When Chris Smith — a documentarian who had tackled everything from Method acting run amuck to a music festival falling apart — was asked what subjects he might be interested in pursuing in terms of a new project, he didn’t mention a “what.” Instead, he gave his producers a “who”: Robert Downey Jr. The American
Month: December 2022
🇺🇸 1 – 3 🇳🇱 Despite out-chancing the Dutch in Round of 16 game, USMNT’s time in Qatar comes to a 3-1 end The United States Men’s National Team’s time in Qatar has come to an end as they were downed by the Netherlands squad 3-1 Saturday at the FIFA World Cup. The USMNT’s fate
Lenovo K14 and the Lenovo K14 Note will reportedly be launched as the two new smartphones in the company’s budget-friendly K series. Both the speculated Lenovo K-series handsets were recently spotted on the Google Play console. The listing has revealed some of the key specifications of the smartphones as well as a few front-facing images.
iQoo 11 5G’s launch event has been rescheduled for December 8 after the Chinese smartphone manufacturer postponed its initial plans to introduce the handset on December 2. iQoo Indonesia confirmed the development on the Instagram handle. Some of the key specifications of the latest iQoo flagship smartphone have already been hinted, as spotted on various
A weakening journalism industry is one arm of the octopus which has allowed book bans and censorship to thrive in the current environment. It’s not just the loss of local news, though. Further contributing is the insistence of calling book censorship a matter of “culture war.” Censorship is not, nor has it ever been, a
The grumpy / sunshine trope is nothing new, but watching Wednesday and Enid becoming the best and unlikeliest of friends in the new Netflix show reminded me of just how much I love that dynamic whether in friendships or romances. There’s just something about a hardened, stoic character being soft for that one overly optimistic
The number of landlords selling up has risen by nearly 13% in four months, Sky News has learned. The statistics, given to us by the estate agents trade body Propertymark, show an increase from July to October. Why should we care what happens to landlords? In basic terms, if the landlord exodus continues we could
McLaren Group, the supercar manufacturer and Formula One team-owner, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding aimed at steering the British-based company into the electric vehicle era. Sky News has learnt that McLaren has opened talks with existing shareholders including the sovereign wealth funds of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
A 10-year-old boy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been accused of fatally shooting his mother in the head at close range over a VR headset. He has been charged as an adult with first degree reckless homicide and could face a maximum of 60 years in prison. A recently unsealed criminal complaint reveals disturbing details of
When I mention Latin American literature, your mind probably goes straight to magical realism, right? Thanks to the Latin American Boom of the ’60s and ’70s which consists of authors like Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Luis Borge, our region is almost synonymous with magical realism in terms of literature. After all, that
After the success of “Cold Heart” with Dua Lipa and Elton John, PNAU is back with a new single. This time, the Australian DJ trio tapped Troye Sivan for “You Know What I Need,” one of his only songs released this year. “We are so proud to share our new song with Troye Sivan!” PNAU’s
iQoo 11 Pro charging specifications have been revealed, ahead of the upcoming launch of the smartphone in China. The flagship-grade smartphone will will pack a 4,700mAh battery with support for 200W charging, according to the company. The company recently announced that it had postponed the launch of its flagship iQoo 11 series in the country,
Hollywood is back at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., where President Biden‘s finally getting to entertain a foreign dignitary — French President Emmanuel Macron — as well as famous supporters. Thursday night marks the return of swanky state dinners … as the COVID pandemic forced Biden to cancel such events for the first 2 years of his
Ever since April, when HSBC’s biggest single shareholder, Ping An, began lobbying the lender to spin off its Asian operations into a separate business, there has been speculation over what has motivated the Chinese insurer to do so. Some, including a number of analysts covering the banking sector, have speculated that Ping An, which owns
Accomplished country singer-songwriter Jenny Tolman and her husband, Grammy-nominated producer Dave Brainard, are expecting their first child on Christmas Eve. The magical moments of excitement, love and anticipation that blossomed after the couple realized they’d welcome a new bundle of joy into their family served as a spark of creative inspiration for Tolman. Premiering exclusively at The
Increasingly volatile rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is no longer going to acquire right-wing social network Parler. Parlement Technologies, the parent company of Parler, confirmed the breakup of the acquisition deal in the wake of West’s appearance on InfoWars, which featured more spasms of unfiltered antisemitism. The transaction had been slated to
The California Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 dashboard for every county in the state is reporting an uptick in positive patients hospitalized in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The following charts from the California Department of Public Health show the number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus starting in March 2020 through
A golfer has been accused of biting off the nose of his competitor in a casino car park during an argument over their game, police have said. The suspect Mark Wells, 51, of Biloxi, Mississippi, initially fled the scene before turning himself in, Bay St Louis police chief Toby Schwartz said. The nose was not
Labour has won the Chester by-election – the first public ballot since both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were ousted from Number 10. The party’s candidate, Samantha Dixon, won with 17,309 votes – nearly 11,000 more than the Conservative candidate. The contest was triggered by the resignation of Labour MP Chris Matheson, who was suspended
A Barcelona-based surveillanceware vendor named Variston IT is said to have surreptitiously planted spyware on targeted devices by exploiting several zero-day flaws in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Windows, some of which date back to December 2018. “Their Heliconia framework exploits n-day vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Defender, and provides all the tools necessary