Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday that a closed-door deal for Taylor Swift to perform in the city-state ensured she would not perform in other Southeast Asian countries during her Eras tour. “(Our) agencies negotiated an arrangement with her to come to Singapore and perform and to make Singapore her only stop in … Read more
EU regulators have just hit Apple with a whopping $2 billion fine over its App Store policies. And Apple is calling out the company that filed the complaint in the first place: Spotify. On Monday, Apple released a fairly long statement acknowledging a $2 billion fine levied against the iPhone-maker by the European Commission. The … Read more
Soon after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, now called X, the platform faced a massive problem: Advertisers were fleeing. But that, the company alleges, was someone else’s fault. On Thursday that argument went before a federal judge, who seemed skeptical of the company’s allegations that a nonprofit’s research tracking hate speech on X had … Read more
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25220115/236948_PHYSICAL_MEDIA_DISCOTEK_CVIRGINIA_copy.jpg)
Production studios still regularly release their latest, greatest films and series on DVD and Blu-ray. But over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that physical media just isn’t as much of a priority as it used to be for Hollywood’s biggest players. You could see it in the way that Barbarian — … Read more
After the recent CBS renewal announcement for The Young & The Restless, fans are curious about the fate of The Bold & The Beautiful! On Tuesday (February 27), the network confirmed that the long-running soap opera series would be renewed for four more years, but there was nothing about B&B. Now, a network insider is … Read more
About a year ago, former Prime Minister of Australia and sinologist Kevin Rudd wrote that Red China is “back.” If only Beijing could come to its senses and return to the policy of “Reform and Opening Up” it pursued so successfully for 40 years, he argued. But Rudd, like many others, has based a pious … Read more
Some Neuralink rivals, such as Precision Neuroscience, are developing implants that sit on top of the brain, or in the case of Synchron, a stentlike device that’s inserted into a blood vessel and sits against the brain. These devices aim to allow paralyzed people to communicate using digital devices by reading electrical patterns generated from … Read more
From the earliest days of the Israel-Hamas war, the United States and much of the international community have pressed Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. But as the fighting rages on with no end in sight, the humanitarian catastrophe there has only worsened. United Nations agencies and aid groups say the … Read more
‘Just tell the honest truth!’: Ramit Sethi slams Kevin O’Leary for repeating the tired trope of creating wealth by skipping coffee, says ‘frugality’ isn’t the key to riches Buying coffee to-go has become a hot topic in personal finance. Some high-profile financial experts are convinced that overspending on lattes and cappuccinos is among the key … Read more
We are in a climate crisis, and technology can be either a part of the problem or a force for good, says Greenpeace CTO Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa. According to the International Panel on Climate Change, she explains, we have “less than seven years before Earth becomes really difficult to live on.” Last year alone, the world … Read more