DJ Randall, the influential UK drum’n’bass DJ and producer, has died, Mixmag reports, citing his representatives. He was 54 years old.Born in east London, Randall became a fixture of the UK dance scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s, helping shepherd acid house towards breakbeat, hardcore, and jungle in warehouse venues and on pirate radio. Mixtapes capturing his jungle sets—and his occasional standalone singles—became formative documents of the era, while sets at venues like London’s Blue Note further incubated the dominant underground dance sounds of the ’90s. He founded his own label, Mac2 Recordings, with Cool Hand Flex in…
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Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s long-awaited ‘VULTURES 2’ has now dropped – here’s what people have to say. The musicians have teamed up for the second instalment of the ‘VULTURES’ series, with the first album dropping in February this year. Two more volumes were scheduled to drop on March 8 and April 5, respectively. However, ‘VULTURES 2’ failed to materialise in March; the rapper went on to push back its release date a number of times, with West even failing to deliver the album after teasing its arrival yesterday (August 2). Now, ‘VULTURES 2’ has finally been released –…
Apple pulled the latest short film in its The Underdogs: OOO (Out of Office) series set in Thailand. The tech giant scrubbed it over complaints about stereotypical portrayals of Thailand and its people in certain scenes. reports that Apple issued an apology to the people of Thailand for the fifth film in its Underdogs series. The ad series features a group of travel weary office workers navigating the world using Apple’s various products.Several viewers posted comments criticizing the film’s use of a sepia filter to make Thailand seem underdeveloped. The comments also called out the costuming and scenery decisions in…
The Realme 13 Pro series is here, and I’ve been using the Realme 13 Pro+ for a couple of weeks. While it’s not a major upgrade over the Realme 12 Pro+ in terms of sheer numbers, there are a couple of hardware changes that make it better to use. And there are also new AI features baked in, which are claimed to improve user experience and the photography prowess of the phones. Just like last year’s 12 Pro+ model, the new Realme 13 Pro+ is also mostly all about the cameras.In our Realme 12 Pro+ review, we concluded that the…
Critic’s Rating: 4.5 / 5.04.5If there is one thing you never want to do, it’s piss off The Serpent Queen. The aptly titled “Judas” episode took all the drama of the royal family and court and threw it into a blender. What we are now seeing is the calm before the storm. (Courtesy of Starz) Because there is no doubt that heads will roll once Catherine finishes mourning for Hercule. Not only does she have the death of her youngest son to contend with, but a complete religious uprising is practically at her front door. However, with a cast of…
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden arrive at the federal court during his trial on criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, on June 5, 2024.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersHunter Biden will be sentenced in his criminal gun case in Delaware on Nov. 13, eight days after the 2024 presidential election, a federal judge said Friday.Hunter Biden, the sole surviving son of President Joe Biden, was convicted in June by a jury in U.S. District Court in Wilmington of three criminal counts related to his purchase and possession of a revolver while being an…
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind is set in Barcelona in 1945, a time when Spain was ruled by dictator Francisco Franco following the Spanish Civil War. At a time when Barcelona was recovering from the traumas of war, Daniel, a book dealer’s son mourning the loss of his mother, finds a strange book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The Shadow of the Wind by Julián Carax immediately draws Daniel in, and he falls in love with the story. But you what happens when you read a book you really love.…
LAS VEGAS — NASA is not reconsidering plans to select only one company to develop an Artemis lunar rover, despite a setback in another program procuring key elements of the lunar exploration effort as a service. NASA announced in April that it awarded feasibility study contracts to three companies — Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab — for the first phase of its Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Services contract. The one-year contracts, work on which formally started in May, will allow the companies to mature their designs for rovers that will be used by astronauts on later Artemis missions…
Signage outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on March 23, 2023.Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWith quarterly earnings from tech’s mega-cap companies largely in the rearview mirror, one thing is clear: Wall Street is nervous.The Nasdaq Composite slumped 3.4% this week, bringing its three-week slide to 8.8%. That’s the worst performance for the tech-heavy index over that length of time since September 2022, when the market was in free fall due to soaring inflation and rising interest rates, according to FactSet.Since the end of 2022, the narrative has been mostly positive for the tech sector, with the U.S.…
A dressage horseiStockphoto During the Olympic equestrian events of dressage, horses display dance-like steps that demand high levels of muscular strength and control across the animals’ bodies and legs. But at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, there has been more focus on the position of the horses’ heads. On 27 July, Brazilian rider Carlos Parro was issued a warning for actions during a warm-up session that “could have caused unnecessary discomfort to the horse”, according to a statement by the governing body of the sport, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). The warning was related to a… Read the…
Warren Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2024.David A. GroganBerkshire Hathaway’s highly scrutinized cash pile could top $200 billion — more than the entire annual gross domestic product of Hungary — amid CEO Warren Buffett’s rare sale of some of his favorite stocks.The Omaha-based conglomerate is likely to say its cash hoard topped the previous record of $189 billion, set in the first quarter, when it reports second-quarter earnings Saturday morning. Berkshire’s results come at a time when Buffett has been offloading winning investments in Apple, Bank of America and BYD, leading some to believe the Oracle of Omaha…
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Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty brand is among the most successful celebrity labels in existence. Now, it’s even easier to get your hands on the bras, underwear, and loungewear pieces because Savage x Fenty has chosen Nordstrom as its first-ever retail partner in the U.S. The brand has a full selection of items online and will also be available in select brick-and-mortar stores.Savage x Fenty has excellent silhouettes, colors, and prints, but what really stands out is its inclusive sizing: most bras come in sizes 32A to 46DDD. Right now, I’m in love with the brand’s floral designs, but you really…
In her own words, the legendary Elizabeth Taylor reflects on her life during the height of her fame in 1964. At the time, she recorded 40 hours of interviews that are now coming to light in the HBO documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes. In the audio, the Hollywood icon narrates her own story to journalist Richard Meryman and addresses her famous relationships. “I’ve been married too many times,” she says. “I made horrendous mistakes, and I have paid for them.” Taylor was married eight times to seven different men over the course of her life. From her passionate and…
Wednesday morning, July 31st, at 2 am Iranian time, Israel appears to have assassinated one of Hamas’ top three leaders, Ismail Haniyeh. Apparently Israel nailed Haniyeh with an explosive that blew up a few rooms of the luxury government apartment building in which the leader of Hamas was staying. Why was Haniyeh in Iran’s capital, Tehran? He was attending the swearing in of Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s new president. Which means that Haniyeh was an honored guest of Iran’s rulers. And his death was a profound insult to the Iranian state. Now Iran says it will get revenge. It will exact…
Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech Wednesday, July 24th, was more powerful than those who hate him may realize. It was powerful for a simple reason: it focused on the importance of four forgotten American virtues: truth, character, decency and democracy. It was a speech about what Joe Biden ran on in 2019, saving the soul of America. In addition, it laid out two things; what Biden has achieved in his three and a half years in office, and what he intends to achieve between now and January 20thwhen the next president of the United States is sworn in. Biden reported that…
There is a sudden movement in the Western World to take smartphones away from kids. It started in the summer of 2022 when social psychologist Jonathan Haidt at New York University, the father of two adolescents, was writing a book about what he called “the pervasive negative effects of the internet and social media on our culture…and relationships.” Haidt planned to open the book with a chapter on kids, who he called “the canary in the coal mine.” When he dug into the research, he found a dramatic uptick in anxiety and depression among children around the year 2012. What could possibly…