‘The Blair Witch Project’. Photo: Lionsgate.Preview:A reboot of ‘The Blair Witch Project’ is moving forward.Blumhouse and Lionsgate are backing the movie.Rights to the project will be up for sale at the Cannes film market.Cult hit and –– (gulp) since it was released in 1999 –– classic horror movie ‘The Blair Witch Project’ is venturing into the thorny woods of reboot territory.Blumhouse is partnering with Lionsgate to figure out a new take on the low-budget chiller, with Dylan Clark, who has been making a name for himself in the YouTube sphere and has deals with other studios to adapt his work,…
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The Liberia-flagged crude oil tanker Shenlong Suezmax successfully docked at Mumbai Port after navigating the high-risk Strait of Hormuz amid the intensifying West Asia conflict on March 11, 2026 in Mumbai, India. Hindustan Times | Getty ImagesOil prices jumped Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the conflict with Iran was “not over,” raising fears that tensions in the Middle East could escalate again and further threatening energy supplies. U.S. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, rejected Iran’s counteroffer to end the war with the U.S. and Israel. “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called “Representatives.” I don’t like it —…
CLIFTON, New Jersey — Along with aisles of diapers and colorful onesies, Target shoppers in some of the retailer’s big-box stores can now find baby brands typically carried by specialty boutiques. Shoppers can see, feel and test strollers, car seats and high chairs outside of cardboard boxes at about 200 stores, or roughly 10% of the retailer’s footprint. They can find merchandise from high-end brands, including a $1,000 UPPAbaby stroller. And customers can browse nearly 2,000 new baby items, which are available across all of the retailer’s stores and online.Target’s “baby boutiques,” which have rolled out over the past two…
Dua Lipa has sued Samsung over its use of her image on cardboard packaging for some of its televisions, which the singer says she did not consent to. Lipa is seeking “no less than $15 million” in damages for “copyright infringement, trademark infringement and misappropriation of Plaintiff’s likeness and image.”In a complaint filed on May 8 in the United States District Court for California’s Central District and viewed by Pitchfork, Lipa alleges that Samsung prominently featured a photograph of her face on boxes for various television models, which were sold in stores across the United States. According to the suit,…
Sam Rutherford for Engadget The idea of installing a software update on your fridge already feels kind of weird, let alone one centered around improving its AI capabilities. But that’s exactly what’s happening to Samsung’s line of Bespoke refrigerators this week, and to my surprise this patch is making major strides at providing truly useful machine learning in a modern day icebox. As a quick recap, Samsung has offered AI-powered features like automatic food recognition and meal planning on its Bespoke refrigerators for a couple years already. However, as I…
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departs the White House in Washington, May 1, 2026.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersIran is “currently reviewing” messages from the U.S. that it received via Pakistani mediators, but it has yet to reach a conclusion or deliver a reply, an Iranian official said Thursday, state media outlets reported.The comments attributed to Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei came one day after Axios and other outlets reported that the U.S. and Iran were nearing a 14-point memorandum of understanding to end the war and tee up further nuclear talks.President Donald Trump later said…
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week, including the week’s bestselling books, the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners, and more. We’re less than one month out from Pride month, and with it, the programs, book displays, and conversations about LGBTQ+ identity and history across the USA and beyond. For libraries, Pride has traditionally been a month for joyful displays of queer books, with periodic and predictable complaints. But several years into surging book bans, escalating violence,…
TV’s most scandalous show with the juiciest drama that we just can’t stop watching returns on May 15 with its second season, but with a series of books by Jilly Cooper that it could follow, what’s the latest on Rivals Season 3? “We’ve already planned Season 3. It’s not officially greenlit yet, but the stories are all done. We’re ready. We’re ready to go,” executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins said on the red carpet for the series recently. Read on for everything we know so far about Rivals Season 3. Is Rivals renewed for Season 3? Not yet! But given the success of Season…
Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, accusing the electronics company of using her likeness to sell TVs without her permission or compensating her. In a complaint filed on Friday in the Central District of California, the multi-Grammy winner is accusing the electronics company of “copyright infringement, trademark infringement and violation of her right of publicity in order to obtain redress for the massive, continuing, unauthorized commercial exploitation of her valuable image and likeness.” Lipa alleges that Samsung used a photo, which she owns the copyright to, that was taken backstage at the Austin City Limits Music Festival…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026. Ronen Zvulun | ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the war with Iran is “not over,” as the U.S. and Israel still aim to bring an end to Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.”There’s still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran,” he said in a taped interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that is set to air Sunday night. “There is still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled, there’s still proxies that Iran…
GameStop’s mysterious financing letter underpinning its audacious $56 billion bid for eBay is emerging as a central issue in the proposed takeover, as questions mount over whether the deal is actually financeable.The video game retailer said it has lined up a $20 billion financing commitment from TD Securities, part of TD Bank. But a key condition attached to this letter could ultimately make or break the deal: the combined company would need to maintain an investment-grade credit profile, CNBC’s David Faber reported, citing people who have seen the document. Moody’s Ratings said Wednesday that the proposed acquisition would be “credit…
The Akamai Technologies logo and lettering can be seen on the headquarters building at the company’s German headquarters in Garching near Munich (Bavaria). Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesAkamai’s stock jumped 20% Friday after it announced a $1.8 billion deal with an AI company and posted first-quarter earnings that were in line with estimates.Shares are up 65% over the past 12 months. A “leading frontier model provider” has committed to $1.8 billion over seven years for cloud infrastructure services, Akamai’s CEO Tom Leighton said in the press release Thursday. He did not name the provider. The American cybersecurity…
When wildlife TV personality Forrest Galante sat down for his monthly call with YouTube consultant Paddy Galloway, he received some bad news.No more turtles.Galante has 2.5 million YouTube subscribers. He’s been producing wildlife programming for more than a decade, including a docuseries on Animal Planet and a show on the History Channel. He owns his own production company. Generally speaking, Galante’s got a good feel for what his audience wants. But it was Galloway, something of a guru in the still-burgeoning YouTube creator economy, who identified that whenever Galante showed turtles in his videos, viewer engagement dropped. It was consistent and…
Sleep Token have surprise-released the instrumental version of their latest album ‘Even In Arcadia’ – listen below. The London masked metal band released their fourth studio album last May, and it went on to score them their first Number One on both the UK Albums chart and the US Billboard 200. ‘Caramel’ also became the band’s first-ever UK top 10 single. Now, they have shared the instrumental version of the record, which is available on major streaming platforms now, and will be released on coloured vinyl from August 7 – you can pre-order/pre-save your copy here. Sleep Token have done this before – there have been releases of instrumental versions of their 2019…
Lime, the micromobility company known for its electric scooters and bicycles which are dumped across city streets, has filed for an initial public offering. The rental startup, which is officially known as Neutron Holdings, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, after teasing ambitions of going public back in 2021. The company that offers short-term rentals for its bright green scooters and bicycles was founded in 2017 and quickly won backing from major companies like Uber. In the SEC filing, Lime reported that it earned $521 million in revenue in 2023, growing to…
An artist’s impression of a light sailRICHARD BIZLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Interstellar travel propelled by light just got one step closer. Light sails, which are huge sheets pushed along by light that bounces off of them, may be the best way to travel enormous distances through space, and now we may have a way to steer them. “We knew already that any light or laser can impart momentum transfer, but now we can control the direction as well,” says Kaushik Kudtarkar at Texas A&M University. He and his colleagues created a tiny device called a metajet that uses refraction of light,…
A screengrab from a video released by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which accompanied a press release describing the operation dubbed “Epic Fury”, an attack by the United States and Israel on Iran, shows a flight deck crew member signaling an F‑35 jet on an aircraft carrier, in this image obtained from social media released on Feb. 28, 2026.CENTCOM Via X Via ReutersThe U.S. military said it struck two Iran-flagged unladen oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Friday, preventing the vessels from entering an Iranian port in violation of a U.S. naval blockade.A U.S. fighter jet “disabled both tankers…