We’ve warned from early on in the Covid crisis that the driver of decisions to lock down or not would be driven by the level of distress in hospitals. While that call has been shown to be correct, officials have tended to be behind the curve on how quickly infections…

Oddly Enough Minh Nguyen HA TAP VILLAGE, Vietnam (Reuters) – For more than two decades, Pham Van Thuoc has scoured Europe in search of historical church clocks, bringing them back to his home in Vietnam where he lovingly restores them. FILE PHOTO: A man paints the gate of a church…

After eight years of waiting and what felt like one million years of edgelord-baiting pre-release hype, Cyberpunk 2077 is finally out. The game is many things, but if nothing else, it is certainly vast. That in mind, Kotaku editor-at-large Riley Macleod, video wizard Michael Pasquariello, and I got together to…

Hyundai Motors is acquiring Boston Dynamics, according to The Korea Economic Daily. The publication says Softbank has agreed to sell the robot maker for 1 trillion won (US$917 million) and that the acquisition will be finalized at a board meeting today, December 10th. The companies have been discussing a sale…

Pantone‘s Color of the Year selections often prove invaluable for merchandisers and creatives designing for the year ahead, but they’re also oddly prescient barometers of global mood; take 2020’s choice, a soothing blue tone that presented a reliable comfort against the tumultuous chaos of the ensuing year (as much comfort…

HBO still wants to do bad, bad things with Sookie Stackhouse, and its banking on you being interested in watching. Variety reports that HBOs greenlit a reboot of True Blood, its trashy supernatural soap opera based on Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire Mysteriesseries of novels. Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and NOS4A2…

Square Enix’s big Avengers game hasn’t done as well as the developer originally hoped, but that hasn’t stopped the continuation of the story and new updates. This week, Marvel’s Avengers fans get their hands on a new Kate Bishop update which, oddly, was delayed on Stadia. Now, the update is…

Bill Kostroun/Associated Press Starting anyone on the Jets offense is a risk considering their offensive line play, but with Frank Gores injury, Johnson got a hefty 22 carries in New Yorks loss to the Raiders last week. Hes rostered on less than 2 percent of teams, and as long as…

Apple’s freshly-announced wireless headphones, the AirPods Max, are one of the priciest around. And yet, judging by the shipping times on Apple’s online stores, they’re selling like hotcakes.  At the time of writing, the headphones ship in 1214 weeks in the U.S., no matter which color you choose. That means…

Going into Tuesday’s Voice Season 19 Semifinals results show, we were all anticipating a repeat, more or less, of the Live Playoffs results, weren’t we? I know I figured the same four singers that had been previously saved by viewers’ votes would be again. If Team Gwen’s Ben Allen hadn’t…