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Billionaire divorce takes nasty turn after wife who angrily rejected $633m settlement was caught hacking tycoon husband’s emails
A bitter billionaire divorce in New Jersey has escalated after the estranged wife, Laura Overdeck, was accused of hacking into her husband’s emails after she rejected a proposed $633 million settlement. John Overdeck, a hedge fund billionaire, and his wife are engaged in a high-profile split in which allegations of digital intrusion have added a…
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Space Afrika Share Alto Aria Collaboration ‘From The Heart Of Knowing’
Manchester/Berlin duo Space Afrika have released a new song, ‘From the Heart of Knowing’, in collaboration with Alto Aria. The track is taken from their forthcoming album ‘Quiet Storm’, which the pair, Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, describe as their most communal and collaborative record to date. The new single is a hushed, whispered…
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The Verge Guide to Pets
The Verge has launched a themed week of coverage exploring how technology intersects with pet ownership, covering devices that feed, monitor, clean up after and entertain cats, dogs, fish and other animals. The package reflects a growing market of “smart” pet products, while also examining where such tech falls short, overpromises or simply gets outwitted…
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My parrot ate my keyboard
A Verge writer recounts how his family’s pet Senegal parrot, Kiyo, has repeatedly damaged his keyboards by climbing onto his desk from a nearby cage and pecking at keys, most recently pulling the spacebar off his MacBook Air’s built-in keyboard in mid-July. The anecdote illustrates a common hazard for pet owners who work from home…
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New Spider-Man: Brand New Day merch is dropping all the time, here are the 12 pieces I’d swing towards first
This is a shopping guide from GamesRadar+ highlighting new merchandise tied to the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the next instalment in the Marvel’s Spider-Man video game series. With new products being released frequently, the author has picked out 12 items worth prioritising for fans looking to add to their collections. – A curated round-up…
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Battlefield 6 is hosting a free trial, just in time for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s beta
Battlefield 6 is launching a new free trial today, timed to overlap with the first beta session of rival shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. The move continues a pattern of “counter-programming” between the two franchises, in which each has previously offered free access windows around the other’s major releases, and gives undecided players…
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Oil prices jump after US-Iran ceasefire expires and Trump threatens Oman
Oil prices have risen sharply after the two-month window for a US-Iran peace deal expired on Monday with the conflict still unresolved, and Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of his efforts to end the war. Trump also demanded Iran “put up the white flag of surrender”, while Tehran…
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‘The ultimate gamers’ mascot’: Sonic the Hedgehog at 35 – from 2D to 3D to a billion-dollar film franchise
Sonic the Hedgehog is celebrating its 35th anniversary, having grown from a 1991 Sega Mega Drive mascot designed to rival Nintendo’s Mario into a multimedia franchise spanning games, television, comics and a film series worth more than $1bn at the global box office. The character’s speed, attitude and rebellious visual style captured the edgy spirit…
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New R-Rated Tom Cruise Movie Officially Gets a Major Update [Exclusive]
Screenwriter Erik Jendresen has confirmed that the script for Tom Cruise’s long-mooted R-rated film with director Christopher McQuarrie, nicknamed “The Gnarly Movie”, has now been completed. The update, shared exclusively with Collider at the Televerse festival, marks the first concrete progress on a project that has intrigued fans since it was first mentioned in 2023,…