A Minecraft Movie makes $550 million globally with no signs of slowing down, putting it inches behind dethroning Mario from his box office kingdom

The movie “A Minecraft Movie” (the movie specifically for Minecraft) has continued to haul in some absurd cash—hitting $150 million in its first opening weekend, and inspiring a wave of problematic popcorn-hurling behaviour as it takes the box office by storm. It’s shown no signs of slowing down—its worldwide haul is now at $552 million,…

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Be Quiet’s created the quietest mechanical gaming keyboards I’ve ever used, offering the striking benefit of not annoying everyone in a five meter radius

A lot of us love a mechanical keyboard that offers a good, cacophonous clack—but a lot of us share either office or living space with those who do not share our enthusiasm for typing that sounds like a drum roll. That in mind, it’s heartening then that purveyor of slightly less percussive hardware, Be Quiet!,…

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‘Are you ready to rock?’ Jack Black randomly appears at A Minecraft Movie showing, but jokes that he wants to see ‘absolutely no chicken jockeys’

A Minecraft Movie has been plagued by the chicken jockey trend ever since the film entered cinemas. It sees movie-goers erupt in chaotic celebrations as soon as they hear Jack Black utter the sacred words “chicken jockey” towards the end of the movie. The trend has garnered some conflicting viewpoints, as some people think it’s…

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Intel is selling its 51% stake in Altera, for presumably a few billion, to private firm with over $104 billion in investments

Intel has entered a deal to offload 51% of its stake in Altera, a specialised chipmaker focusing on programmable logic devices, to Silver Lake investment firm. Before it was owned by Intel, Altera and Intel worked together on several projects often using each other’s technologies. It wasn’t until 2015 when Intel acquired Altera for $16.7…

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Trump’s Secretary of Education—and former WWE CEO—may repeatedly refer to AI as ‘A1’ but when she calls A1 learning ‘a wonderful thing’ she could genuinely be onto something

I don’t know if there’s anything better than a person in power mispronouncing a word. Better yet if it’s an important word, and if their mispronunciation implies a lack of understanding around the basics of said word. It can get even juicier if you might have some reason to already disrespect this person, so this…

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