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Las Vegas sphere startles residents with huge eyeball
The Las Vegas sphere is the city’s newest attraction. The world’s largest LED is made up of approximately 1.2 million LED pucks. Each puck contains 48 individual LED diodes, with each diode capable of displaying 256 million different colours. The sphere displays different images but the blinking eye is startling some people.
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Meg 2: The Trench review: Ben Wheatley’s sequel is ‘plain awful’
The follow-up to The Meg is a “very distant, shabby descendant of Jaws”, writes Caryn James, with some glimmers of meta wit but also plenty of “leaden dialogue and predictable action”. The sequel to the 2018 hit The Meg raises one of the timeless questions about cinema: when is a film so bad it’s good…
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Fremantle Highway: Disaster averted as burnt car carrier reaches port
Vincent Jannink /ANP/AFP By Paul Kirby BBC News More than a week after fire swept through a cargo ship carrying almost 4,000 cars in the North Sea, the crippled ship has been towed into port in the north-east of the Netherlands. The charred hulk of the Fremantle Highway arrived at Eemshaven after a 64km (40-mile)…
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Razzlekhan and husband guilty of $4.5bn Bitcoin launder
By Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent A husband and wife cyber-crime team have pleaded guilty to trying to launder $4.5bn (£3.5bn) of Bitcoin that he had stolen in a hack in 2016. Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested last year in New York after police traced their riches back to the crypto heist. While evading…
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Osoyoos wildfires: ‘We grabbed what we could’
Reuters By Nada Tawfik BBC News, Osoyoos, British Columbia Fire crews are still battling to contain the Eagle Bluff Wildfire that nearly engulfed the town of Osoyoos in British Columbia. Hundreds of people, like the Maynard family, had to flee their homes. Teenager Danica Maynard and her friend Callie were the first to notice how…
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Donald Trump travels to DC ahead of third arraignment
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By George Bowden BBC News, Washington DC Former US President Donald Trump is travelling to Washington DC to appear in criminal court for the third time in four months. He left his New Jersey residence accompanied by…
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Ukraine says it launched July attack on bridge to Crimea
AFP By Mattea Bubalo & Ece Goksedef BBC News Ukraine’s military launched an attack on Russia’s bridge over the Kerch Strait last month, Kyiv has confirmed. The attack on the strategically important route linking Russia with Crimea led Moscow to restrict passage of ships through and flights over the Strait. The incident on 17 July…
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Kidnapped woman escaped makeshift cell, says FBI
FBI By Nadine Yousif BBC News US authorities are searching for other possible victims in at least 10 states after a woman escaped a makeshift concrete block cell in Oregon. The woman reported that she had been kidnapped by a man posing as a police officer and was sexually assaulted before she managed to escape.…
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Bud Light boycott over trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney hits beer giant’s sales
Getty Images The owner of Bud Light took a hit to its sales after a US boycott of the brand sparked by its work with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Brewing giant AB Inbev said sales in the US fell more than 10% this spring, as demand for Bud Light lager plunged. The brand faced a…
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Post Malone pays fan $2m for Magic: The Gathering ‘One Ring’ card
Brook Trafton/TikTok By Chloe Kim BBC News A Toronto retail worker made an unbelievable discovery this summer and is now $2m (£1.57m) richer for it. Brook Trafton found a rare collectable game card for table-top fantasy game Magic: The Gathering (MTG). As a lifetime player of the game, he tells BBC News that finding the…