The National Portrait Gallery has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, one of the world’s leading awards for contemporary portrait photography.
The annual prize celebrates outstanding portrait photography from around the globe, encouraging entrants to interpret the term ‘portrait’ in its widest sense. Open to professional, amateur, and emerging…
The credit for this mesmerizing film? That goes to a Giant Pacific Octopus that borrows the filmmaker's camera!
August 14, 2025
Underwater filmmaker John Roney has completed around 1,500 dives in his career, but a dive earlier this month off the coast of Vancouver Island will likely remain a highlight of his career spent underwater – because an octopus borrowed his camera and proceeded to take…
JERUSALEM – Israel’s Elbit Systems released its financial statements for the second quarter of 2025 on Wednesday, presenting record revenue and profit.
The public defense company brought in $1.97 billion in this year’s second quarter, for a total of $3.86 billion…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — European military industrial production in support of Ukraine has overtaken American output for the first time since Russia’s invasion, new numbers released Tuesday show.
According to the tally by the German Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Europe allocated at least €35.1 billion ($41.1 billion) in military industrial output to Ukraine between the start of the…
Democratic congresswomen, including several military veterans, are demanding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth apologize and resign after reposting a video about a Christian nationalist church with pastors who advocate for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the…
I think fans of combat-dense action-roguelites will have to splash around when they dive Into the Unwell. Its elasticky, sometimes grim slapstick humor brings a one-of-a-kind energy to a familiar-playing game, but looks aren’t the only thing that makes it stand out. Combat…
Stalker 2 Development Roadmap Includes Unreal Engine Upgrade, As Well as PS5 and PS5 Pro Release
August 14, 2025
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl‘s roadmap for the latter half of this year is now available, and it includes changes to both the base game and the Zone Kit Modifications Tool, as well as plans for its previously-confirmed release on PS5 and PS5 Pro.
“Our main mission in the near future is upgrading the game to Unreal Engine 5.5.4,” GSC Game World explained. “This will…
Drag x Drive Review
August 14, 2025
If you’re one of the Nintendo fans who worried the company lost its creative spark after playing it fairly safe with the Switch 2, let me introduce you to Drag x Drive: a wheelchair basketball-inspired sports game that’s controlled almost entirely with the Joy-Con 2’s…
Yesterday was Patch Tuesday for Microsoft, which means tons of security updates across the company’s products and services. Specifically, 107 new security vulnerabilities have been patched.
Microsoft classifies several of the vulnerabilities in Windows and Office as…
Nobody really expects Windows on Arm PCs to keep up with their cousins running games locally on AMD or Intel CPUs — but until now, they had trouble simply being allowed to do so. Now, Microsoft is testing a way to enable local gaming via the Xbox app on Windows on Arm PCs.
You’ve always been able to game on a PC running with Windows on Arm, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor inside.
