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The sinking of the RMS Titanic has long been a fixture of fascination, yielding movies, miniseries, books, a Broadway musical, and, of course, conspiracy theories. It’s even inspired tourism. Since 2009, OceanGate Expeditions has allowed interested parties to travel more than two miles below the ocean surface to view the wreckage up close. Now possible tragedy has struck.

As per The New York Times, a submersible ship has gone missing in the North Atlantic, prompting a desperate search-and-rescue mission by the U.S. Coast Guard. It’s not clear how many people were onboard, but the submersibles can only carry five people.

“Our entire focus is on the crew members in the submersible and their families,” read a statement by OceanGate. “We are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to reestablish contact with the submersible.”

The Titanic trips offered by OceanGate don’t only include a view of the shipwreck. The company’s website details an eight-day itinerary, which begins in the city of St. John’s in Canada. Once underwater, the submersible also visits nearby canyons. The price for these trips runs a whopping $250,000.

The Titanic sunk in the early hours of April 15, 1912 during its maiden voyage from England to New York City. After hitting an iceberg, the ship broke in two and sank to the bottom of the ocean, killing 15,000 people. It wasn’t until 1985 that the wreckage was found, about 400 miles off of Newfoundland.

(Via NYT)

Nick Cannon has 12 children. This is surprisingly common knowledge amongst the public. Cannon doesn’t mind joking about it at his own expense (or Taylor Swift’s), which recently included admitting that Mother’s Day “didn’t go as planned this year.”

Father’s Day went better on Sunday, June 18.

Cannon’s twins, Zillion and Zion, turned two last week, and their birthday celebration appears to have bled into Father’s Day. Cannon shares Zillion and Zion with Abby De La Rosa, whom he also welcomed another child with last November.

“My little guys turned the BIG 2 this week! Thanks to our friends and family who came together to help us celebrate Zilly & Zion!” Cannon captioned an Instagram video.

Cannon also posted photos to his Instagram Story with his daughter, Powerful, whom he shares with Brittany Bell, and Bre Tiesi shared an Instagram video of Cannon with their son, Legendary.

Cannon’s journey into fatherhood began with his ex-wife, Mariah Carey, and their 12-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe. Along with Legendary, Powerful, Zillion, and Zion, Cannon is also dad to Beautiful, Golden, Halo, Rise, Onyx, and Zen (as chronicled by People).

Cannon and Alyssa Scott lost Zen to brain cancer in December 2021. The child was merely five months old. They welcomed Halo in December 2022.

Nick Cannon has 12 children. This is surprisingly common knowledge amongst the public. Cannon doesn’t mind joking about it at his own expense (or Taylor Swift’s), which recently included admitting that Mother’s Day “didn’t go as planned this year.”

Father’s Day went better on Sunday, June 18.

Cannon’s twins, Zillion and Zion, turned two last week, and their birthday celebration appears to have bled into Father’s Day. Cannon shares Zillion and Zion with Abby De La Rosa, whom he also welcomed another child with last November.

“My little guys turned the BIG 2 this week! Thanks to our friends and family who came together to help us celebrate Zilly & Zion!” Cannon captioned an Instagram video.

Cannon also posted photos to his Instagram Story with his daughter, Powerful, whom he shares with Brittany Bell, and Bre Tiesi shared an Instagram video of Cannon with their son, Legendary.

Cannon’s journey into fatherhood began with his ex-wife, Mariah Carey, and their 12-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe. Along with Legendary, Powerful, Zillion, and Zion, Cannon is also dad to Beautiful, Golden, Halo, Rise, Onyx, and Zen (as chronicled by People).

Cannon and Alyssa Scott lost Zen to brain cancer in December 2021. The child was merely five months old. They welcomed Halo in December 2022.

The Golden State Warriors have a number of decisions to make this offseason, with Klay Thompson extension eligible, trade rumors swirling around Jordan Poole (who just started a new extension), and the likelihood of Draymond Green entering free agency.

Green officially entered the free agency pool on Monday, as he declined his player option for next season.

All indications are that Golden State will re-sign Green, even as Bob Myers leaves the franchise, as Steve Kerr has been vocal about how Green is a necessity for continuing to compete for championships in the immediate. Exactly what Green’s price tag ends up being remains to be seen, but after some wonder early in the season after the incident with Poole, few expect Green to end up anywhere else but the Bay for the immediate future. Should that go as expected, it figures to point to what options Golden State will be considering this summer for potential upgrades.

There have been rumblings about Poole being available, as well as Jonathan Kuminga, as the two-timeline plan has not gone as smoothly as the Warriors had hoped. Building up the roster for one more run around their long-time championship core seems like the most likely outcome, but exactly how many changes that involves is something the rest of the league will keep an eye on.

