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Published Aug 13, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT

Cinematographer Gustav Danielsson explains how the series departed from convention, while appeasing HBO's biggest fear

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms tackled Game of Thrones’ darkest problem head-on

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Seven months after the purposefully scrappy A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms wrapped its first season, Westeros returned to the kind of scale that has come to define it. House of the Dragon’s third season just concluded on HBO with another enormous, satisfying battle — and we’ll get one more massive, action-heavy season in 2028.

Global Citizen Fest

The Fugees members will celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Score at the festival, which will also feature appearances from Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, and Shaboozey

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The Los Angeles Lakers have been sold for the second time in just over a year.

A group led by Josh Kushner, younger brother of Jared Kushner, and Bob Iger, the former CEO of the Walt Disney Company, purchased the NBA team for a reported $12.5 billion. This sale price marks the largest amount paid for a team. The previous owner, Mark Walter and his group, held a 71% stake in the Lakers, the majority of which was acquired in October 2025.

On hearing that new Prime Minister Andy Burnham will be embarking on a monthlong “cost of living” tour across the United Kingdom, one user of the social media chat platform Reddit commented: “Housing is too expensive, energy is too expensive, food is too expensive etc. There you go, Andy, I’ve saved you some fuel (very expensive).”

Power supply was cut on Thursday ⁠to about 540,000 homes and businesses across the US midwest as severe storms battered the region, data ⁠from PowerOutage.us showed.

Indiana ⁠was the ​hardest-hit state, with more than 267,000 outages, representing about 8% of its roughly 3.3 million customers, the data ⁠showed.

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: Aug 13, 2026 11:45am UTC

Nintendo has begun displaying in-store warnings of its impending Switch 2 price increase.

As announced earlier this year, the Switch 2 will rise in cost on September 1 in the U.S., U.K., and mainland Europe. In Nintendo's homeland of Japan, this price rise has already taken effect.

'The Dark Knight' warned us about mass surveillance. In 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' it's a punchline.

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Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world and in some places is ill-equipped to deal with hot weather.

More than 135 million people across Europe, mostly in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, face temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) as the continent’s latest heatwave builds.

"We need a good rest"

I’ve spent something like seven hours in funny-thinky cooperative puzzler Big Walk, and the concept of more Big Walk is something that confounds and, just a little bit, frightens me. What, you spent an entire evening stubbing toes in the dark and overconfidently barking incorrect solutions at friends, only for the opening of the map room to reveal the humbling significance of your progress thus far, and you want more? Friend, if I play this until my forties, I might make it halfway through.