Stranger Things 5 Breaks Netflix Record, All Seasons in Top 10
Stranger Things season 5 has shattered Netflix’s viewership records, amassing 59.6 million views in its first five days for the biggest English-language series premiere ever. This explosive debut propelled all five seasons into the platform’s Global Top 10 simultaneously, a historic first that underscores the show’s enduring grip on audiences worldwide. Record-Breaking Premiere Shocks Streaming […]
Jean-Luc Godard’s 95th Birth Anniversary Marked Worldwide
Film enthusiasts, critics, and institutions across the globe are commemorating the 95th birth anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard, the legendary French-Swiss filmmaker whose radical approach to cinema reshaped the medium forever. Born on December 3, 1930, Godard emerged as a central figure of the French New Wave, a movement that challenged traditional filmmaking in the 1950s […]
Moon Formed from Earth’s Collision with Nearby Neighbor Theia, New Study Confirms
About 4.5 billion years ago, during the chaotic early days of the Solar System, a massive Mars-sized protoplanet called Theia collided with the young proto-Earth. This enormous impact vaporized much of both bodies, ejecting vast amounts of molten debris into orbit around Earth. Over time, that debris disk cooled, clumped together, and coalesced into the […]
Republican Wins Tennessee House Race After Trump-Led Rescue Effort
Republican Matt Van Epps has won Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District special election, preserving GOP control of a traditionally conservative House seat after a high-intensity rescue effort led by President Donald Trump and national Republican groups. The victory averts a major upset but the narrowed margin in a deep-red district is already being read as a […]
Shingles Vaccine May Slow Dementia in Diagnosed Patients
Recent research reveals that the shingles vaccine could slow dementia progression in patients already diagnosed with the condition. A new study from Stanford researchers, analyzing over 282,500 older adults in Wales, shows vaccinated individuals had a 29.5 percentage point lower risk of dying from dementia over nine years compared to unvaccinated peers. This builds on […]
International Day of Persons With Disabilities: History, Theme, and Awareness
Many people with disabilities face unfair treatment each day. They may struggle to find jobs, get a good education, or even see the doctor when they need help. Some feel invisible in their own cities as others move on without noticing them. Did you know that while almost 1 in 6 people around the world […]
Apple Stock Hits Record High as iPhone 17 Drives Sales Surge
Apple shares climbed to fresh record highs this week as investors bet that surging demand for the new iPhone 17 lineup will power Apple to its strongest year of iPhone sales on record in 2025. The rally caps a months-long turnaround for the tech giant, whose stock had lagged other mega-cap peers earlier in the […]
Human Psychology in Manik’s Fiction: A Close Reading of His Characters
Have you ever read a story where the characters felt so real it was almost uncomfortable? You know, the kind where heroes aren’t perfect, and good people have dark, messy thoughts? If you are tired of flat characters and predictable endings, you need to meet Manik Bandopadhyay. Manik Bandopadhyay (1908-1956) was not your typical storyteller. […]
Putin-Trump Envoys Talk 5 Hours, No Ukraine Deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a marathon five-hour meeting at the Kremlin with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on Tuesday to explore paths to end the Ukraine war. The discussions, which began around 4:30 p.m. Moscow time and stretched past midnight, centered on a revised U.S. peace proposal […]
Routine Horror Game Finally Launches After a Decade of Delays
December opens with one of the strongest release schedules in recent months, led by two highly anticipated titles that have captured very different corners of the gaming community. Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler 0, the newest entry in the acclaimed HD-2D RPG series, shares its release day with Routine, a sci-fi horror project that has spent […]
Musk Predicts War Inevitable Within a Decade
Elon Musk has set off a wave of global anxiety by warning that a major war is “inevitable” within the next decade, predicting a conflict in “5 years, 10 at most” in a terse post on X that has left governments, experts and ordinary users debating what exactly he meant. The billionaire did not name […]
OpenAI is under pressure as Google, Anthropic gain ground
OpenAI is scrambling to defend its lead in generative AI after CEO Sam Altman declared an internal “code red” and ordered the company to focus almost entirely on improving ChatGPT. The move comes as Google and Anthropic roll out new models that outperform OpenAI on key benchmarks and are rapidly gaining users and enterprise clients. […]
