October 14, 2020, the UN Broadband Commission and Huawei held the sixth Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2020) online in Beijing. With the theme of “Intelligent Connectivity, New Value Together”, this year’s UBBF discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the connectivity industry in the intelligent era. At the event, David Wang, Huawei Executive Director and Chairman of
Amid a difficult 2020, England’s metalcore vets While She Sleeps are staring down 2021 with a new album, song and self-sustaining fan society, all under the title of Sleeps Society. In a newly released video that is part press conference and part song, While She Sleeps lay out their mission statement from here on out. With
Twitter said on Thursday its social networking site was down for many users due to an inadvertent change it had made to its internal systems but the platform seemed to be returning to normal after about an hour and half of outage. The company said that the site should be working for everyone within the
It’s been a hot minute since we’ve done a Crankdat premiere on Your EDM, so we’re supremely excited to get back into the game with his newest single, “Dark Room,” out today on Monstercat. Typically known for his unabashedly heavy tunes, his last single, “Tell Me,” was a beautiful melodic bass tune. He keeps that
Spoilers for the second season of The Boys follow. The seventh episode of The Boys’ second season begins with a white man submerged in propaganda. Every screen he comes near has something to shout in his direction. He hears about a plot by sinister illegal immigrants to invade America and reveal themselves as homicidal superterrorists.
Photo by Dave Simpson/WireImageIncluding The 519’s first-ever virtual gala (featuring Elton John) and the 20th edition of the BIPOC-focused Reelworld Film Festival. By Pahull Bains Date October 15, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter From a Canada-wide online art festival by Art Toronto to a virtual gala hosted by The 519 in support of Toronto’s LGBTQ community, here
Fried Green Tomatoes is getting a television series adaptation at NBC with Reba McEntire set to star with Norman Lear on board to executive produce. Jennifer Cecil is also attached to exec produce and write the script. Along with Lear and Cecil, McEntire will also be serving as an exec producer. Additionally, the original novel’s
October 15, 2020, 3:46pm Here’s one to add to the comically long list of disappointments 2020 has inflicted upon us: Americanah—the hotly-anticipated limited series adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s bestselling novel of the same name—will no longer be moving ahead at HBO. Americanah had been a longtime passion project for Oscar-winning Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o, who was
Lopburi, Thailand (CNN) — It’s a Friday afternoon on a Thai public holiday in September, and local tourists are out in force in the small city of Lopburi. The attraction? Some 4,500 crab-eating macaques that roam this ancient capital’s streets, many of which occupy the crumbling Khmer-style Phra Prang Sam Yod — aka Monkey Temple
Rating: 8.5/10 Cast: Dylan O’Brien as Joel Dawson Michael Rooker as Clyde Dutton Ariana Greenblatt as Minnow Jessica Henwick as Aimee Dan Ewing as Cap Donnie Baxter as Parker Ellen Hollman as Dana Directed by Michael Matthews; Co-Written by Brian Duffield & Matthew Robinson Click here to pre-order Love and Monsters! Love and Monsters Review: 2020 may have brought us a
Rating: 7.5/10 Cast: Liam Neeson as Tom Carter Kate Walsh as Annie Sumpter Jai Courtney as John Nivens Jeffrey Donovan as Tom Meyers Anthony Ramos as Ramon Hall Robert Patrick as Sam Baker Jasmine Cephas Jones as Beth Hall Co-Written and Directed by Mark Williams; Co-Written by Steve Allrich Honest Thief Review: “Liam Neeson versus [insert enemy here].” It’s the ultimate formula
We’re sure your appetite for virtual events is undiminished by nine months of Zoom calls, so make sure you register for the best one yet. After an outrageously successful inaugural event last year, Telecoms.com LIVE has been transformed into a digital symposium, no less, for reasons that will be only to obvious. You see, the
August, 21, 1990 — Alice in Chains release their debut album, Facelift. Now, 30 years later, that recording remains as vital as ever and the band has just unveiled a massive box set celebrating the record’s three-decade milestone. Released before the true arrival of grunge and amid hair metal excess and a sea of power ballads, Facelift
A ‘hymn’ is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as, variously, ‘a song of praise to God’, ‘any composition in praise of God which is adapted to be chanted or sung’, and ‘an ode or song of praise in honour of a deity, a country, etc.’ Hymns can be religious or secular, in praise of
Live Nation has launched the Black Tour Directory — a new online resource that connects tour organizers with black workers and black-owned businesses. From tour managers to sound engineers, production equipment to security, and lighting to merchandising, the site is a go-to for planning gigs and entire tours. It’s a move to help promote diversity
In the midst of a pandemic, writer Dan Riley caught up with actor Timothée Chalamet in Woodstock, New York for GQ’s November cover profile. Officially, Chalamet was there preparing for an upcoming role as a young Bob Dylan, who famously went upstate to convalesce after a motorcycle accident. Unofficially, Chalamet was taking the opportunity to
Photography courtesy of Uniqlo.Find out what the designer has to say about the “comfortable but chic” pieces, plus what he’s optimistic about now. By Odessa Paloma Parker Date October 15, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter Just in time for the dipping temperatures comes the latest offering from the ongoing collaboration between designer Jonathan Anderson and Uniqlo, full
The Mad Max spin-off, Furiosa, is a go with Anya Taylor-Joy, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Chris Hemsworth all confirmed to be joining the post-apocalypse prequel. Now, Hemsworth has broken his silence about starring in the movie, with the Thor star barely able to contain his excitement over continuing the Mad Max legacy. “Pretty damn fired