Beyonce will donate $500,000 to people facing eviction due to the coronavirus pandemic through her BeyGOOD charity foundation. Grants of $5,000 (£3,736) will be handed out to 100 recipients in the US in late January. They will be among those who have been left most at risk of losing their home due to the planned
The Brexit trade deal agreed on Christmas Eve can be an “enormously unifying moment for our country”, the chancellor has said. Rishi Sunak said anyone who is worried about the economic implications of the breach with Brussels should be “enormously reassured about the comprehensive nature” of the agreement. The deal gives that reassurance, he said,
An authentication bypass vulnerability in the SolarWinds Orion software may have been leveraged by adversaries as zero-day to deploy the SUPERNOVA malware in target environments. According to an advisory published yesterday by the CERT Coordination Center, the SolarWinds Orion API that’s used to interface with all other Orion system monitoring and management products suffers from
Infinix has been launching new phones at a rather fast pace. We have recently seen new models in the Hot and the Note series and now there is a new smartphone called the Infinix Zero 8i. The slightly amusing name aside, the Zero 8i packs in some impressive specifications on paper. You get a MediaTek
The group behind a think-tank that became a vocal advocate of a hard Brexit is in talks to buy a big stake in GB News, a new current affairs broadcaster that wants to challenge long-standing industry players. Sky News has learnt that Legatum, a Dubai-based group founded by Christopher Chandler, a New Zealand-born billionaire, is
Podcasting is so hot right now. Top tier talent both in front of and behind the camera are rapidly moving into the medium, buoyed by the opportunities to tell different types of stories. Deadline has been increasing its coverage of podcasting over the last 12 months, breaking stories about the likes of Demi Moore making
Singin’ the blues. Written by Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951, “The Thrill Is Gone” became a huge hit for blues legend B.B. King in 1970. Quite a few years back, the great Chris Stapleton (who knows his way around the blues more than most) delivered an acoustic cover at Station Inn in Nashville.
Christmas is the one time a year many choose to dress up in their finest outfit. According to socialite Kim Kardashian, that means a gown the internet seems to think looks all too similar to a Hulk costume. Throughout the day Thursday, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star shared images from her family Christmas
The Fast & Furious films love their over the top action. In the trailer for F9 alone we’ve got a “magnet plane” catching a car, a Jeep driving along a collapsing bridge, a car somehow catching a steel cable and using it launch itself across a gorge, and a car with a rocket engine strapped
Gabrielle Union had nothing but praise for Jamie Foxx’s performance in Pixar’s Soul. So many people tuned in for the Disney+ film on Christmas Day and the reactions have ranged all over the place. For the ultra-popular actress, she enjoyed the entire package. Soul is just drop-dead gorgeous and the presentation is top-notch. A big
Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Movie theaters across the country are just starting to open up again, but if you’re still social distancing, there are a number of
A young woman’s daring escape from a home intruder, in which she bailed out of a second-story window and ran onto her roof, was caught on camera. Peter Daut reports. Subscribe to CBS Los Angeles for more updates now: http://www.youtube.com/CBSLA Official Site: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSLA Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBSLA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CBSLA
PANDEMIC-ERA HEROES Name: Alana Weisberg Hometown: Los Angeles Age: 16 Role: Founder of Bookworm Global Favorite authors: Jane Austen, John Green and Anna Todd Quote: “Reading is really important to me because it’s my escape. When I’m bored, I go and read. I want kids to be able to engage in a book and really enjoy it
Detectives investigating a huge explosion in Nashville say they have identified a person of interest. Investigators have received over 500 leads and are now putting together the “giant jigsaw puzzle”. The blast – which happened on Christmas morning – originated from a motorhome which had broadcast a warning it was going to detonate within 15
When Boris Johnson stood up in the Greenwich Naval Observatory, less than 72 hours after Britain’s formal exit from the European Union on 31 January, he was unequivocal. The UK had “ended a debate that has run for three-and-a-half years” and “settled” the long-running question of sovereign authority, he said. To the sound of a
The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) has warned of critical vulnerabilities in a low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck that, if weaponized, could allow remote attackers to run arbitrary commands and mount denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The four flaws affect Treck TCP/IP stack version 6.0.1.67 and earlier and were reported to the company
Oppo X Tom Ford slider smartphone, a new rollable smartphone concept, has leaked in images. In the images, the phone is seen to have a pull-up display panel that rolls in and out like a scroll. This hints that the company may be working on multiple concept phones with rollable displays. Last month, the company
Boxing Day sales are expected to fall by more than a quarter compared with last year, despite some shoppers queueing in the early hours in some areas under lighter restrictions. Footfall for the sales is already down 60% in the UK up to 12pm – largely due to non-essential shops being closed across swathes of
Beverly Hills Italian restaurant, La Scala, has come under fire for promoting a “speakeasy”-style indoor dining experience that would violate coronavirus safety measures. City officials have denounced the eatery after patrons received slips of paper in their to-go orders advertising the New Year’s Eve event. Beverly Hills officials have directly contacted the restaurant as its