Andrew Flintoff's Top Gear crash passenger sues BBC Studios
Flintoff needed extensive facial surgery following the crash
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ByIan Youngs
Culture reporter
A racing driver who was in the car with Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff when he crashed while filming Top Gear in 2022 is suing BBC Studios.
‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Concept Art Reveals First Look at Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom, Returning X-Men Characters
The first clear look at Robert Downey Jr.‘s Doctor Doom mask has arrived, courtesy of some concept art posted by a Marvel Cinematic Universe icon.
Former Marvel visual department director Andy Park took to X on July 11 to share an illustration from the upcoming blockbuster.
TechCrunch Mobility: A robotaxi ultimatum
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Trump Says Strait Of Hormuz Is Open—Contradicting Iran
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President Donald Trump on Sunday said the Strait of Hormuz was “open as far as we’re concerned,” brushing off a declaration from the Iranian military insisting the waterway was closed once again.
The best Magic cards from Marvel Super Heroes for Commander
Magic: The Gathering’s new Marvel Super Heroes set is here, and as you can probably imagine, it’s absolutely packed with legendary creatures you can use as a Commander and build a deck around.
Patterned frozen soils get their shape from gravity and funky physics
Hillslopes in Arctic regions with frozen soils can host a suite of geometric patterns, from circles and stripes to polygonal patterned ground. They can also have solifluction patterns, or markings left behind when partially thawed permafrost slips and flows down a slope. Solifluction patterns look like pairings of flat, terraced soil—like a big staircase—and rounded lobes of soil at the terrace's base.
2026's best RPG might look like Disco Elysium, but it was heavily inspired by Deus Ex, and its creator wants 'to do a first-person game at some point'
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Christoffer Bodegård got into PC gaming via a DOS machine inherited from his father. "The Swedish state had a thing where basically everybody got a computer, especially state employees," says Bodegård. The first game he played on it was Disney's The Jungle book, which he recalls as being "pretty hard". But the most significant game from Bodegård's childhood was Dragon Age: Origins, which he played just before entering high school.
Baby Rose’s Story Is Still Unfolding
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The singer, who's currently on tour with Olivia Dean, tells us about her new music and the personal growth that went into it
Baby Rose is currently playing arenas as an opening act for British pop phenomenon Olivia Dean, but a few days before starting that run, she still had one last thing to take care of. “I’m popping out for BadBadNotGood — they’re having a show on a boat,” she says when she logs onto Zoom from her L.A. home. The Toronto jazz band backed her on 2024’s sleepy yet soulfully crushing “One Last Dance,” and she was returning the favor. “The first day we met, I’m like, ‘Let me just throw them for a loop, let’s do a country song.’ I didn’t even have a chance to write it down. I was just emoting.”
Anthropic Illuminates LLM J-Space With J-Lens
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All of this can be a little hard to follow.
It seems that, earlier this month, Anthropic released a post about something called the “J-Space” that shows us more about how an LLM thinks. It also posits something called a “J-lens” that can help engineers or human users to “see” what’s in this internal workspace.
League of Legends' 'classic' mode has a release date, and it isn't just an old version of the game—players will vote on new patches, Old School RuneScape-style
What's old is new in League of Legends Classic, which was teased a couple of weeks ago in the wake of leak after leak. The full reveal came during yesterday's MSI Finals, where the mode debuted in a showmatch starring pros like Doublelift and Cpt Jack. It's a Frankenstein's monster of different eras with a huge emphasis on season three: a bunch of old kits are back, but some of the art has been modernized and various late additions like ward trinkets have made it in.