The cultural obsession with accused killer Luigi Mangione and a new project co-directed by NBA superstar Steph Curry are among the short film selections at next month’s Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Institute revealed today all 54 shorts selected for the festival that will screen in programs presented by Ketel One Vodka. The news comes…
Hong Kong’s High Court found former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying guilty on all charges in his national security trial on Monday, ruling that he had used his tabloid newspaper and international connections to push for foreign intervention and sanctions against the local and central governments. In open proceedings watched by a packed gallery of…
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was taken to hospital after being beaten when she was arrested last week, her family says. The 53-year-old human rights activist told them in a phone call on Sunday that she was brought to an emergency department twice after being “attacked by plain clothed agents with severe and…
Ciara is set to headline at TikTok‘s inaugural TikTok Awards, the platform revealed to The Hollywood Reporter, days before the ceremony is set to take place in Los Angeles this week. With the awards, TikTok is hoping to fill a gap in recognizing the digital creator ecosystem . Hosted live at the Hollywood Palladium on…
Johanna Chisholmand BBC Verify How Bondi Beach shooting unfolded minute by minute It was a night that promised to bring “joy and light” to Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach as crowds of Jewish families gathered at a park to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, also known as the festival of light. They were among thousands…
Michael RaceBusiness reporter PA Media Rishi Sunak has said not all jobs could be saved during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the government was able to prevent mass unemployment. The former prime minister, who was chancellor at the time, said it “wasn’t going to be possible to save every person’s job”. But he said the government…
BING-JHEN HONG/iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET key takeaways Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 claims advances in accuracy and cost efficiency. Reports suggest Meta is leaning away from open-source technology. Nvidia argues it’s more open than Meta with data transparency. Seizing upon a shift in the field of…
Two people who were found dead Sunday at the home of Rob Reiner in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles are reportedly Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that firefighters responded at 3:38 p.m. to a call for medical aid at…
At a sprawling industrial complex in the Inner Mongolian city of Baotou, workers feed bag after bag of rare-earth additives into roaring furnaces, turning ordinary steel into a high-performance alloy worth twice as much. This is the front line of a technological leap being powered by China’s dominance in critical minerals and its strategic industrial…
The Spanish government has fined property rentals giant Airbnb €64m (£56m) for advertising unlicensed apartments. It also said that some of the properties advertised in the popular tourist destination were banned from being rented. The fine means that Airbnb has to withdraw the adverts promoting unlicensed properties. Although the Consumer Affairs Ministry said the fine…
