While the rest of the music industry cancelled tours and pushed back record releases in response to COVID-19, Travis Scott pulled off the most ambitious concert of his career: as a floating plantoid head rapping to 27.7 million people in Fortnite. Like every one of the star’s concerts, it was electric and unforgettable. And like
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Photo by Adrian Vieni / Mad Ruk EntertainmentAnd if the historic performance wasn’t enough, the singer made a bold political statement as well. By Pahull Bains Date August 18, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter Yesterday, Jessie Reyez made history by becoming the first artist to perform a national anthem atop Toronto’s tallest building, the CN Tower. At
Philipp Schindler Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Behind closed doors, Google is engaged in a bitter standoff with the online travel industry. The issue is global but German travel companies have been particularly outspoken. Activity booking platform GetYourGuide, hotel finder Trivago, and Airbnb rival HomeToGo have been feuding with the search giant about
A Star Wars series focussed on Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi is something that fans have been wanting for some time, and though the project has had more than its fair share of ups and down, a new report says the show may finally be ready to get underway. Recent gossip surrounding the Obi-Wan Kenobi series
Before selecting Dio and Whitesnake hotshot guitarist Vivian Campbell to take the place of the late Steve Clark, Def Leppard considered Iron Maiden‘s Adrian Smith for the role. Despite this era in Def Leppard’s history being especially important, this factual nugget remains widely unknown to swaths of fans of both groups. Clark, who at the time
August 18, 2020, 12:03pm Organizations representing bookstores, writers, and publishers sent a joint letter to the House Antitrust Subcommittee yesterday asking them to put a stop to Amazon’s “unhealthy degree of control” over the the marketplace for books. Addressing Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), the current chair of a subcommittee whose work “has been critical to
We’re breaking down what’s safe and what isn’t If you’ve dealt with problematic skin of any kind this summer—whether it’s due to maskne, milia caused by too-thick moisturizers or stress-induced zits and dullness—then you probably already have certain acids, found in chemical exfoliants, on your radar. These holy grail ingredients, like salicylic acid, glycolic acid
(CNN) — Cracks and sinkholes are appearing alongside the waterways of Amsterdam. Bicycles are tumbling into the swirling water as the canalsides vanish beneath their wheels. Quay walls are collapsing against houseboats. Bridges are in trouble. While the recent Covid-19 restrictions have relieved the Dutch capital from the more superficial blight of overtourism, it seems
Play video content John Ratzenberger is throwing his fictional mailman hat in the ring to save the U.S. Post Office, and maybe you didn’t know this, but … Cliff’s got a plan to do it!!! Ratzenberger, who famously played know-it-all mailman Cliff Calvin on “Cheers,” made his appeal on Cameo after someone reached out to
Informa Tech has unveiled the 2020 5G 100 List; an inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in the wide world of 5G products, technologies and services. Bringing together work from across 5G World, Omdia, the 5G Exchange, Light Reading and Telecoms.com, the 5G 100 is a comprehensive overview of the biggest influencers in
Disclosure are this close to dropping their new album, Energy. Ahead of the album’s release, the brothers duo took a trip to the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia for a jaw-droppingly beautiful set. For two hours this morning (and a little ahead of schedule), they played music on a secluded cliff, surrounded by imagery whose beauty
Photo by Anne Deniau/McQueenFrom Alexander McQueen to Nike Air Jordans to Helmut Newton, these fashion documentaries span a wide range of subjects. By Pahull Bains Date August 17, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter We may not be heading back to movie theatres just yet, but luckily there’s plenty for us to stream right from our couches. Whether
Short traders are throwing cold water on hopes of a bump-free return to normalcy. Vacation, travel and consumer stocks are among the most shorted on Wall Street. Those names include American Airlines, Whirlpool, Royal Caribbean and United Airlines. Short traders, who make money when those shares drop, view these names as the most vulnerable to
Don’t expect to see Morpheus in The Matrix 4, as franchise star Laurence Fishburne says he hasn’t been invited to be a part of the upcoming sequel. Continuing the story established by the original Matrix movie trilogy, the upcoming fourth installment will bring back lead actors Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss to once again play
A ton of artists have began doing Instagram Live sessions with their fans over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, but there are some you just never expect to actually get ahold of. Dave Grohl is one of those untouchables, but Pat Finnerty was lucky enough to get to hang out with him virtually. Finnerty
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It was all over social media and the news: a pre-dawn raid, organized and committed by RCMP officers, into the Indigenous camps set up to protect and defend the territory of the Wet’suwet’en. Since January 2019, the Indigenous people, their homelands and waterways have been under threat by the encroachment of Coastal GasLink (CGL), which
Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world’s first digital photograph, died August 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon, The Oregonian reported. He was 91. Pixels, the digital dots used to display photos, video and more on phone and computer screens, weren’t an obvious innovation in 1957, when