The Russian Air Force has received a new batch of Su-35S heavyweight fighters from the United Aircraft Corporation, which were manufactured at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant in the country’s Far East where the class has been in production for 13 years. The new batch completes the Ministry of Defence’s third […]
Since entering service in 2015 the F-35 fifth generation fighter’s Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofan engine has represented a major cause for concern in the U.S. Military, with performance issues belying its impressive 20 ton thrust and near unrivalled weight/thrust ratio. One of the leading issues has been that the […]
At this year’s D23 Expo, Marvel finally unveiled the official trailer for its Halloween special, Werewolf by Night. Directed by Michael Giacchino, not much is known plotwise but from the trailer, it looks to be a group of monster hunters fighting to find the werewolf among them. To a more […]
Rian Johnson is single-handedly reviving the whodunnit genre. Sure, Kenneth Branagh’s been churning out Hercule Poirot adaptations busting at the seams with big names. But where Branagh’s detective movies are fondly looking back at the past through a tediously romantic (and self-indulgent) lens, Johnson’s original stories use the framework of an […]
To Percy Jackson fans of all ages, the time has come! Disney has released the first teaser trailer for the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series and it’s so beautiful I shed one demi-god-magic-filled tear. The show, based on author Rick Riordan’s popular young-adult fantasy series, sees our […]
The Mandalorian Season 3 teaser trailer has dropped and it’s a battle of the Mandalorians. Debuted by Lucasfilm at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, the 2-minute trailer seems to show a cultural war raging between Din Djarin’s “cult” of followers and the rest of the diverse Mandalorian race, who appear […]
Over 3 trillion. That’s the number of photos taken around the world on iPhones just last year, according to Apple. The company announced that milestone at its latest Apple Event just earlier this week. While many marveled over that number, all I could think of was “damn, that’s going to […]
As many climate change activists are pointing out lately, the “doomsday” implied in the term “Doomsday Glacier” — the nickname given to the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica — may be coming soon. But what will that day actually be like? As noted in a scary new paper in the journal […]
TL;DR: As of September 11, you can get the Square Off Pro: World’s First Rollable Tournament e-Chessboard for just $225 instead of $249 — that’s a 9% discount. Chess as we know it has been around for centuries, even if some of our modern additions didn’t arrive until recently. Now […]
TL;DR: As of September 11, you can get a Perlego Online Library Subscription. For a limited time, the one, two, and three-year subscriptions only cost $99, $159, and $199 respectively. Not everyone has access to the same learning resources. It took until August of 2022 for publicly funded research to […]