 of the best MIT courses you can take online for free
Mashable / 29min
TL;DR: Find a wide range of free online courses from MIT on edX. Lovers of learning should direct their attention to edX , because you can find a wide range of free online courses from some of the most famous educational institutions in the world. And that includes MIT. To help you find the best free courses for you, we have checked out everything on offer from MIT and highlighted a selection of
Oppenheimer ruled 2024 Oscars as Apple TV+ and Netflix were nearly shut out
Engadget / 35min
Despite combining for 32 nominations , Netflix and Apple TV+ were nearly shut out of of the 2024 Oscars, with Netflix winning a single award for Wes Anderson's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Best Live Action Short Film). The big surprise was Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+) not gaining a single statue, notably Lily Gladstone losing the Best Actress prize to Poor Thing
'Sew Torn' review: 'Pushing Daisies' meets 'Run Lola Run'
Mashable / 43min
Cozy crime is a subgenre in which intriguing tales of murder boast a jaunty aesthetic that's irreverently twee. Think Only Murders in the Building, with its foolhardy amateur sleuths alternately investigating homicide and bickering over their podcast's production. Think Pushing Daisies , a candy-colored mystery series about a lovelorn pie-maker who can literally raise the dead to solve their murd
‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin raises $24M as it attains full banking license
36TechCrunch / 1h
Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank, an API-driven banking-as-a-service platform just obtained a banking license, roughly one year after starting the application process. This means it has been given the green light from the UK’s financial services regulators, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), to exit ‘mobilization’ and
Rivian’s big bet, Waymo goes driverless in Austin and the Chevy Blazer EV returns
27TechCrunch / 3h
TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This week, it was all about Rivian […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For
'Oppenheimer' wins Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars
200+Mashable / 3h
The name on everybody's lips at the 96th Academy Awards was Oppenheimer . Christopher Nolan's historical drama took home the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as six other awards: Best Director (Nolan) , Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) , Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.) , Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography. The Oscar win marks the end of a dominant awards season fo
Here Are All the 2024 Oscar Winners
27Gizmodo / 3h
After enduring the pandemic and a pair of industry-stopping strikes, Hollywood seemed extra jazzed about celebrating itself at this year’s Oscars . While there weren’t a ton of genre movies on the ballot—truly, last year’s Everything Everywhere All at Once sweep still feels rather validating—a few did find their way to… Read more...
Christopher Nolan wins his first Best Director Oscar for 'Oppenheimer'
56Mashable / 3h
Christopher Nolan fans, the time has finally come: Nolan has won his first-ever Best Director Oscar for Oppenheimer . Nolan has been nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards over the course of his career, including Best Director for Dunkirk ; Best Original Screenplay for Memento and Inception ; Best Adapted Screenplay for Oppenheimer ; and Best Picture for Oppenheimer , Dunkirk , and Incepti
John Mulaney's 'Field of Dreams' Oscars bit proves he should've hosted
20Mashable / 3h
Before presenting the award for Best Sound at the 2024 Oscars comedian John Mulaney explained, in rapid-fire detail, the nonsensical plot of Field of Dreams . For those who don't remember the iconic film, in Mulaney's words, "He mows done corn and then there is a field and then he's like, 'I'm going to watch ghosts play baseball.' And the bank is like, 'You want to pay your mortgage?' And he's li
Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor for 'Oppenheimer' at the 2024 Oscars
Mashable / 3h
Cillian Murphy has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his leading role in Oppenheimer . Murphy was tasked with shouldering Christopher Nolan's three-hour-long drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Playing a historical figure over the course of his life is surefire catnip for the Academy Awards, but Murphy's performance is built less on grandiose showboating than
Wordle today: Here's the answer and hints for March 11
Mashable / 3h
Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle . As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for March 11's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. Where did Wordle c
Watch Billie Eilish and 'Barbie' win Best Original Song for 'What Was I Made For' at the 2024 Oscars
Mashable / 4h
"What Was I Made For," Billie Eilish's existential Barbie single, has won the Academy Award for Best Original song. The win marks the second Oscar for Eilish and her brother/co-writer Finneas O'Connell, who also won in 2022 for their haunting Bond theme "No Time to Die." (In a perfect world, they would also have at least been nominated for boy band gold "Nobody Like U" from Pixar's Turning Red .)
