Original title: Silksong: all of the updates about the Hollow Knight sequel After years of development and pent-up anticipation from fans, Hollow Knight: Silksong, the full sequel to the indie classic Hollow Knight, will finally be released on September 4th . It will cost $19.99 and include new zones, more than 200 enemies, over 40 bosses, and an orchestral score from the composer of the first game. Silksong was first announced in 2019, two years after the release of Hollow Knight, but developers Team Cherry have stayed pretty quiet about the sequel in the years since — even after a planned launch window was announced in 2022, which was followed by a delay months later. In an interview with Bloomberg, Team Cherry co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen said that the game was “never stuck”; instead, the small team working on Silksong was just taking its time. ...

Original title: Dolby Vision 2 Debuts With Solution for HDR Content That’s ‘Too Dark’ Dolby today unveiled Dolby Vision 2, a next-generation version of the popular Dolby Vision HDR format. Dolby Vision 2 features a more powerful image engine that Dolby says “unlocks even more out of your TV,” plus it supports new Content Intelligence tools to optimize TV sets for a “captivating picture” based on the content that’s being watched. Specifically, Dolby says that Content Intelligence will gain the following benefits: Precision Black reduces consumer frustration that the image is “too dark” by making it crystal clear and improving clarity in any viewing environment without compromising artistic intent. Light Sense fine-tunes picture quality through advanced ambient light detection and new reference lighting data from the content source to optimize your TV for the ideal viewing experience. Sports and Gaming Optimization introduce new enhancements such as white point adjustments and motion control designed specifically to address the unique needs of live sports and gaming. New ...

Original title: How to Clean Your Dog’s Ears and Clip Your Cat’s Nails—Experts Weigh In (2025) The internet is filled with questions like “How to clean your dog’s ears?” to “Do you really need to brush your pet’s teeth?” Thanks to the crowdsourcing nature of the web, there’s a bevy of instructional TikToks and fellow pet parents engaging in heated debates on everything from what your dog’s poop means to how to best clip your cat’s nails. With so much information to sift through, I decided to test some pet hygiene products on my cats, chat with experts like vets and groomers, and do a little investigating of my own to come up with WIRED’s guide on How to Clean Your Pet. (Spoiler: It’s not as obvious as it seems.) Signs That Cats or Dogs Need Grooming Visible mats of fur . These can cause skin infection and trap foreign material. Matted fur occurs most frequently behind ears, under legs, around the tail, and beneath the collar, so make sure you’re frequently checking those spots. (Long-haired dogs and cats like shih tzus or Persian cats might have to be professionally groomed ever ...

Original title: The Concept C Is the All-Electric Sports Car Kickstarting Audi’s Design Future Car companies love a mission statement. With the arrival of the Concept C, Audi’s new one is crystal clear: “radical simplicity”. An all-electric two-seater with a retractable folding hard-top, the Concept C is a “progressive interpretation” of the company’s legacy, says Audi—and it’s not hard to see the TT has factored pretty heavily in that. But as you pick your way through the messaging—key words here are precision and clarity, as well as a re-emphasis on our old friend, “Vorsprung durch Technik”—this feels like a substantial reset after a period of aesthetic drift. This isn’t just a piece of conceptual eye candy, then: it’s Audi engaging combat mode in an industry currently beset with challenges. “Our vision is a call to action for the whole company—and is essential for making our brand truly distinctive once again,” Audi’s Chief Creative Officer Massimo Frascella explains. “It is the philosophy behind every decision we make, and we aim to apply its principles across the entire org ...

Original title: Ex-actor Zack Polanski’s unusual path to become Green Party’s new leader Ex-actor Zack Polanski’s unusual path to become Green Party’s new leader Zack Polanski has stormed to victory in the Green Party leadership election on a platform promising bold communication and “eco-populism”. The new leader said he would now “take the fight to Labour”, telling Sir Keir Starmer’s party: “We are here to replace you.” While he’s made a name for himself as a feisty media performer among the party faithful, he’s little known outside the London Assembly, where he is an elected member. Beating two of the party’s four MPs to the leadership, the 42-year-old has already faced down the charge that he doesn’t have the establishment heft of those elected to Parliament in a first-past-the-post system. His pitch to the membership was to move away from the tried-and-tested, with a decisive shunt to the left and a more confrontational communication style. Polanski has had an unconventional path to politics, previously working as an actor, hypnotherapist and mental health counsellor. ...

