Crunchyroll Acquires Makoto Shinkai’s Next Anime Feature Film

Crunchyroll announced that it has acquired the worldwide distribution rights for Makoto Shinkai‘s next anime feature film. The worldwide distribution rights exclude Asia, but include India. Crunchyroll, along with Sony Pictures Entertainment, will co-distribute his upcoming film in numerous theaters. Both companies previously distributed Shinkai’s 2022 Suzume anime film in several countries and territories worldwide in…

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Ravencoin hits record low as network exploit puts transactions at risk

Mining pools controlling most of Ravencoin’s hash rate are building a competing chain that could trigger a three-day reorganization. Ravencoin dropped to a new all-time low on Wednesday as an exploited consensus vulnerability left several days of transactions at risk and prompted exchanges to suspend RVN transfers.  According to CoinGecko, the cryptocurrency dropped to $0.002754,…

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No one inspires CORTIS like CORTIS

The K-pop wunderkinds talk fashion, hip-hop, and K-BBQ at Lollapalooza. Photo courtesy of HYBE/Big Hit Roughly 50,000 screaming teens swarmed Lollapalooza’s T-Mobile stage on Saturday, August 1, to catch a glimpse of the K-pop boy band CORTIS. Overnight showers at Chicago’s Grant Park had already pushed their set back an hour and shortened it from…

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Ex-McLaren Designers Just Built a $130,000 Carbon Fiber Chair

Luxury furniture has long borrowed the language of high-performance design without much of the substance behind it. Carbon fiber panels get applied as surface decoration, automotive references appear in product copy as shorthand for precision, and racing-inspired silhouettes turn up on lounge chairs. The materials may occasionally be genuine, but the engineering thinking behind them…

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