Watch Ryan Gosling perform 'I'm Just Ken' at the Oscars
100+Mashable / 4h
Ryan Gosling may not have won Best Supporting Actor at the 96th Academy Awards , but he certainly won over the crowd with his lively rendition of Barbie 's rock-meets-dream ballet banger "I'm Just Ken." Gosling took to the stage with 65 male dancers to perform the Academy Award-nominated tune, which is nominated alongside another Barbie song, Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For." Other nominees
The Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable Mess
Wired / 4h
Apparent manipulations to an official image of the Princess of Wales led wire services to issue a “kill notification” on the photo.
Wes Anderson wins his first-ever Oscar for 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar'
Mashable / 4h
Lauded writer-director Wes Anderson has finally won his first Oscar — but not for the category you might expect. Instead of taking home an Academy Award in a category where he's often picked up a nomination, like Best Screenplay, Anderson won for Best Live Action Short Film at the 2024 Academy Awards. Traditionally, this category honors up-and-coming filmmakers, making Anderson a large exception.
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt bring their Barbenheimer beef to the Oscars stage
100+Mashable / 4h
Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling exchanged Barbenheimer barbs while presenting a tribute to 2023's best stunt performances at the 2024 Oscars . The two stars played the titular Barbenheimer 's other halves: Oppenheimer's Kitty and Barbie's Ken. SEE ALSO: The cult of Barbenheimer: In the pursuit of saving cinema, did we all lose our minds? Before presenting the montage, Gosling said, "I'm happy that w
NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for March 11
Mashable / 4h
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the e
Once India's most valuable start-up, Byju is now fighting to survive
26BBC News / 4h
The tech giant is teetering on the precipice after investors voted to out its CEO last month.
Watch Robert Downey Jr. win his first Oscar for 'Oppenheimer'
300+Mashable / 5h
Robert Downey Jr. has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Academy Awards for his role in Oppenheimer , the first Oscar for Christopher Nolan's latest film. In Oppenheimer , Downey Jr. played Lewis Strauss, the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission who masterminded the hearing that revoked J. Robert Oppenheimer's (Cillian Murphy) security clearance. The past few months ha
Quordle today – hints and answers for Monday, March 11 (game #777)
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 5h
It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it's fun, but also difficult. What's more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keep
Celebrities wear red pins in support of Palestine at the Oscars amid protest outside the venue
28Mashable / 5h
All eyes are on the Oscars tonight, and many are using the opportunity to advocate for a ceasefire and draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid ongoing protests. As the stars hit the red carpet, a large crowd gathered outside the Dolby Theatre to protest in support of Palestine, causing a traffic jam near the venue. SEE ALSO: Here's why celebs might sport red buttons on the Oscars r
Watch Da'Vine Joy Randolph win an Oscar for 'The Holdovers'
200+Mashable / 5h
If any category this award season seemed locked, it was Best Supporting Actress. Da'Vine Joy Randolph has absolutely dominated, winning a cascade of critics' guild honors — including the Critics Choice Award — as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA . And tonight, she has won her first Academy Award. Tonight's win was well-deserved and puts Randolph in a company of only 10 other Black women who have
All the winners from the 2024 Oscars
Mashable / 6h
Welcome to Oscar night! The 96th Annual Academy Awards has arrived to honor the very best of 2023 cinema , ranging from animated wonders like Nimona and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to live-action hits like Poor Things , The Holdovers , and Oppenheimer , the last of which boasts a whopping 13 nominations. But who will win big on Hollywood's biggest night? Mashable will be reporting live, c
Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok
80Engadget / 8h
Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard who stepped down at the end of last year, is apparently interested in buying TikTok as a new bill in the US threatens to ban the app or force its sale. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal , Kotick mentioned the idea of partnering on such a purchase to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others seated with him at a conference dinner last week,
Amtrak boosts Northeast Regional service by more than a million seats annually
100+The Points Guy / 9h
Amtrak is adding more trains to its schedule along the busy Northeast Corridor, owing to major strides in ridership after pandemic setbacks between 2020 and 2022. This week the rail operator launched four additional weekday round trips between Moynihan Train Hall at New York Penn Station and Union Station in Washington, D.C. It’ll mean more trains and more seats between the two major East Coast h
Fixing the Climate Does Not Require Population Collapse
Next Big Future / 9h
There is a strange kind of logical error where people have a fear of climate change choose depopulation as one of the first solutions. Firstly what is the climate change problem? There are climate models on supercomputers that predict temperature increase of 2-8 degrees by 2100. They stop right there and do not question the ... Read more
How Park Hyatt St. Kitts Delivered and Disappointed: A Candid Review
View from the Wing / 9h
I've been meaning to visit the Park Hyatt St. Kitts for years . I've made bookings in the past but never made the trip happen. So I was excited to finally visit over Presidents' Day weekend. I booked a standard room on points and confirmed a suite upgrade. Then I was fortunate to have a further upgrade to a Deluxe Pool Suite. Continue reading ...
