Nine years and a few days ago, Apple released the iPhone, and the world was never the same. With the iPhone's decade mark in sight, the tech world is starting to get a little restless for the next big shift in computing, even as theiPhone itself starts to look a little boring. Smartphones have revolutionized everything from retail to banking to education. Aren't we due for some new, big, world-changing […]
How should one celebrate breaking the record for most Twitter followers? Sleepover? Waking up in Vegas? Setting fire to an effigy of Taylor Swift? Katy Perry had all three options at her disposal on Friday, July 1, when Twitter announced she had broken a new record by having 90 million followers. For reference, that’s more followers than Kourtney, Khloe, Kylie, Kendall and Kris combined. “It’s party time, @katyperry! With 90 million […]
'Mother's Day,' 'The Lobster' and 'The Boss' are among the other noteworthy April and May movie releases available for download through Apple's digital store this month, with extras including an alternate ending, gag reel and background features available for 'The Boss.' Those who missed out on or want to re-watch some of April and May's most high-profile movie releases can do so from the comfort of their home in July. […]
It’s easy to think of the 1970s as a time of things falling apart. The counterculture was still doing its slow-burn flameout, and most of the decade lingered under the twin shadows of Vietnam and Watergate, which together blew a hole in our collective sense of faith. The great American filmmakers of the era — directors like Coppola, Scorsese, Altman — responded by holding a mirror up to our doubt […]
“It’s called delirium at this point,” says Michelle Ebanks with a laugh when recently asked how plans for the 2016 Essence Festival were coming along. “All things considered, this year is smooth sailing,” continues the president of Essence Communications. “Fortunately, we’ve got a lot of these under our belt, so it’s hard to throw us.” Indeed, New Orleans staple the Essence Festival has survived everything from acts of God (2005’s […]
Netflix has given a 10-episode series order to “Lost in Space,” a reboot of the classic science-fiction television show. The new series will be produced by Legendary Television. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the screenwriting team behind the films “Dracula Untold” and “Last Witch Hunter,” will write the new series, with “Prison Break” veteran Zack Estrin set to serve as showrunner. The three will executive produce alongside Synthesis Entertainment’s Kevin […]
All three films began rolling out Thursday evening in advance of the long Fourth of July holiday. Horror offering The Purge: Election Year set off early fireworks at the box office Thursday night, earning $3.6 million and easily scaring off The Legend of Tarzan and Steven Spielberg's The BFG. Blumhouse and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes produced the latest Purge for a modest $10 million. Legend of Tarzan, from Warner Bros, […]
Self-taught artist Bob Morehead has crafted an intricate and labyrinthian cityscape using nothing more than wood glue and basic toothpicks -- over 300,000 of them. Weighing around 50 pounds at over 8 feet wide, 2 feet tall, and 2 feet deep, Bob's Toothpick City consists of tens of unique buildings that contain multiple floors and rooms, with stairways connecting one level to the next. Windows allow an eye into the […]
In 2015, a group of Amazon employees kicked around ideas for a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding site. The idea didn't get very far, as they soon learned that the market was already crowded. Instead, they discovered that every retail startup was looking for someone to solve the same problem: how to get their products exposed to a wider audience. It was a problem Amazon knew how to fix. And so the team that initially thought about a […]
