The Big Picture Celebrate Sleeping Beauty ‘s 65th anniversary with the latest Funko Pop! figures featuring Aurora and Maleficent. Collectors can now pre-order figures of the iconic princess Aurora, Merriweather, Maleficent, Prince Phillip, and the owl. For fans looking for a standout piece, there’s a deluxe-sized Maleficent figure in her dragon form available for $29.99 … Read more
One of the marks of anti-Semitism, George Orwell observed in 1945, is “an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true”. Which brings us smartly to Hamas and how the broadcast media, aid organisations, international bodies and world leaders take its disinformation as gospel. Last week it became clear that this gullibility may … Read more
Through some technologic magic, hyper-realistic wax replicas of Daft Punk have landed at Madame Tussauds New York. Daft Punk may be no more, but the robots now stand frozen in time as wax effigies at the venue, one of the nation’s most popular tourist attractions. The brand-new doppelgängers of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo will appear … Read more
‘Shameful’: Mike Rowe trashes college degrees, says Harvard grads are taking their ‘degrees off the wall’ — is welding, pipe fitting or HVAC a better path to six figures? Higher education has traditionally been hailed as a crucial stepping stone to success, but TV personality Mike Rowe argues this belief is now out of date. … Read more
Patrons at sidewalk tables of Janis bar in Cais do Sodre in Lisbon, Portugal. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis News | Getty Images Euro zone headline inflation eased slightly in January, flash figures published by the European Union’s statistics agency showed on Thursday, while core figures declined less than expected. Annual headline price rises came in … Read more
Image: Hasbro As we get closer and closer to the arrival of X-Men ‘97, the rallying cry of “To me, my X-Men merchandise!” just gets louder and louder. Earlier this week we saw Lego get in on the X-mania with a new set, but now it’s Hasbro’s turn with its latest wave inspired by the … Read more
It’s safe to say that VCs struck while the iron was hot this year where it concerned generative AI. While venture capital investments overall fell compared to last year thanks to macroeconomic challenges and other related factors, startups in the generative AI space — and AI more broadly — did quite well. Funding for AI-related … Read more
Linux Foundation Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, has been keeping a low profile lately. But at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Japan, Torvalds and his good friend Dirk Hohndel, the head of Verizon open source, talked about the current state of Linux. First up, the two talked about the next Linux kernel release, … Read more
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, left, and GOP presidential candidate President Donald Trump in January 2016.AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File Trump is receiving 2024 backing and donations from many individuals to whom he granted clemency. A Washington Post reviews detailed how a range of figures are boosting Trump’s White House bid. Trump received a torrent of … Read more
Image: Hasbro Hasbro’s 6″ line of Star Wars action figures, the Black Series, launched a decade ago, and has gone on to give us many great representations (and some not so great) of Star Wars heroes and villains from across the galaxy. It is, however, absolutely insane that it will take until 2024 for the … Read more