Coronavirus cases in Los Angeles county continue to climb down from the record-breaking highs of the fatal holiday surge. On Saturday Los Angeles Public Health recorded 1,730 new confirmed cases – a significant decrease from the 6,917 cases reported exactly a month ago. While the falling case statistics and rising vaccination rates seem to be
Ukraine is formally pointing fingers at Russian hackers for hacking into one of its government systems and attempting to plant and distribute malicious documents that would install malware on target systems of public authorities. “The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of information resources of public authorities, as this system is used for
iQoo Neo 5 is set to launch on March 16, Vivo sub-brand iQoo has revealed through a teaser posted on Weibo. The new smartphone will be the successor to the iQoo Neo 3 5G that was unveiled in China in April last year. The iQoo Neo 5 is speculated to come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon
A £5bn grant scheme to help pubs, restaurants and retailers hit hardest by lockdown restrictions is set to be unveiled by the chancellor in Wednesday’s budget. Rishi Sunak is also planning to support first-time buyers by incentivising lenders to accept deposits of just 5% for properties up to £600,000. The chancellor has warned hard decisions
Eric Church has words to the wise in his new song, “Never Break Heart.” Penned by Church and Luke Dick, the bluegrass-leaning song (tinged with a twinkling banjo) finds the singer encouraging the listener to walk fearlessly through life with a heart that’s open to the elements. “Don’t let fear steal your brave heart /
Zach Bryan is a rare bird in today’s landscape of country music. Unlike the popular approach of singers cutting their teeth in Downtown Nashville honkytonks, or worse, manufactured in an office for TikTok… Zach became a trailblazer of his own. As an Okie stationed in Washington state, he unexpectedly launched his music career by uploading
Slowly but surely, WandaVision has started to unpack the mystery of Westview, and why it’s disconnected from the rest of the world. Better yet, the series has given Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) an increasingly powerful skillset with each passing episode, and she’s now on the verge of becoming the Scarlet Witch, full-stop. Light spoilers ahead for
A Black Superman film might be among us soon — but a Black actor who already starred in a DC flick is pouring cold water on it, re-affirming his claim he experienced racism on WB’s watch. Ray Fisher — who played Cyborg in 2017’s ‘Justice League’ — reminded folks Saturday that as hyped as they
According to Monster Hunter prop master Kerry Von Lillienfeld, the hardest thing about creating practical props for a movie that was going to be full of giant, digital monsters was simple: he had to make the practical props both look good — and look like the Monster Hunter video games, on which the film is
Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gnTIbD Stella, a space mechanician, has broken down and ended on a desert planet. While she is in despair, a little girl appears out of nowhere. Following the child into a tunnel, in the depths of the planet, she discovers a big cave full of objects that belonged to her,
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has been enlisted to write a new Superman film for DC Films and Warner Bros., with J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot also on board to produce. While the project is early in its development, Variety reports that Coates’ Superman movie — like the upcoming The Batman — would be more of
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In 2021, there’s a simple formula for becoming a cancel culture martyr, and it’s essentially as follows: One, make a tone-deaf remark or faux pas betraying your ignorance of your own privilege; two, lose your job or be publicly reprimanded over said offense; three, get a centrist or right-leaning columnist or public figure with a
This article contains WandaVision spoilers. With just one episode left in the season – and technically the series – the finale of WandaVision has a lot of ground to cover. Its penultimate installment was not just a heartbreaking retrospective of just how terrible Wanda’s life has been and how much she has suffered, it gave
The 45th anniversary of the founding of West Valley Christian Church in West Hills is celebrated on Feb. 28. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of upcoming services and events that are online, and some in-person, in the San Fernando Valley area. Services with Temple Beth Hillel: Havdalah online, 7 p.m. Feb. 27 (click
American airstrikes in Syria show that Iran can expect consequences for supporting militia groups threatening US interests and personnel, Joe Biden has warned. “You can’t act with impunity. Be careful,” the US president said when asked what message he intended to send with the airstrikes early on Friday morning on Syria‘s eastern border with Iraq.
Glasgow MSP Anas Sarwar has been elected as Scottish Labour’s new leader – just 10 weeks before the Holyrood elections. The party was forced to vote for a new leader after Richard Leonard’s shock resignation in January, claiming his decision was in the “best interests” of the party. Mr Sarwar was quick to throw his
UPDATE: The House of Representatives early on Saturday passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a Covid-19 relief and recovery bill that would be Joe Biden’s first legislative achievement if it reaches his desk. The massive piece of spending legislation now goes to the Senate. The bill passed narrowly in the House, 219-212. Two Democrats,
Cisco has addressed a maximum severity vulnerability in its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on vulnerable devices. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the affected API,” the company said in an advisory published yesterday. “A successful exploit
Realme GT 5G retail box image has been spotted on Weibo ahead of its official launch. Separately, benchmarking site Geekbench has listed a Realme phone with model number RMX2202. This has so far been associated with the Realme GT 5G. The Geekbench listing suggests that the upcoming Realme smartphone will have 12GB of RAM. In
Britain’s second-richest family is exploring plans to join a wave of “blank cheque” mergers in a move that could see another major UK electric vehicle manufacturer going public in the US. Sky News has learnt that Ashok Leyland, the Indian-listed group controlled by the Hindujas, is working with bankers on a potential merger of Switch