As US lawmakers scrutinise whether Silicon Valley has too much power and influence, Facebook, Google and Apple have all prepared statements to suggest the world would be worse off without them. While some might scoff at the idea that multi-national corporations raking in billions in profit each year are working for the little man, there
LA Fortuna: Stanley Tucci Joins Alejandro Amenábar’s Limited Series AMC Studios and Movistar+, the pay TV division of Spain’s Telefonica, in collaboration with MOD Pictures, have announced that Academy Award-nominee Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones, Big Night, The Devil Wears Prada) has been cast in Alejandro Amenábar’s newly titled original limited series La Fortuna. The
The finest poems by Marianne Moore Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was one of the most distinctive and accomplished modernist poets of the twentieth century. Along with William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, she stands as the greatest American modernist – of those poets who remained in America (others, such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and
Our modern obsession with presidential polling dates back, of course, to 2008, when Nate Silver’s aggregation method reassured anxious liberals that Obama really was going to win. The seeds of another obsession—critiquing the validity of said polls—also sprouted during that election, with debates about polls conducted via cell phone vs. landline (the lack of the
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALYSSA LAU AND ERIC YUN. Design by Danielle Campbell. Welcome to My Story, our series dedicated to creatives of colour and their paths to success. By championing these diverse stories and backgrounds, we hope that our understanding of the cultural conversations around beauty and fashion will expand and that respect for our differences
Dave Calhoun, Chairman of Boeing. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun on Wednesday said he was “hopeful” that demand for new aircraft, devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, would start rebounding in the second half of next year. Cancellations of Boeing planes are outpacing new orders this year as airlines reel from the impact of
Who knows if we’ll ever see the movie adaptation of the popular Metal Gear Solid video game franchise finally get made, but creator Hideo Kojima already has Luca Marinelli in mind if the long-awaited project comes to fruition. Since the very first Metal Gear game, which was originally released in Japan in 1987 before later
Remember last summer when Slipknot released We Are Not Your Kind and Loudwire changed its name to Knotwire? We know what Corey Taylor thinks about it now, and he loved it. “I was just losing it,” he said in a new interview with Loudwire Nights. “That is such a great way to troll the trolls, it just made
TODAY: In 1628, The King’s Men perform Henry VIII at the Globe Theatre, London. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is in the audience, but leaves after watching the play’s Duke of Buckingham beheaded. The character is based on the historical Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, who had been executed for treason in 1521.
Earlier this month, Oliver Tree dropped Ugly is Beautiful — and the album’s shining spin-off is this upgraded version of “Let Me Down” featuring blink-182. With 2020 going the way it has, our minds are scrambling for any sort of nostalgia we can grasp, especially when it comes to music. The Oliver Tree blossomed in recent years
Florida-born actor Adrian R’Mante is best known for his role as the fumbling Peruvian bellman, Esteban (full name Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez) — who hangs around the Tipton Hotel and tries to keep the peace between the teens’ kooky antics — in the early 2000s Disney Channel sitcom, “The Suite Life
Google Cloud and Orange are the latest telco-cloud duo to announce a partnership focused on capitalising on edge computing enthusiasm. With Orange bringing smarts on how to deliver connectivity solutions in a multi-national environment, while Google comes armed with expertise in cloud, AI and digital transformation, this is another example of the two segments collaborating
How did you arrive at the different price points? It wasn’t a hugely painful conversation to figure out. We basically looked at what we thought we could reasonably get in terms of number of subscribers, and then what we would need to get from each subscriber per month on average in order to hopefully make
Photography via Instagram/terry_towellingPairs perfectly with a pool. It’s time to upgrade your loungewear to feel more like a summer essential and the terry cloth trend will do just that. As seen on the runways at Peter Pilotto and Marine Serre, the cozy fabric that is one part beach towel is an easy way to make
A year before he became President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows took nearly $40,000 worth of trips that were paid for by nonprofit groups and conservative advocacy organizations. Meadows, who was previously the chairman of the fiscally conservative House Freedom Caucus, and his wife, Debra, took expense-paid business trips last year to the
Johnny Depp’s legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard has taken yet another turn for the strange, leading to a series of events culminating with The Wrestler star Mickey Rourke challenging Elon Musk to a bare-knuckle fight in defense of Johnny. It’s hard to know exactly where to begin with this bizarre story, but to put
If you’re a fan of ’90s grunge, you’ve most likely heard of the label Sub Pop. It was pivotal in the development of the Seattle rock music scene in the late ’80s, having signed major names like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney. Corbin Reiff’s new biography Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell is out today (July 28)
July 28, 2020, 1:06pm Have you ever dreamed of being immortalized within the pages of a James Patterson novel? Of living on, long after your bones have turned to dust and your headstone has been weathered into illegibility, as a firecracker love interest or industrious D.C. serial killer? Of course you have. Who amongst us