Hundreds of people turned up to a US park for a heated pool noodle brawl to find out who is the rightful owner of the name Josh. A 22-year-old named Josh Swain came up with the idea for the funny fight when boredom set in during the COVID pandemic a year ago. The student from
Ventilators are among 600 pieces of life-saving medical equipment being sent from the UK to India as the country battles a surge in COVID-19 cases. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to “stand side by side” with India as it struggles with its highest numbers of new daily coronavirus cases to date since the pandemic
The NFL draft is coming to Clubhouse. The buzzy social media audio app has teamed with the National Football League to produce a lineup of original programming around the 2021 NFL Draft. You’ll be able to find out where Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence or Alabama’s DeVonta Smith is drafted after the NFL became the first major
There are many labor-intensive tasks that the IT service desk carries out on a daily basis. None as tedious and costly as resetting passwords. Modern IT service desks spend a significant amount of time both unlocking and resetting passwords for end-users. This issue has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Causes of account lockouts and
Mark Bryan and Wyatt Durrette headed to paradise for their new “Takin’ a Ride” music video. The Hootie & the Blowfish co-founder and hit country songwriter are using the clip, premiering exclusively on The Boot, to spotlight hurricane rebuilding efforts in the Bahamas. Shot in Elbow Cay, Bryan and Durrette’s video finds them hanging at
Nokia X20 will not ship with a wall charger, as per the product page of the smartphone. Nokia licensee HMD Global launched the smartphone earlier this month in Europe and it will go on sale next month. The Finnish company says that this has been done to reduce the ecological impact of the Nokia X20.
Barry Keoghan, star of Dunkirk and The Eternals, has shared a new photo from behind the scenes of The Batman, Matt Reeves’ upcoming reboot of the Batman franchise, in which the actor is playing a Gotham City cop. This is the first fans have seen Keoghan on the set, although his casting was revealed by
Parker McCollum released another stripped-down, acoustic performance of his song “Hell of a Year” from his breakout 2017 album Probably Wrong. He’s been hinting at the possibility of a new album coming in July and has also released a few other acoustic videos including “Like A Cowboy”. He’s even been touring around Texas some, which
Star Wars fans have a bit of a wait before the third season of The Mandalorian hitsDisney+, but thankfully there are two wonderful seasons we can go back and revisit over and over again. Taking it back to the show’s first season, there were three episodes that featured the Armorer, the fierce Mandalorian tribe leader
It seems there are customs that even a pandemic can’t disrupt. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s extraordinary dedication to producing a mixed-bag set of Oscar nominees year in, year out — don’t they get tired? — is one such ritual. Sure, the actual ceremony is delayed, and the eligibility rules — which
There’s an ancient Chinese proverb that parents like to tell their kids whenever they start getting angry or worked up. It literally translates to “A quiet heart will naturally keep you calm and cool.” The idea, in Asian culture, is that it’s better to keep your mouth shut rather than to cause a fuss, for
Did you know Book Riot has a podcast dedicated to all things YA? You do now! (Or maybe you already did, in which case, thank you for listening! You’re our favorite! Please rate and review.) I joined Book Riot and Hey YA in September of 2020. Founding co-host Eric Smith left big, hot dog-shaped shoes
A Torrance woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Northern California rapper who investigators say she misidentified as the shooter who killed her boyfriend in Seal Beach last August.
This article contains Mortal Kombat (2021) spoilers. “Test your might.” These are the words of a minigame in the original Mortal Kombat arcade fighter from 1992. They were meant to signal an interlude between the simple pleasures of digitized sprites spilling buckets of blood. Yet they’ve also become synonymous with a franchise that’s arguably the
A ‘blank cheque’ company set up by the Japanese technology giant SoftBank is in talks to merge with a start-up which competes with the likes of Google Maps in the provision of sophisticated location data services. Sky News has learnt that Mapbox is in detailed negotiations to go public through a special purpose acquisition company
A 20-year-old woman was arrested in connection with a four-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in Sherman Oaks on the eastbound 101 Freeway that killed two people — including a 15-year-old boy. The woman, identified as Bianca Lopez, 20, of Los Angeles, was hospitalized after the crash with moderate injuries and then taken into custody, the
A monster truck has carried the casket of rapper DMX to a memorial service in New York. The big-wheel truck had the words “Long Live DMX” painted on the side and carried his shiny red casket from Yonkers to Brooklyn. Thousands of motorcycles also made the journey, with thousands of people watching from the streets.
Bill Gates is still hopeful the world will be “completely back to normal” by the end of 2022. Speaking to Sophy Ridge On Sunday, the entrepreneur and philanthropist added the US should soon have excess coronavirus vaccines to share with other countries. But the 65-year-old said he was worried the world would not learn the
On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released new Covid-19 data, reporting 16 new deaths and 443 new positive cases of the virus. While the number of hospitalizations continues to decrease across the County as more vaccines are given, the number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in
Click Studios, the Australian software company behind the Passwordstate password management application, has notified customers to reset their passwords following a software supply chain attack. The Adelaide-based firm said a bad actor used sophisticated techniques to compromise the software’s update mechanism and used it to drop malware on user computers. The breach is said to