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The 2024 Olympics began with a star-studded, impressive opening ceremony in Paris. The event featured a totally new look, opting to feature the Seine River and stunning background of the city itself instead of the typical garish display inside a stadium.Being in Paris, we expected big-time artists and celebrities and it certainly delivered.Zinedine ZidaneFrench soccer legend Zinedine Zidane got thing underway by carrying the Olympic torch in a pre-filmed sketch that got the Olympics underway. Tw

UPDATE: Jul. 26, 2024, 5:27 p.m. EDT Celine Dion, the iconic Canadian singer, finally made her highly anticipated appearance at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.Four hours of Olympic opening ceremony theatrics and viewers are wondering one thing: Where is Celine Dion?!SEE ALSO:Olympics opening ceremony shows 2024 really is the year of the ménage à trois
Dion was spotted in Paris the day before the opening ceremony, fueling rumors that the superstar was set to make her return on

Users on Elon Musk's X came across an interesting new option tucked deep into the Settings tab on the social media platform this week."Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning," reads the settings option on X, formerly known as Twitter. The option refers to X's AI chatbot Grok, which the company continues to integrate throughout the platform.The fine print under the Settings option text goes on to say that the data is us

Image: Adult Swim Adult Swim’s long-awaited adaptation of Uzumaki finally has a premiere date — and an appropriately creepy trailer. The series, based on the classic horror manga from Junji Ito, will start airing on September 28th. Episodes will hit Adult Swim first, and then stream on Max the following day.
Uzumaki follows a cursed town that is — and I promise it’s scarier than it sounds — plagued by spirals. Here’s the full synopsis:
“Let’s leave

Disney / BBC The Doctor Who franchise is about to get even bigger with a new spinoff series that, interestingly, doesn’t seem like it’s going to focus on everyone’s favorite Time Lord.
During the Doctor Who panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Disney and the BBC announced that The War Between The Land And The Sea — a new series written by Russell T. Davies and Pete McTighe — is on the way. Rather than the Doctor, the new show will revolve around a group o

The Paris Olympics kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony unlike any other. It promised to be a star-studded event with expected appearances from Celine Dion and Lady Gaga, with rumors of other big names. The ceremony certainly delivered with performances and appearances from stars.SEE ALSO:'Spotlight on Paris' is NBC's latest bid for Gen Z Olympic attention
The big names aside, it was also a unique opening ceremony in the way it was carried out. It was not held in a stadium like usual. T

While the 2024 Paris Olympics kicked off with a parade of nations floating down the Seine, a torch bearer doing parkour through the Louvre, and the literal decapitation of Marie Antoinette, the internet was captivated by a much smaller part of the performance. SEE ALSO:Lady Gaga just performed at the Olympics opening ceremony
"Did I just watch the Challengers hotel scene at the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony," wrote Twitter user @kasiakovacs, referring to a "steamy" (the words of opening ceremo

Somewhere between What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Carol lies Mothers' Instinct. Set vaguely in the early 1960s, this psychological thriller thrusts two of America's most thrilling actresses at each other in a queer-coded battle of wills and mental illness. Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star as a pair of (mostly) happy homemakers who live side by side in charming suburbia. Established cinematographer Benoît Delhomme makes his directorial debut here, draping the film in a drea

Image: Amazon The first season of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power took its sweet time revealing the true identities of its two most mysterious characters. But when the show returns next month, it seems like it’s going to hit the ground running with big reveals about how Sauron and the Stranger will change Middle-earth. A new, lengthy trailer revealed at Comic-Con gives a good sense at what fans can expect in season 2.
According to Amazon, the new season will be foc

Amazon The Boys’ fourth season ended on a nightmarish note that made the show’s upcoming final chapter seem like it’s going to its most deranged. But during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Amazon revealed that while The Boys may be coming to an end, the larger franchise is about to get even bigger with a prequel series set in the distant past.
Though The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke was tightlipped about the show’s series finale, he was all too excited to bring acto

