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Temperatures are rising as summer bakes, next month  cold hearts will be beating with Tubi FrightFest. Today the dark heart of cinema unveil their 2026 line-up, one they promise will be a ‘Monster’. The UK’s number 1 horror & fantasy film festival will return for it’s annual 5 day event, with a record breaking line-up. With horrific delights from around the world, celebration of nerve-jangling eeriness, hair-raising shock, and epic scares. Taking over Odeon LUXE Leicester Square and the ODEON Luxe West End between 27th August and 31st August. 2025 line-up consisted of 69 films, this year will be 82…

Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States.The latest commitment appears to bring the company’s total pledges for investment in U.S. chipmaking to $265 billion. It also raised its annual revenue forecast after booking record high profits thanks to runaway demand from the boom in artificial intelligence.The world’s largest contract chip manufacturing and one of the world’s most valuable companies, TSMC is seen as a barometer for the global chip industry and for AI at a time when worries about a potential AI bubble have…

Noah Kahan wrapped four straight nights on stage this week and came out sounding like a man reborn. The Vermont folk singer-songwriter put an Instagram message up that hit fans right in the chest. “The feeling of being alive for the first time in a long time. Thank you for the best 4 nights ever.” No venue listed, no city tagged. Pure gratitude with nothing held back. And people felt it. The post pulled over 111,000 likes. For an artist like Kahan, who built his following through raw honesty rather than big label machinery, that kind of response makes sense.…

Corus Entertainment is laying off staff at Global News and Corus Radio. On Wednesday, The Western Standard reported that Corus is shutting down local news production in Calgary and Edmonton to transfer this work to its central Toronto hub. A Corus spokesperson confirmed the news to the publication, saying the cuts are being made to “strengthen and sustain” its news divisions. “To be clear, Corus is maintaining local news delivery in Calgary and Edmonton,” said the Corus representative. “While some roles have been impacted as we centralize production, we are adding additional roles to continue providing news programming in these…

Google might launch an AI product with one name during its experimental phase, but it will eventually tie it all to Gemini. In the latest example of this trend, the company is renaming its AI-powered research product NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. The company is also adding features to make the tool more interactive by infusing coding execution for data analysis. The company first showed off NotebookLM during Google IO in 2023 as Project Tailwind, and since then, it has made it into a product used by 30 million people and over 600,000 organizations. In the last three years, the company…

A self-funding businessman is seizing on messy scandals to try and topple President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate for a deep-red House seat. Republican Daniel Keenan is making a hard run at former Sheriff Mark Lamb in Arizona’s 5th District, pouring over $1.6 million of his own cash into the effort and raising questions about Lamb’s fitness for office following a string of sex scandals. The race will test whether GOP voters care more about the allegations — or whether Trump’s support is enough to get him across the finish line. A multi-part Arizona Republic investigation found that Lamb allegedly engaged…

Newly released audio shows Nolan Xavier Wells‘ friends calling for help after their boat reportedly malfunctioned while on Horn Island. Additionally, GPS data on the boat’s movements on July 4 has been shared. RELATED: Nolan Xavier Wells’ Parents Say They “Don’t Know” Tracestin Shepherd, As Updated Funeral Info Shared & Jackson County DA Speaks Out Newly Released Audio Shows Nolan Wells’ Friends Calling For Help After Boat Reportedly Malfunctioned In a report published by NBC News on Wednesday, July 15, the outlet shared audio of Nolan Wells’ friends calling for help. This, reportedly, because “their boat was taking on water” while…

Listen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Canada will spend almost $2 billion over four years on 190 armoured combat support vehicles that will be built by London, Ont.-based General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday. Speaking in the southwestern Ontario, Carney told reporters that the new vehicles will boost Canada’s fleet of armoured combat support vehicles to 550 and will serve as key military assets for “decades to come.””Today’s announcement is our Defence…

One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about writing this series is that it has made Omar and me look at familiar places through a completely different lens. Guanajuato isn’t somewhere we’ve just stumbled across. In fact, I should probably admit from the outset that it has a slight advantage over some of the other places we’ve considered. It’s one of my favorite cities in Mexico. We’ve visited several times over the years, and we’ve even made the journey from Puerto Vallarta on our motorcycle, Dora. And that’s no small ride, let me tell ya! Until now, though, we’ve always…

LONDON — Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is spending $2 billion over the next four years to build up Canada’s fleet of armoured vehicles. The planned addition of 190 armoured combat support vehicles will bring the military’s total fleet up to 550 vehicles. Carney is in London, Ont., today at the Canadian campus of global defence contractor General Dynamics to announce the deal. The prime minister says every single vehicle will be built at the company’s Ontario factory with parts sourced from providers across the country. The procurement is an example of Ottawa’s defence industrial strategy, he…