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Amazon Prime Day has been delayed in the US, the company announced today. The annual shopping event, which promises discounts for Amazon Prime members, is usually held in mid-July, but Amazon has now confirmed that it intends to hold the event “later than usual” this year. The company did not set a new date, but said it would be “sharing more details soon.”
”This year we’ll be holding Prime Day later than usual, while ensuring the safety of our employees and supporting our customers and selling partners,” a spokesperson for the company told The Verge. They added that the company plans to go ahead with a discount event in India on August 6-7. “Members all around the world will experience Prime Day later this year,” the spokesperson said.
...Last year Nikon released its first full-frame mirrorless cameras, the Z7 and Z6, and now the range is expanding to a lower price with the announcement of the Z5. Unlike the Z50, which used the same Z mount but had a smaller APS-C sensor, the Z5 uses a 24-megapixel full-frame sensor.
You lose a few features compared to the Z6, but the Z5 still looks like a capable camera. There’s no status screen, there’s more plastic used in the build, and the sensor isn’t backside-illuminated; it’s also not ideal for 4K video due to a 1.7x crop. But elements like the 3.69 million-dot OLED viewfinder, the 3.2-inch touchscreen, the Expeed 6 processor, and in-body image stabilization are all present.
The Z5 even fixes one of the Z6 and Z7’s biggest flaws,...
Last year Nikon released its first full-frame mirrorless cameras, the Z7 and Z6, and now the range is expanding to a lower price with the announcement of the Z5. Unlike the Z50, which used the same Z mount but had a smaller APS-C sensor, the Z5 uses a 24-megapixel full-frame sensor.
You lose a few features compared to the Z6, but the Z5 still looks like a capable camera. There’s no status screen, there’s more plastic used in the build, and the sensor isn’t backside-illuminated; it’s also not ideal for 4K video due to a 1.7x crop. But elements like the 3.69 million-dot OLED viewfinder, the 3.2-inch touchscreen, the Expeed 6 processor, and in-body image stabilization are all present.
The Z5 even fixes one of the Z6 and Z7’s biggest flaws,...
A year and a quarter on from the release of Avengers: Endgame, and the death of Tony Stark is still a sore subject for Marvel fans. Obviously, all of us were heartbroken to see him sacrifice his own life to stop Thanos, but while some believe that it was the right way to end his character arc, others think that it should’ve been Steve Rogers, traditionally the more self-sacrificial of the pair, who used the Infinity Stones instead.
Those who wished it had gone down this way will be interested in checking out this awesome fan art, which depicts an alternate version of Endgame‘s climax. In place of Tony dying with his loved ones surrounding him, this piece from artist Camille Vialet, shared on Instagram, sees Iron Man kneeling by Steve as he succumbs to his injuries on the battlefield. Whatever side of the argument you’re on, it’s a moving image for sure.
Co-writer Christopher Markus has previously defended killing Tony off, explaining that himself and writing partner Stephen McFeely believed Iron Man and Cap were on “crossing arcs.” He explained last November: ” We realized at one point… that for Steve to be his best self, he was going to have to get a life, and for Tony to be his best self, he might have to lose his.”
As Markus’ comments remind us, following Tony’s death, Steve went on to do something for himself. He left behind the superhero world and returned to the past to be with Peggy Carter, living a long and normal life until he handed his shield to Falcon as an old man in 2023. Similar in concept to this one, another piece of fan art has imagined a different final scene to the movie, with Tony attending Steve’s funeral.
The debate about whether Avengers: Endgame got its conclusion the wrong way or not will likely rage on within the fandom, but let us know your thoughts on the ending in the usual place down below.
Our planet’s undersea life has proven to be incredibly elusive throughout human history, as our own oceans remain among Earth’s greatest unsolved mysteries. Estimates from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration even project that over 80% of the underwater world has yet to be seen by human eyes. This makes every new discovery about what’s beneath our waters exciting, especially when they involve monstrously large sea cockroaches from uncharted waters with 14 legs, frightening reflective eyes, and a head that looks like Darth Vader’s helmet.
Enter the Bathynomus raksasa. This giant isopod was first discovered off the southern coast of Indonesia in 2018 but has recently been acknowledged as a newly discovered species. And a frightening one at that. While most previously recorded species of giant isopods have been found to grow to about 12 inches at best, the raksasa has already been found to reach much larger sizes of up to 20 inches. The Natural History Museum of London credits the isopod’s gargantuan size to a low level of predation in its cold habitat, allowing its specimens to vastly outgrow their fellow Bathynomus.
The creatures have colloquially been called “sea cockroaches.” A fitting name, considering they not only live on the ocean floor, feasting on the remains of dead sea creatures, but have also been observed to share survivalist adaptations with the land-dwelling insects you like to pretend aren’t infesting your apartment this very moment, like being capable of operating for long periods of time without food.
We’re no film marketers, but we imagine that a movie about giant sea cockroaches rising from an unexplored part of the deep sea to terrorize mankind would sell itself. Bonus points if they can survive without their heads and live through nuclear blasts.
The Fast & Furious franchise is known for death-defying stunts, but perhaps the most dangerous one occurred in the least memorable entry in the series.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is set in Japan and follows an American street racer named Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), who’s ordered to live with his father in the country to avoid serious jail time after an incident in the U.S. It’s far from the franchise’s best outing, but it does have its moments.
Shooting a movie in any major city requires a lot of work including logistics and scouting locations, but before doing any of that, a production must acquire permits from a particular city giving them permission to shoot in certain areas. Japan is an especially hard city to get permits for, but director Justin Lin was adamant that they film in Shibuya, one of the most crowded locations in the country.
The sequence, which you may remember more from the end of Fast & Furious 6 and not Tokyo Drift, features Han (Sung Kang) drifting through a busy intersection before his car is blown up by Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham). We thought he died, but the trailer for F9 revealed that he’s alive and well.
Lin had a feeling Japan was going to say no about the location but he went ahead and shot there anyways, without permission. With Universal Pictures onboard, they sent someone to act as a fall guy just in case. And their pragmatism paid off. The crew left after local law enforcement came in and one person stayed behind and spent a night in jail. Police were looking to arrest Lin, but the fall guy said he was the director and fulfilled his new job title.
As ScreenRant explains:
The studio was well aware of the difficulty in acquiring film permits in Japan; in fact, most movies set in the city are shot at other locations and reproduced to look like Tokyo. Ever since the James Bond 1967 film, You Only Live Twice, laws and regulations have become more strict. The process is expensive and frustrating, so Tokyo-set movies are rarely authentic. Some directors went to great lengths to shoot on-location, like the case with Sofia Coppola negotiating heavily to film 2003’s Lost in Translation. Lin, however, was still a newcomer at the time, so he took the risk. Universal then hired a “fall guy” who remained on set if trouble arose. Shortly after shooting in Shibuya, the crew was kicked out of the area by law enforcement. When the police attempted to arrest the director, the fall guy claimed that he was Lin and spent a night in jail.
Lin and company were able to get some footage at Shibuya, but most of the scene was created through visual effects. Of course, the director would go on to helm the next three entries in the Fast & Furious series and he’s back for F9 and 10, too. As for that fall guy, I sure hope he got a promotion afterwards.