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Stream On This Week: An Instantly Iconic Dad Movie, and Lady Whistledown Is Watching The Sopranos
This week’s “Stream On” newsletter from Consequence rounds up new and recent releases worth watching across major streaming platforms, including the World War Two drama “Pressure,” DC’s “Lanterns,” and the period drama “My Brilliant Career.” The column highlights a mix of prestige television and film across Peacock, HBO Max, Netflix and Hulu, offering recommendations for…
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Wladimir Klitschko pays tribute to Hayden Panettiere on birthday
Wladimir Klitschko, the former fiancé of actress Hayden Panettiere, posted a tribute on Instagram on what would have been her 37th birthday, thanking fans and friends for their support since her death. Rather than celebrating as planned, he wrote that he was honouring “her life, her spirit, and the love she brought into this world,”…
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Sorry ‘Jury Duty’ Fans, Season 3 Is Unlikely To Set Sail On The Open Waters
Amazon’s hit prank series Jury Duty has been renewed for a third season, sparking speculation among fans about where the show’s elaborate hidden-camera premise will be staged next. Speculation has centred on a cruise ship setting, an idea floated by cast member Wendy Braun, but executive producer Anthony King has poured cold water on the…
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Work-life balance and Saint Monday | Brief letters
This is a selection of brief reader letters published in the Guardian’s Money section, responding to a recent article on the changing nature of the weekend. The letters range from historical reflections on workers’ habits to light-hearted comments on current royal and political news, reflecting the paper’s regular “Brief letters” format for reader correspondence. One…
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Labour holds Penistone East, Swalwell probed as Leavitt exits Trump team
Labour’s John Roberts won the Penistone East council by-election in Barnsley on 20 August, taking 1,728 votes (51.6%) on a turnout of 38.58%. Reform UK’s Eunice Asante received 795 votes and the Conservative candidate, Steven John Burkinshaw, 387. Although Labour already held two of the ward’s three seats, the contest filled a vacancy created by…
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Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trend
The latest episode of The Verge’s Vergecast podcast dives into Google’s Pixel 11 Pro, focusing on a new suite of computational photography features called Camera Looks, which lets users tweak their photo processing to move away from the smartphone industry’s typically over-sharpened, over-processed image style and towards a softer, more film-like “digicam” aesthetic. Host Jacob…
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Nintendo’s War On Switch Emulators Continues With 400 More GitHub Takedowns
Nintendo is doing what Nintendo does: issuing DMCA takedown notices to anyone who illegally offers access to any of the company’s games. That’s exactly what happened earlier this week, as Nintendo wiped out over 400 Switch emulators from GitHub. According to an August 21 TorrentFreak report, the Mario maker sent the proprietary developer platform seven…
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Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch
Elon Musk has scaled back his prediction for when SpaceX will first successfully catch a returning Starship upper stage, saying it will probably take “a few months” rather than happening on the next test flight as he had suggested during the company’s first earnings call as a public firm. The reversal matters because catching Starship…
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Ms. Marvel Is Returning for Official Avengers: Doomsday Release Coming Aug. 27
Marvel and Disney are stepping up promotion for Avengers: Doomsday, due in cinemas in roughly four months, with a new tie-in podcast fronted by Iman Vellani, who plays Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan. The Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday Official Podcast launches on 27 August and will run for five weeks, hosted by Vellani alongside Frank Alvarez as…
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How Disneyland’s Cast Members Work Behind the Scenes to Create Magic for the Holidays: ‘Storytelling Is a Centerpiece to Everything We Do at the Company’
At a 400,000 square-foot Disney warehouse in Cerritos, California, cast members craft and maintain the decor that transforms Disneyland for each season, from Halloween pumpkin displays to winter holiday-scapes. The facility brings together machine shops, fabrication and sewing teams, and paint specialists whose work is guided by storytelling, with staff describing every design choice as…