The Golden State Warriors have a number of decisions to make this offseason, with Klay Thompson extension eligible, trade rumors swirling around Jordan Poole (who just started a new extension), and the likelihood of Draymond Green entering free agency.

Green officially entered the free agency pool on Monday, as he declined his player option for next season.

All indications are that Golden State will re-sign Green, even as Bob Myers leaves the franchise, as Steve Kerr has been vocal about how Green is a necessity for continuing to compete for championships in the immediate. Exactly what Green’s price tag ends up being remains to be seen, but after some wonder early in the season after the incident with Poole, few expect Green to end up anywhere else but the Bay for the immediate future. Should that go as expected, it figures to point to what options Golden State will be considering this summer for potential upgrades.

There have been rumblings about Poole being available, as well as Jonathan Kuminga, as the two-timeline plan has not gone as smoothly as the Warriors had hoped. Building up the roster for one more run around their long-time championship core seems like the most likely outcome, but exactly how many changes that involves is something the rest of the league will keep an eye on.

Donald Trump may be crushing the polls for the GOP 2024 primary, but that’s just Republican voters. As fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger has argued, he still needs to win swing voters and independents — which he probably won’t do given his divisive rhetoric and generally chaotic vibe. A new Quinnipiac poll even shows him losing to current president and possible incumbent Joe Biden — again — but Trump, of course, doesn’t believe it.

“The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on ‘TRUMP’ vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll,” the former president railed on his rinky-dink Twitter clone. It’s not just a “BAD” poll, he claims, but an inaccurate one:

“It under samples Republicans by 10 points, which means, instead of being down 4 points, I am up 6 points. Other Polls show me much higher than that, but FoxNews will always attempt, as they did in 2016, to only show negatives on MAGA & TRUMP. We’re winning BIG, they don’t like it, the RINOS don’t like it, the Democrats don’t like it but, most of all, the Marxists & Communists don’t like it!”

On one hand, people have underestimated Trump’s electability before. On the other, Trump has a pretty well-documented history of claiming he’s won things he hasn’t (except for those times when he accidentally tells the truth).

But there’s another thing Trump’s doing here, as Raw Story notes:

In claiming that the poll is under-sampling Republicans, the former president is employing the same tactics used in 2012 when some conservatives “unskewed” polls they thought sampled too many Democrats to claim that Mitt Romney was actually defeating former President Barack Obama.

The final election results showed that, if anything, the polls underestimated Obama’s support.

Whatever the case, the 2024 election is still about a year-and-a-half away. A lot could change. Or a lot could stay the same.

(Via Raw Story)

Donald Trump may be crushing the polls for the GOP 2024 primary, but that’s just Republican voters. As fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger has argued, he still needs to win swing voters and independents — which he probably won’t do given his divisive rhetoric and generally chaotic vibe. A new Quinnipiac poll even shows him losing to current president and possible incumbent Joe Biden — again — but Trump, of course, doesn’t believe it.

“The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on ‘TRUMP’ vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll,” the former president railed on his rinky-dink Twitter clone. It’s not just a “BAD” poll, he claims, but an inaccurate one:

“It under samples Republicans by 10 points, which means, instead of being down 4 points, I am up 6 points. Other Polls show me much higher than that, but FoxNews will always attempt, as they did in 2016, to only show negatives on MAGA & TRUMP. We’re winning BIG, they don’t like it, the RINOS don’t like it, the Democrats don’t like it but, most of all, the Marxists & Communists don’t like it!”

On one hand, people have underestimated Trump’s electability before. On the other, Trump has a pretty well-documented history of claiming he’s won things he hasn’t (except for those times when he accidentally tells the truth).

But there’s another thing Trump’s doing here, as Raw Story notes:

In claiming that the poll is under-sampling Republicans, the former president is employing the same tactics used in 2012 when some conservatives “unskewed” polls they thought sampled too many Democrats to claim that Mitt Romney was actually defeating former President Barack Obama.

The final election results showed that, if anything, the polls underestimated Obama’s support.

Whatever the case, the 2024 election is still about a year-and-a-half away. A lot could change. Or a lot could stay the same.

(Via Raw Story)

The third episode of The Idol came and went on Sunday night (June 18). There’s some confusion over viewership or whether it will demand a second season on HBO, and The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) is “loving” the controversy, but people can count on Tesfaye to release The Idol singles after each episode of the first season.

This week, we got “A Lesser Man” and “Take Me Back” from The Weeknd, as well as “Get It B4” from Moses Sumney.

