Adjoa Andoh, who plays Lady Danbury in the show, admires the creativity, zest and collective spirit of tribute songs Bridgerton, the Regency-era TV smash that sparked a virtual water-cooler moment for period drama fans, is now firing the imaginations of musical theatre devotees on TikTok.
The denizens of the Wall Street Bets subreddit helped push the flailing stock to dizzying heights—while a short-seller alleged an accompanying harassment campaign.
Ava DuVernay directed the powerful drama about the famed march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma , the eye-opening documentary 13th about the history of racial inequality in our prison system, and the harrowing story of five teens from Harlem falsely accused of a brutal attack in When They See Us .
“We don’t respond to threats,” says the Prime Minister With great power comes great responsibility, and also great scrutiny — just ask Google. The world’s leading search engine may have to pay publishers in Australia if new legislation is passed by the government.
The majority of Apple TV+ subscribers are currently on a free promotional trial and most don’t plan to renew their subscriptions, a new survey claims. Credit: Apple In the fourth quarter of 2020, 62% of Apple TV+ users were on a promotional plan, according to MoffetNathan’s Q4 SVOD Tracker report ( via Variety ). Those promotional plans have been given to buyers of new Apple products since Apple TV+ launched in 2019.
Signal’s latest update brings with it several new features inspired by WhatsApp. What you need to know Signal’s beta app is getting an update with many new features that can be found on WhatsApp. The new features include chat backgrounds, custom status updates, animated stickers, and more.
The Mass Effect series is one of the most beloved RPG series of all time. When the original Mass Effect released back in 2007, it turned heads all over the world for its fictional complicated political landscape, branching character-driven story, and deep RPG elements.
Microsoft announced Friday that it’s planning to dramatically raise the monthly cost of its Xbox Live Gold subscription service , which is required for Xbox owners who want to play their console games online. “Periodically, we assess the value and pricing of our services to reflect changes in regional marketplaces and to continue to invest in the Xbox community,” Microsoft wrote in its announcement. “We’ll be making price adjustments for Xbox Live Gold in select markets.
A group of more than 30 democratic lawmakers led by Representatives Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) are calling on Facebook , Twitter and YouTube to make substantive changes to their recommendation algorithms. In three separate letters addressed to the CEOs of those companies, the group makes a direct link to the January 6th US Capitol attack and the part those platforms played in radicalizing the individuals who took part in the uprising. “On Wednesday, January 6th the United States Capitol was attacked by a violent, insurrectionist mob radicalized in part in a digital echo chamber that your company designed, built and maintained,” the letter addressed to Google and YouTube CEOs Sundar Pichai and Susan Wojcicki says.
TikTok has launched today a new online platform that will be chock full of creator-focused educational resources. The TikTok Creator Portal , which will live at TikTok.com/creators and is also available inside the TikTok app itself, will cover the basics of launching a TikTok account, best practices, and how to connect with audiences — with content to serve both new and established influencers, the company said .
Bandcamp will waive all fees in an effort to help indie artists and labels during the COVID-19 crisis. The first Friday of every month promotion, which will last through the end of the year, has sold well over $75 million in music and merch to date.
What if you took a video game with an obsessively cultish following and made it the basis for a reality TV show? That’s what Electronic Arts, the video game publishing behemoth, recently did with one of its most popular titles, The Sims, a game that first became a phenomenon over 20 years ago when it gave players the ability to build and personalize worlds and populate them with characters who act and behave much like we do.
The result was The Sims Spark’d, which debuted on TBS’s Eleague Friday night lineup and BuzzFeed‘s Multiplayer YouTube channel last month in a four-episode series. The show felt much like Lego Masters or The Great British Baking Show, complete with a host—American Idol finalist Rayvon Owen—a set of judges, and Sims fanatics and YouTube influencers (an ethnically diverse mix of mostly females) who were divvied up into groups and forced to come up with story lines and create characters and worlds under extreme time constraints and other limitations. (And, of course, get along with each other.)
IN JULY 2015, two founders of DeepMind, a division of Alphabet with a reputation for pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, were among the first to sign an open letter urging the world’s governments to ban work on lethal AI weapons. Notable signatories included Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Jack Dorsey. Last week, a technique popularized by DeepMind was adapted to control an autonomous F-16 fighter plane in a Pentagon-funded contest to show off the capabilities of AI systems. In the final stage of the event, a similar algorithm went head-to-head with a real F-16 pilot using a VR headset and simulator controls. The AI pilot won, 5-0.
School districts across the US reported that Canvas, Instructure’s remote-learning app, was taken offline by outages Monday morning.
People first started reporting problems with the app shortly after 8 a.m., according to Down Detector.
An Instructure spokesperson said that its apps are seeing higher usage than normal as schools reopen. It’s the first day of class for thousands of schools across the US, many of which rely on tools like Canvas for remote learning.
Zoom, another tool used by schools, was also down Monday morning.
The denizens of the Wall Street Bets subreddit helped push the flailing stock to dizzying heights—while a short-seller alleged an accompanying harassment campaign.
Ava DuVernay directed the powerful drama about the famed march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma , the eye-opening documentary 13th about the history of racial inequality in our prison system, and the harrowing story of five teens from Harlem falsely accused of a brutal attack in When They See Us .
50 successful pilot campaigns shipped 13,000 vinyl records to fans in 65 countries 
“We don’t respond to threats,” says the Prime Minister With great power comes great responsibility, and also great scrutiny — just ask Google. The world’s leading search engine may have to pay publishers in Australia if new legislation is passed by the government.
The majority of Apple TV+ subscribers are currently on a free promotional trial and most don’t plan to renew their subscriptions, a new survey claims. Credit: Apple In the fourth quarter of 2020, 62% of Apple TV+ users were on a promotional plan, according to MoffetNathan’s Q4 SVOD Tracker report ( via Variety ). Those promotional plans have been given to buyers of new Apple products since Apple TV+ launched in 2019.
Signal’s latest update brings with it several new features inspired by WhatsApp. What you need to know Signal’s beta app is getting an update with many new features that can be found on WhatsApp. The new features include chat backgrounds, custom status updates, animated stickers, and more.
Pinterest is expanding its AR tools with new eyeshadow Try-On Pins, while it’s also looking to expand its shopping tags.
The Mass Effect series is one of the most beloved RPG series of all time. When the original Mass Effect released back in 2007, it turned heads all over the world for its fictional complicated political landscape, branching character-driven story, and deep RPG elements.
Microsoft announced Friday that it’s planning to dramatically raise the monthly cost of its Xbox Live Gold subscription service , which is required for Xbox owners who want to play their console games online. “Periodically, we assess the value and pricing of our services to reflect changes in regional marketplaces and to continue to invest in the Xbox community,” Microsoft wrote in its announcement. “We’ll be making price adjustments for Xbox Live Gold in select markets.
TikTok has launched today a new online platform that will be chock full of creator-focused educational resources. The TikTok Creator Portal , which will live at TikTok.com/creators and is also available inside the TikTok app itself, will cover the basics of launching a TikTok account, best practices, and how to connect with audiences — with content to serve both new and established influencers, the company said .
