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Searches for UK homes with air conditioning more than double
Searches for UK homes with air conditioning have risen sharply this summer as repeated heatwaves make keeping cool a more important consideration for buyers. The change suggests climate resilience is becoming a larger factor in housing decisions, alongside established priorities such as location, space and affordability. Rightmove recorded a 104% year-on-year increase in searches for…
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Builders, bakers and cheeseburger-makers: the UK workers struggling in extreme heat
Workers in jobs without air conditioning, including chefs, builders and bakers, say extreme heat is making their workplaces increasingly unsafe. As London temperatures exceeded 35C, they described improvised measures to cope, while unions renewed calls for a legal maximum working temperature in England. Kitchen staff are adapting menus and using fans or ice to cool…
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Troye Sivan Drops ‘She’s The Best,’ Featuring Secret Charli XCX Cameo
Troye Sivan has released “She’s The Best”, the lead single from his forthcoming album of the same name, featuring a brief uncredited vocal cameo by Charli XCX. The song is a tribute to the women and feminine people in Sivan’s life, marking a departure from his more introspective writing and songs about men. The track…
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Pokémon HOME October Premium Plan Update Expands Storage Capacity To 9,000 Pokémon
Pokémon HOME’s paid Premium Plan will increase its storage limit from 6,000 to 9,000 Pokémon when version 4.1.0 launches in October. The expansion coincides with planned Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen connectivity, giving players more room to manage collections as older games are integrated into the cloud storage service. The Pokémon Company says the Premium Plan’s…
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Selena Gomez and Her Mother Accused of Defrauding Investors as Mental-Health Startup ‘Collapsed’
Selena Gomez, her mother Mandy Teefey and fellow Wondermind co-founder Daniella Pierson have been accused in a lawsuit of misleading investors in the mental-health media start-up. The case matters because investors allege that nearly $1.2 million was raised on assurances about the company’s development and commercial prospects while it was privately deteriorating. Wondermind launched in…
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The Deals: Influence Media Invests in MENA-Focused Catalog Buyer; Live Nation Makes Moves in Prague
A roundup of recent music-industry investment and venue deals, led by Influence Media Partners’ investment in IPNation, an Arabic music and entertainment intellectual-property buyer. – Influence Media backed IPNation, which targets $100 million to acquire MENA music masters, publishing rights, artist brands and likeness rights. – IPNation plans to turn acquired Arabic intellectual property into…
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The movie franchise Dave Bautista dreamed of joining: “They’ve turned me down”
They rejected him. The post The movie franchise Dave Bautista dreamed of joining: “They’ve turned me down” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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Streets locked down in Parramatta, Sydney as police launch major operation
Police locked down streets in Parramatta, western Sydney, after a suspicious object was reported, prompting a major emergency response. The incident disrupted the busy city centre and led authorities to restrict public access while they assessed whether there was any danger. Officers established an exclusion zone around the location and urged people to avoid the…
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Feds probe ‘mention markets’ amid White House Kalshi controversy
Betting on what people say is becoming an increasingly popular category of prediction market sites. Now, federal officials have opened a probe examining whether those markets are a magnet for manipulators.
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It’s Official, Sonic Frontiers Has Now Sold More Than Five Million Copies
Sega has confirmed that Sonic Frontiers has sold more than five million copies worldwide since its 2022 launch across Switch and other platforms. The milestone underlines the commercial success of Sonic’s open-zone experiment and arrives during the character’s 35th-anniversary celebrations. Sales have risen from 4.57 million reported in November 2025, while Sega has made the…