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A post on Xbox Wire with the innocuous title “Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans” caused a lot of outrage in the gaming community. That’s because the post buries the lede – Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is now 50% more expensive. Introducing the new Xbox Game Pass tiers Microsoft also renamed half of...

An ambitious college football player finds himself drawn into a cult in Justin Tipping's sports horror. Justin Tipping’s Him wants to be a lot of things at once: a horror film about ambition; a study of sports hero worship; and a nightmarish meditation on what brain and body trauma does to the self. It doesn’t always manage the balancing act, but...

Of course there have been inevitable (and not entirely unfair) jokes about The Rock running for an Oscar since The Smashing Machine was announced, but Safdie and Johnson certainly make a compelling case for it. While even a wig and some prosthetics can’t hide his incredibly recognisable visage, there’s a delicateness and vulnerability Johnson brings to the role as well as obvious physical...

While AI coding startups like Cursor close brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit’s path to a $3 billion valuation has been anything but swift. For CEO Amjad Masad, who’s been building tools to democratize programming since 2009, it’s a story of muscling through multiple failed business models, years stuck at the same revenue plateau, and a near-death...

As visa crackdowns and diplomatic tensions block traditional study-abroad routes, India’s Leverage Edu is helping students reroute their dreams — from Canada to Germany, and from India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. That agility is paying off: The startup has doubled its revenue, turned profitable, and is now expanding its global footprint. Over the past several months, students across emerging...

The U.S. Department of Energy has taken equity stakes in Canadian company Lithium Americas and its Nevada mining joint venture with General Motors as part of a renegotiation of a federal loan. Under the new terms, the U.S. government will take a 5% equity ownership in Lithium Americas and a 5% ownership in the Lithium Americas-GM joint venture. The equity...

The sea bed holds vast reserves of cobalt, nickel and other minerals, yet no international rules govern how such extraction might proceed or how its impacts should be contained. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is mandated to set those rules, but in its July session, it failed to agree on a mining code. Meanwhile, 30 contracts for resource exploration remain...

Hundreds of US generals and admirals gathered at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday after being summoned from their posts all around the world. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth informed military leaders of the 10 new directives the department would be implementing. The directives include new standards around physical fitness, grooming, and the return to "the highest male...

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Middle and high school students who are looking to positively impact their community can now apply for the Hanover Youth Service Council (HYSC). The organization is youth-led and countywide, available for students in eighth through 11th grade who live or attend school in Hanover. Students enrolled in public and private schools, as well as home-school...