Hi, I'm the author of The Program audio series, a fairly successful fiction podcast that launched on HackerNews in 2018. Seven years later, this little sci-fi anthology is still ongoing, having releas...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Actors Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, James Ransone, Rob Reiner, and Michelle Trachtenberg died in 2025. ✓ M...
The author (right) poses with her friends while attending a Backstreet Boys concert at the Sphere in Vegas. Courtesy of Anna Rahmanan In August, I took a 48-hour break from motherhood to see the Backs...
Unlike the day after Thanksgiving, when people are rushing online and to the stores to look for deals, the day after Christmas is usually a time to recover from the festivities and check your budget t...
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2025 has been one of the strongest years for anime in ages, building on what is clearly a new Golden Age in the Japanese animation industry. With widening viewership, more access to anime on streaming...
The latest core series entry in the Doom franchise, The Dark Ages, which came out earlier this year, is seeing a major discount on physical copies of the Standard Edition for both PlayStation 5 and Xb...
📋 Key Facts ✓ DAC stands for digital-to-analog converter, converting digital music to audible analog sound. ✓ Apple Music uses ALAC enc...
The highest scores on IGN’s review scale are 9 for “Amazing” and 10 for “Masterpiece.” This year, only sixteen films received the highest marks from IGN’s roster of critics, and of those, only two fil...
📋 Key Facts ✓ No Other Choice releases in theaters on Christmas Day with a wide release in January. ✓ The film stars Lee Byung-hun as M...
📋 Key Facts ✓ 120 contestants participated in the 2025 Miss Universe pageant in Thailand across Bangkok, Phuket, and Pattaya. ✓ A confr...
Netflix has had an interesting year. Its ad tier, introduced last year, has grown significantly, and its live TV initiative has expanded to include not only weird one-offs like hot-dog-eating grudge m...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ Martha Stewart, 84, follows a weekday workout routine unchanged for decades, using the same weights to remain strong. ✓ P...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Season 2 Episode 6 titled 'Dark Night of the Soul' premiered on Paramount+ December 21 ✓ T.L. (Sam Elliott) punch...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Only 13 albums have spent 10 or more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 2000. ✓ Taylor Swift has four such albums,...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The Switch 2’s most impressive port is 75 percent off. ✓ This discount is part of Nintendo's holiday sale. ...
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Friday's "SmackDown" saw a new champion being crowned and the Cody Rhodes-Drew McIntyre rivalry reaching a new level....
The popularity of Chinese dramas is exploding, creating a multibillion-dollar industry. People worldwide find themselves attracted to these "universal" stories some say are normalizing Chinese culture...