24 h. ago Everything we learned from Nintendo’s ‘deep dive’ into the Switch 2

In this week’s newsletter: Finally, the sequel to the revolutionary handheld console was unveiled – and it was a reminder that no does joy like NintendoSixty minutes – that’s how long Nintendo took on Wednesday afternoon to remind us that no other video game manufacturer creates joy like this one. It was the Nintendo livestream we’ve been waiting for: a deep dive into the new console after so much speculation. Sure, the Switch 2 is the company’s first real hardware sequel – an updated and spruced-up version of its predecessor rather than a radical new piece of kit. But the updates are the intriguing part.Naturally, we’re getting a larger (7.9-inch, to be precise) screen that displays in full HD at 1080p; but we’re also getting re-thought Joy-Con controllers that now click to the console via strong magnets rather than those fiddly sliders we all put on the wrong way. The buttons are larger, too, so adults will be able to play Mario Kart with some semblance of skill. But the main new ...

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6 d. ago Nintendo Direct 2025: Everything announced during Nintendo's March presentation

From Nintendo’s own news app to a new Tomodachi Life game, here’s what we’ve learned from Nintendo Direct.

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7 d. ago Mariah Carey's brother launches legal action claiming she conspired with fan to 'destroy' his reputation

Morgan Carey launches fresh legal action over deep-dive YouTube video created to ‘damage’ him

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8 d. ago Kate Middleton's best bargain buys revealed: From £15.99 dress to £2 earrings in the sale

We take a deep dive into some of the Princess of Wales' best high street bargains, highlighting the brands and pieces that have become integral parts of her wardrobe.

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8 d. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips

London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips  The Guardian

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8 d. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming

From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it‘The first thing to say is that I’m a terrible swimmer,” says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design Museum in London this week. Growing up, school swimming lessons were “horrible, traumatic” – the cold water, the humiliation, the scrutiny from teenage boys. But something shifted when she moved to Margate 10 years ago and discovered the joy of swimming in the resort’s huge tidal pool, which was built in the 1930s. “This sounds quite pretentious, but it’s this idea of becoming one with the horizon,” says Butchart. “It’s almost like an existential feeling of the vastness of the world and being physically a part of that when you’re immersed in water. It’s transformational.”Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style explores our enduring love affair with swimming, from Britain’s lido boom of the 1920s and 30s to the Merma...

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1 week ago Spoons boss Tim Martin tells Rachel Reeves to 'save British pubs for our mental health'

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star sat down with JD Wetherspoon boss Sir Tim Martin to discuss the health of the pub industry as part of our deep dive into the issues facing the nation's boozers

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1 week ago Day by day, how Covid spread like wildfire: DEEP DIVE retraces earliest days of the pandemic, with then

Five years ago today, families huddled around their TVs with bated breath awaiting Boris Johnson to address the nation. What followed was a spine-tingling speech that changed life as we knew it.

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1 week ago Horror moment pilot killed in crash in front of shocked air show crowd

Test pilot James O’Connell was killed on Saturday when the Impala Mark 1 aircraft he was flying at an airshow in Saldanha, South Africa, when it suddenly went into a deep dive, and crashed

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1 week ago 'Olympic boxing decision would have been madness – just ask Anthony Joshua'

FRANK WARREN COLUMN:The hall-of-fame promoter takes a deep dive into the Olympics decisions this week which was a huge boost for the sport of boxing ahead of LA2028

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2 w. ago Nintendo Switch 2 launch games leak as fans all say the same thing

Nintendo Switch 2 is likely to have a big presence from one publisher as a new leak reveals a series of epic launch titles for Nintendo's console — here's all we've learned

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2 w. ago Many young people find safety in the soothing world of ASMR – imagine if we could give them that in the real world | Emma Beddington

ASMR videos can mimic the feeling of physical touch, which a study has found is popular with young consumers. But how many intimate gestures of love, care and connection are they missing out on? You wouldn’t think a deep dive on slime-squishing and head-scratching videos could be haunting, but a recent study on ASMR content left me haunted and also slightly grossed out.ASMR, for those not particularly online, is a content genre named after the feeling it provokes in some viewers: autonomous sensory meridian response, a pseudoscientific name for a pleasurable tingling accompanied by a sense of calm. If you’re moderately online, you may know it as “those whispering and tapping videos” – there is lots of that, plus scratching, slime and gentle brushing. But there is much more to it, as I discovered reading a report by innovation agency Revealing Reality, including subgenres that mimic physical touch. You can watch ASMR-ists pretend to brush your hair, groom you for nits or wipe your “f...

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3 w. ago Lewis Hamilton is a driver ‘reborn’ at Ferrari – so can he make history with an eighth title?

Speaking to ex-Ferrari drivers and personnel ahead of Hamilton’s Scuderia debut in Australia this weekend, Kieran Jackson takes a deep dive into the biggest transfer in F1 history and asks: is an eighth title possible?

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3 w. ago Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari F1 are a ‘perfect match’ – but will results live up to the hype?

Speaking to ex-Ferrari drivers and personnel ahead of Hamilton’s Scuderia debut in Australia this weekend, Kieran Jackson takes a deep dive into the biggest transfer in F1 history and asks: is an eighth title possible?

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3 w. ago London Silver Stocks Post Largest Monthly Decline Since 2016

London Silver Stocks Post Largest Monthly Decline Since 2016  The Deep Dive

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4 w. ago Like Tears in Rain review – Rutger Hauer portrait takes deep dive into the archive

Likable enough documentary by the actor’s goddaughter recalls an actor who never quite fitted in Hollywood, without adding much to what we already knewThe late Dutch actor Rutger Hauer is probably still best known for his extraordinary turn as rebel replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, but that’s not where the focus lies in this amiable but mostly unsurprising curio from his goddaughter Sanna Fabery de Jonge. Using the actor’s own home movie footage, shot on lovely 16mm, plus new interviews with those close to him, including director Paul Verhoeven, actor Whoopi Goldberg, and his second wife Ineke ten Kate, a portrait emerges of a talented no-bullshit actor who fell slightly short of his potential due to Hollywood not being sure quite what to do with him. To be honest, that’s more or less what most people who are aware of Hauer thought of him already, so it’s not the case that this adds all that much to the narrative.The home movie archive is previously unseen, and th...

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4 w. ago Díaz gives Real Madrid slim advantage after Álvarez stunner for Atlético

This will be decided 14km east of here in eight days’ time. On a night that lacked a little thunder but had three fantastic goals, Rodrygo, Julián Alvarez and Brahim Díaz all stepping inside to bend the ball beyond outstretched fingers and into the far corner, the city’s fifth European derby delivered a victory for Real Madrid but no definitive conclusion. Atlético will host the second leg next Wednesday, and they will go into an occasion likely to be a lot more explosive than this with hope.Diego Simeone may feel frustrated that long periods of control did not result in win, his team recovering from going behind in the fourth of what will be at least 180 minutes to draw level only for Díaz’s goal to beat them, but he agreed with Carlo Ancelotti’s prediction that this tie was never going to be settled on the first night. And if it could have been better, it might also have been worse: in the last minute, Marcos Llorente had to dive in as Kylian Mbappé escaped deep into the area and ...

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last month ‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery

Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark pastIn 2019, the Yale historian David Blight won a Pulitzer prize, for his monumental biography of Frederick Douglass. In 2020, Blight was beginning work on his next book, a life of the writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson. Then his college president called.“Peter Salovey called me up, in the depths of Covid, and said: ‘Would you lead, manage and write the history of Yale and slavery?” Continue reading...

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