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Modelo has been America’s favourite beer ever since Bud Light enraged conservative imbibers in 2023 with a “woke” social-media campaign featuring a trans woman. Now Constellation Brands, which owns the Modelo brand in America, also finds itself a victim of the country’s rightward lurch. According to the company, Hispanic customers, who make up half its total, are staying home and drinking less as they fear being swept up in the federal government’s mass deportations.

Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry’s sequel to Hollow Knight that has been in development for seven years, is releasing later this week for just $19.99. Silksong’s highly-anticipated launch on September 4th comes with a modest $5 bump over Hollow Knight’s original $14.99 price tag.While Team Cherry could have charged more for Silksong, it’s essentially pricing it the same as the original when you factor in inflation over the past eight years. The team revealed seven years ago that it kept the Hollow Knight pricing low to ensure as many people played it as possible. “$15 US is actually quite a…

Zar Amir, the French-Iranian star of Ali Abbasi‘s “Holy Spider,” will be honored at New York’s Metrograph Theater with a special tribute including a screening of the Oscar-qualifying short film “Two People Exchanging Saliva.” Amir stars alongside Luàna Bajrami (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) in the dystopian short which is directed by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh. The film, which has qualified to enter the Oscar race, world premiered at Telluride and won a prize at the AFI Fest. Titled “Zero Compromise: The Films of Zar Amir,” the tribute will kick off September 27 at Metrograph Theater. The Tehran-born…

The NFL preseason is the first exposure we all get to rookies, and it often serves as a vital showcase for those first-year professionals. While we can’t draw any concrete conclusions about the entire career ahead of a player, getting those initial good first impressions can go a long way in the evaluation process. These are my picks for the best rookies in the 2025 preseason, position-by-position.Quarterback  Well, obviously. Dart was sensational in all three exhibition contests operating Brian Daboll’s offense. The third quarterback picked in the 2025 draft completed 68% of his 47 attempts with three touchdowns and no interceptions…

These are the names of 274 Palestinian journalists in Gaza killed by Israel since October 7, 2023.

UK house price growth slowed in August, bringing it back down to around its slowest pace in a year, according to a leading housing index.The average price of a British home grew by 2.1% in the year to the end of last month, a slowdown from the 2.4% annual growth recorded in July, according data from lender Nationwide.August’s rate of growth is the same as Nationwide recorded in June this year. The last time house price growth was this slow was in July 2024.It comes amid reports that the government is considering an overhaul of property taxes in a bid…

While we’re talking about the display, make sure your Pixel is using the highest screen resolution. In Display & touch, scroll down to Screen resolution and choose Max resolution. It may eat up more battery life, but you paid for a high-quality display! Use it. Smooth display sits right below, but it’s finally enabled by default, allowing your phone to hit a 120-Hz screen refresh rate.Enhance Your Lock ScreenPhotograph: Julian ChokkattuThe lock screen is fairly customizable. Head to Settings > Display & touch > Lock screen to customize how notifications appear (compact or full list), hide silent notifications, hide sensitive…

Scientists have suggested that when artificial intelligence (AI) goes rogue and starts to act in ways counter to its intended purpose, it exhibits behaviors that resemble psychopathologies in humans. That’s why they have created a new taxonomy of 32 AI dysfunctions so people in a wide variety of fields can understand the risks of building and deploying AI.In new research, the scientists set out to categorize the risks of AI in straying from its intended path, drawing analogies with human psychology. The result is “Psychopathia Machinalis” — a framework designed to illuminate the pathologies of AI, as well as how…

What we know so far…Here is a summary from Afghanistan, where hundreds of people have been killed after an earthquake struck the country’s mountainous eastern region late last night. This is what we know so far: At least 622 people have been killed and more than 1,500 others injured in the earthquake, Afghanistan’s Taliban-run interior ministry said on Monday morning. The earthquake struck the rugged province of Kunar at 11.47pm on Sunday and was centred 27km north-east of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, the US Geological Survey said. Jalalabad is about 119km (74 miles) away from the capital…

Kerry Wan/ZDNETNo, your eyes are not deceiving you. For a limited time, Amazon has the iPhone 16 Pro, unlocked and all, listing at a $255 discount. That brings the flagship iPhone down to around $745, from its retail price of $1,000.Is there a catch? When you’re buying outside of the Apple store, there almost always is. Fortunately, this one’s a little easier to shoulder: the discounted model is in “renewed” condition, a refurbish standard placed by Amazon that indicates that while the phone isn’t new and sealed, it has been “professionally inspected, tested, and cleaned by qualified suppliers.”According to Amazon’s…