What’s the Olympics without a little celebrity? The 2024 Paris Olympics has seen all the stars come out to support Team USA, but no one’s been a bigger fan than Snoop Dogg and Flavor Flav. The iconic rappers have made their presence known around the City of Lights, becoming two …
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They’ve eaten spicy wings together, they’ve interviewed each other, and now Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are going on a Chicken Shop Date together. In the clip above the Deadpool and Wolverine stars take turns sitting down opposite host Amelia Dimoldenberg, discussing everything from the biological habits of wolverines to …
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Drew Afualo is never at a loss for words. On the topic of idiot men who get a rise out of shaming women online—nitpicking them over their weight, their dress, or their body count (when it comes to sexual partners)—she, in fact, won’t shut up. It is why her fans, …
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The 2024 Paris Olympics is making a historic bid among a long lineage of international games, from its Seine cleaning efforts and integration of AI, to the first time the competition has achieved gender parity among athletes. Its leaders are also making claims for international camaraderie amid global turmoil, including …
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Jake Tapper looked as flummoxed as everyone else. After a week spent trying to figure out the whys and hows of the assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump, the CNN anchor was now facing something far more perplexing: why a British pop singer was calling Vice President Kamala …
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On February 11, 2024, over 123 million viewers tuned in to Super Bowl LVIII. The team at New Rockstars, a YouTube channel that analyzes and dissects geek culture, were among those glued to their TVs. Their attention was not on the football game, or even on Taylor Swift’s highly publicized …
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In the past week, a somewhat one-sided argument has taken over TikTok. Gen X, it seems, is “declaring war” on Gen Z, going viral with shitposts about what they see as Gen Z’s overreaction to Eminem’s new album The Death of Slim Shady. While it may be hard to work …
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This story originally appeared in WIRED Italia. It has been translated from Italian. The opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics is designed to be unlike any in years past. For starters, the festivities kicking off the 33rd edition of the Games won't be held in a stadium—they'll take …
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It’s been a long time since Comic-Con International attendees have encountered the convention they once knew. The excitement. The lines. The smell (IYKYK). In 2020 the event was canceled because of Covid-19. The following year there were some special virtual events, but no throngs of fans in cosplay delighted to …
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Ever since the assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump last Saturday, the tenor online has been understandably tense. Far-right extremists are sending out calls for violence, militias are recruiting, and everyone, it seems, has a conspiracy theory about what led to the shooting. But in the corners of …
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