Furiosa is a 15-Year Journey Through Its Heroine's Life
20Gizmodo / 10h
Mad Max: Fury Road was a revelation when it released in 2015, and a lot of that can be owed to Charlize Theron’s Furiosa . Even with Max Rocktansky getting top billing, it’s more her movie than his, and we’ree now primed to get an origin story with the upcoming Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga . Read more...
Guide to Etihad Guest: Redeem reduced GuestSeat fares, upgrade to The Residence and more
100+The Points Guy / 10h
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with the latest information. Though Etihad is not part of the three major airline alliances — SkyTeam, Oneworld and Star Alliance — the carrier has individual partnerships, making its loyalty program valuable for award redemptions. Plus, its luxurious three-room suite known as The Residence on its A380 aircraft is a dream-worthy splurge f
AMD has plans to support a little known chip for at least another 16 years — and no, it is neither a Ryzen, nor a Threadripper or an Epyc CPU
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
Spartan UltraScale+ is the latest addition to AMD's extensive portfolio of cost-optimized Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and adaptive SoCs. It has been introduced to replace the Xilinx Spartan 6 and Spartan 7 lines. The new Spartan UltraScale+ devices are designed for a wide range of I/O-intensive applications at the edge. AMD says its latest FPGAs can deliver up to 30 percent lower total
How Do Heat Pumps Work?
37Wired / 10h
Our in-house physics whiz explains how a heat pump can warm your home without burning fossil fuels.
Open Channel: Tell Us Your Akira Toriyama Memories
Gizmodo / 10h
The world was shocked to learn on Thursday night to learn that Akira Toriyama , creator of the eternally longlasting Dragon Ball franchise, had passed away at the age of 68. Read more...
Housing Price Collapses With Working Age Population Collapse
Next Big Future / 11h
Japan’s overall population fell from 128.1 million in 2010 to 122 million today but Japan’s working age population peaked in 1995. If we discount the economic bubble then the real estate collapse from the 1990s to today correlates with the working age population collapse. It is also the aging of the population. The median age ... Read more
This Can’t Be Real: Jealous Wife Confronts Bikini-Clad Passenger For Flirting With Her Husband
View from the Wing / 11h
This is a pretty shocking altercation in first class. A woman in a bikini prances onto the plane. She must violate every airline appearance standard, but she's been allowed to board. And she gets into a fight with the woman in the row behind her, because the scantily clad passenger appeared a little too sexy to that woman's husband. In fact, the wife threw a blanket on the passenger in the bikini
Nintendo officially confirms another 'Super Mario Bros.' movie is on the way
Mashable / 11h
No surprise here, but one of the biggest animated movies of all time is getting a sequel. The only sort of interesting part is that the news was confirmed by Nintendo themselves. The company's official account on X (formerly Twitter) posted a personal message purportedly from Super Mario Bros. creator Shigeru Miyamoto confirming that a second animated Mario movie would come to theaters worldwide
Sleek and modern, yet affordable: A review of Universal’s Aventura Hotel
The Points Guy / 11h
[circuit type=review circuit_id=”20420173408″] If you are planning a Universal Orlando vacation, there are several good reasons for staying in one of Universal’s official hotels . Not only are you closer, but you also have the privilege of getting into the parks earlier than non-resort guests — which can make a big difference in your day. Of the eight on-site hotels you can choose from, Universal
Shrek and Spider-Man are Making Their Way Back to Theaters
Gizmodo / 11h
Get ready for some good ol’ 2000s nostalgia during the spring and summer movie season. From April to June, Dreamworks’ Shrek 2 and Sony’s live-action Spider-Man movies are set to return to theaters. Read more...
