Female artists strike right note at NME Awards in London Female musical acts took home a slew of prizes at the NME Awards in London on Wednesday, in a move that artists present welcomed as the entertainment industry reeled from allegations of sexual misconduct against women. New Zealand songstress Lorde […]
Heavy metal band Metallica wins 2018 Polar Music Prize American heavy metal band Metallica was awarded Sweden’s Polar Music Prize on Wednesday, drawing a delighted response from the group which has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, publisher and manager of the Swedish […]
After Apple’s fight with FBI, two groups say they can solve the encryption battle Two years after the FBI unsuccessfully sought Apple’s help to hack into a phone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, law enforcement and companies are no closer to resolving the dispute over digital-message privacy. […]
Why Google’s Ad-Blocking in Chrome Might Prove Awkward For the Company Google, frustrated with “annoying” advertisements involving techniques such as pop-ups and loudly auto-playing videos, is from Thursday using its Chrome browser to strike back. Users of the browser—that is to say, well over half the people who surf the […]
Uh oh! Apple’s HomePod can stain some wood furniture At least the sound isn’t wooden. The HomePod in fact sounds great. At the same time, however, Apple’s $349 smart speaker has been tarnished for having a virtual voice-driven assistant Siri, that isn’t as smart or useful as Alexa on Amazon […]
Facebook’s two-factor authentication system auto-posts replies on your profile Facebook’s two-factor authentication (2FA) system has come under fire today for some bizarre design elements that seem to have gone largely unnoticed for quite some time. Bay Area software engineer Gabriel Lewis noticed earlier this week that Facebook was using the […]
UK blames Russia for cyber attack, says won’t tolerate disruption Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt Benckiser. The so-called NotPetya attack in June started in Ukraine where it […]
2018 Winter Olympics: Frosty relations between U.S., Russian skeleton racers? The Olympics are supposed to be a time of unity and sportsmanship, when any pre-existing political strife or conflict is placed aside in favor of pursuit of the Olympic ideal. And that has largely held true at the Winter Games, […]
Soccer: Low-cost Asensio upstages Neymar and Mbappe in Real win Paris St Germain spent 400 million euros ($498 million) on Neymar and Kylian Mbappe last year but it was Real Madrid’s bargain signing Marco Asensio who stole the show when Real beat the Parisians 3-1 in Wednesday’s showcase Champions League […]
For free agents at MLB’s Camp Jobless, it’s ‘not about money. Just an opportunity’ It’s the other spring-training camp, the one with players wearing black T-shirts and shorts instead of team uniforms, no fans in the stands, no autograph seekers, no media, not even a peanut vendor in sight. It’s […]