The Idol aired its premiere episode on June 4. The following Wednesday, June 7, Tesfaye shared his plan to release singles rather than wait until the season finale to drop the soundtrack in full.

“I was planning on dropping the whole soundtrack for idol by the finale, but I’m too hyped… instead, I wanna drop new music from the show every week with each episode,” he captioned an Instagram post. “I’m excited for you guys to hear what we’ve been cooking and all these incredible artists that are a part of this show… this week… Jocelyn’s pop song ‘world class sinner’ and ‘the lure’ (theme score)… episode 2 this Sunday [purple devil emoji].”

Following the June 11 episode, the singles were “Family” and “Devil’s Paradise,” joining “Double Fantasy” featuring Future and “Popular” featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti, which arrived weeks ago.

The Idol was co-created by Tesfaye, Sam Levinson (Euphoria), and Reza Fahim. Tesfaye stars as Tedros, “a nightclub impresario with a sordid past” who develops a troubling (to say the least) relationship with Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), a pop star on the back end of a nervous breakdown, according to the show’s official synopsis.

The next Idol episode is scheduled to air on HBO on Sunday, June 25, at 9 p.m. EST. All episodes become available to stream on Max.

Listen to latest singles from The Idol above and below.

Madonna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The third episode of The Idol came and went on Sunday night (June 18). There’s some confusion over viewership or whether it will demand a second season on HBO, and The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) is “loving” the controversy, but people can count on Tesfaye to release The Idol singles after each episode of the first season.

This week, we got “A Lesser Man” and “Take Me Back” from The Weeknd, as well as “Get It B4” from Moses Sumney.

The Idol aired its premiere episode on June 4. The following Wednesday, June 7, Tesfaye shared his plan to release singles rather than wait until the season finale to drop the soundtrack in full.

“I was planning on dropping the whole soundtrack for idol by the finale, but I’m too hyped… instead, I wanna drop new music from the show every week with each episode,” he captioned an Instagram post. “I’m excited for you guys to hear what we’ve been cooking and all these incredible artists that are a part of this show… this week… Jocelyn’s pop song ‘world class sinner’ and ‘the lure’ (theme score)… episode 2 this Sunday [purple devil emoji].”

Following the June 11 episode, the singles were “Family” and “Devil’s Paradise,” joining “Double Fantasy” featuring Future and “Popular” featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti, which arrived weeks ago.

The Idol was co-created by Tesfaye, Sam Levinson (Euphoria), and Reza Fahim. Tesfaye stars as Tedros, “a nightclub impresario with a sordid past” who develops a troubling (to say the least) relationship with Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), a pop star on the back end of a nervous breakdown, according to the show’s official synopsis.

The next Idol episode is scheduled to air on HBO on Sunday, June 25, at 9 p.m. EST. All episodes become available to stream on Max.

Listen to latest singles from The Idol above and below.

Madonna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The last six months have seen a massive and rapid uptick in Artificial Intelligence. In some ways it’s exciting: Such tech could lead to advances in medicine and cure so-far-uncurable diseases. It’s also terrifying: It could eliminate untold jobs or, worse, lead to some doomsday scenario out of sci-fi dystopian fiction. One of the odder examples of AI tech has been this: A number of people have made AI “trailers” resembling Wes Anderson movies. Yes, Wes Anderson knows they exist and, no, he isn’t watching them.

“I’ve only been exposed to it verbally. I haven’t seen any of it,” Anderson told The Daily Beast. “Obviously, it’s easy for me to go to the right web page and see it. I choose not to really engage. I guess it’s because I don’t want to get distracted by that. It’s a bit like if you’re told, ‘Your friend does a great version of you.’ Maybe you say, I’d really like to see it, and maybe you say, I don’t want to see a version of me, even if it’s good. It can be like, ‘Is that me?’ That’s not necessarily the thing you want.”

Besides, he doesn’t seem that into some modern tech. “At some point, I’m sure I’ll go in there and see. But I’ve never seen a TikTok, for instance, of anything,” he said. “I’m not going to start with me.”

Those fake trailers (which we’re not linking to) imagine what it would be like if the iconoclastic filmmaker, who has arguably the most instantly recognizable style in modern cinema, got his mitts on big IP, like Lord of the Rings, Dune, and Star Wars. They feature eerie simulations of his stock company — Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, etc. — as iconic characters, usually frozen in place.

And yet Anderson shouldn’t have anything to worry about: They’re surface-level imitations of his work, including the new Asteroid City, missing the spirit and even the wit of his work. They can’t even pronounce Timothée Chalamet’s name correctly.

(Via The Daily Beast)