The Guardian Building in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Music, Arts & Literature / 11h
trb752 : Originally called the Union Trust Building. It has 40 floors and serves as county headquarters. Opened in March 1929. Architect: Wirt C. Rowland Photographs by Leandro Martins Photography. Used with permission.
The Most Underrated, Underdiscussed Rewards Card For Earning Transferable Points
View from the Wing / 12h
Most of the attention over American Express cards focuses on Platinum, because of benefits like lounge access and all of the statement credits to work through to cover the card's cost. But I only endorse putting airfare spending on that card. Otherwise you earn just a single point per dollar spent, and you almost never want to earn only one point per dollar. Continue reading ...
Capital One Venture X Business 300K Bonus Miles Offer (Ending Soon)
200+One Mile at a Time / 12h
Link: Apply now for the Capital One Venture X Business ( Rates & Fees ) The Capital One Venture X Business is Capital One’s lucrative business card. Several weeks ago, we saw a limited time welcome offer rolled out on the card. I wanted to post a reminder that this offer will be pulled on Monday, March 11, 2024, so if you want to apply, this is the time to do so. The bonus on this card is jaw-dro
'Desert Road' review: A time-travel thriller unlike any you've seen before
Mashable / 12h
Do you ever feel hopelessly stuck? Like no matter what you do, you keep ending up in the same shitty place? That's the conundrum facing the heroine of Desert Road . After crashing her car in a remote desert, no matter what Clare Devoir (Kristine Froseth) does, she ends up back where she started. The pieces don’t fit together. Time is wimey. Sometimes the few folks she comes across seem to know he
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD get Switch release dates
36Engadget / 12h
Nintendo packed a whole bunch of news into Mario Day this year, including the announcement of release dates for two classics that have been modernized for the Switch: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD . Both titles were announced last fall during Nintendo Direct. Paper Mario will drop first, on May 23, followed by Luigi’s Mansion on June 27, but both are available for p
The watchOS 10.4 update promises to fix the 'ghost touch' issue on the Apple Watch
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
If you've noticed 'ghost touches' on your Apple Watch 9 or Apple Watch Ultra 2 – where something happens on the watch without you touching the screen – installing the latest watchOS 10.4 update should be enough to fix the problem for you. As per the release notes for the update (via Wccftech ), the watchOS 10.4 update fixes an issue "that causes some users to experience false touches on the displ
Instagram is copying TikTok, and the strategy is working
76Mashable / 12h
When Instagram releases a new feature that is a direct copy of another app, its users fear the worst. In a 2022 essay for Digital Trends , writer Cristina Alexander lamented the "TikTok-ification of Instagram" because it "takes away the type of content people love most about the platform: photos from friends and family, as well as content based on their interests." "And it’s something I’m just ab
Amex Hilton Honors Surpass Card Review: Gold Status & More
200+One Mile at a Time / 12h
Link: Apply now for the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass ® Card Hotel credit cards are among the most underrated credit cards out there, in my opinion, given the perks that they potentially offer, ranging from free night certificates to elite status . While I’m primarily loyal to Hyatt and Marriott ,
400+Mashable / 3h
Between delivering exquisite physical comedy and threatening to punch a baby, Emma Stone's performance in Poor Things has earned her her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Stone played the lead role of Bella Baxter, a resurrected woman with a child's brain, in Yorgos Lanthimos' critically acclaimed film. Prior to the Oscars, she also won the Golden Globe , BAFTA , and Critics' Choice Award fo
Godzilla Minus One Just Made Kaiju History With Its Oscar Win
500+Gizmodo / 5h
Godzilla is a titan of moviemaking, but now he’s toppled his loftiest goal yet: award season. Just announced at the 2024 Academy Awards, Godzilla Minus One —io9's favorite movie of 2023 —has won the Oscar for best VFX . Read more...
