Most in the US don’t believe hard work will get you ahead. Here’s what some are striving for instead

‘The new American dream is to leave’: Most in the US don’t believe hard work will get you ahead. Here’s what some are striving for instead The American dream has morphed into a pipe dream for many people living in the U.S. At the heart of the national ethos is the belief that anyone can … Read more

How to Back Up Your Digital Life (2023): Hard Drives, Cloud-Based Tools, and Tips

To get started, click Add backup, and Duplicati will take you through the process of setting up an account at a cloud storage provider and entering your login credentials. Then you pick which files you want to back up. A word of caution about something that bit me once during testing: When Duplicati can’t find … Read more

Survivor’s Parvati Shallow Comes Out as Queer, Hard Launches New Relationship | Mae Martin, Parvati Shallow, Survivor, Television, The Traitors | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Parvati Shallow has some big news! The 41-year-old Survivor winner took to social media on Saturday (December 30) to come out as queer. She did so while hard-launching a new relationship with her partner Mae Martin! Read more about Parvati Shallow’s big news… Hopping on Instagram, Parvati shared a roll of pictures that she and … Read more

Is ‘Die Hard’ A Christmas Movie? Cinematographer Sets Record Straight

One of the biggest arguments around the holidays is if ‘Die Hard’ is a Christmas Movie. Well, the cinematographer is setting the record straight. Peter Billingsley, who starred in ‘A Christmas Story’, claims he convinced Jan de Bont, the cinematographer behind ‘Die Hard’, that the film is, in fact, a Christmas movie. How Peter Billingsley … Read more

Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian fall hard in ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ trailer

The trailer for Love Lies Bleeding has everything: romance, bodybuilders, gun ranges, attempted murder, implied hulk outs, and even milkshakes. The upcoming film from A24 and Saint Maud director Rose Glass stars Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian as two lovers caught in a criminal web. Stewart plays reclusive gym manager Lou, who falls hard for … Read more

Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell’s Kids Taking Her Death Hard, Family Considers Therapy

Mama June’s granddaughters are taking their mother’s death very hard … and the family is thinking about sending them to talk with therapists. Family sources tell TMZ … Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s daughters are reeling from the recent loss of their mom, grieving and trying to take things day by day. Anna died Dec. 9 and … Read more

Echo’s New Trailer Wants to Show You How Hard It Is

Image: Marvel Studios In three weeks time, Marvel’s Echo series will make its way over to Disney+ and Hulu. The big hook of the show isn’t just giving Alaqua Cox’s titular character (and Hawkeye antagonist) a spotlight of her own: unlike the other Disney+ Marvel shows, this one is aiming to be a crunchier, more … Read more

Democracies are fragile, and hardware is hard

Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Journalists and readers love scoops. But sometimes it’s important to state the obvious. This week, I’m reminded that democracies are fragile but that technology … Read more

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Movie Would Have Been “Balls-Out Hard R”

The Big Picture Quentin Tarantino had a pitch for a different kind of Star Trek film that would have been edgier and more violent. Tarantino considered making it his final film, but couldn’t wrap his head around ending his career with Star Trek. The script for Tarantino’s Star Trek film is still sitting on Mark … Read more