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Violinist Leonidas Kavakos wins Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2017

Founded in 1959, the award is Denmark’s highest musical honour Violinist Leonidas Kavakos has been named the winner of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2017, worth €100,000. The award is Denmark’s highest musical honour and has been given annually to an internationally recognised composer, instrumentalist, conductor or singer since 1959. The prize will be awarded to Kavakos at a special concert on 12 January 2017 – part of a mini-festival […]

todayFebruary 13, 2016

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Greek writer Evgenios Trivizas,wins Kidscreen Best eBook of the Year

“Little Emily, the Cherry Stalk and the Eraser Bombs”, the second e-book by internationally recognised Greek children’s writer Evgenios Trivizas, has won the prestigious Kidscreen Best eBook of the Year Award (2015) in the Digital Preschool Category. In a highly anticipated presentation event in Miami (USA), hosted by renowned comedian Allana Harkin and exclusively sponsored by the Canada Media Fund, the global kids entertainment industry saluted the best work in […]

todayFebruary 13, 2016

Entertainment

New Harry Potter book from JK Rowling coming out in July: the play script

Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s script of the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is going to be published as a book moments after midnight on 31 July. Timed to coincide with the boy wizard’s birthday, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II will be published by Little, Brown in the UK, Scholastic in the US, and Hachette in Australia. As well as Harry’s birthday, […]

todayFebruary 11, 2016

Miscellaneous

SPOILER ALERT: ‘I can only classify as alien’: Scully morphs into an extra-terrestrial in opening scene from The X-Files finale

She's spent much of the series denying the existence of aliens. But if the opening scene of the X-Files finale is to be believed, Dana Scully is one. The two-and-a-half minute sequence, which gives a sneak peak into the last episode of the revival miniseries, finishes with Gillian Anderson physically morphing into an extra-terrestrial. The final episode starts just like the first one, but instead of Fox Mulder bringing viewers […]

todayFebruary 11, 2016

Music

Adele officially named the bestselling artist of 2015

Adele, who broke records with her song Hello and latest album 25, was officially the biggest-selling artist of 2015. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), said that the British singer was the top-selling musical act last year based on worldwide sales of recordings. Forget naysayers, Adele is a treasure Carole Cadwalladr Carole Cadwalladr Read more Adele achieved the feat for the full year even though she did not […]

todayFebruary 9, 2016

Miscellaneous

MacGyver is returning to TV with a reboot from Furious 7 director James Wan

The TV studios just keep the reboots coming. CBS is working on bringing MacGyver back to television, according to The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly. This won't be your parents' MacGyver however; Furious 7 director James Wan is set to executive produce the series, and he's on board to develop what's sure to be an explosive pilot episode. The show hasn't yet been ordered to series, but CBS has committed to at […]

todayFebruary 8, 2016

Miscellaneous

Some Of The Most Expensive Toys In The World

Most people would usually not spend over $100 for their kids’ toys and even that’s pushing it. After just a few plays, kids forget about or move on from most of their toys anyway. Saying no and walking away isn’t as easy to do for some parents, though. Those parents tend to have little more money in their pockets and their children tend to be a little more spoiled. When […]

todayFebruary 8, 2016

Music

Maurice White, Earth, Wind & Fire Singer and Co-Founder, Dead at 74

Earth, Wind and Fire vocalist and co-founder Maurice White died in his sleep in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. A rep for the band confirmed his passing to Rolling Stone. He was 74. The singer had been battling Parkinson's disease since 1992, according to TMZ. His health had reportedly deteriorated in recent months. Because of the disease, he had not toured with the pioneering soul and R&B group since 1994. He […]

todayFebruary 5, 2016

Technology

Microsoft’s Project Natick brings data centers underwater

Microsoft today unveiled Project Natick, a fascinating research initiative that could bring cloud computing infrastructure closer to big cities near large bodies of water — by putting data centers underwater. Microsoft isn’t running any web services, like Office 365, through the data center infrastructure inside of these capsules. But Microsoft did build one (named the Leona Philpot, after the Halo character) and set it 30 feet underwater off of the […]

todayFebruary 1, 2016

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