Millie Bobby Brown's new Netflix movie Damsel is a dud – watch these 3 great fantasy movies instead
70TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 21h
Millie Bobby Brown's latest Netflix venture Damsel, in which the Stranger Things' actor faces a fiery showdown with a dragon , is proving to be truly in distress after early reviews call it a flop. The new fantasy, adventure film currently has 48 reviews from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, totaling a subpar score of just 58% – audience reviews are not yet in as the movie only just started streaming
A 5-year subscription to this powerful VPN is on sale for under £40
Mashable / 29min
TL;DR : A five-year subscription to AdGuard VPN is on sale for £31.17, saving you 89% on list price. Unless you're living completely off the grid, we all have an online presence. And with that presence, there comes risk and vulnerability. If you don't already have a virtual private network (VPN), it should shoot to the top of your list. Using a VPN helps keep you safer online and less vulnerable
24 of the best MIT courses you can take online for free
Mashable / 29min
TL;DR: Find a wide range of free online courses from MIT on edX. Lovers of learning should direct their attention to edX , because you can find a wide range of free online courses from some of the most famous educational institutions in the world. And that includes MIT. To help you find the best free courses for you, we have checked out everything on offer from MIT and highlighted a selection of
Oppenheimer ruled 2024 Oscars as Apple TV+ and Netflix were nearly shut out
Engadget / 35min
Despite combining for 32 nominations , Netflix and Apple TV+ were nearly shut out of of the 2024 Oscars, with Netflix winning a single award for Wes Anderson's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Best Live Action Short Film). The big surprise was Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+) not gaining a single statue, notably Lily Gladstone losing the Best Actress prize to Poor Thing
'Sew Torn' review: 'Pushing Daisies' meets 'Run Lola Run'
Mashable / 43min
Cozy crime is a subgenre in which intriguing tales of murder boast a jaunty aesthetic that's irreverently twee. Think Only Murders in the Building, with its foolhardy amateur sleuths alternately investigating homicide and bickering over their podcast's production. Think Pushing Daisies , a candy-colored mystery series about a lovelorn pie-maker who can literally raise the dead to solve their murd
‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin raises $24M as it attains full banking license
36TechCrunch / 1h
Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank, an API-driven banking-as-a-service platform just obtained a banking license, roughly one year after starting the application process. This means it has been given the green light from the UK’s financial services regulators, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), to exit ‘mobilization’ and
Rivian’s big bet, Waymo goes driverless in Austin and the Chevy Blazer EV returns
27TechCrunch / 3h
TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This week, it was all about Rivian […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For
'Oppenheimer' wins Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars
200+Mashable / 3h
The name on everybody's lips at the 96th Academy Awards was Oppenheimer . Christopher Nolan's historical drama took home the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as six other awards: Best Director (Nolan) , Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) , Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.) , Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography. The Oscar win marks the end of a dominant awards season fo
Here Are All the 2024 Oscar Winners
27Gizmodo / 3h
After enduring the pandemic and a pair of industry-stopping strikes, Hollywood seemed extra jazzed about celebrating itself at this year’s Oscars . While there weren’t a ton of genre movies on the ballot—truly, last year’s Everything Everywhere All at Once sweep still feels rather validating—a few did find their way to… Read more...
Christopher Nolan wins his first Best Director Oscar for 'Oppenheimer'
56Mashable / 3h
Christopher Nolan fans, the time has finally come: Nolan has won his first-ever Best Director Oscar for Oppenheimer . Nolan has been nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards over the course of his career, including Best Director for Dunkirk ; Best Original Screenplay for Memento and Inception ; Best Adapted Screenplay for Oppenheimer ; and Best Picture for Oppenheimer , Dunkirk , and Incepti
John Mulaney's 'Field of Dreams' Oscars bit proves he should've hosted
20Mashable / 3h
Before presenting the award for Best Sound at the 2024 Oscars comedian John Mulaney explained, in rapid-fire detail, the nonsensical plot of Field of Dreams . For those who don't remember the iconic film, in Mulaney's words, "He mows done corn and then there is a field and then he's like, 'I'm going to watch ghosts play baseball.' And the bank is like, 'You want to pay your mortgage?' And he's li
Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor for 'Oppenheimer' at the 2024 Oscars
Mashable / 3h
Cillian Murphy has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his leading role in Oppenheimer . Murphy was tasked with shouldering Christopher Nolan's three-hour-long drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Playing a historical figure over the course of his life is surefire catnip for the Academy Awards, but Murphy's performance is built less on grandiose showboating than
Wordle today: Here's the answer and hints for March 11
Mashable / 3h
Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle . As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for March 11's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. Where did Wordle c
Watch Billie Eilish and 'Barbie' win Best Original Song for 'What Was I Made For' at the 2024 Oscars
Mashable / 4h
"What Was I Made For," Billie Eilish's existential Barbie single, has won the Academy Award for Best Original song. The win marks the second Oscar for Eilish and her brother/co-writer Finneas O'Connell, who also won in 2022 for their haunting Bond theme "No Time to Die." (In a perfect world, they would also have at least been nominated for boy band gold "Nobody Like U" from Pixar's Turning Red .)
