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Dogma: Resurrected, A 25th Anniversary Celebration with Kevin Smith hits theaters June 5th 2025.

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Visa has offered Apple a roughly $100 million payment to get the tech giant’s credit card, part of a battle between the country’s biggest payment networks for the splashy Apple card. 

The Apple card is up for grabs because Goldman Sachs, the bank behind it, is getting out of the consumer lending world. For months, big banks includingJPMorgan Chase and Synchrony Financial have been vying to take over as issuer. What hasn’t been known is the equally fierce fight playing out between the networks to win Apple, with Visa and American Express trying to unseat Mastercard, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Trudno nie odnieść wrażenia, że w aktualnej panice wokół wysokich notowań sondażowych kandydata na prezydenta RP Sławomira Mentzena jest sporo z paniki wokół wysokich notowań kandydata na prezydenta USA Donalda Trumpa w 2016 roku. Więcej: trudno nie odnieść wrażenia, że mówimy dokładnie o tym samym zjawisku. W USA szybko dorobiło się ono ładnej nazwy Trump Deragement Syndrome, czyli “zespołu obłędu Trumpowskiego”. 

Obłęd ten objawiał się pod postacią przekonania, że wszystko na świecie obraca się wokół Trumpa; każde słowo i ruch Trumpa są wyjątkowo ważne i groźne; a jako że sam Trump jest historycznym skandalem, to nawet banalne czy ulotne rzeczy związane z Trumpem nie są błachostkami, lecz skandalami o historycznym wymiarze. Choroba nie doprowadziła do śmierci dotkniętych nią jednostek, ale osłabiła kolektywne ciało amerykańskiego liberalizmu czy demokracji na tyle, żeby ten dwukrotnie w ciągu dekady przegrał walkę z kimś takim jak Trump właśnie. W Polsce w przypadku Mentzena nie mamy jeszcze nazwy na podobny rodzaj obłędu, ale myślę że spokojnie możemy mówić o dziejącej się na naszych oczach Mencenofobii czy Mencnopanice.

Williams' success with APX led him to create several games for Synapse Software, including the beloved Alley Cat and the incomprehensible fantasy masterpiece Necromancer, before moving to the Amiga, where he created the experimental Mind Walker and his ambitious "cultural simulation" Knights of the Crystallion.

Necromancer, Williams' later creation for the Atari 800, plays like a fever dream—you control a druid fighting off spiders while growing magic trees and battling an undead wizard. It makes absolutely no sense by conventional standards, but it's brilliant in its otherworldliness.

"The first games that I did were very hard to explain to people and they just kind of bought it on faith," Williams said in a 1989 interview with YAAM (Yet Another Amiga Magazine), suggesting this unconventional approach started early. That willingness to create deeply personal, almost surreal experiences defined Williams' work throughout his career.

A framework agreement signed during King Frederik X's first state visit to France foresees 'the supply of 250 to 1,000 Mistral 3 missiles,' the Elysée said on Tuesday. This comes against a backdrop of America's push for Greenland, a Danish territory.

Smart TVs and streaming devices running Amazon’s Fire OS have screensaver ads, too. Even LG, which is considered a more premium brand, launched screensaver adsin September, but users can disable them.

Startup Telly is a standout example of a company trying to monetize idle TV time. Announced in 2023, Telly TVs have a secondary screen that can show ads when the TV is not in use. Telly TVs are free to purchase in exchange for providing the company with user data, including disclosing your favorite news outlets, film and TV genres, foods, and services, your gender and race, and other information before you’re able to order the TV.

The US Army is investigating what happened.

The statement did not specify where the final soldier's body was found. The team had been working near the border with Belarus.

The M88A2 Hercules, one of the largest military vehicles used by the US Armed Forces, is designed to recover damaged tanks and other vehicles from battlefields.

Members of ZeniMax Workers United, a union of over 300 quality assurance workers in Texas and Maryland, have voted to authorize a strike.

The vote, which passed with over 94 percent in favor of authorization, does not mean workers have gone on strike like SAG-AFTRA members have in the ongoing video game voice actors strike. But should contract negotiations break down, the ZeniMax union now has the permission to call a strike.

This authorization comes as contract negotiations between union members and parent company Microsoft continue into a second year.

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In Severance, technology allows the employees of Lumon Industries to split into two versions of themselves: one that lives outside of work and another that exists solely in the office — the “outies” and the “innies.” The sci-fi thriller takes off when the innies begin to question their reality: What are they really doing? What are their outie versions like? In other words, they start to become self-aware.

After a first season that posed a wealth of intriguing questions and captivated audiences with its striking visual style, the second installment shifts the focus to the characters and their emotions — especially the innies, who have been given the fewest answers.

“It was important to us that the characters started to feel more human, because this is the story of them discovering their humanity. Part of the fun of the first season was that these characters were almost a sketch, a facsimile of the human experience. But this season, they start to wonder, ‘Who am I outside of here? Who would I be if I didn’t live in here?‘” explained Erickson in a video interview with EL PAÍS a few days after the second season finale aired.

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Led by Dan Reynolds, the group is often dismissed by critics for producing formulaic stadium rock, yet they continue to captivate millions, making them the most successful rock outfits of their generation

Imagine Dragons have just made a big splash with the release of their new concert film, Imagine Dragons: Live From The Hollywood Bowl. The film captures the energy of the four concerts the U.S. band performed last year in Los Angeles, accompanied by a symphony orchestra. And now they are embarking on the European leg of their Loom World Tour.

Sure, the fact that new Game Boy games are coming out in 2025 is incredibly exciting, but I bet you didn't think you'd be seeing a new game complete-in-box for the Nokia NGage? 

Say what you want about Nokia's entry into the handheld world (and Nokia's stupidly timed release date competing with the Game Boy Advance), it's still an interesting bit of kit and has a loyal cult following of gamers who still wonder 'what could have been' if the NGage had managed to defy all the odds and become a commercial success.