Fueled by aggressive growth, German discount grocer Aldi has boosted its hourly wages and is looking to hire 740 workers across Southern California ahead of the holiday season. The local hiring is part of the Illinois-based company’s broader push to hire more than 20,000 store and warehouse employees nationwide to support operations at its more
Joe Biden says he stands “squarely” behind his decision to pull US troops out of Afghanistan. The US president spoke after the Taliban entered Kabul and swept to power in the country – 20 years after they were removed in the US-led invasion. Mr Biden said the US mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to
Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial of service (DoS) amplification attacks, surpassing many of the existing UDP-based amplification factors to date. Detailed by a group of academics from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado Boulder at
Talk about some huge news from one of the best in the business. For those that don’t know, Jon Randall has probably either written, co-written, or perhaps even produced a lot of your favorite country songs. The man’s written songs for Miranda Lambert, Alison Krauss (yep, he wrote “Whiskey Lullaby”), Dwight Yoakam, Dierks Bentley and
The protagonist in the Barefoot Movement’s “Someday” is doing their best to look on the bright side. The new song — premiering exclusively on The Boot, along with its music video — is a prayer of sorts, the trio explains. “”Someday” was written right in the middle of some great personal turmoil. It came out like a
The CW has released a preview for “Silence of the Sonograms,” the August 22nd episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. After playing an intense Clue/Jumanji style board game in Sunday’s “Bored on Board Onboard”, the preview for next week’s “Silence of the Sonograms” reveals that the Legends have a very unwelcome guest on the Waverider:
If the latest Call of Duty: Warzone patch felt a little underwhelming to you, it might be because Activision and the Call of Duty teams recently revealed that the free-to-play battle royale will soon host the official reveal of the next Call of Duty game: Vanguard. Warzone previously played host to the official reveal of
District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp started teasing his ideas for an Alien sequel with Sigourney Weaver years ago, but when original director Ridley Scott returned to the series for Alien: Covenant, in addition to The Walt Disney Company purchasing the franchise along with acquiring 20th Century Fox, the momentum for the film was entirely halted,
Asus ROG Phone 5s Series has just been unveiled. The new gaming smartphones is offered in two models — the vanilla ROG Phone 5 and the ROG Phone 5s Pro. Both come with the latest 5G-enabled Snapdragon 888 Plus chipset. The Asus smartphones feature a 6.78-inch Samsung AMOLED E4 display with a 144Hz refresh rate, 360Hz
Britain’s biggest private sector retirement scheme has won a tussle over the value of its remaining stake in Hermes, the prominent City asset manager. Sky News has learnt that Federated Hermes, the Pittsburgh-based group which bought 60% of Hermes in 2018, has agreed to pay the BT Pensions Scheme about £115m for a further 29.5%
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CNN’s Jamie Gangel previews a new book from journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa detailing the final days of Trump’s presidency and the transition to the Biden administration. #CNN #News
All you need to make a movie, a wise French man once said, is a girl and a gun. It helps, of course, if you throw in a few explosions, several car chases, some knockdown mano a mano fistfights, a smattering of kung fu and any number of swordfights as well. Action has been a
Instagram apologized for pulling the movie poster for director Pedro Almodóvar’s new film Madres Paralelas after the artwork — which showed a closeup of a lactating nipple — triggered a takedown for violating the social network’s no-nudity guidelines. Madres Paralelas — or Parallel Mothers, its title in the U.S. when its released this December —
Orson Welles’ influential movie Citizen Kane, widely considered the best film ever made, leads the Criterion Collection’s upcoming 4K Ultra HD offerings. Its first slate of releases includes six films; each edition will house special features, which will be detailed next week. Citizen Kane was Criterion Collection’s first laser-disc offering 37 years ago, and in
“Just Like Old Times,” a fan favorite from singer-songwriter Todd Snider’s critically acclaimed 2006 album The Devil You Know, is not the most likely Hollywood source material. But that’s exactly what happened with Hard Luck Love Song, the upcoming feature film starring Michael Dorman, Sophia Bush, RZA, Brian Sacca, Toni Robison-May, and Dermot Mulroney. The
Shia LeBeouf has been cast in his first film since allegations of sexual abuse were leveled against the troubled actor by his former girlfriend FKA Twigs. Variety reports that LaBeouf has signed on to star in director Abel Ferrara’s upcoming film about Padre Pio, with LaBeouf in the role of the Italian saint. “We’re doing
David Byrne’s American Utopia will be coming to movie theaters for one night only on September 15th. The Spike Lee-directed film captured Byrne’s Broadway show during its original 2019-2020 sold-out run. The Emmy-nominated HBO film, which screens two days before the show returns to Broadway at St. James Theatre beginning September 17th, will also feature
They’re called “non-playable characters,” or NPCs for short. If you’ve played an RPG (Role-Playing Game; think Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption), then you know who they are: the generic everyday folks you see walking down the street when you, the person sitting in front of your computer or behind your PS4, are ripping
When someone says “it’s a Sundance movie,” you probably know what they mean: the sort of small, sometimes scrappy movies that helped turn Robert Redford’s film fest out in Utah into both a welcome alternative to big-studio tentpoles (now more than ever!) and a kingmaking institution. It’s a catch-all term, and you don’t to have