Watch Ryan Gosling perform 'I'm Just Ken' at the Oscars
100+Mashable / 4h
Ryan Gosling may not have won Best Supporting Actor at the 96th Academy Awards , but he certainly won over the crowd with his lively rendition of Barbie 's rock-meets-dream ballet banger "I'm Just Ken." Gosling took to the stage with 65 male dancers to perform the Academy Award-nominated tune, which is nominated alongside another Barbie song, Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For." Other nominees
The Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable Mess
Wired / 4h
Apparent manipulations to an official image of the Princess of Wales led wire services to issue a “kill notification” on the photo.
Wes Anderson wins his first-ever Oscar for 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar'
Mashable / 4h
Lauded writer-director Wes Anderson has finally won his first Oscar — but not for the category you might expect. Instead of taking home an Academy Award in a category where he's often picked up a nomination, like Best Screenplay, Anderson won for Best Live Action Short Film at the 2024 Academy Awards. Traditionally, this category honors up-and-coming filmmakers, making Anderson a large exception.
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt bring their Barbenheimer beef to the Oscars stage
100+Mashable / 4h
Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling exchanged Barbenheimer barbs while presenting a tribute to 2023's best stunt performances at the 2024 Oscars . The two stars played the titular Barbenheimer 's other halves: Oppenheimer's Kitty and Barbie's Ken. SEE ALSO: The cult of Barbenheimer: In the pursuit of saving cinema, did we all lose our minds? Before presenting the montage, Gosling said, "I'm happy that w
NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for March 11
Mashable / 4h
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the e
Once India's most valuable start-up, Byju is now fighting to survive
26BBC News / 4h
The tech giant is teetering on the precipice after investors voted to out its CEO last month.
Watch Robert Downey Jr. win his first Oscar for 'Oppenheimer'
300+Mashable / 5h
Robert Downey Jr. has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Academy Awards for his role in Oppenheimer , the first Oscar for Christopher Nolan's latest film. In Oppenheimer , Downey Jr. played Lewis Strauss, the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission who masterminded the hearing that revoked J. Robert Oppenheimer's (Cillian Murphy) security clearance. The past few months ha
Quordle today – hints and answers for Monday, March 11 (game #777)
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 5h
It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it's fun, but also difficult. What's more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keep
Celebrities wear red pins in support of Palestine at the Oscars amid protest outside the venue
28Mashable / 5h
All eyes are on the Oscars tonight, and many are using the opportunity to advocate for a ceasefire and draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid ongoing protests. As the stars hit the red carpet, a large crowd gathered outside the Dolby Theatre to protest in support of Palestine, causing a traffic jam near the venue. SEE ALSO: Here's why celebs might sport red buttons on the Oscars r
Watch Da'Vine Joy Randolph win an Oscar for 'The Holdovers'
200+Mashable / 5h
If any category this award season seemed locked, it was Best Supporting Actress. Da'Vine Joy Randolph has absolutely dominated, winning a cascade of critics' guild honors — including the Critics Choice Award — as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA . And tonight, she has won her first Academy Award. Tonight's win was well-deserved and puts Randolph in a company of only 10 other Black women who have
All the winners from the 2024 Oscars
Mashable / 6h
