The Aussie competition authority thinks the ecosystem around mobile app stores, which is controlled entirely by just two companies, merits closer inspection. This forms part of a general deep dive into the digital economy by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). This particular probe is set to culminate in a report published in March
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Judas Priest have announced their first official book documenting a half-century of history behind the Rob Halford-led metal band. Appropriately, it’s called Judas Priest – 50 Heavy Metal Years. Compiled by veteran rock photographer Ross Halfin along with David Silver and the band’s manager, Jayne Andrews, the tome also contains written retrospectives by the group’s current
Will Skrillex ever drop a new album? Who knows at this point. But it’s an undeniable fact he’s been in the studio with a lot of heavy hitters, including one of The Beach Boys, as well as Scott Storch and Incubus’ Mike Einziger. This past weekend, he also posted a story from inside his studio
Photograph courtesy of ChanelThe brand continues to blaze a new trail in beauty. By Natasha Bruno Date September 7, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter Men wearing makeup shouldn’t be considered a novelty, yet makeup collections designed with dudes top of mind still feel like a new concept in the beauty world, especially because cosmetics to this day
The Suicide Squad director James Gunn used Idris Elba’s recent birthday to heap praise on the actor, who will feature in the upcoming DC movie as Bloodsport. Gunn took a moment to applaud the actor, not only for his performance in The Suicide Squad, but also for being a damn decent human being. “I rarely
The following is excerpted from Elena Ferrante’s new novel, The Lying Life of Adults, translated by Ann Goldstein. Ferrante is the author of seven novels, including the bestselling My Brilliant Friend and Neopolitan quartet. Goldstein is an American editor and translator from the Italian language. Once, without any warning, my aunt brought me to meet
The US communications regulator has released the results of a ‘supply chain data request’, which lists all US CSPs that have any Chinese gear. In addition, the FSS has revealed the aggregate cost of ripping and replacing that kit with stuff originating from a country it’s not currently at cold war with. “All filers report
Facebook on Saturday blocked live broadcasts from a chronically ill bed-ridden man who appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for a medically-assisted death and who wanted to show what he expects will be a painful end to his life after he announced that he was stopping all food and drink. Prostrate on his bed, Alain
Breaking News Kevin Dobson — a veteran actor best known for his roles on TV dramas and soaps — has reportedly died of a heart attack. Dobson — a star on the classic ’70s detective show “Kojak” along with the primetime soap opera “Knots Landing” in the ’80s and early ’90s — died Sunday …
Metallica have indeed bested Katy Perry to grab the biggest-selling new album of this week, according to the latest Billboard numbers. Loudwire reported last week that the Bay Area metal veterans were on track to top the pop singer on the Billboard 200 album chart for the week ending Sept. 12. Both Metallica’s S&M2 and Perry’s Smile
‘The Last Laugh’ is a poem by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), drafted in February 1918 (as ‘Last Words’) but only first published after Owen’s death in November 1918, one week before the Armistice. Although not his most famous poem by any means, ‘The Last Laugh’ is one of his most stark and direct. Before we move
Burning Man 2020 would have taken place in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada from Aug. 30 to Sept. 7. In what is undoubtedly a second home to the approximately 80,000 people who attend every year, like the rest of us, COVID-19 removed a pillar of a community and its “residents,” so to speak,
Photograph by andrÉanne gauthierAt its core, she says, her online platform Sayaspora is “an act of resilience against a biased system.” By Pahull Bains Date September 7, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter At the age of seven, Djamilla Toure learned what it’s like to be “the other.” She and her family had just moved to Morocco from
The first reviews for Netflix’s Enola Holmes are now in, and the family mystery movie sounds like it could well be another big hit for the streaming giant. Centering on the teenage sister of an already famous Sherlock Holmes, and based on a series of novels by Nancy Springer, is Netflix’s take on Enola Holmes
How To Proceed is a bi-monthly conversation about writing, creativity and the world we live in. Author Linn Ullmann talks to some of the world’s most exciting literary voices about their books, their writing process, and how they view the world and current events around them. On today’s podcast, Linn Ullmann talks to Terrance Hayes,
It seems that “Waiting For Adam: Interviews and Obsessions” by entertainment journalist Eileen Shapiro is the fun read of the summer! With glamorous pictures galore and behind the scenes secrets New Haven Publishing knew just what they were doing. The book is a light-hearted journey from star to star and country to country until Shapiro
Probably one of the funniest shows facing the nation is the hysterical cooking show that has been making people laugh through these crazy times. Pandemic Cooking is hosted, created and produced by Wendy Stuart Kaplan, an author, model, documentary master, and a spunky little New York Nightlife spark of energy….who by the way doesn’t cook!
Tenet Reverses the Box Office, snags $20 million Labor Day weekend At long last, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet — a film many dubbed the box office savior — has made its way to some 2,810 U.S. theaters where it collected a not-too-shabby $20 million over the course of the Labor Day weekend, including $2.82 million from