The New Black

A virtual autopsy of the "Screaming Woman" mummy, discovered in Egypt in 1935, reveals a dramatic and painful death, with her face frozen in a scream due to a cadaveric spasm. This condition occurs when muscles stiffen immediately before death, often due to extreme distress. The study, published on August 2, 2024, in Frontiers in Medicine, highligh...

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has said that putting Call of Duty on Game Pass would likely bring new subscribers to the service “for a period of time,” but the company has no plans to do the same with its new triple-A releases.

James Webb Space Telescope images have uncovered an unexpected dust formation around a supermassive black hole, showing that gas collisions, not black hole radiation, heat the dust. This breakthrough by Newcastle University’s team challenges existing theories and offers new perspectives on galaxy evolution.

OnePlus’ latest variant of its first foldable has a couple of changes apart from its new leather-clad Crimson Red colourway. The phone has a slightly different design which makes way for another feature and has more similarities with the Oppo Find N3 Collector’s Edition launched in China. The phone also packs more RAM and storage compared to th...

The independent US presidential candidate said he and his friends were on a falconing excursion in New York state when a van ahead of him hit and killed a six-month-old black bear.

iPhone 16 series launch is still a couple of months away, but new leaks and rumours are surfacing almost every other day. A new leak has now revealed three of the colour options for the iPhone 16 Pro models. Notably, a fourth Titanium Rose colour option was also reported earlier, but it was not visible in the leaked image.

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, the upcoming action-adventure game featuring popular Marvel superheroes Captain America and Black Panther, will be published by Plaion. The company announced a worldwide publishing partnership with developer Skydance New Media, confirming that it will bring Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra to players in 2025.

Poco F6 Deadpool Limited Edition has been launched in India. The phone has a unique design inspired by Deadpool and Wolverine and it comes with Deadpool's iconic red and black colour scheme. It features a Deadpool logo on the camera island. Poco has collaborated with Marvel Studios to launch the Poco F6 Deadpool Limited Edition in the country. The ...

New body camera footage released by the Illinois State Police shows officers shooting dead an unarmed Black woman in her home after she called for help over a possible intruder.

Microsoft hiked the pricing for Xbox Game Pass and introduced a new ‘Standard’ tier for the game subscription service earlier this month, but more changes to Game Pass may be on their way. The Xbox parent could reportedly be working on more new Game Pass tiers. These could include a cloud-only subscription tier, an ad-supported tier and a frien...

One of the world's youngest air forces is taking part in war games alongside cutting-edge stealth fighter jets as the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea boosts defence ties with Australia and the United States.

HMD Skyline has been launched as the latest smartphone from the Finnish manufacturer HMD (Human Mobile Devices). The new offering comes in two colour options with a 6.55-inch OLED screen. The HMD Skyline runs on Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 chipset and has a triple rear camera setup led by a 108-megapixel main camera.

iQoo Neo 9s Pro+ was launched in China on Thursday (July 12). The new Neo 9 series flagship smartphone by the Vivo sub-brand comes in three colour options and is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. It houses a 5,500mAh battery with support for 120W fast charging. The iQoo Neo 9s Pro+ boasts an LTPO OLED display with up to 144Hz refresh ra...

Astronomers have scrutinized a cluster of stars that is the apparent remnant core of a relatively small galaxy that was swallowed by the sprawling Milky Way 8 to 10 billion years ago. What lurks at the center of this cluster has them excited.

Tourists thronging the Black Sea beaches of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula this summer share the space with a grim new arrival: bomb shelters and sandbags.

A virtual autopsy of the "Screaming Woman" mummy, discovered in Egypt in 1935, reveals a dramatic and painful death, with her face frozen in a scream due to a cadaveric spasm. This condition occurs when muscles stiffen immediately before death, often due to extreme distress. The study, published on August 2, 2024, in Frontiers in Medicine, highligh...

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has said that putting Call of Duty on Game Pass would likely bring new subscribers to the service “for a period of time,” but the company has no plans to do the same with its new triple-A releases.

James Webb Space Telescope images have uncovered an unexpected dust formation around a supermassive black hole, showing that gas collisions, not black hole radiation, heat the dust. This breakthrough by Newcastle University’s team challenges existing theories and offers new perspectives on galaxy evolution.

OnePlus’ latest variant of its first foldable has a couple of changes apart from its new leather-clad Crimson Red colourway. The phone has a slightly different design which makes way for another feature and has more similarities with the Oppo Find N3 Collector’s Edition launched in China. The phone also packs more RAM and storage compared to th...

The independent US presidential candidate said he and his friends were on a falconing excursion in New York state when a van ahead of him hit and killed a six-month-old black bear.

iPhone 16 series launch is still a couple of months away, but new leaks and rumours are surfacing almost every other day. A new leak has now revealed three of the colour options for the iPhone 16 Pro models. Notably, a fourth Titanium Rose colour option was also reported earlier, but it was not visible in the leaked image.

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, the upcoming action-adventure game featuring popular Marvel superheroes Captain America and Black Panther, will be published by Plaion. The company announced a worldwide publishing partnership with developer Skydance New Media, confirming that it will bring Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra to players in 2025.

Poco F6 Deadpool Limited Edition has been launched in India. The phone has a unique design inspired by Deadpool and Wolverine and it comes with Deadpool's iconic red and black colour scheme. It features a Deadpool logo on the camera island. Poco has collaborated with Marvel Studios to launch the Poco F6 Deadpool Limited Edition in the country. The ...

New body camera footage released by the Illinois State Police shows officers shooting dead an unarmed Black woman in her home after she called for help over a possible intruder.

Microsoft hiked the pricing for Xbox Game Pass and introduced a new ‘Standard’ tier for the game subscription service earlier this month, but more changes to Game Pass may be on their way. The Xbox parent could reportedly be working on more new Game Pass tiers. These could include a cloud-only subscription tier, an ad-supported tier and a frien...

One of the world's youngest air forces is taking part in war games alongside cutting-edge stealth fighter jets as the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea boosts defence ties with Australia and the United States.

HMD Skyline has been launched as the latest smartphone from the Finnish manufacturer HMD (Human Mobile Devices). The new offering comes in two colour options with a 6.55-inch OLED screen. The HMD Skyline runs on Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 chipset and has a triple rear camera setup led by a 108-megapixel main camera.

iQoo Neo 9s Pro+ was launched in China on Thursday (July 12). The new Neo 9 series flagship smartphone by the Vivo sub-brand comes in three colour options and is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. It houses a 5,500mAh battery with support for 120W fast charging. The iQoo Neo 9s Pro+ boasts an LTPO OLED display with up to 144Hz refresh ra...

Astronomers have scrutinized a cluster of stars that is the apparent remnant core of a relatively small galaxy that was swallowed by the sprawling Milky Way 8 to 10 billion years ago. What lurks at the center of this cluster has them excited.

Tourists thronging the Black Sea beaches of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula this summer share the space with a grim new arrival: bomb shelters and sandbags.