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Dark Phoenix ​has won the dubious honour of becoming the lowest-grossing X-Men movie ever. Released in March, the film starring James McAvoy and Sophie Turner was panned by critics and received a dismal 23 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.  It also received the lowest-ever box office opening in X-Men history, with an estimated loss of …

Facebook may be about to add an option for a dark mode to its Android mobile app. The long-awaited feature was spotted by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who came across an unreleased version of the dark mode in Facebook’s underlying code. So far only certain parts of the app have been redeveloped …

Large power cuts such as the one which hit swathes of the UK on Friday can be dangerous events for those affected. In addition to inconveniencing those trying to use public transport and creating “apocalyptic” scenes on high streets, vital hospital systems were affected in Ipswich after a back-up generator failed. …

When was the last time you listened to an old album from start to finish? With our ears set to shuffle since the death of the CD, only the vinyl fetishists seem to do it any more. Consequently we can end up believing we have solid opinions on records we …

The disastrous box office gross for X-Men: Dark Phoenix led Disney to a rare quarterly financial loss this year. In an earnings report published by Disney this week, the corporation declared that its revenue and profits grew in the third quarter of 2019 thanks to hits like Avengers: Endgame and …

Marika Hackman borrowed her third album’s title from a documentary about four-year-olds interacting with dementia patients. In it, one little girl declares that it’s just nice to make “any human friend”. “It’s that childlike view where we really accept people, are comfortable with their difference,” explained the singer. For an …

Even before 8chan, the anonymous message board, went dark early on Monday, the scramble to keep the site online had begun. The message board, which had hosted the anti-immigrant manifesto of the man accused of the El Paso, Texas, shooting and the hateful messages of other attackers, had gone down …

Jan Vertonghen has reaffirmed his commitment to Tottenham but admits he does not know whether he will receive a new contract. Vertonghen is one of a number of Tottenham players with deals set to expire at the end of the 2019/20 season after the club exercised an option to extend his …

Katy Perry’s lawyer has said the pop star and her collaborators view the verdict on their recent copyright trial a “travesty of justice”. The pop star and her label have been ordered to pay a total of $2.78 million (£2.29m) in damages after a jury decided that her 2013 hit …

A federal jury in Los Angeles on Thursday decided that Katy Perry and others must pay $2.8 million in damages in a copyright dispute over her 2013 song “Dark Horse.” The verdict came three days after the jury found that Ms. Perry, her record company and other collaborators were liable …