The year is 2021. Modern American society exists as much online these days as it does concretely in the real world. While there are certainly plenty of technological advancements that should be celebrated for making the world a better and more interconnected place, social platforms, widespread misinformation from the mainstream media, and self-serving and egotistical
Battlegrounds Mobile India has announced that logins with Facebook accounts will be disabled from November 5. This change will only affect Android users for now. Game maker Krafton says that BGMI players who have been using the game through a Facebook login will need to have the Facebook app installed on their smartphone. If this
Developer Niantic (the studio behind Pokémon Go) has announced that they intend to shut down AR mobile game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite starting on January 31, 2022. “We launched Harry Potter: Wizards Unite more than two years ago, bringing together a community of witches and wizards from all over the globe in an epic quest
Alec Baldwin clearly doesn’t believe the conditions on the set of “Rust” were chaotic or unsafe leading up to the fatal shooting — he’s shining a light on at least one crew member who insists the film had normal hiccups … and one major accident. Baldwin just reposted a long message from a woman claiming
Screenwriter Dylan Meyer put a ring on it. In an interview with Howard Stern via E! News, Kristen Stewart said her partner of two years has proposed to her. “We’re marrying, we’re totally gonna do it,” Stewart said on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show. “I wanted to be proposed to, so I think I very distinctly
Jennifer Febre, the owner of MacLeod Ale Brewing Co. in Van Nuys, has been closely following government mandates since the first days of the pandemic, but the latest Los Angeles city and county orders — which will not match one another — requiring customers to show proof of vaccination have left her worried and confused.
Ghislaine Maxwell was forced to crawl “on her hands and knees” while wearing leg shackles to get into a prison van and attend a pre-trial hearing, her lawyer has claimed. Bobbi Sterheim said Ms Maxwell was woken at 3.45am and arrived at the courthouse at 5.38am but was prevented from looking at her legal materials.
One of Britain’s top scientists has quit the government’s pandemic advisory body, warning the COVID crisis is “a long way from over” and that the situation in the UK is “concerning”. Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, quit the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) at the end of October. Sky News can
EXCLUSIVE: Kate Rorick, the Emmy winner who currently serves as executive producer and showrunner of the IMDB TV series Leverage: Redemption, has signed with APA for representation. Rorick is a TV writer, producer and novelist who has also worked on series including Hulu’s Ghost Rider, TNT’s The Librarians, and Freeform’s Cloak & Dagger. She won her
A now-patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in GitLab’s web interface has been detected as actively exploited in the wild, cybersecurity researchers warn, rendering a large number of internet-facing GitLab instances susceptible to attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-22205, the issue relates to an improper validation of user-provided images that results in arbitrary code execution. The
Fans of early-1990s tabloid culture, rejoice: John F. Kennedy Jr. is set to return. The lush-haired scion and former George publisher is set to make an appearance at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, where his father was assassinated in 1963, for a special announcement this afternoon. The fact that the former People Sexiest Man Alive has been dead
Three of Britain’s biggest high street lenders will this week join an alliance aimed at phasing out the world’s dependence on coal power amid a blizzard of efforts by multinationals to demonstrate their green credentials at the COP26 summit. Sky News has learnt that HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group will be among 10
As Kelly reported last year, Penguin Random House is acquiring Simon & Schuster for $2.2 billion, consolidating the major publishing houses yet again, this time from the Big Five to the Big Four. Penguin Random House, formerly separate publishers Penguin and Random House, is the single largest publishing house in the United States; Simon &
One of the world’s greatest treasures… Dolly Parton. I’ve told quite a few of her greatest stories before, from the time she was mistaken as a prostitute in New York City, to turning her husband Carl Dean down the first time he asked her out, to having her first kiss while playing spin the bottle,
Netflix on Tuesday introduced games on its platform. The new development is a result of a years-long experiment that the video streaming company is doing to go beyond offering movies and television series and please both its investors and users with newer experiences. As a result of the update, Netflix subscribers across the globe can
Apex Legends’ massive Season 11 “Escape” update arrives just as EA and Respawn’s battle royale looks to capitalize on Warzone’s complacency and make its move to claim the genre crown. This update not only adds a new Legend to the game’s growing roster but reworks one of the game’s formerly bottom-tier Legends in such a
When it rains it pours … as Alec Baldwin reels from the fatal shooting on the ‘Rust’ set, his wife just revealed a member of their family is MIA. Hilaria Baldwin just posted, “We can’t find our cat, Emilio. If anyone sees him, please help him get home. We are all so upset. He’s microchipped
Ahead of Disney+ Day later this month, the platform has unveiled a new trailer celebrating its successful launch over the past two years. The two-and-a-half-minute trailer features clips from many of the streamer’s original shows, anything from recent projects like Marvel’s What If…? to shows that were available at launch like The Mandalorian Season One.
Los Angeles County public health officials reported 990 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,499,119 as of Saturday, Nov. 1. The total number of cases represents 15% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported seven more deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 26,644 deaths since tracking
On the pavement outside the Supreme Court in Washington DC, a pro-life activist pours water on an “abortion is healthcare” statement written in white chalk, furiously trying to erase it using his shoe. Another man of similar persuasion carries a plastic doll representing a foetus, shouting “pro-life for all life”. Metres away, pro-choice campaigners huddle