The cultural legacy of the 1984 rock-mock-doc βThis Is Spinal Tapβ is of sufficient amplitude that, to give the bandβs guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) his knob-twiddling due, itβs gone way past 11. Perennially quotable, ad-libbed to Brit-accented perfection by co-creators Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer and finessed into an iconic spoof by director…
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Tech giants Apple and Amazon have defied industry predictions with better-than-expected financial results. Apple’s success is largely thanks to record-breaking iPhone sales, while Amazon’s is down to cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services (AWS), in spite of last week’s outage which knocked out thousands of websites. AWS revenue accelerated 20.2% to $33bn (almost Β£25bn), which…
A funder of YouTube content creators including the Sidemen has landed Β£80m in new backing from investors including a firm chaired by George Osborne, the former chancellor. Sky News has learnt that Viewture, which was established in 2020, will next week announce new debt and equity funding packages led by Lingotto, an investment vehicle of…
Yoko Ono is bringing her message of peace to Los Angeles as part of her upcoming exhibition at the Broad museum. Nearly 57 years after she and her husband John Lennon erected a billboard near the Chateau Marmont emblazoned with the words, βWAR IS OVER! If You Want It,β the 93-year-old artist will place a…
Thanks to a lazy pun thatβs as uninspired as the jeans itβs meant to sell, a series of American Eagle Outfitters ads starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney have sparked a culture war. In one of several videos associated with the retailerβs campaign, the accomplished performer who also happens to be a blond bombshell says, βGenes…
President Trump on Tuesday said he intends to expand his crusade against what he calls βwokeβ ideology from the Smithsonian Institution to museums across the country. βThe Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of βWOKE,ββ Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that the Smithsonian is βout of…
Craig Leipold may be one of downtown St. Paulβs biggest boosters. Heβs the owner of the Minnesota Wild, and his company manages the venues that bring 2 million people downtown every year for games, concerts and other events: the Grand Casino Arena, the Saint Paul RiverCentre and Roy Wilkins Auditorium. This year, he expanded his…
Former AI company founder and CEO Matt Shumer joins “CBS Mornings” to break down Anthropic’s report about one of its AI models, Claude Mythos Preview. In the report, the company warned the program was “too powerful” to be released to the public and it worried about the program, which is designed to find security flaws…
On average, young people between the ages of 8 and 18 spend about 7.5 hours a day on their screens, not including school work. A growing nonprofit is trying to change that alarming trend. The Balance Project focuses on delaying the use of smartphones for kids and encouraging more time with friends and independent play…