Disney+’s Between Steps Is the K-Drama Ahn Pan-seok Finished Editing Before His Death

Kim So-hyun and Choo Young-woo play two graduate students who meet in a robotics lab in Between Steps, the slow-burn K-drama now on Disney+. Director Ahn Pan-seok, the filmmaker behind Something in th

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The AI boom just made Nvidia’s own Shield TV Pro $100 more expensive

Nvidia's streaming box now costs $299.99 for the same hardware it launched with, and the cheaper Shield TV is gone. The company blames memory prices, driven up by AI data centers buying every chip the

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Warner TV chief Channing Dungey poised to add MTV and Nickelodeon to TNT in merged Skydance

Deadline reports Paramount’s cable channels would join the WBD networks she runs, with George Cheeks above her on studios and cable

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Regal and Mocha Chai send Filipino men’s quiet grief on a road trip in One For The Road

Bar Boys director Kip Oebanda reunites four estranged school friends, led by Elijah Canlas, in a Philippines-Singapore co-production

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Schneider Electric nears $20bn PTC deal to link product design to the factory floor

The French maker of circuit breakers and backup batteries is in talks to buy PTC, whose Creo and Windchill software engineers use to design and manage products, in what would be its largest acquisitio

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Digger Box Office Bomb: Hollywood star Tom Cruise Is Paid First, Warner Bros. Absorbs the Loss

Digger's opening is being read as Tom Cruise's flop. The deal says otherwise: the star is paid before the studio recoups a dollar, and Warner Bros., days from its Paramount takeover, carries the loss.

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Mexico Defender AZ Alkmaar’s Mateo Chávez’s Red Card Explained: El Tri Lost in Its Own Build-Up

Mateo Chávez re-enacted his slap on Sebastian Berhalter for Jorge Campos after the match. But the red card came with Mexico already two down, and two of the three US goals began with Mexican passes in

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Beware Boiúna hides its giant snake, and critics split on Wrong Turn director Mike P. Nelson

Mike P. Nelson's Amazon creature feature turns Boiúna, the black river serpent of Brazilian folklore, into the landlord of a jungle that a medical mission should never have entered. Kiana Madeira, Jes

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GPT-6 Astra lost at StarCraft, so it swapped in a human’s champion bot

In an AI coding contest, OpenAI's model downloaded Stardust, a title-winning bot written by a human developer, and put it in the match in place of its own work. The organizer caught the swap and rolle

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Homo erectus was outnumbered 10 to 1 by a big-toothed cousin 2 million years ago

An adult skull fragment from the Drimolen cave confirms Homo erectus lived in South Africa 2 million years ago, about 200,000 years before adults of the species found anywhere else. At the same site,

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Google moves every free Gemini user to its smallest model on October 9

Gemini users who pay nothing will lose the Flash and Pro models and keep only Flash-Lite, Google's fastest and cheapest. The $4.99 AI Plus plan loses Pro as well, while the $19.99 AI Pro plan gains De

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Bruce Springsteen’s Live in Barcelona, a DVD for 23 years, finally becomes an album

The Rising tour concert at Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi, long known only as a platinum DVD, joins Springsteen’s live archive as a 24-song album remixed from the original multitrack tapes.

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Naomi Scott and Kit Harington’s Eternal Return finally books cinemas, 15 months after Toronto

Yaniv Raz's time-travel romance, with Naomi Scott as a woman who has given up on love and Kit Harington as the mapmaker who offers her a road back, has a North American distributor at last. The festiv

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Apple will make you prove you mean it before an AI agent reads your whole Mac

Full Disk Access, the macOS switch that lets one app read your files, mail, messages and browsing history, will soon demand very explicit user action. Apple names the reason outright: desktop assistan

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Perseverance finds groundwater, a lake and hot fluids all soaked the same Mars rock

NASA's Perseverance rover went to the edge of Jezero Crater expecting an ancient lakeshore. The rock there turned out to be volcanic, and water reworked it at least three times: carbon-rich groundwate

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Suno now reads your poem aloud and composes the music behind it in one take

Suno's Speech beta turns a typed poem, toast or bedtime story into up to eight minutes of narration with an original soundtrack, generated as a single track. It is open to every Suno user on the web a

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Skydance keeps HBO Max and Paramount+ apart as Casey Bloys floats a Disney-style bundle

David Ellison’s naming video closed on the merged company’s crown jewels, and both streamers made the cut next to Warner Bros., DC and CNN

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Muse Charm: “We’ve packed a lot of technology into this little guy”

Mark Zuckerberg pitched Meta’s Muse Charm like a pet. The keychain is a doorway to an AI agent that lives in Meta’s cloud, and Meta plans to profit from what it buys.

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Actor Pedro Pascal’s stillness in director Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’ splits critics

Pedro Pascal learned the cello for Tony Gilroy's 'Behemoth!'. Critics agree on the hands and split over the stillness of a virtuoso who has never chosen his own tempo.

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Salman Rushdie narrates his own attempted murder in Alex Gibney’s Knife, now in UK cinemas

Alex Gibney's documentary Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie adapts the author's memoir with Rushdie reading his own account over hospital footage shot by his wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

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One Last Shot ends Scott Adkins’ single-take trilogy and finally puts Dolph Lundgren on screen

One Last Shot, the third chapter of James Nunn's action series built to look like a single unbroken take, sends Scott Adkins' Navy SEAL Jake Harris after a former comrade who wants America's missile d

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Teslas can now drive off a Supercharger with the cable still plugged in

A free software update adds an emergency mode that lets US drivers pull away mid-charge. Tesla warns it damages both the car and the charger, sends camera clips back to the company and can leave up to

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Goldman spent $220mn propping up Shein’s IPO. Shares fell 38% anyway

Goldman Sachs used its entire price-support allowance, about $220 million of Shein stock, to steady the fast-fashion giant after its Hong Kong listing. The buying ended, first results showed profit mo

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Country singer Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Hits a Record 24 Weeks at No. 1 by Refusing to Leave

Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ owns the longest No. 1 run in Hot 100 history. The data shows a flat streaming line, rising radio and a chart that no longer pushes songs out, not the ‘psyop’ some list

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Nike plans more job cuts and warns of a sales drop as China revenue falls 26%

Nike's new Pace restructuring will cut an as-yet uncounted number of roles, move its Asia leadership to Singapore and open a campus in India, as sales in China fall for a ninth straight quarter and th

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Sir Alex Ferguson Was ‘Terrified’ After a Brain Haemorrhage Stole His Voice

The manager who ran Manchester United with his voice lost it after brain surgery. In 2018 he admitted only to nerves at his Old Trafford return; now he says he was terrified.

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Nations League 2026-27 New Coaches Ranked by Idea, Not Points: Jorge Jesus Leads, Klopp Last

Five of Europe's biggest national teams changed coach after the World Cup. Rank them by how much of each idea is already on the pitch, not by points, and Jorge Jesus's Portugal show the most, Klopp's

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Artery plaque already shows up in 1 in 13 adults under 30, before any symptom

Scans of 16,808 symptom-free adults in Denmark and Spain found artery plaque in 57% of them, including 1 in 13 people under 30. The standard heart-risk calculator flagged fewer than 2 in 100 of those

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Fast & Furious lands a Peacock series after Vin Diesel trusts Universal’s film chief with TV

Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will run the first live-action show from the billion-dollar saga, kept in-house at Universal Television

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Paramount dealmaker Gerry Cardinale says most of Warner’s $6B in savings will hit tech, not payrolls

The RedBird Capital founder says most of the merger's promised cost cuts will come from technology, real estate and marketing spend rather than layoffs

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