Keanu Reeves in the 2005 film Constantine. | Screenshot: Warner Bros. John Constantine’s demonic detective work isn’t over just yet. Keanu Reeves is set to return as the titular demonologist and exorcist in a sequel to the 2005 film Constantine, according to reports from Deadline and Variety. Both outlets confirmed that Warner Bros. is working…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The biggest open secret in short form video has nothing to do with the algorithm. The secret is that you can’t get rich on TikTok, because even the most viral creators earn a negligible portion of their income from the platform itself. TikTok remains hugely dominant over the copycat short form video feeds that competing…
A Russian soldier on guard in Kherson, south Ukraine, on May 20, 2022. AP Several pro-Kremlin officials in Ukraine’s occupied territories have been killed or attacked. In Kherson, at least one official was killed in an attack using HIMARS missiles, occupation officials said. Ukraine has not taken responsibility for the attacks. Ukraine struck an office…
Giphy said there’s been an overall decline in use of gifs. Getty Images Giphy said young users think gifs are “for boomers”, “cringe”, and “out of fashion”. The gif database made the comments in filings with the UK’s competition watchdog. It said it has seen a decline in popularity and that only Meta would buy…
An Iranian woman wears a hijab in Tehran on July 9, 2022. Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died Friday in a Tehran hospital. Iran’s morality police arrested her on Tuesday for not wearing her hijab correctly, per reports. Iranian police say she died, in custody, of a heart attack….
The late Sen. John McCain. Drew Angerer/Getty Images John Kelly gave Trump a stark warning when he refused to lower flags in honor of John McCain’s death. Kelly told Trump that he should reconsider because people will “piss” on his grave, according to an upcoming book. Trump kept flags raised at full staff until pressure…
President Donald Trump (R) speaks to the press after the new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (L) was sworn in, in the Oval Office of the White House, July 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. Mike Theiler/Getty Trump’s former chief of staff consulted a book to help him cope with the former president’s erratic…
Left: Donald Trump; right: George Conway. Left: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta; right: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts George Conway accused former President Donald Trump of threatening to incite violence again. Conway said he’s acting like he’s “being persecuted for no valid reason” in relation to Mar-a-Lago. “He is absolutely encouraging people to engage in violence,” Conway said on…
Lebanese Sali Hafez, center, accompanied by activists looks at her phone after breaking into a BLOM Bank branch brandishing what she later said was a toy pistol and taking $13,000 from her trapped savings accopunt, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. AP Photo/Hussein Malla A woman held up a Lebanese bank on Wednesday, the…
The next time you build a gaming PC, you probably won’t be adding an EVGA GPU to your list of possible components. The company, which is best known for manufacturing NVIDIA GeForce-based video cards, is getting out of the GPU-making business. As Tom’s Hardware and Ars Technica report, company CEO Andrew Han sat down with…