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4/19/2023
5 : 25
Numlock News: April 18, 2023 • Akiya, Hibernation, Tides
By Walt Hickey Birds Sega, a video game company built on an iconic animal mascot with an attitude, has purchased Rovio, a video game company built on iconic animal mascots with attitudes, for €706
4/11/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 11, 2023 • Law & Order, Edmonton, Elevators
By Walt Hickey Talus Dome Constructed by the artists Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues at the cost of $600000, the “Talus Dome” is a large public artwork in Edmonton, Canada, which has proven divisive
4/10/2023
10 : 24
Numlock News: April 10, 2023 • Champagne, Conch, Coal
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Super Mario Bros. The Super Mario Bros. Movie blew expectations out of the water and made $204.6 million at the domestic box office and $173 million overseas for a $377
4/7/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 7, 2023 • Ramen, Parking Tickets, K-Pop
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Bad Drivers Owe Us Money A new analysis out of the New York City Independent Budget Office found that the amount of unpaid parking tickets and camera violations
4/6/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 6, 2023 • Emperor, NASCAR, Scoville
By Walt Hickey Headless Man In Turkish Bronze The New York District Attorney's office has confiscated more looted art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Last month the office returned 12
4/5/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: April 5, 2023 • Conspiracy, Sleight of Hand, Ornithology
By Walt Hickey Frank The founder of a startup that claimed to make it easier to access financial aid that was bought by JP Morgan Chase for $175 million has been arrested in New Jersey on charges of
4/4/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: April 4, 2023 • Black Market, Rings of Power, Wrestlemania
By Walt Hickey Charles It's a transitional time for the Windsor fandom, the group of predominantly British obsessives who follow the ins and outs of a family of prominent German landlords. Powerful
4/3/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: April 3, 2023 • Bubble Tea, Elephants, Dungeons & Dragons
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! D&D Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves made $38.5 million domestically and $33 million across 60 overseas markets, a $71 million opening which is pretty good
3/31/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: March 31, 2023 • T-Rex, Adult Swim, Bidets
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Ads On the cusp of the service's big push to get existing verified users to shell out for an eight-dollar subscription to maintain a vanity checkmark, details
3/30/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: March 30, 2023 • Folio, Ciclomotores, Pirates
By Walt Hickey Latin The top 25 Latin music tours in 2019 brought in gross sales of $251.3 million on 2.8 million tickets sold. In 2022, the top 25 Latin music tours brought in $990.8 million, and
3/29/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: March 29, 2023 • Venus, Ridiculousness, One Hits
By Walt Hickey Venus Planetary scientists are furious at a NASA decision to yank funding away from a mission to Venus that had been slated for 2028 in order to redirect that money toward the Psyche
3/28/2023
10 : 15
Numlock News: March 28, 2023 • Crocs, Billionaire Mystery, Ghost Kitchens
By Walt Hickey Mystery There is an exciting mystery afoot in US tax data, where the Treasury issues a daily report of financial transactions and on February 28, 2023, the feds reported a deposit of $7
3/27/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: March 27, 2023 • Keanu, Goblin Shark, Horror
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Baba Yaga John Wick: Chapter 4 made $73.5 million at the domestic box office this past weekend, beating already sky-high projections for the latest incarnation of the Keanu
3/24/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: March 24, 2023 • Space Junk, Smugglers, Angostura Bitters
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Today is the last day: amid the spiraling increase in inflation, the cost of a paid subscription to Numlock is going to change… to be temporarily lower! I'm not
3/23/2023
10 : 5
Numlock News: March 23, 2023 • Gladiators, Oreos, Dolphins
By Walt Hickey Fraud A Massachusetts man was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to running a sophisticated romance fraud scheme from 2016 to 2020. Targeting mostly older
3/22/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: March 22, 2023 • Asteroid Strike, Sabotage, BookTok
By Walt Hickey Merch The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has prompted a run on Silicon Valley Bank swag on secondary markets, bound for collectors of the ephemera left behind by entities that imploded,
3/21/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: March 21, 2023 • Lawn Paint, Malenia, Wizards
By Walt Hickey My dear readers, at the insistence of our accounting department amid the spiraling increase in inflation, the cost of a paid subscription to Numlock is going to change… to be temporarily
3/20/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: March 20, 2023 • Animal Cafes, Black Lotus, Strawberries
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Shazam! Apathy of the Crowds The new sequel to the 2019 DC comics film Shazam! bombed at the box office, with Shazam! Fury of the Gods bringing in just $30.5 million
3/17/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: March 17, 2023 • Moldova, Rivals, Uranium
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Slightly On The Outsider Trading A new analysis of IRS data about the stock trades of ultra-wealthy business executives found a pattern among some wealthy people
3/16/2023
15 : 4
Numlock News: March 15, 2023 • George Lucas, Taylor Swift, Metallica
By Walt Hickey Pressed Vinyl sales have grown for the past 16 years, up 17 percent year over year to $1.2 billion in 2022, outselling CDs on a unit basis to become the single most popular format of