Virgin Australia’s newly installed CEO has said it will be “irresistible” to fly again, as the airline aims to regain market share under new ownership. Jayne Hrdlicka told CNBC Wednesday that the company was well-placed to take a third of the domestic market, reinstating it to pre-Covid levels as travel within the country resumes. “We’re
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Keanu Reeves has been announced as a presenter for The Game Awards this week to help celebrate an “incredible year for video games.” The event, which will be streamed live online for gamers to watch, is scheduled to go down on the evening of Dec. 10. That also just so happens to be the release
December 10, 2020, 9:46am Earlier this year, Lisa Lucas announced that she would be stepping down as executive director of the National Book Foundation to become Senior Vice President & Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books. This morning, the National Book Foundation announced that Lucas will be joining the Foundation’s Board of Directors, and that
Across Canada, farmers have been gathering outside consulates in cities like Toronto and Vancouver in support of their counterparts in India, who have been protesting a series of agricultural laws implemented by the Indian government in September of this year. The marches in India, from the Punjab region of the country towards New Delhi, began
(CNN) — I am a third-generation Angeleno. For most of my adult life living in Los Angeles, as a luxury lifestyle public relations executive and to satisfy my own wanderlust, I would travel as much as possible to tropical parts of the world, with any opportunity that arose. I lived on Maui for three years
France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL has handed out its biggest-ever fine of EUR 100 million (roughly Rs. 900 crores) to Google and EUR 35 million (roughly Rs. 300 crores) to Amazon for breaching the country’s rules on online advertising trackers, or cookies. The CNIL said on Thursday it had also fined e-commerce giant Amazon EUR
The humble QR code has been adopted by the LoRa Alliance to speed up and simplify IoT device provisioning. The industry group, which promotes the LoRa LPWAN standard, said its new QR codes can be printed on IoT devices, and carry the required device and vendor information in a format that can be readily entered
Every situation, every episode is different. For the second unit people, I made a style bible where I made a huge document full of GIFs of stuff that I shot and told them: “This is how I like to compose things. This is the kind of humor I like. This is what I think is
Jason Slater, original Third Eye Blind bassist and Queensryche producer, has died at the age of 49. His daughter confirmed the news to TMZ. The cause of death, his daughter explained, was liver failure, which Slater had kept a secret from her until a month ago when he was hospitalized for the condition. He was living
St. Regis Aspen Dec. 9th, 2020 California might be under stay-at-home orders for the remainder of the month, but there’s still time to plan a festive getaway over the holidays. Whether it’s hitting the slopes and getting cozy around the fire for après-ski in the mountains or sunning yourself somewhere tropical like the Maldives or
The holidays are just around the corner and it seems like every artist has been in a hurry to release new music before the end of the year. Just in the past couple days we’ve seen a new Deluxe album from Disclosure, New EPs from the likes of FuntCase, SubDocta, Gorgon City, and k?d. Malaa,
Photo: Imaxtree Brighter days ahead. By Victoria DiPlacido Date December 9, 2020 Facebook Twitter The 2021 Pantone Colours of the Year are here. Two colours, Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, were selected for their “enduring and uplifting” vibe. It’s not the first time Pantone has selected two shades as colour of the year: in 2016, Rose
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. Evan Vucci | AP The White House Coronavirus Task Force has recommended to President Donald Trump that the United States begin allowing travelers into the country from Brazil, the United Kingdom and the 27 countries in the
A new Rogue One DeepFake video makes substantial improvements to the original special effects. Leia Organa and Grand Moff Tarkin look even better than they did when Lucasfilm and Disney originally released the movie in 2016. Peter Cushing portrayed Grand Moff Tarkin in A New Hope and passed away in 1994. Carrie Fisher portrayed Leia
December 9, 2020, 4:07pm The Albertine Prize, an annual reader’s-choice award, recognizes and honors US-based readers’ favorite work of contemporary French fiction that was translated and published in the US during the previous year. The Award comes with a $10,000 cash prize, split between the author and translator. This year, the winner is Zahia Rahmani, for
It’s safe to say there’s really nothing about 2020 that we’re not over at this point, and that includes basically everything we wore Fashion will never be the defining aspect of this year, but the trends that were definitely capture the zeitgeist of lockdown, an unprecedented period in history that we’re all ready to move
The world’s highest peak, which sits at Nepal‘s border with Tibet in the Himalayas, stands at 8848.86 meters (about 29,032 feet), officials from both countries announced on December 8, 2020. This is less than a meter higher than the previously recognized height. The agreement marked the end to a long-running debate over the precise dimensions
Exclusive: Paul Scheer talks Marvel hopes & The League future Ever since his breakout work as part of the beloved comedy troupe Human Giant, Paul Scheer has literally been the man about town, appearing in everything from FX/FXX’s The League to Piranha 3D and while chatting with the comedian for his work in the upcoming crime thriller, Archenemy, ComingSoon.net explored