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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Evil series finale “Fear of the End.”] Evil certainly got meta in its final episodes, shutting down the assessor program that initially brought Kristen (Katja Herbers) into David (Mike Colter) and Ben’s (Aasif Mandvi) lives and setting them on new journeys. In the finale, for Kristen and David, that was continuing their work in a new setting (Rome), while Ben declined to do so, after taking a new job. But as Mandvi points out to TV Insider, the door is wide open for a continuation of sorts, and it’s not like it…
Instagram has announced a new feature that aims to enhance the customisation of user profiles. The feature is dubbed ‘profile song’. As the name suggests, it enables users to add a specific song to their profile that best describes their mood or other preferences. The social media platform has a comprehensive list of licensed songs which can be added. For the feature’s debut, Instagram has collaborated with US-based singer and actress Sabrina Carpenter.Song on Profile Feature on InstagramIn a post on X (formerly Twitter), the official Instagram handle announced the profile song feature. It will be displayed below the user’s bio.…
Carl Eschenbach, co-CEO of Workday, speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024.Adam Galici | CNBCWorkday shares soared 12% on Friday, one day after the finance and human resources software maker issued fiscal second-quarter results that exceeded analysts’ estimates and announced plans to further widen its adjusted operating margin through 2027.Here is how the company did, compared to LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: $1.75 adjusted vs. $1.65 expectedRevenue: $2.085 billion vs. $2.071 billion expectedWorkday’s revenue was up about 17% year over year in the quarter ending July 31, according to…
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.Cameron Costa | CNBCEdgar Bronfman Jr.’s offer for a controlling stake in Paramount Global could keep Shari Redstone close to the company, if his bid is successful.Bronfman is open to having Redstone, currently non-executive chairman at Paramount, remain involved with the company if the Paramount special committee accepts his consortium’s bid for National Amusements, the controlling shareholder, according to a person familiar with the matter.Bronfman has raised $6 billion to challenge Skydance Media for ownership of National Amusements, the holding company founded by Sumner Redstone, according to people familiar with the matter. Both Bronfman’s bid and Skydance’s bid…
(Left) Paul Rudd as Ben in season 3 of ‘Only Murders in the Building.’ Photo by: Patrick Harbron/Hulu. (Right) Actor Jack Black performs at the live ABC Telecast of The 87th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 22, 2015. Photo: Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S.Preview:Jack Black and Paul Rudd may star in a new version of ‘Anaconda’.Jennifer Lopez and Jon Voight headlined the 1997 original.Tom Gormican is attached to direct the new movie.Movie studios love dipping into their archives to find old titles they can slap some remake/re-imagining/legacy sequel paint onto and push into theaters to…
Instagram is adding a new music feature where you can show off your taste on your profile, reminiscent of 2000s MySpace. In what feels like a blast from the past – where you’d be able to hear your friend’s favourite song playing every time you went on their MySpace profile – Instagram is making music a more central feature. “Now you can brag about your music taste by adding a song to your profile,” Instagram writes on a social media announcement. Now you can brag about your music taste by adding a song to your profile 😎♬ pic.twitter.com/dSJuwlzh9b — Instagram…
The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states on Friday accused software company RealPage of unlawfully scheming to undermine competition among landlords and create a monopoly that harms millions of renters.RealPage “allows landlords to manipulate, distort, and subvert market forces,” the Justice Department said in a civil complaint in U.S. District Court in North Carolina.”At bottom, RealPage is an algorithmic intermediary that collects, combines, and exploits landlords’ competitively sensitive information,” the antitrust lawsuit said.”And in so doing, it enriches itself and compliant landlords at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices and honest businesses that would otherwise compete,” the…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.My personal internet this week was chock full of adaptation news, reviews, announcements, teases, reveals, and other digital publicity efforts. And you know what? I was into it. So as a way of covering some of the notable fall adaptations: my personal hype rating of six notable upcoming adaptations, scaled 1 to 10 (1 being this should not exist and 10 being I would…
The struggle of summer dressing, the return of Pilsner beer and a smart supplement to try if you’re in your late 30s. Read the original article here
Critic’s Rating: 4.5 / 5.04.5Clear the way and make room, for The Serpent Queen is coming, and she is not happy! If there is one thing anyone who has seen this series can say, it’s that the show is not afraid to play fast and loose with its characters. The Serpent Queen displays a unique talent to keep the pace from declining or the story going stale. (Courtesy of Starz) Though the characters are more or less dealing with the same issues they’ve had since the start of Season 2, the series has managed to keep things fresh. The Serpent…
Samsung Galaxy Ring is reportedly unrepairable if it faces damage to one of the parts or the battery dies. As per a report, the design of the smart ring by the South Korean tech giant might be the reason why it is unrepairable as the process requires opening up the ring from the inside. It is said that the wearable device’s circuit board’s internal connectivity is done in a way, that attempting to disassemble the unit might result in rendering it useless.Samsung Galaxy Ring Reportedly UnrepairableAccording to a report by iFixit, the lithium-ion battery is one of the two main…
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride. David Mills will be a featured guest on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 at 2 PM ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant. Wendy Stuart is an…
In the early 1940s, NYPD Dan Brady, an Irish immigrant who, as a boy in Dublin ran messages for the Sinn Fein, is working on a string of anti-Semitic assaults when he catches a murder case of a Bronx Sunday School teacher by a serial rapist. He soon discovers the rapist’s pattern of hitchhiking into and out of the city and pioneers a process of cooperation with the FBI and other police departments to conduct a dragnet from Louisiana to New England. Danny expands his cooperation with the FBI to include the anti-Semitic crimes, particularly burglaries, which he suspects are…
Meta said Friday that it blocked a “small cluster” of WhatsApp accounts linked to an Iranian hacking group that was targeting officials associated with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.The company said in a blog post that the bogus WhatsApp accounts appeared to originate from the Iranian threat actor dubbed APT42, which other tech companies like Google previously described as an “Iranian state-sponsored cyber espionage actor.” The group has targeted various activists, non-government organizations, media outlets and others.Meta said the scheme was intended to exploit “political and diplomatic officials, and other public figures, including some associated with administrations…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Friday gave the clearest indication yet that the central bank is likely to start cutting interest rates, which are currently at their highest level in two decades.If a rate cut comes in September, as experts expect, it would be the first time officials have trimmed rates in over four years, when they slashed them to near zero at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Investors may be wondering what to do at the precipice of this policy shift.Those who are already well diversified likely don’t need…
In January, eight months ago, Nikki Haley said, ‘The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the one who wins this election.’ Nikki Haley may be right. The Democratic National Convention that took place at the United Center in Chicago the week of August 19th demonstrated something no one may have seen coming. Why? The announcement on July 21st that Joe Biden was stepping out of the presidential race and Kamala Harris was stepping in unleashed a hurricane. A hurricane of emotion. As Michelle Obama said in her convention speech on Tuesday night August 20th: “Something wonderfully magical is…
Nicole Avant spent much of her childhood summers in holiday enclaves like Oak Bluffs in Martha’s Vineyard and Sag Harbor in Long Island, vacation havens created by the Black middle-class elites as they were often denied entry elsewhere. “My parents took me there, and it was great for me growing up to see Black doctors, Black lawyers, Black professionals, Black people who own their businesses,” the producer, author and former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas recalled of her parents Clarence Avant, the late legendary musical executive known as The Black Godfather, and her mother, philanthropist Jacqueline Avant. “And it made…