The month of March signals a grim milestone with it being roughly one year since COVID-19 shut movie theaters down around the world. And 12 months later, going to a cinema remains a risky proposition. However, the comfort of Netflix is still providing a safe alternative for the quarantine-bound. Here’s a handful of new cinematic
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Los Angeles is quietly expanding a controversial real-time tracking system from dockless scooters to taxis and ride-hailing vehicles with the goal of creating a future-proof tool to digitally manage the city’s rights of way, but critics fear the technology puts passengers’ privacy at risk. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation will soon require the tracking
Donald Trump has suggested he may run for president again in 2024 – amid an angry attack on Joe Biden in his first major address since leaving the White House. The Republican used his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in an apparent effort to cement his status as the party’s undisputed leader
A huge boost in spending on the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine programme will be announced by the chancellor in the Budget on Wednesday. Rishi Sunak will pledge a further £1.65bn for jabs, a cash injection hailed by the Treasury as a “shot in the arm” for the vaccine roll-out. The chancellor will also promise to invest
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo apologized if comments he’s made to female aides were interpreted as “unwanted flirtation” but denied he ever touched or propositioned anyone. In a statement issued Sunday evening, he asked for an outside, independent review of allegations by two women. Last week, a former aide Lindsey Boylan in a blog post
VMware has addressed multiple critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi and vSphere Client virtual infrastructure management platform that may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and take control of affected systems. “A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the
Samsung Galaxy A32 will be launched in India on March 5 and will go on sale the same day. A microsite dedicated to the smartphone is already live on the company site and the date of the launch as well as sale is mentioned in the title of the webpage. The phone has been launched
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been told by MPs that “now is not the time for tax rises” – though a moderate hike in corporation tax could help the government without damaging growth. A report from the Treasury select committee acknowledged that the public finances are on an “unsustainable” path long term but argued that it
Carrie Underwood‘s forthcoming gospel album, My Savior, includes a duet with a legend in the genre. The country star teams with gospel icon CeCe Winans for “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” released ahead of the record on Friday (Feb. 26). Underwood and Winans trade verses in this collaboration, their voices and the accompanying piano building throughout
Merle f*ckin’ Haggard. The country music legend is known for being an integral part of the outlaw country movement, a reputation accompanied by his days in San Quentin Prison, but here, we have a much more heartfelt moment from The Hag. Merle Haggard was locked up in Bakersfield, CA, on counts of burglary, and was
During the latest episode of WandaVision, “Previously On,” it was finally revealed how and why Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) had created her own sitcom-style reality in the town of Westview, New Jersey. During a series of flashbacks, we see Wanda as a child and her father coming home, excitedly sharing a suitcase filled with TV
“Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston‘s moving on to new turf, and leaving behind a beachfront property he turned into a home with a net-zero carbon footprint. The Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated actor has listed his super hip, eco-friendly pad in Ventura, CA — called “Three Palms” — for just a touch under $5 million … after paying
WandaVision Episode 8 began tying up as many loose ends as possible as it clipped along, answering a solid chunk of questions the show’s first seven episodes raised. We found out why Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) formed “The Hex” in the first place, and we learned the truth behind Vision’s (Paul Bettany) true whereabouts between Avengers:
Once upon a time, there was a cat. His name was Tom. Some folks at an animation studio thought it’d be a good idea to pair him with a mouse. After an exhaustive search on several continents, they found a young, aspiring rodential star named Jerry. Never mind the centuries of biological history that made
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After playwright Jeremy O. Harris’ hit show Slave Play had its final performance at the Golden Theatre on January 19th, 2020, he was applauded by some for changing the way audiences engaged with Broadway theater — but also found many detractors. Harris had insisted on being a co-producer of the show, made sure to offer
This Walking Dead article contains major spoilers. The war between the Whisperers and our beloved heroes finally came to a head in The Walking Dead season 10. As you can imagine, things got very bloody, as the war brought the lives of several important characters to an end in the process. The cold-blooded Alpha struck
A stray mention in my Feb. 14 column of a classic-era KFWB disc jockey prompted a note from reader Bob Watson of Upland, who first off gently corrected my spelling. Or rather, as he said, my transcription of the spelling from a 1959 student newspaper article, which was wrong. The DJ’s name was Elliot Field,
At a place in downtown Orlando this weekend, Donald Trump still rules America. The Conservative Political Action Conference – CPAC for short – is being held in Florida to bypass COVID-19 restrictions. Here, delegates queue up to have their photo taken with a gold statue of the former president wearing flip flops and carrying a
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has ruled out any chance of a speedier end to lockdown, telling Sky News the last thing the business needed was a “stop, start” return to normal life. Mr Sunak told Sophy Ridge on Sunday that the roadmap the prime minister has set out was the right “cautious but irreversible approach”. But