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Virtual Shaquille O'Neal goes sightseeing before a big game, wanders into a dojo and enters a portal to save a little boy. What follows are subpar graphics, ridiculous characters and some of the worst gameplay of any video game in history. It doesn't help that Shaq is dressed in mesh shorts the entire time he's fighting ninjas and princes. A perennial contender for the top 10 worst video games, the Shaq-Fu led to the creation of shaqfu.

There is a human time bomb ticking away in Hollywood. He is called Bruce Dern. One of these days he is going to light up the sky. How, nobody knows. At 39, with a suitcase of rave clippings, Dern is poised to become a star. Trouble is, he has been in that position for a couple of years, ever since he scored a personal hit as the bellicose Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.

Taylor Swift became the first solo artist to perform at Wembley Stadium in London eight times in a single tour, surpassing the previous record reportedly held by Michael Jackson, who performed at the iconic London arena seven times during the Bad World Tour in 1988. "You just made me the first solo artist to ever play Wembley eight times in a single tour," Swift said on Aug. 20, during her last 2024 performance at the iconic U.

The U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team won a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal on Saturday night at Bercy Arena, besting France 98-87 in front of a raucous hometown crowd. The game was a rematchof the Tokyo gold medal game three years ago, and once again, France couldn’t match the American firepower, which is chock-full of future hoops Hall of Famers. Stephen Curry led a balanced U.S. attack with 24 points, including four crucial 3-pointers late in the game.

The number of groups lobbying the U.S. federal government on artificial intelligence nearly tripled from 2022 to 2023, rocketing from 158 to 451 organizations, according to data from OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying. Data on the total amount spent on lobbying by each organization and interviews with two congressional staffers, two nonprofit advocates familiar with AI lobbying efforts, and two named experts suggest that large technology companies have so far dominated efforts to influence potential AI legislation.

Melissa Schleig, a postmaster who lives in Strasburg, Virginia, drove more than 400 miles southwest to the Smoky Mountains to see the 2017 solar eclipse. The travel experience was miserable. “It should have taken us about six to seven hours to go down there but it took us about a little over six hours just to go about two hours south of here. It was insane,” said Schleig, who began to drive down the day before the eclipse.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Bear season 2 As The Bear’s culinary producer, Courtney Storer is responsible for making sure the food onscreen always looks delicious and that the cast’s culinary skills are always on-point. With season 2 of the acclaimed FX series, now streaming on Hulu, her job became “bigger than just creating the food and making vision boards,” Storer tells TIME. “The writers created these dialogues and these beautiful character journeys; it was my job to bring that to life through the food.

Therabody’s Theragun changed how we manage muscle pain, democratizing massage guns previously reserved for athletes and medical professionals. But the company was just getting started. In 2022 and 2023, it launched 15 new products, including TheraFace Pro, an 8-in-1 skin-care device; a wearable sleep aid; a vibrating compression sleeve; and new iterations of its original claim to fame. (Last year it also kept busy suing and settling with copycats over alleged patent infringements.