SpaceX is targeting Saturday, July 27th for its next Falcon 9 launch carrying 23 Starlink satellites into orbit. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX has completed its investigation into what caused an engine failure during a Falcon 9 launch on July 11th. The company has submitted a “mishap report” to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and is ready to return the Falcon 9 rocket to flight as soon as tomorrow.
The company’s investigation team, working with the FAA, was able to determine

The 2024 Paris Olympics is off to a pink-hued start. La vie en rose!Starting off the opening ceremony festivities in the Parisian sunlight was American superstar Lady Gaga, belting out her rendition of "Mon Truc En Plumes" originally performed by French dancer and actress Zizi Jeanmaire. SEE ALSO:Celine Dion triumphs at Olympics opening ceremony and the internet lights up
As the parade of athletes traveled down nearly 4 miles of river, fans, dancers, and celebrities lined the banks, Gaga and a f

Image: SharkNinja This Ninja Luxe Cafe claims to be the only “no guesswork” semi-automatic espresso machine that also comes with the ability to make drip coffee and cold brew. Using “Barista Assist Technology,” it can suggest what grind size to set based on the drink you’re trying to make, ideally saving you a few minutes and some stress in getting your fresh roasted beans dialed in right for an espresso.
It will also weigh the ground coffee coming out, so you don&r

TL;DR: Live stream France in the Paris 2024 basketball for free on BBC iPlayer. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.France are sure to be hometown favorites in lots of the Paris 2024 events, not least of all in the basketball — one of the most exciting, fastest-paced sports you'll see across the entire two weeks of action. Indeed, France are among the many nations shooting for gold, silver, and bronze in the Paris 2024 basketball, with twelve nati

TL;DR: Live stream Canada in the Paris 2024 basketball for free on BBC iPlayer. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.Paris 2024 is offering up so much sport that its liable to make your spin like a basketball bouncing around the hoop. And there's plenty of b-ball amongst it all, with the top basketballing nation competing for gold, silver, and bronze.Canada are among the nations who are shooting to win a medal at Paris 2024, but how can you watch the Can

TL;DR: Live stream Australia in the Paris 2024 basketball for free on BBC iPlayer. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.For basketball fans, it doesn't get much more exciting than watching the game at this elite level: fast-and-furious, back-and-forth action with one of the most coveted prizes in all of sports up for grabs — a Paris 2024 gold medal.There are twelve nations represented in each of the men's and women's competition, including Australi

A critically endangered California condor chick that will soon fly for the first time is seen at its nest site on a cliff above the drought-stricken Colorado River on August 31st, 2022, in Marble Canyon, Arizona. | Photo: Getty Images Conservationists will be able to release more California condors into the wild thanks to a record number of chicks hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo this breeding season. It’s the latest success in an incredible conservation story for North America’s bigge

If you pay for ChatGPT, your subscription is about to get some more value for your money.According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the alpha rollout for ChatGPT's new Voice Mode update will be available to ChatGPT Plus members at some point next week. This update was initially promised for June, but got delayed by a month. It’s unclear whether all Plus members will receive the feature simultaneously or if it will be rolled out more gradually. But rest assured that it is happening.SEE ALSO:In cas

SAVE UP TO $350: As of July 26, save up to $350 on various configurations (14-inch and 16-inch) of the Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 laptop at both Lenovo and Best Buy. Fall is nearly here again (we can't believe it either), and that means it's time to send the kids back to school. Or perhaps you're kicking off a new school year yourself. Whatever the case may be, you're going to need the right tech to help you succeed. Now's a great time to snag a new laptop, and you can save up to $350 on multiple con

Image: OnLeaks via Android Headlines While there’s been no shortage of Pixel 9 leaks over the past couple of days, a new ad for the device seems to have leaked in full — and it shows off a new feature that makes sure you aren’t left out of a group photo.
The feature, seemingly called “Add Me,” appears in a leaked ad shared with Android Headlines by OnLeaks. The ad shows someone using a Pixel 9 to take a picture of two friends in front of a van. After snapping a shot

