Published on: 2025-06-04 03:04:34
In September 1781, Thomas Hughes, then 22, visited Brighton for what he hoped would be a restorative holiday. It was not his first trip: such sojourns were common for Hughes. But on this occasion something was different. As Hughes recorded in his journal, ‘launched into a sea of gaiety and dissipation’ he nevertheless felt ‘out of my element’. Though he admitted to being naturally of a somewhat ‘reserved disposition’, this had never previously stopped the young man from enjoying polite company.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 15:00:09
Summer Game Fest 2025 is just around the corner and it'll be a weekend packed with video game news. The event kicks off on June 6, with roughly a dozen livestreams scheduled to take place from then through June 8. Among them is the Latin American Games Showcase, which will highlight over 50 titles from Latin American indie developers. You can tune into the YouTube stream on Saturday, June 7 at 2PM ET (11AM PT). Last year's Latin American Games Showcase at SGF gave us a glimpse at a ton of games
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io9 recently sat down with How to Train Your Dragon filmmaker Dean DeBlois to chat about being the steward of DreamWorks and Universal Pictures’ dragon franchise. In our conversation, when discussing how awesome it was to see Gerard Butler reprise his role as Hiccup’s dad Stoic, we brought up other actors we’d like to see reprise roles or cameo in live-action, including original stars Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, and Cate Blanchett. DeBlois revealed to io9 that he hopes Academy Award winner C
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Big quote: In an interview with Bloomberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made it clear that while the company navigates a complex geopolitical landscape, it remains committed to innovation and ensuring that American technology continues to set the standard worldwide. He highlighted both the opportunities and risks facing US tech leaders – and the pivotal role that government policy will play in shaping the industry's future. "Irrespective of the near-term revenue success we have had, we can't ignore t
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One of the world’s oldest diseases has an even more complex history than expected. Research out today reveals that a form of leprosy was stalking people in the Americas long before Europeans arrived. A large international team of scientists conducted the study, published Thursday in Science. The researchers found DNA evidence of Mycobacterium lepromatosis—a recently discovered species of leprosy-causing bacteria—infecting people in North and South America over 1,000 years ago, predating Europea
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is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The US State Department has launched its latest rebuke against Europe and other countries over their attempts to regulate digital platforms. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the US would restrict visas for “foreign nationals who are responsible for censorshi
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As Thunderbolts continues its theater run as part of Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Brave New World is now streaming and can be watched as much as you want. Anthony Mackie stars as Sam Wilson, who took over as superhero Captain America after Steve Rogers passed him the shield. The story builds on his iteration of the character in the MCU TV series Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and drops Sam into an evil plot that may or may not involve President "Thunderbolt" Thaddeus Ross (Harri
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It’s no secret that AI is wrecking America’s educational system. With easy access to apps like ChatGPT—which can answer any question and also write full-fledged essays for you—high school and college students have begun to cheat their way through life, content to let an algorithm do the thinking, and the test-taking, for them. It’s no surprise, then, that some educators have gone analog, in an effort to stem the tide of anti-intellectualism sweeping the nation. The Wall Street Journal recently
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It’s no secret that AI is wrecking America’s educational system. With easy access to apps like ChatGPT—which can answer any question and also write full-fledged essays for you—high school and college students have begun to cheat their way through life, content to let an algorithm do the thinking, and the test-taking, for them. It’s no surprise, then, that some educators have gone analog, in an effort to stem the tide of anti-intellectualism sweeping the nation. The Wall Street Journal recently
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 16:00:00
While Thunderbolts continues to make its mark in Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Brave New World is ready to make its streaming debut on Disney Plus. Anthony Mackie stars as Sam Wilson, who took over as superhero Captain America after Steve Rogers passed him the shield. The story builds on his iteration of the character in the MCU TV series Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and drops Sam into an evil plot that may or may not involve President "Thunderbolt" Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 08:02:22
The following is adapted from a lecture delivered in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2025, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. Sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, which is undergoing extensive expansion and renovation, the lecture was delivered in The Heritage Foundation’s Van Andel–Gaby Center. Tariffs are among the oldest of taxes for the simple reason that they are easy to collect. Just send in the tax collector
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 04:00:00
In Recent years, Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings, but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and they’re all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up. Our picks for the best movies on Amazon Prime are below. All the films in our guide are included
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 11:40:55
There’s a house for sale on the northern plain, in a place you’d never go. It sits by a field just a mile from the river, where a million bass and perch are jumping just now as I write this. By modern standards, it’s a tiny little house — just 600 square feet. But if you adhere to the standard of our great-grandfathers, it’s a fine-sized place, where any young, industrious couple could easily raise a whack of kids. Now, there might seem to be a certain cruelty in talking about housing. I say th
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As Thunderbolts continues to make its mark in Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Brave New World is ready to make its streaming debut on Disney Plus. Anthony Mackie stars as Sam Wilson, who took over as superhero Captain America after Steve Rogers passed him the shield. The story builds on his iteration of the character in the MCU TV series Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and drops Sam into an evil plot that may or may not involve President "Thunderbolt" Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford).
