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  • Headline 0001 Googlebook Marketing Campaign Enlists Henry Cavill

    Google has begun promoting its forthcoming Googlebook laptop lineup by partnering with actor and self-described technology enthusiast Henry Cavill ahead of the product’s expected October launch, positioning the campaign around the device’s ability to support creative work while integrating closely with Android phones. Cavill, known as a PC gamer who has previously used Pixel devices and was more recently seen with a Galaxy S25 Ultra, will use an HP Googlebook 14 in a planned project to build a video game, highlighting features Google describes as next-generation software experiences, including Continue on phone syncing, Rambler speech-to-text, and Antigravity. Google says its… Continue reading

  • Daft Punk Goes Medieval In Courseval’s Bardcore Cover

    French bardcore group Courseval has recast Daft Punk’s atmospheric 2001 Discovery track “Veridis Quo” as a medieval-style performance that exchanges its electronic pulse and synthesizer textures for woodwinds, lute-led instrumentation, organic strings, and a stately chamber-music feel. The arrangement preserves the song’s memorable, shadowy melodic character while imagining how it might have sounded centuries before electronic dance music, an approach well suited to “Veridis Quo” because the original already carries dark keyboard tones reminiscent of a haunted organ. Courseval, which specializes in transporting contemporary songs into a historical musical setting, previously adapted songs by Chappell Roan, Gloria Gaynor, Harry Styles,… Continue reading

  • This Week’s Cross-Platform Book Best Sellers

    Book Riot’s September 17, 2026 roundup combines rankings from The New York Times, Amazon Charts, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and Indie Bestsellers to identify the books showing the broadest sales momentum across major U.S. lists. Allen Levi’s Theo of Golden, Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl, and Kathryn Stockett’s The Calamity Club appeared on all five tracked lists, while Rachel Gillig’s gothic romantasy sequel The Knave and the Moon and Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear landed on four. Among the notable three-list titles were Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James’s The Disappearers, a novel set against the repercussions of a gay man’s… Continue reading

  • Waze Turns Commutes Into A Forgotton Island Adventure

    Waze has launched a global, English-language navigation experience inspired by DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming original film Forgotten Island, which is scheduled to arrive in theaters on September 25, 2026. The feature brings Jo, the film’s adventurous heroine voiced by Grammy and Academy Award winner H.E.R., into the passenger seat as a custom navigation voice, delivering directions with upbeat confidence, warmth, and phrases such as “Tayo na!” and “Strap in… let’s roll!” Drivers can also select a “Nostalgic” mood that displays Jo’s retro, paint-splattered boombox, which reflects her signature mixtapes, and replace the usual map arrow with “Jo’s Jeepney,” a vibrant vehicle… Continue reading