To my surprise, when I used my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra's S Pen to circle anything related to the new Deadpool & Wolverine film — like text that included the title of the movie — a tiny Deadpool appeared on my phone.No, Deadpool hasn't commandeered my Android device or anything. It's a quirky new feature from Google as excitement for the movie crescendos before its first opening weekend. The search engine giant is calling the easter egg the "first-of-its-kind" as it celebrates th

TL;DR: The Lego Disney and Pixar Up House building set is available at Amazon for $47.99, down from the full price of $59.99.Opens in a new windowCredit: LegoLego Disney and Pixar 'Up' House$47.99 at Amazon $59.99 Save $12.00Get DealBefore the Mashable Shopping team shares a deal with our readers, we check to make sure it's actually a good deal. Major retailers (we're looking at you, Amazon), sometimes use the word "deal" a bit liberally. We find a lot of always-on discounts when hunting for dea

SAVE $30: As of today, July 26, the HOTO Electric Spin Scrubber is on sale for $69.99 at Amazon, taking 30% off its list price of $99.99. Opens in a new windowCredit: HOTOHOTO Electric Spin Scrubber$69.99 at Amazon $99.99 Save $30.00Get DealCleaning the bathroom falls high on the list of dreaded household chores. While HOTO can't take the task off of your to-do list, the minimalist tool company has created a device that takes a lot of the hard work out of it. Today at Amazon, the HOTO Electric S

Image: The Verge X uses your data to train its Grok AI assistant, but if you’d like to opt out of that, you can do that right from your settings menu. It is accessible on the web right here, or you can find it yourself if you click the three dots menu, then “Settings and privacy,” then “Privacy and safety,” and then “Grok.”X’s @Safety account wrote in a post on Friday that the setting is available to all users on the web now and “will soon be

With Deadpool & Wolverine hitting theaters, the long-running X-Men film series will, once and for all, canonically collide with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, thanks to time-travel shenanigans. But how will Deadpool's latest romp factor into the X-Men franchise's already confounding timeline? SEE ALSO:'Deadpool and Wolverine' review: Can Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman save the MCU?
Well before Marvel's multiple realities grabbed a hold of pop culture, the X-Men movies had their own mess

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SAVE UP TO $80: As of July 26, you can buy true 4K webcams on sale at Best Buy and Amazon. Our favorites include $50 off a 4K Logitech webcam and $15 off the AnkerWork C310 4K webcam.If you work from home, chances are that you spend a lot of time in virtual meetings. That means you're definitely going to need a good webcam to make the right digital first impression. While the best laptops come equipped with powerful webcams, a lot of older models and Chromebooks have cameras that leave something

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An Intel Core i9-13900K CPU, one of the first types that was identified to sometimes crash games this way. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge On Monday, it initially seemed like the beginning of the end for Intel’s desktop CPU instability woes — the company confirmed a patch is coming in mid-August that should address the “root cause” of exposure to elevated voltage. But if your 13th or 14th Gen Intel Core processor is already crashing, that patch apparently won’t fi

Elon Musk could have yet another problem with the European Union. Musk’s X has enabled the Grok chatbot to be trained on data from any user. This feature is now on by default, which may breach EU rules. Deep within the settings of X, users unearthed evidence of the data harvesting. Besides a check box that was already ticked, they spotted the following text: “Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning.”

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Popular LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr has disabled location-based features for users within the Olympic village of the Paris Games, which kicked off today.  The measures are not designed to stop athletes hooking up between sprints, swims, or shot puts — they’re a safety precaution.  “If an athlete is not out or comes from a country where being LGBTQ+ is dangerous or illegal, using Grindr can put them at risk of being outed by curious individuals who may try to identify an

TikTok just got a little more interesting — and political. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris just joined the ByteDance-owned app, the fourth most popular social media platform next to Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. The 2024 presidential nominee has over 2.3 million likes on her introductory video. In the clip, Harris is asked, “Madam Vice President, are you on TikTok?" In response, Harris said, “Well, I’ve heard that recently I’ve been on the ‘For

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