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Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival appearances; he doesn’t feed us stories of what he was doing and why. For decades, he has done his best to avoid being photographed. He isn’t a ‘known American’ or a spokesman for himself in the way of Scorsese, Coppola, Tarantino, Spike Lee or just about any other director. For fifty years he has been involving us in questions about cinema – what it is, what it might be, whethe
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How did reptilian things that looked something like crocodiles get to the Caribbean islands from South America millions of years ago? They probably walked. The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted. While their absence would have probably made it even more of a paradise for prey animals, fossils unearthed in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic have revealed that these islands were crawling with monster crocodyliform species call
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U.S. President Donald Trump signs a guest book next to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. and United Arab Emirates are working on a path to allow Abu Dhabi to purchase some of the most advanced American-made semiconductors for its AI development, U.S. President Donald Trump said from the Emirati capital Friday. "Yesterday the two countries also agreed t
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Elon Musk speaks during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct. 27, 2024. Elon Musk's America PAC didn't keep its promise to pay swing state voters who signed a pro-Trump petition ahead of the 2024 election, and who enlisted others to do the same, a new lawsuit alleges. The case, a proposed national class action suit, was filed within the last week in a federal court in the Eastern district of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 09:24:55
Netflix is adding an important category to its live offerings: talent competition. The streamer announced that it will be reviving Star Search, the classic American Idol and America’s Got Talent precursor that has been off the air since 1995. The modern iteration will air live twice a week on Netflix, and viewers will be able to vote on contestants across four categories: music, dance, variety / comedy, and kids.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 16:53:00
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive information about Americans, including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers. The CFPB proposed the new rule in early December under former director Rohit Chopra, who said the changes were necessary to combat commercial surveillance practices that “threaten our personal safety and undermine America’s national security.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 21:53:00
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has cancelled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive information about Americans, including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers. CFPB proposed the new rule in early December under former director Rohit Chopra, who said the changes were necessary to combat commercial surveillance practices that “threaten our personal safety and undermine America’s national security.”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 16:31:44
As Thunderbolts continues to make its mark in Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Brave New World is ready to make its streaming debut on Disney Plus. Anthony Mackie stars as Sam Wilson, who took over as superhero Captain America after Steve Rogers passed him the shield. The story builds on his iteration of the character in the MCU TV series Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and drops Sam into an evil plot that may or may not involve President "Thunderbolt" Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford).
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 21:20:35
Thunderbolts was a smash hit, and the hype for The Fantastic Four: First Steps continues to rise. But what about Marvel’s first big-screen outing of 2025, which just a few months past release feels like it barely made a blip on the radar? If you passed on seeing Captain America: Brave New World in theaters, your chance to see if its tepid reception was fair—or if it’s worthy of a streaming renaissance—is nearly here: it hits Disney+ May 28. Here’s a vintage-y poster shared on social media to sp
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Crypto Prediction Platform Polymarket Was Utterly Wrong About the New Pope The American Pope surprised everyone. Papal Predictor Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market where users can place bets on events ranging from national elections to natural disasters, got the Pope odds way wrong. Those forecasts were reflected in Polymarket as well as the similar platform Kalshi, which both took a hard turn toward Parolin as the public caught sight of white smoke, according to Axios. Meanwhile
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The US government is bringing up Starlink adoption in the midst of tariff trade talks with other countries, according to a report from The Washington Post. In recent weeks, several countries have moved forward with licensing the Elon Musk-owned satellite internet company, including India, Somalia, Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Banglades
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 05:37:38
On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced plans to rescind and replace a Biden-era rule regulating the export of high-end AI accelerator chips worldwide, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. A Department of Commerce spokeswoman told Reuters that officials found the previous framework "overly complex, overly bureaucratic, and would stymie American innovation" and pledged to create "a much simpler rule that unleashes American innovation and ensures American AI dominance." The Biden administrat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 20:43:16
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, right, speaks alongside President Donald Trump about investing in America, at the White House in Washington, on April 30, 2025. Nvidia shares rose on Wednesday as the Trump administration prepared to rescind what's known as the "AI diffusion rule," effectively stopping a set of artificial intelligence chip controls from taking effect later this month. A Department of Commerce spokesperson confirmed the plan to CNBC after Bloomberg reported on it earlier. "The Biden AI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 09:00:00
It’s official: As part of President Donald Trump’s roller-coaster trade war, the de minimis exemption no longer applies to packages arriving to the United States from China as of Friday, May 2. The provision previously allowed Chinese ecommerce giants like Temu, Shein, and AliExpress, as well as American companies like Amazon, to send goods valued at less than $800 to US customers duty-free. Those same goods are now subject to tariffs as high as 145 percent. In response to the change, Shein ann
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 19:13:09
vonn In the late 1980s, U.S. audiences met an odd musical group from Finland: the Leningrad Cowboys, stars of a deadpan-comic, not-quite-documentary, road-trip film called Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Once you got past the name, two other things made the Cowboys stand out–most immediately, their look. They sported black suits, white shirts, ties, and dark shades… but they were no Russo-Scandinavian Blues Brothers. Rather, their hair was pompadoured forward, to stiff points protruding about a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 00:13:09
vonn In the late 1980s, U.S. audiences met an odd musical group from Finland: the Leningrad Cowboys, stars of a deadpan-comic, not-quite-documentary, road-trip film called Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Once you got past the name, two other things made the Cowboys stand out–most immediately, their look. They sported black suits, white shirts, ties, and dark shades… but they were no Russo-Scandinavian Blues Brothers. Rather, their hair was pompadoured forward, to stiff points protruding about a
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