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To celebrate its 70th anniversary, Akira Kurosawa’s black-and-white epic Seven Samurai is coming back to theaters with a new 4K restoration.

Arguably the crowning achievement of one of the world’s most lauded filmmakers, the film depicts a small village in the 16th century that is threatened by bandits. To protect themselves from the invaders, the



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eBay will no longer accept American Express payments starting August 17th, the company announced on Wednesday. It blames the change on the “unacceptably high fees” for Amex credit card transactions.

“Credit card transaction fees continue to rise unabated because of a lack of meaningful competition,” eBay writes in a notice to customers. “There is a



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The best soundbars include models from brands like Sonos.

The best soundbars deliver a convenient way to upgrade your home audio setup. Even top TVs often have wimpy built-in speakers that lack depth and clarity. A good soundbar can be a game changer, providing clearer dialogue



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If House of the Dragon Season 1 was the slow burn of the fuse leading up to the Dance of the Dragons, then Season 2 is the powder keg finally going off. Dragons will battle dragons, kin will slay kin, and thousands of soldiers and smallfolk will lose their lives in the oncoming war between Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and her half-brother Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney).

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Meta is leaking devices on Threads for those who are eagle-eyed enough to see it.

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth posted a video (via TechRadar) on Threads that's meant to showcase some new VR software features, but that's not why it's interesting. At one point, you can see a white Meta Quest headset on a desk in the background that is clearly neither the Quest 2 nor Quest 3, but something that has



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Ukrainian servicemen of Azov brigade are seen at an artillery position as Russia-Ukraine war continues in the direction of Lyman, Ukraine on April 07, 2024.
  • A White House official says Ukraine needs a consistent flow of capabilities, not one decisive weapon, to defeat Russia.
  • Russia is believed to be producing artillery shells three times faster than Ukraine's NATO partners.
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Boeing’s Starliner has successfully docked with the ISS — but not without some last-minute problems. The company’s first crewed test flight to the space station linked up at 1:34 PM ET after missing its first shot due to several thrusters malfunctioning. Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams plan to spend the next eight days onboard the ISS before returning to Earth.

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New Google Play guidelines are putting the cuffs on generative AI apps offering dubious tools, such as deepfake "undressing" apps and those producing graphic content.

The updated app store policy, announced Thursday, instructs generative AI apps and their developers to build-in precautions against offensive content, "including prohibited content listed under Google Play’s Inappropriate Content poli



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Evidence of the Milky Way’s past is encoded in wrinkles of stars, whose positions and movements have shifted as our galaxy has interacted with other galaxies, sometimes violently. Now, a team of astronomers say that the most recent of those cosmic collisions was billions of years later than was thought, making the…

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