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Xbox Is Forming A New Division Focused On Film, TV, And Adaptations

And the former head of Minecraft is going to run it

Xbox is launching a new film and TV division

Xbox is launching a new division, called "XP," that's dedicated to Xbox experiences that aren't video games, including films and TV adaptations, consumer products, live events, and partnerships...

Why Bollywood Hasn't Matched Hollywood's Global Reach

Bollywood makes more movies but doesn’t have the global impact of Hollywood. JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar tells Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin why it hasn’t achieved world scale, and what needs...

How India Can Turn Its Culture into Economic Power | Emerging

India produces more films than any other country and turned cricket into a multi-billion dollar sport. And yet it hasn’t built a strong global audience. In this episode of Emerging, Haslinda Amin...

FTSE 100 Live: UK Assets Show Few Signs of Recovery

Georgia vs. Alabama weather tracker: SEC officials expect game to be played on time despite messy forecast

It could get soggy in Tuscaloosa, but the pivotal SEC showdown is currently expected to go on as scheduled

Teenage Engineering’s CEO says it’ll stop making synths

Teenage Engineering founder and CEO Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety that it plans to stop making synths. And yes, that includes the iconic OP-1, which put the company on the map. TE isn't just...

Rockstar, Does GTA 6’s Jason Show Full Hog Or Not?

I know I’ll see him naked, but just how naked?

SA analyst: S&P 500 shows resilience despite higher Treasury yields

Roku’s OLED TVs are up to $400 off during Prime Day, starting at $700

Just over a week ago, we covered a deal at Amazon that knocked around 30 percent off Roku’s new (and first-ever) OLED TVs. The deal expired, but has returned for the final day of October Prime...

Best Buy Ads expands reach with LG TV advertising partnership

Disney Confirms That Disney+ Will Stream The 2027 Super Bowl

Today, Disney confirmed that Disney+ will be the streaming host for the 2027 Super Bowl. Bloomberg's Geetha Ranganathan says that this is necessarily a surprise. (Source: Bloomberg)

Skydance shares extend decline as debt, streaming challenges weigh

Real estate shows seasonal strength in midterm years

Pokémon Fans Are Trading Cards For Jonas Brothers Concert Memorabilia

Better a cute concert memory than helping a scalper, I suppose

The School Near Paris That Shows Why French Students Are Protesting

Angered by poor classroom conditions, students at Paul Éluard High School in a suburb of the capital were among the first to blockade their campus during an ongoing round of unrest.

What Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-Right

If there is one thing that the last decade ought to have taught us, it is that strong objective factors do not automatically translate into powerful movements, let alone into the spontaneous...

A Brief History of Iconic Women Spies in the Comics

Señorita Rio stands out as a particularly groundbreaking character, an actor of Latinx heritage who gives up the glitz of Hollywood for the danger of espionage. Created by writer Joe Hawkins and...

Book of Hours

The woman first saw the stranded pilgrim, babe in arms, on a poster on the wall of the Medieval Center at the University of Bordeaux the year she finally studied abroad. The black-and-white...

Japan’s Rapidus faces uphill battle to fill its $15B chip factory

But We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about How to Be More Alive

How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we...

Semiconductors pushed into insulator territory

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02968-6A material that was previously assumed to be an electrical insulator has been shown to be a semiconductor, with potential...

Nuclear clocks tick for the first time

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03060-9Ultraprecise clocks that use transitions in atomic nuclei to keep time show promise as a next-generation time standard and...

Observation of relativistic bond weakening in seaborgium hexacarbonyl

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11105-2Gas chromatography analysis of compounds formed by the superheavy element seaborgium shows that the hexacarbonyl complex...

Mechanism of spliceosome termination

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11101-6A coordinated sequence of RNA helicases and associated factors dismantles normal and defective spliceosome complexes to...

A 7-eV bandgap semiconductor based on silicon-doped α-(AlxGa1−x)2O3

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11085-3Suboxide molecular-beam epitaxy is used to grow silicon-doped α-(AlxGa1−x)2O3 films with bandgaps exceeding 7.0 eV,...

Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11097-zA 1,000-year lake-sediment record from southeastern Australia shows that colonial disruption of Indigenous cultural burning...

A split attractor design for rapidly writing a navigational goal

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11144-9The recurrent h∆K–PFG neural circuit generates persistent heading memories through slow excitation, fast inhibition and a...

Xbox Lands Exclusive Streaming Rights For GTA 6 At Launch

A workaround for PC players

Let’s All Hear It For the Skydance Nepo Baby

David Ellison's old Hollywood takeover is complete

Energy Firms Try to Squeeze More Power Out of Old Nuclear Plants

It takes a long time to build new nuclear plants. So, some U.S. companies are looking to get more electricity out of reactors that already exist.

Emmy Awards leave broadcast TV for Prime Video in 2027 under six-year deal

The Emmy Awards will stream exclusively and free on Prime Video worldwide starting in 2027 under a six-year deal.

Live From the Barracks: Three Juntas Launch TV Channel

Three African countries have started Tafouk TV, a Russia-partnered broadcast channel, after throwing out Western journalists and cracking down on local media.

Arc Raiders And The Finals Set For Movie, TV Adaptations

Both Embark Studios games are looking to expand their horizons in new mediums

Netflix expands TV game lineup with Conjuring spinoff

Netflix just announced The Conjuring: Unspoken, a new horror game set in The Conjuring universe that you can play with your phone as a controller, and it will launch exclusively on the service on...

Apple TV’s great year continues with Small Prophets

Apple TV has had a really great run in 2026 - and a cozy new addition is helping expand its lineup even more. As the streaming service has attempted to grow in order to better compete with the...

Paramount Closes Warner Merger in Historic Hollywood Deal

Paramount Skydance Corp. closed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., combining two of the five largest Hollywood film studios and uniting major franchises such as Harry Potter and...

HBO Max and Paramount Plus will merge into a single streamer under Skydance

HBO Max and Paramount Plus will become one streaming service under Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. In a press release announcing the completion of the deal,...

Google, Constellation Energy Strike Nuclear Power Deal

Google parent Alphabet Inc. agreed to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy in a 20-year power-purchase agreement that will drive more than $4.3 billion in investments to upgrade systems at...

Warner Bros. Games Now Belongs To Skydance, But Company Makes No Mention Of That In Big Announcement

Paramount has officially completed its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, but the company's announcement of the deal closing did not contain a single mention of video games....

Google Nuke Deal Jolts Constellation Energy To Top Of S&P 500

The Google deal will be like adding a nuclear reactor to the grid, but faster.

SEC Power Rankings: Alabama leapfrogs Georgia ahead of marquee Week 6 showdown

The Crimson Tide are making moves on the strength of an offense that has scored at least 45 points in every game of its 5-0 start

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery complete $110 billion media megamerger

Paramount has completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, forming a combined company known as Skydance. The merger officially puts Paramount and WBD's film studios, along...

Sushi Restaurants Put on Tuna Carving Dinner Shows

Sushi restaurants are swapping soft music and carefully plated fish for the spectacle of breaking down 200-pound bluefin tuna in front of paying customers. Some are charging well into five figures...

Trump says MAGA Inc. will cover costs for controversial TV ads

Nasdaq 100 Hits Record Highs As Investors Shrug Off Pressure From Soaring Yields — NVDA, SPCX, CRML, TSLA, QCOM In Focus

The ISM report showed that the Purchasing Managers' Index for services came in at 54.9% in September, roughly in line with expectations.

Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity

"Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?"

Hideo Kojima Wants To Keep OD A Mystery, Even By His Standards

Games developed by Hideo Kojima typically have an air of mystery, but for his upcoming horror project OD, the veteran game director wants to both terrify and mystify his fans. On a new episode of...

How Bill Skarsgard Became The Face Of Hideo Kojima’s Physint

Hideo Kojima's spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid, Physint, doesn't just have a new home at Xbox; it also has a famous face attached to it, with Bill Skarsgard (It, Boy Kills World) playing...

Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike

Nvidia's Shield TV streaming boxes are the latest victims of the memory shortage that has seen prices increase dramatically for everything from digital cameras to game consoles. When the Shield TV...