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There’s no doubt that this year’s Oscars frontrunner for best picture is not your standard awards fare. Everything Everywhere All At Once is an existential exploration of relationships and love via a launderette, taxes and the multiverse, with themes of nihilism and absurdism thrown in for good measure. The film’s writer-director duo, Daniel Kwan and

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony is almost upon us – the night the entire awards season has been building up to. The Oscars mark the culmination of months of campaigning and huge amounts of spending from studios, but unlike previous years, the 2023 shortlist comes with some uncertainty as to who will take home those

Hyundai released the all-new 2024 Kona electric Monday, one of the cheaper models of its class with impressive range, fun new features, and a sleek unmistakable “EV-derived” design. When Hyundai released the Kona electric in 2018, it quickly became a hit among automotive journalists and consumers alike. The best-in-class EV featured 258 miles range at

It’s the biggest night in showbiz, at the heart of which lies the greatest accolade for any actor – an Academy Award. Their performances have been judged by Hollywood’s great and good, and their teams have been campaigning for months – but who gets the gong on the night is yet to be revealed. So,

Martha Plimpton has played a host of roles across film, TV and stage throughout five decades, but for many she’ll always be associated with the role she played as a 14-year-old – Stef Steinbrenner in The Goonies. One of the most beloved films of the 1980s, many of the young teens who starred in it

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Bruce Willis’s wife has asked paparazzi to “keep your space” and not yell at the actor, who was recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In an Instagram video, Emma Heming Willis said members of the press attempted to speak to her husband when he was getting coffee with friends. “If you are someone that is

Chinese EV automaker NIO has begun operations of its first EV battery swap station in the country of Denmark. The centrally located station will offer battery swap access to new NIO drivers in several European countries and brings NIO’s station total to twelve throughout the continent. NIO ($NIO) is a publicly-traded EV automaker founded in 2014 that

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Music star Rhianna has joked that her baby son is upset that she is taking his soon-to-be-born sibling to the Oscars instead of him. The pop superstar, 35, revealed she was pregnant last month, just hours after her performance at the Super Bowl in Arizona. On Sunday, she shared a video of her eldest son,

“Hang on lady, we going for a ride!” Almost 40 years on from delivering this understatement of a line on a rope bridge in one of the most famous films of the 1980s, actor Ke Huy Quan is now on a wild ride of his own. Because before Everything Everywhere All At Once, the hit

Here at Electrek we have spent countless hours undertaking detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through those thousands of miles of riding, we’ve gotten to know these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That dedication to real world e-bike testing has helped us find the best electric bicycles

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One of the many hallmarks of bizarre vehicles I often find for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column is a strange combination of parts. And rarely is that trait so perfectly exemplified than in this cute little two-seater electric car… with tank tracks. It’s not the first vehicle with tank tracks

The author of the popular children’s book series Goosebumps has adapted more than a dozen of the titles to remove or change references to mental health, ethnicity and weight. After JK Rowling’s Harry Potter, Goosebumps is the second highest-selling book series in the world. Having once sold more than four million copies a month, publisher

Actor Tom Sizemore has died in his sleep in hospital weeks after suffering a brain aneurysm, his manager has said. Charles Lago said: “I am very saddened by the loss of not only a client but a great friend and mentor of almost 15 years. “Tom was one of the most sincere, kind and generous

EV maker Rivian (RIVN) released fourth-quarter earnings this week, and despite proclaiming it was aiming to produce 50,000 vehicles this year, it may believe it can do better. The company is reportedly raising the bar with a new internal EV production goal. Rivian bumps up 2023 EV production goal internally After releasing Q4 and full-year

Tesla has put the Cybertruck against the Tesla Semi in what looks like a drag race, but it is more likely a photo op. As a semi-truck, the Tesla Semi has truly impressive performance. Drivers have said that it handles more like a sports car than a semi-truck – and it sure accelerates closer to

When Elvis star Austin Butler arrived at this year’s BAFTA Awards, it wasn’t his model girlfriend Kaia Gerber who accompanied the actor as his plus-one. Instead, Butler attended the ceremony with Polly Bennett, the movement coach who spent months working with the star to help him transform into The King. When the camera panned to