Climbable sculpture in Hudson Yards in Manhattan closed in 2021 after four people died by suicideThe Vessel, the huge climbable centerpiece of New York’s upmarket Hudson Yards development that saw a number of suicides, is set to reopen later this year with new safety features, according to developers.The 150ft sculpture, designed by Thomas Heatherwick and built at a cost of $260m, was closed three years ago after four people jumped to their deaths. Besides overall criticism of its design –...
The IW engine in Call of Duty has been holding back the franchise for years, as new titles used to feel unique and bring innovation, but now Warzone is the primary focus, and Call of Duty 2024 may suffer because of that. Since Modern Warfare 2019's release, Call of Duty has been under the influence of the IW 8.0 engine developed by Infinity Ward, and it's becoming tiresome. Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, and Infinity Ward previously developed Call of Duty titles with their own...
KSI’s brother, Deji Olatunji, has been called out by ‘Britain’s worst boxer’ Robin Deakin. Deakin retired from professional boxing in 2018 with a record of 2-53 and once end
The world’s oldest boxer, Steve Ward, has called out John Fury. The Nottingham puncher, who holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest boxer to compete in a sanctioned bout at 64, c
You can call Vault-Tec's number from Prime Video's Fallout, and the results are truly much darker than you might have expected.
Famous for its craft beer and indie bookstores, the city of Portland in Oregon is not an obvious place for the United States to start fraying at the seams. A haunt of Millennial hipsters and downsized tech bros, it prides itself as a vegan-friendly, eco-friendly, migrant-friendly beacon of progressive America.
Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Tuesday criticized President Joe Biden’s campaign strategy, arguing his former boss should focus less on bridges and more on the economy and rising prices ahead of a rematch this fall with Republican nominee Donald Trump.
With a windfall of cash five years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was doing away with a state budget "gimmick" one of his predecessors relied on to shave about $800 million off a deficit during the Great Recession. The accounting trick, adopted in 2009, delayed state worker payroll from the end of one fiscal year on June 30 to the start of the next on July 1. A decade later Newsom spent nearly $1 billion to end the subterfuge, with one caveat. “If I use it in six years, in a recession, forgive...
Peter MacLoughlin has raised the issue of detachable safety restrictor catches on high-rise flat windows with Sheffield City Council and said that the council should not house vulnerable people at height. He responded again after South Yorkshire assistant coroner Alexandra Pountney this week (April 3) issued a prevention of future deaths report that she sent to the council following the death of Saffra Winn, who fell from her flat in Upperthorpe in July 2022. The inquest took place last month....
The following contains spoilers for Episode 5 of Chucky Season 3. Devon Sawa realizes how special his gig on Chucky has been. Just one day before the premiere of Season 3, Part 2 — the episode where Sawa (you were warned!) gets killed off the series for the fourth time — the actor tells TVLine that […]
Pruitt Taylor Vince will play Pa Kent.
In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the sentient computer HAL becomes unreliable and eventually homicidal. The cause of this is a contradiction in HAL’s programming. While programmed to act on and dispense information in a straightforward and accurate fashion, HAL is simultaneously programmed to lie about the true nature of his mission. As his More