Paramount agrees to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, pays Netflix $2.8 billion for breakup

Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery are officially merging. The studio paid Netflix the $2.8 billion termination fee it was owed for breaking its original deal to buy Warner Bros. earlier today, and the historic film studio has now formally accepted Paramount’s offer. Along with the deal, which values Warner Bros. Discovery at $31 per…

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Celebrate Pokémon’s 30th anniversary with this Game Boy-shaped music player

Pokémon celebrates its 30th anniversary today, and as you’d expect, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are cranking up the nostalgia in every possible way. In addition to re-releasing the Game Boy Advance remakes of Pokémon Red and Blue on Nintendo Switch Online, they’re also selling us a Game Boy-shaped portable Pokémon jukebox. Officially titled the…

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Frailty can be eased with an infusion of stem cells from young people

Slow walking speed is a common feature of frailty Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images/Getty Images An experimental stem cell therapy could treat frailty by targeting the condition at its biological roots. Frailty – which raises the risk of falls and infections – is typically only mitigated through lifestyle changes, like doing strength training and balance exercises….

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