Wales its continuing its lockdown and will be toughening up some restrictions as the nation struggles to manage the spread of the new highly infectious coronavirus variant. People in Wales are already being told to stay at home and not mix with other households, but the lockdown measures had been due for a review. After
Cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations have spiked by 45% since November 2020 as COVID-19 cases continue to increase globally. According to a new report published by Check Point Research today and shared with The Hacker News, this increase has made the sector the most targeted industry by cybercriminals when compared to an overall 22% increase in
Honor V40 is set to launch on January 18, the Chinese brand revealed through a post published on Weibo on Friday. The company also released a video teaser that clearly shows the side view of the new Honor phone, with a hole-punch design and curved display. Honor V40 has been subject to several rumours for
Saracens, the Championship rugby club plunged into crisis last year after breaching salary cap rules, has secured new backers even as the coronavirus crisis hammers elite sport’s commercial income. Sky News has learnt that Saracens will this weekend unveil a multimillion pound long-term naming rights and kit sponsorship with StoneX, a global financial services group
At 7-feet tall and 440 pounds, John Krahn is taller than any player in the NFL.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Emergency Services announced on Thursday that a temporary morgue would be erected in the parking lot adjacent to the L.A. County Coroner’s building to handle the record number of bodies it’s seeing. The facility will include at least five 53-foot trailers supplied by the state and five more supplied
After the brutal year the country music community endured in 2020, it appears as though 2021 is picking up right where we left off. Famous country music singer/songwriter Ed Bruce passed away last night at the age of 81 due to natural causes in Clarksville, Tennessee. Bruce was a highly touted songwriter in the 1970s
Miranda Lambert gets a little groovy with Barry Gibb and Rival Sons member Jay Buchanan on a new version of “Jive Talkin’,” a 1970s hit from Gibb’s band the Bee Gees. Lambert leads a number of lines in the collaboration, though she also offers harmonies throughout the track. Her voice is instantly recognizable and lends a new
The second season of Star Wars: The Mandalorian ended last month and set up some upcoming spin-off series like The Book of Boba Fett and Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic. Many have wondered if the latter will include Bill Burr (Migs Mayfeld) after his character returned in Season Two and redeemed himself, getting
Queen Latifah is making The Equalizer into a “Ladies First” small screen platform come February with the launch of her starring role on CBS’s reboot series of the classic 1980s crime procedural. The series will appropriately join the Eye Network’s other currently running ‘80s reboots MacGyver and Magnum P.I. Richard Lindheim, co-creator (with Michael Slone)
In Joe and Anthony Russo‘s upcoming new film Cherry, Spider-Man star Tom Holland plays an Army medic with PTSD who becomes addicted to opioids and begins robbing banks to pay for that addiction. Based on Nico Walker’s autobiographical novel of the same name, it’s a role that may be Holland’s most serious to date and
Ignore the cringeworthy title, which brings to mind several lives’ worth of Lifetime movies — Pieces of a Woman, a portrait of personal disintegration and the from-the-ashes process of piecing things back together, gives you three distinct reasons to pay attention to this late-breaking entry in the seasonal Pretty People in Pain sweepstakes. (It hit
What do I think about Tommy Lasorda’s passing? I’ll tell you what I think about Tommy Lasorda’s passing. It’s a crying shame, but the guy couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat. Oh, the laughs that man gave us for over 50 years with his X-rated rants on bums hitting .200 who
Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”. Tweets from the US president’s @realDonaldTrump handle have been wiped, with his account now showing the words: “Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.” Image: Trump’s Twitter account permanently suspended The Twitter Safety account posted shortly afterwards,
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been accused by her predecessor Alex Salmond of submitting evidence to a parliamentary inquiry that is “simply untrue”. A spokesperson for the first minister has said she “entirely rejects” the claims and accused Mr Salmond of “spinning false conspiracy theories”. Mr Salmond claims she attended a meeting at which
A North Korean hacking group has been found deploying the RokRat Trojan in a new spear-phishing campaign targeting the South Korean government. Attributing the attack to APT37 (aka Starcruft, Ricochet Chollima, or Reaper), Malwarebytes said it identified a malicious document last December that, when opened, executes a macro in memory to install the aforementioned remote
Moto G Stylus (2021), Moto G Power (2021), Moto G Play (2021), and Motorola One 5G Ace have been launched in the US as refreshed models for the year. All four phones run Android 10, and some are offered in multiple RAM and storage configurations as well as multiple colour options. They come with fingerprint
It is fair to say most of America’s business leaders never took to Donald Trump. Now, in the dying days of what has arguably been the most divisive presidency in US history, the gloves are off. US business leaders are taking to the airwaves and queuing up to condemn the outgoing president for egging on
Google said today that it has banned the alt-right Parler app from its Google Play Store “in order to protect user safety.” Separately today, Buzzfeed obtained an email Apple to Parler brass that gave them 24 hours to “remove all objectionable content” and submit “requested moderation improvement plan” or face being axed from the Apple
Strange times we’re living in… We all are well aware of the absolute shitstorm that 2020 was, and now that we’re just a few days into the new year, it doesn’t appear to be getting better anytime soon. But in the face of the storm, at minimum, we can look to country music for a