Welcome to Oscar night! The 96th Annual Academy Awards has arrived to honor the very best of 2023 cinema , ranging from animated wonders like Nimona and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to live-action hits like Poor Things , The Holdovers , and Oppenheimer , the last of which boasts a whopping 13 nominations. But who will win big on Hollywood's biggest night? Mashable will be reporting live, c
Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok
80Engadget / 8h
Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard who stepped down at the end of last year, is apparently interested in buying TikTok as a new bill in the US threatens to ban the app or force its sale. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal , Kotick mentioned the idea of partnering on such a purchase to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others seated with him at a conference dinner last week,
Amtrak boosts Northeast Regional service by more than a million seats annually
100+The Points Guy / 9h
Amtrak is adding more trains to its schedule along the busy Northeast Corridor, owing to major strides in ridership after pandemic setbacks between 2020 and 2022. This week the rail operator launched four additional weekday round trips between Moynihan Train Hall at New York Penn Station and Union Station in Washington, D.C. It’ll mean more trains and more seats between the two major East Coast h
Fixing the Climate Does Not Require Population Collapse
Next Big Future / 9h
There is a strange kind of logical error where people have a fear of climate change choose depopulation as one of the first solutions. Firstly what is the climate change problem? There are climate models on supercomputers that predict temperature increase of 2-8 degrees by 2100. They stop right there and do not question the ... Read more
How Park Hyatt St. Kitts Delivered and Disappointed: A Candid Review
View from the Wing / 9h
I've been meaning to visit the Park Hyatt St. Kitts for years . I've made bookings in the past but never made the trip happen. So I was excited to finally visit over Presidents' Day weekend. I booked a standard room on points and confirmed a suite upgrade. Then I was fortunate to have a further upgrade to a Deluxe Pool Suite. Continue reading ...
Furiosa is a 15-Year Journey Through Its Heroine's Life
20Gizmodo / 10h
Mad Max: Fury Road was a revelation when it released in 2015, and a lot of that can be owed to Charlize Theron’s Furiosa . Even with Max Rocktansky getting top billing, it’s more her movie than his, and we’ree now primed to get an origin story with the upcoming Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga . Read more...
Guide to Etihad Guest: Redeem reduced GuestSeat fares, upgrade to The Residence and more
100+The Points Guy / 10h
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with the latest information. Though Etihad is not part of the three major airline alliances — SkyTeam, Oneworld and Star Alliance — the carrier has individual partnerships, making its loyalty program valuable for award redemptions. Plus, its luxurious three-room suite known as The Residence on its A380 aircraft is a dream-worthy splurge f
AMD has plans to support a little known chip for at least another 16 years — and no, it is neither a Ryzen, nor a Threadripper or an Epyc CPU
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 10h
Spartan UltraScale+ is the latest addition to AMD's extensive portfolio of cost-optimized Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and adaptive SoCs. It has been introduced to replace the Xilinx Spartan 6 and Spartan 7 lines. The new Spartan UltraScale+ devices are designed for a wide range of I/O-intensive applications at the edge. AMD says its latest FPGAs can deliver up to 30 percent lower total
How Do Heat Pumps Work?
37Wired / 10h
Our in-house physics whiz explains how a heat pump can warm your home without burning fossil fuels.
Open Channel: Tell Us Your Akira Toriyama Memories
Gizmodo / 10h
The world was shocked to learn on Thursday night to learn that Akira Toriyama , creator of the eternally longlasting Dragon Ball franchise, had passed away at the age of 68. Read more...
