From Wednesday, October 12th to Tuesday, October 18th, Book Riot will be matching donations to Taller Sallud for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, up to $2,500 USD. Read on to see why why we’ve chosen to support this organization and for instructions on how to donate. On September 18th, Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto
Play video content Twitter / @flickchickdc Brendan Fraser is a real-life story about how people can rebound to great achievements after pulling themselves out of a deep depression, and the success story can be told with a 5-minute, standing ovation. Brendan dissolved into tears Tuesday at the London Film Festival, as the audience expressed their
Motorola has started rolling out OTA updates bringing 5G support to the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra and Edge 30 Fusion. It has also revealed the timeline for when these OTA updates will be made available to other 5G smartphones from the company. 5G services were launched in India on October 1 during the India Mobile
Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a truly immersive virtual landscape for work, play and socializing — “the metaverse” — has been plagued by technical challenges and criticism from the start. But that’s to be expected of what purports to be a game-changing Silicon Valley innovation. The corporate line seems to be that with enough time and
M.I.A. has decided to compare a conspiracy theorist lying about the massacre of innocent children to promoting the Covid vaccine. On Wednesday, after a jury decided that Alex Jones will have to pay the families of the children who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly $1 billion in damages after spreading lies that the
A leading City lawyer has been shortlisted to become the next chief executive of the competition watchdog. Sky News has learnt that Ali Nikpay, a partner at the American law firm Gibson Dunn, is one of a handful of candidates said to have been interviewed to run the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the
Chris Colfer isn’t going out of his way to catch former Glee castmate Lea Michele’s appearance in Broadway’s Funny Girl. Speaking on Tuesday’s The Michelle Collins Show podcast, Colfer wasn’t cagey when the host asked him if he’d join her for a night out to catch a show. “Oh, no, are you seeing Funny Girl?” Colfer asked
A blaze that began shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, in Van Nuys escalated into a larger structure fire. More than 85 firefighters were called in to fight the blaze, authorities said. The fire began at a one-story commercial building on the 14000 block of West Gault Street, and later involved a structure in
A jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965m in damages to families of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting. After a gunman killed 20 children and six members of staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December 2012, Jones accused bereaved relatives of being actors who had faked
UK government borrowing costs have hit a 20-year high after the Bank of England confirmed its emergency bond-buying programme will end on Friday as planned. On Wednesday morning, it said all temporary and targeted purchases of UK government bonds, known as gilts, would stop. This has been the position throughout and has been “made absolutely
Malicious actors are resorting to voice phishing (vishing) tactics to dupe victims into installing Android malware on their devices, new research from ThreatFabric reveals. The Dutch mobile security company said it identified a network of phishing websites targeting Italian online-banking users that are designed to get hold of their contact details. Telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD),
Hands down one of my favorite Ryan Bingham song. “Tell My Mother I Miss Her So” appeared on Bingham’s second studio album, Roadhouse Sun, released in 2009. The upbeat song discusses a traveler making his way around the world and the adventures he encounters along the way. It’s damn catchy, and the fiddle riff after
I’m sure every person in Los Angeles has visited a convenience store at least once for a drink, a lottery ticket, a pack of gum, or an array of other essential items that make our days complete. Given our familiarity with convenience stores, we take for granted the convenience these stores actually provide. Bassem Nowyhed,
The winners of the 2022 Harvey Awards were announced during New York Comic Con on October 8. The Harvey Awards, which began in 1988, are one of comics’ oldest running and most prestigious awards. They were named after Harvey Kurtzman, an American comics pioneer who is best known for creating MAD magazine in 1952. Outstanding
Play video content BACKGRID UPDATE 9:24 AM PT — Sources at the party tell TMZ … Jamie Foxx showed up to Cardi B‘s Bday party late and people weren’t aware he was coming. He had 10 people with him and they didn’t have a section available for him. UPDATE Party sources say Jamie decided to
The Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro have been launched in India, four years after the 2018 Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL. After waiting for so long, Google finally decided to offer top-end smartphones for Indian consumers again. Sure, Google did launch the more affordable Pixel 6a here not too long ago, but it
The cryptocurrency scene is the wild west. One day, members of your decentralized finance platform are electing you to serve as CEO. The next, you’re fending off rumors of fraud and jokes about bestiality. This is the embattled position that the chief (or “chef”) of SushiSwap, an exchange and lending market that offers various tools
The fatal stabbing in September of longtime Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German has sparked a legal fight for control of his laptops and cellphone with what press advocates say threatens journalists’ ability, even in death, to protect confidential sources and unpublished work. A Las Vegas judge on Tuesday sided with attorneys for the Las
The chancellor’s mini-budget “complicated matters” for the Bank of England as it battled to bring down inflation, the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist has told Sky News. In an interview at the IMF’s annual meetings in Washington, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas warned the coming years would “not be very pleasant” for the global economy. He also said
NBCUniversal parent Comcast has promoted CFO Mike Cavanagh to president, working closely with chairman-CEO Brian Roberts to manage the business and teams across the sprawling company. He’ll only be the third executive to hold that title in the company’s 59-year history, Comcast noted, and will also remain chief financial officer. “Today’s promotion will come as