Month: November 2022

November 28, 2022, 12:01pm In case the barrage of Cyber Monday emails from every store you’ve ever patronized (or thought about patronizing, or accidentally landed on while searching for “normal pants”) on the internet has you on the verge of declaring a moratorium on holiday gift-giving and maybe Stuff in general, I have great news
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BT’s networks unit Openreach has warned suppliers that its cost-cutting efforts will impact its long-term spending plans. Despite the uncertainty this will inevitably create, the UK incumbent maintains that its FTTH deployment remains on track. The Financial Times reported (paywall) on Wednesday that it has seen a letter addressed to suppliers in which Openreach said
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Last night (Nov. 26), WWE’s highly anticipated Survivor Series: WarGames livestreaming and pay-per-view event took place. Although viewers didn’t require anything extra to get excited, the fact that the program opened with a nearly three-minute montage featuring Ozzy Osbourne lip-syncing Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” certainly helped. In the full clip, the Prince of Darkness sits upon an elaborate throne
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The ratsand the jellyfishwill survive. The roaches and thecapybaraswill survive. The mosquitos, the fruit flies,the puggles and their soft beaks ofpost-apocalyptic adolescence will certainlysurvive. It’s us—malignant tumors ofominous origin, contagionsof hominid conceit—that won’t. And, anyway, of what usewould it be if we did? Another dreadful centurygone to vainglorious apathy andglamorous afflictions, goneto the silver nostalgias
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It was a tale of two Disney’s at the domestic box office over the holiday weekend. On the one hand, the superhero epic Black Panther: Wakanda Forever earned an impressive $64M over the 5-day weekend, raising its domestic total to $367.6M after three weeks of release, per Deadline. Worldwide, the Marvel sequel has earned $675M,
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Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code is being added to Hulu’s available content this week. Starting on Thursday, December 1, streaming service subscribers can watch the popular Tom Hanks-led thriller. In the story, American symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) is called to solve an ancestral mystery that involves versatile Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci, the Mona Lisa painting, and the Vatican
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Cloud and network services provider Colt has teamed up with IBM to drive the adoption of industry 4.0. On Wednesday they opened a new lab in the UK that will offer enterprises in the manufacturing sector hands-on experience with various applications enabled by their cloud and edge networking solutions. Three use cases are available at
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