Michael Madsen, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Kill Bill’ star, dead at 67

Seven-year-old Mariam was excited. Her mother had dressed her up in her favourite powder pink frock, with her hair in two pigtails held with butterfly clips, and had told her she would be going to a surprise birthday party for her cousin. Instead, her aunt took Mariam, holding hands, to… Read Details ⇢

Nvidia is set to spring a whole bunch of new graphics cards on us next year, and it’s likely that we’ll see quite a few Blackwell GPUs early in 2025. On top of that, Nvidia apparently has ambitious plans to launch its own processor, an Arm-based chip for PCs that… Read Details ⇢

US economic performance has been very good overall under Joe Biden’s presidency. The unemployment rate fell from 6.4% in January 2021 when he was inaugurated, to 4.1% in October 2024. GDP growth was quite strong: 5.8% in 2021, 1.9% in 2022, 2.5% in 2023, and 2.8% in the third quarter… Read Details ⇢

The Detroit Lions technically didn’t need to win Monday night’s matchup with the San Francisco 49ers, begging the question of whether head coach Dan Campbell would pull his starters at some point in this game.  But, as Campbell has shown us too many times in the past, he’s never going… Read Details ⇢

North Korean leader expresses hope that Moscow will defeat ‘neo-Nazism and achieve a great victory’ in Ukraine. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has paid homage to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a New Year’s message extolling deepening ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, state media has reported. In a letter… Read Details ⇢

OneOdio Focus A5: One-minute review If you’re considering picking up the OneOdio Focus A5, it’s probably for its fantastic battery life – it’ll last for 75 hours of music if you let it, which is an excellent figure. That’s over three days straight, and well over double the figure of… Read Details ⇢

On the banks of the Yangtze River in Hankou riverside park, with the buildings of Wuhan’s Wuchang neighborhood in the background, December 26, 2024. YUFAN LU FOR LE MONDE It was a lighting, global spread rarely seen in recent human history, comparable in scale to the Spanish flu of 1918.… Read Details ⇢

Every two years, the period between the November election and when the new Congress begins is often the busiest swath of time for covering Congress. Reporters are trying to figure out who won their elections and who lost. The existing Congress is back, attempting to prevent a government shutdown and… Read Details ⇢

United States President-elect Donald Trump has endorsed the continued leadership of Mike Johnson in the House of Representatives, in an apparent attempt to limit Republican discord in the new year. In a post to his online platform Truth Social on Monday, Trump appealed to his Make America Great Again (MAGA)… Read Details ⇢