Fortnite has swiftly disabled the game’s Peaceful Hips emote, a collaboration with James Gunn and John Cena’s DCU Peacemaker TV series, following a bombshell twist at the end of the show’s most recent episode.
Warning! Spoilers for Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 6 follow.
Fans were left stunned when Peacemaker’s latest episode revealed that the show’s alternate…
Ohio Moves Toward Accepting Crypto for State Fees With Vendor Approval
September 30, 2025
Ohio is positioning itself at the forefront of digital finance as officials take key steps toward enabling cryptocurrency payments for state services, reflecting growing national interest.
Ohio Advances Crypto Payments for State Services With Vendor Approval
The push for…
Canon EOS R50 V review
September 30, 2025
The Canon EOS R50 V is an attempt to capture content creators such as vloggers in addition to Canon’s core photographer audience. With the uplift in people making podcasts, vlogs, and personal YouTube channels, it’s no surprise.
Unlike expensive, top-end EOS R…
Secrets of ancient life on Earth may live in Japan's hot springs
September 30, 2025
Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been unrecognizable to us. At that time, ancient microorganisms were the dominant life form; there were no animals, no plant life, and certainly no humans.
But then, something changed. Oxygen-producing cyanobacteria triggered the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), which introduced atmospheric oxygen to our planet and allowed life as we know it to…
Mysterious crown-like features on Venus may finally have an explanation
September 30, 2025
The mystery behind Venus’ giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae, may finally have an explanation: A “glass ceiling” in Venus’ mantle is trapping heat and driving slow, shifting currents that might lead to the formation of the…
ComplexChaos thinks AI can help people find common ground
September 30, 2025
Making democracy work isn’t easy, as recent events have made clear. Some critics would argue that technology is making it worse. But one startup is hoping that AI could help bridge some differences instead of widen them.
“I had an a-ha moment one day when I…
Former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance
September 30, 2025
Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it as a problem – and they have started Maximor to replace spreadsheets with AI agents for the grunt work finance teams perform.
Excel spreadsheets are everywhere in finance. Even with dedicated…
Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed
September 30, 2025
Manny Medina, previously best-known as the founder of sales automation startup Outreach ($4.4 billion valuation), has wowed investors with his young startup, Paid.
Paid just closed an oversubscribed $21.6 million seed round led by Lightspeed. With the €10 million pre-seed…
"Every pro photographer needs clients by definition, and most are lovely – but oh, can they be a ballache"
September 30, 2025
Every pro photographer needs clients by definition, and most are lovely – but oh, can they be a ballache. They don’t know how to talk about what they want. ‘I want candid photos,’ said one, and that’s what he got – only for me to discover that he…
"Cowboys aren't supposed to show their emotions, but they were vulnerable in front of me" – documentary photographer Alex Bex on Memories of Dust
September 30, 2025
Western films, and particularly how masculinity is presented in the visual culture, have always fascinated Alex Bex – a half-French, half-American photographer who is now based in Berlin, Germany.
So much so that Alex has spent a period of time photographing cowboys in Texas, exploring the definition of what it means to be a “real man” and its place in a fast-changing society.
The…
