Openreach has signed up testing and analytics firm Exfo to help with its roll out of full fibre networks in the UK. In a statement published this week Exfo said it has won a contract to supply to supply optical test heads and test access switching to the UK telco. Essentially, the deal should enable
What So Not puts his spin on Run The Jewels‘ “JU$T” featuring Pharrell Williams and Zack de la Rocha, marking the producer’s first new material in 2021. The song off RTJ4 is poetic and relevant, delivering raw, unfiltered lyrics on the structure of society and the struggles minorities face. For this new remix, the original heavy beat carried by Killer
Exclusive The sign language interpreter who went viral for his good looks is finding work easier to come by now … thanks to celebs like Halle Berry. Billy Sanders, now affectionately known as #ASLbae after signing for Mayor Muriel Bowser during the riots, tells TMZ … he’s getting tons of job requests — double his
This week, a band of rowdy, Glock-toting, Trump-worshiping insurrectionists descended on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. in an attempt to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden’s presidential nomination. The scenes from the invasion itself have already been memed into oblivion. But as other accounts from people in the area trickled out, the picture of
Suspect208 came in hot in November with their debut single “Long Awaited,” which has now garnered almost a million views on YouTube. It seems as if the young band are having internal issues now, though, as they posted they’re looking for a new singer. When the band dropped “Long Awaited,” the lineup consisted of Scott
Image via net-a-porter.com. By Victoria DiPlacido Date January 8, 2021 Facebook Twitter Yes, exercise is good for your health, creates endorphins that make you feel chipper, etc. etc. etc. But for some of us (myself included), exercising also presents the enticing opportunity to source and wear an additional category of cute clothing. Scrolling through e-comm
Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight series has reportedly added Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead as directors on the forthcoming Disney+ series. In addition, it has been reported that production on the series will begin in March. Benson and Moorhead will join previously announced director Mohamed Diab when production starts. Rise of Skywalker star Oscar Isaac is
January 8, 2021, 12:26pm Here’s some surprising end-of-2020 good news: books are doing . . . well? According to NPD BookScan, unit sales of print books in the United States rose 8.2% in 2020. Units hit 750.9 million this year—57.2 million up from last year. This is fairly surprising, given the pandemic was expected to
(CNN) — After four years of confusion, it has finally happened. The United Kingdom officially severed ties with the European Union last night, as the Brexit transition period ended at 11 p.m. UK time. Brexit hasn’t been an easy road politically, and the UK — which voted 52-48 to leave the EU in 2016 —
Play video content Jeopardy! This one hits hard — “Jeopardy!” paid its final respects to Alex Trebek with the airing of the last episode the legendary host taped. The show aired a 90-second video tribute thanking the late host for his 37 seasons of service to the show before he passed away in November. The
The UK Public Accounts Committee reckons even the revised gigabit broadband rollout target will be missed. Welcome to the party, pal. A major flaw in the democratic process is that candidates will promise almost anything in order to get elected and Boris Johnson was certainly no exception when he was bidding to become leader of
The ReWlettes are releasing their highly anticipated new cover video for the hit song “To Sir, with Love” on Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 12:30 pm ET, 9:30 am PT and 5:30 pm UK Time. This new video release in partnership with the Zest Radio Show will benefit Feed The Children. For each play, the
World-Renowned television host Mickey Burns will be a featured guest on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 at 3 PM ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant. Wendy Stuart is an author, celebrity interviewer, model, filmmaker and hosts “Pandemic Cooking With Wendy,” a popular
Synchronic’s Benson & Moorhead tapped to helm Moon Knight episodes After working with one of the ongoing franchise’s alums for their latest acclaimed indie venture Synchronic, filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are diving into the world of Marvel as they’ve been tapped to helm multiple episodes of the Oscar Isaac-fronted Moon Knight series, according to The
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses ‘Songs to Joannes’, a little-known work of avant-garde modernist poetry Modernist poetry, at least as it’s usually taught on university survey courses and as it’s fixed in the popular imagination, is something of a closed shop: not just because of its perceived elitism
Dillon Francis has kept the music flowing throughout quarantine — perhaps a time when we need it most — and he’s carrying the trend into 2021 with a brand new collab. “Places” delivers a production that hits right in the feels, with Francis on the assist for a newly formed project Drove. The house song
Like the Odeon, dim sum in Queens, and the Prospect Park lawn, Fran Lebowitz is a New Yorker’s New York fixture and a cognoscenti touchpoint to a bygone era. Infamously cellphone-free and laptop-less, Lebowitz has nonetheless become more and more of a cult celebrity—in part due to her irascible wit on everything from politics to
Shinedown guitarist Zach Myers has just surprise released Schizophrenic Love Songs Part 1, an album he wrote 15 years ago at the age of 23 with the band The Fairwell. In a tweet where Myers shared the long-anticipated album, he wrote, “This is an album I made 15 years ago. After I joined Shinedown 15 years