NASA is breathing a sigh of relief following a successful demonstration in which a docked Cygnus freighter was temporarily converted into a booster engine for the International Space Station. The favorable test suggests NASA has the means to adjust the space station’s orbit should Russia decide to leave the orbital…
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy return as the Sanderson sisters in Disney’s sequel to the beloved Halloween classic.
If you’re deep in the Apple ecosystem, transferring files, text, and images between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac is ridiculously easy with the Universal Clipboard
A few months ago, Valve announced that both of its excellent Portal games were coming to the Nintendo Switch, but we didn’t know when. Today’s Nintendo Direct presentation cleared that up. Portal Companion Collection will arrive on the Switch later today for $19.99. The collection includes both the original Portal from 2007 as well as the more expansive, story-driven Portal 2 from 2011. Whether you missed these games the first time out or just want to replay a pair of classics, this collection sounds like a good way to return to one of the most intriguing worlds Valve ever created.
While the original Portal was strictly a single-player experience, Portal 2 has a split-screen co-op experience; you can also pay this mode with a friend online as well. And while these games originated on the PC, Valve also released Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 — and if I recall, the game’s controls mapped to a controller very well. Given that the Portal series is more puzzle-based than traditional first-person games, you shouldn’t have any problems navigating the world with a pair of Joy-Con controllers.
Russell Crowe gets ready to exorcise in his next project. Susan Sarandon offers a Blue Beetle filming update. Adult Swim’s Uzumaki anime has been delayed again. Plus, Outlander casting, what’s coming next on The Orville, and more. Spoilers, away!
“Was Jill flirting with me? Was I flirting with her? I had butterflies every time I thought about her. It is so weird — my first boyfriend’s sister?”
The Cadillac Lyric isn’t just the automaker’s first outing of the all-electric Ultium platform, it’s a complete reinvention of the company’s bland, boring SUVs.
Tom Cruise is a race fanatic and has assembled a collection of vehicles made famous by the movies in which he has starred. These are the rarest.
Airbnb is permanently banning all parties and events at host properties around the world, it announced. That follows a temporary 2020 ban it had instituted on house parties to comply with COVID-related social distancing restrictions. “Over time, the party ban became much more than a public health measure,” Airbnb said in a blog post. “It developed into a bedrock community policy to support our Hosts and their neighbors.”
Airbnb had already banned “chronic party houses” in 2019 following a California Halloween shooting that resulted in five deaths. It later barred all “open-invite” house parties, but still allowed invitation-only parties in single family dwellings. However, those too are now prohibited, under penalty of account suspension or full removal from the platform.
On a more positive note, Airbnb lifted a 16-person occupancy cap also instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s because certain properties “from castles in Europe to vineyards in the US to large beachfront villas in the Caribbean” can easily accommodate more than 16 people, it said, adding that “properties like these thrive on hosting multi-generational family trips and larger groups.”
The company runs a tip line that allows neighbors or others to report parties. Airbnb noted that it saw a 44 percent drop in the rate of party reports after the ban was implemented in 2020 and it suspended the accounts of around 6,600 guests for breaking the policy last year.
The black flame candle has been lit once more, and that can only mean one thing: our first look at the long-awaited sequel to Hocus Pocus is here.
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