Pradershika Sharma

Pradershika Sharma

Freelance Writer

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Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals writer for Lifehacker.

She has a Master’s degree in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been writing professionally since 2018, creating product reviews, affiliate articles, and search ads for global clients while working with Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a year teaching English at the junior high level.

The second trailer for Dune: Part Three has arrived. The biggest takeaway from this new footage is that Part Three is not a straightforward adaptation of 1969’s Dune Messiah. The story is moving in a very different direction in the third and final part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune trilogy, and we couldn’t be more excited.

We spent some hands-on time with upcoming survival adventure shooter Zeverland, which seems to be equal parts hardcore crafting/collecting and silly zombie-themed romp. In fact, the developers just told us that they will be pivoting away from a free-to-play MMO model and Zeverland will instead be a buy-to-play PvE survival crafting game. The team told us, “It will offer both a solo experience and co-op on private servers, so players can build and survive on their own or together with friends.”

An LGBTQ+ cruise ship blocked from Turkish waters this week has been refused entry into Egypt.

The Scarlet Lady’s 2,000 passengers, including the Broadway performer Patti LuPone, woke on Thursday morning to find a note placed under their cabin doors informing them that the ship was urgently looking for alternative ports.

Juliette Binoche has taken over Karlovy Vary.

“An icon is here,” said the festival’s artistic director Karel Och, welcoming her to the stage.

In town to pick up the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, Binoche also presented her directorial debut “In-I in Motion.”

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On June 26, a two-seater light aircraft crashed into Citic Tower in Beijing, China. The pilot was killed, and 13 others were injured. Immediately afterwards, the Chinese government told us... virtually nothing. In fact, China went the other direction, pulling down any reference to, video of, or post about the crash. The government scrubbed the internet clean, picked the debris up off the street, boarded up the tower's broken windows, and moved along. Even CCTV, the state's television broadcaster, made no mention of the crash — despite the fact that it was literally across the street.

Sabrina Impacciatore (“The White Lotus” Season 2,” “The Paper”) and Alessandro Borghi (“The Eight Mountains,” “Supersex”) are set to co-star in Italian psychological thriller “Un’Altra Madre,” a new Prime Original to be directed by Francesco Carrozzini (“Supersex”).

One of the big questions emerging from Asha Sharma’s appointment as Xbox CEO earlier this year, and the subsequent layoffs and restructuring that have occurred in recent days, revolves around the long-term future of Microsoft’s gaming business. Will Microsoft sell off Xbox? Are the changes that started this week laying the groundwork for a sale?