Housing Price Collapses With Working Age Population Collapse
Next Big Future / 11h
Japan’s overall population fell from 128.1 million in 2010 to 122 million today but Japan’s working age population peaked in 1995. If we discount the economic bubble then the real estate collapse from the 1990s to today correlates with the working age population collapse. It is also the aging of the population. The median age ... Read more
This Can’t Be Real: Jealous Wife Confronts Bikini-Clad Passenger For Flirting With Her Husband
View from the Wing / 11h
This is a pretty shocking altercation in first class. A woman in a bikini prances onto the plane. She must violate every airline appearance standard, but she's been allowed to board. And she gets into a fight with the woman in the row behind her, because the scantily clad passenger appeared a little too sexy to that woman's husband. In fact, the wife threw a blanket on the passenger in the bikini
Nintendo officially confirms another 'Super Mario Bros.' movie is on the way
Mashable / 11h
No surprise here, but one of the biggest animated movies of all time is getting a sequel. The only sort of interesting part is that the news was confirmed by Nintendo themselves. The company's official account on X (formerly Twitter) posted a personal message purportedly from Super Mario Bros. creator Shigeru Miyamoto confirming that a second animated Mario movie would come to theaters worldwide
Sleek and modern, yet affordable: A review of Universal’s Aventura Hotel
The Points Guy / 11h
[circuit type=review circuit_id=”20420173408″] If you are planning a Universal Orlando vacation, there are several good reasons for staying in one of Universal’s official hotels . Not only are you closer, but you also have the privilege of getting into the parks earlier than non-resort guests — which can make a big difference in your day. Of the eight on-site hotels you can choose from, Universal
Shrek and Spider-Man are Making Their Way Back to Theaters
Gizmodo / 11h
Get ready for some good ol’ 2000s nostalgia during the spring and summer movie season. From April to June, Dreamworks’ Shrek 2 and Sony’s live-action Spider-Man movies are set to return to theaters. Read more...
The Guardian Building in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Music, Arts & Literature / 11h
trb752 : Originally called the Union Trust Building. It has 40 floors and serves as county headquarters. Opened in March 1929. Architect: Wirt C. Rowland Photographs by Leandro Martins Photography. Used with permission.
The Most Underrated, Underdiscussed Rewards Card For Earning Transferable Points
View from the Wing / 12h
Most of the attention over American Express cards focuses on Platinum, because of benefits like lounge access and all of the statement credits to work through to cover the card's cost. But I only endorse putting airfare spending on that card. Otherwise you earn just a single point per dollar spent, and you almost never want to earn only one point per dollar. Continue reading ...
Capital One Venture X Business 300K Bonus Miles Offer (Ending Soon)
200+One Mile at a Time / 12h
Link: Apply now for the Capital One Venture X Business ( Rates & Fees ) The Capital One Venture X Business is Capital One’s lucrative business card. Several weeks ago, we saw a limited time welcome offer rolled out on the card. I wanted to post a reminder that this offer will be pulled on Monday, March 11, 2024, so if you want to apply, this is the time to do so. The bonus on this card is jaw-dro
'Desert Road' review: A time-travel thriller unlike any you've seen before
Mashable / 12h
Do you ever feel hopelessly stuck? Like no matter what you do, you keep ending up in the same shitty place? That's the conundrum facing the heroine of Desert Road . After crashing her car in a remote desert, no matter what Clare Devoir (Kristine Froseth) does, she ends up back where she started. The pieces don’t fit together. Time is wimey. Sometimes the few folks she comes across seem to know he
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD get Switch release dates
36Engadget / 12h
Nintendo packed a whole bunch of news into Mario Day this year, including the announcement of release dates for two classics that have been modernized for the Switch: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD . Both titles were announced last fall during Nintendo Direct. Paper Mario will drop first, on May 23, followed by Luigi’s Mansion on June 27, but both are available for p
The watchOS 10.4 update promises to fix the 'ghost touch' issue on the Apple Watch
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 12h
If you've noticed 'ghost touches' on your Apple Watch 9 or Apple Watch Ultra 2 – where something happens on the watch without you touching the screen – installing the latest watchOS 10.4 update should be enough to fix the problem for you. As per the release notes for the update (via Wccftech ), the watchOS 10.4 update fixes an issue "that causes some users to experience false touches on the displ
Instagram is copying TikTok, and the strategy is working
76Mashable / 12h
When Instagram releases a new feature that is a direct copy of another app, its users fear the worst. In a 2022 essay for Digital Trends , writer Cristina Alexander lamented the "TikTok-ification of Instagram" because it "takes away the type of content people love most about the platform: photos from friends and family, as well as content based on their interests." "And it’s something I’m just ab
Amex Hilton Honors Surpass Card Review: Gold Status & More
200+One Mile at a Time / 12h
Link: Apply now for the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass ® Card Hotel credit cards are among the most underrated credit cards out there, in my opinion, given the perks that they potentially offer, ranging from free night certificates to elite status . While I’m primarily loyal to Hyatt and Marriott ,