Original title: ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: Bill Skarsgard Does His Strongest Work to Date in Gus Van Sant’s Stylish and Gripping ’70s Throwback Gus Van Sant is in top form with Dead Man’s Wire, a riveting true-crime dramatization of a hostage incident from 1977, during which Indianapolis man Tony Kiritzis, claiming that his mortgage broker had deliberately sabotaged his real estate investment, kidnapped the company president and rigged a sawn-off 12-gauge shotgun with a hair-trigger wire connected to his own neck. Scripted with fat-free economy by Austin Kolodney and made in the gritty, realistic style of Sidney Lumet’s ‘70s thrillers, the film pays tribute to Dog Day Afternoon while carving its own identity, led by a crackling performance full of unforced humor from Bill Skarsgard. In addition to the primary reference of Lumet, there are reminders of other directors whose work captured the national disillusionment of the time, like Alan J. Pakula and Sydney Pollack, but also a link back to earlier Van Sant films. The casting in small roles of Kelly Lynch and John Robinson, respectively, recalls the raw, grainy look of Drugsto ...

Original title: NYFW: Machine Gun Kelly, Iman and Zac Posen to Be Honored at Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards Just as awards season begins in earnest in Hollywood, New York Fashion Week is set to kick off with its own awards show: The Annual Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards, created by Brandusa Niro, who founded DailyFrontRow.com (the insiders’ insider NY fashion news) and Daily Front Row magazine, published during fashion weeks. Now in their twelfth year, the FMAs will be handed out, as usual, the first Friday night of NYFW (Sept. 12) at the top of 30 Rock, New York’s art deco Rainbow Room. They award achievements in media, style and creativity. In the past, recipients have included Christian Louboutin, Bob Mackie, Jerry Hall, Anna Sui, and Zendaya, and the ceremony has drawn top talent to present as well. The dress code? Do your own thing, but make sure everyone’s looking. This year’s awards will be hosted by fashion blogger Bronwyn Newport, part of the cast of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. There’s always a good smattering of celebs in tow. In the past, I’ve spotted Sarah Jessic ...

Original title: New Vogue U.S. Head of Editorial Chloe Malle Is a “Proud Nepo Baby” Chloe Malle, the new U.S. editorial director of Vogue, is acknowledging her ties to nepotism. On Tuesday, it was announced that Anna Wintour tapped Malle as head of editorial content for the American Vogue edition after Wintour herself stepped down from her longstanding role as editor in chief in June. Malle joined Vogue in 2011 as a social editor and was named the editor of Vogue.com in 2023. Malle spoke with The New York Times tied to the announcement of her new role on Tuesday, where she noted that she is a “proud ‘nepo baby,’” recognizing her parent’s Oscar-nominated careers in the entertainment industry. “There is no question that I have 100 percent benefited from the privilege I grew up in,” she admitted. “It’s delusional to say otherwise. I will say, though, that it has always made me work much harder. It has been a goal for a lot of my life to prove that I’m more than Candice Bergen’s daughter, or someone who grew up in Beverly Hills.” Her mother, Candice Bergen, is an Oscar-no ...

Original title: How Chris Evans, a Semi-Active Volcano and Donkeys Came Together to Make TIFF-Bound ‘Sacrifice’ “Just to be clear,” says director Romain Gavras when discussing his new movie Sacrifice. “We didn’t actually throw anyone in a volcano.” A disclosure like this may seem unnecessary, but for a film that was partially shot on location on the rim of a semi-active volcano, it is not entirely needless. For Sacrifice, which is set to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, Gavras and producers traversed treacherous terrain — from mines in Northern Greece to the Cannes film market — to make an independent feature that really doesn’t look like one. In Sacrifice, Gavras dissects myth-making in its many forms. The movie follows actor Mike Tyler (Chris Evans), who is attempting a comeback after a personal crisis and subsequent soul-searching. For his first public appearance, he attends a black-tie environmental charity gala thrown by a billionaire entrepreneur (Vincent Cassel). But it gets interrupted by a violent radical group led by Joan (Anya Taylor-Joy) that is searching ...

Original title: David Schamis on Hyperliquid Token, Growth Trajectory 00:00 So that’s a lot of words there. Exchange strategies and a token. Put it into context for us. What does hyper liquid exchange do and how does the hyper liquid token fit in? Here’s the thing. The company is less than three years old. Amazingly, it has never taken any outside money, no VC money, no private equity. And yet it has ten employees based in Singapore, and they’re at a run rate of over $1,000,000,000 of free cash flow right now. Well, annual free cash flow, which is just an amazing thing. It’s also amazing how few people really know much about hyper liquid. When we raise this capital to buy the token in a digital asset treasury company, we reached out to a lot of people I spoke to to, you know, very well known crypto personalities, people you guys would know by name who I’m not going to mention on this show, who I never after the show you tell to the show. I’ll tell you who had never heard of Look, they’re not alone. I’m not familiar with it. So basically the way to descri ...