How cool would it be if you could instruct your iPhone with Harry Potter commands and it responds! Cool, right? Turns out that you can do the same and your iPhone obeys you like the magic at Hogwarts. And all you need to make it happen is invoke the humble Siri. On an iPhone running […]
Umno veep: Genuine power-sharing needed, not appointing token non-Malays
Umno vice-president Mohamed Khaled Nordin said BN must return to a formula of genuine power-sharing and not resort to appointing token non-Malays in the government. At the same time, he said Umno’s partners in BN must work to regain the support of non-Malays and not rely on Umno alone. “We must return to the political […]
QAnon founder may have been identified thanks to machine learning
With help from machine learning software, computer scientists may have unmasked the identity of Q, the founder of the QAnon movement. In a sprawling report published on Saturday, The New York Times shared the findings of two independent teams of forensic linguists who claim they’ve identified Paul Furber, a South African software developer who was […]
Muslims have nothing to fear, work for India’s progress: RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat
Mumbai: Wooing the minority community, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has reiterated that Muslims have nothing to fear in India, and they must work unitedly with the majority community for the common goal of the country’s progress. Addressing an event — ‘Nation First, Nation Supreme’ — organized by the Pune-based Global Strategic Policy Foundation […]
Facebook test offers more control over who you see in your News Feed
Facebook might soon help you manage the overly chatty people in your social stream. The Meta brand is testing News Feed controls that let you raise or lower the volume of content you see from friends, groups, Pages and relevant topics. If a relative posts far too often while a favorite group hardly shows up […]
Harry Potter play ‘Cursed Child’ back in SF — with some key changes
If you didn’t get a chance to catch the dazzling stage show “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” when it was last in San Francisco — before getting COVID-canceled in March 2020 — well, it’s back. But the “Cursed Child” now playing in previews at The Curran is significantly different than the version that was […]
Netflix drops trailer for Kevin James movie based on Saints coach Sean Payton
NEW ORLEANS – Netflix debuted the trailer for its upcoming film ‘Home Team’—a comedy based on New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton and his 2012 suspension from the NFL. The film features Kevin James playing the role of Payton, and it recounts his time away from pro football when he coached his son’s sixth-grade […]
Writers, Ink: Ep 123 – How to Pivot Your Story with Eliza Jane Brazier
BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and famously wrote the […]
Review: “No Time to Die” Leaves Daniel Craig’s James Bond Legacy Unfulfilled
For those whose cinematic consciousness predates “Star Wars,” the James Bond series may be the primordial experience of franchise films, with all the pleasures and limitations that they entail. The appealing predictability of familiar characters and the excitement of seeing variations on their themes has always gone hand in hand with a sense of overmanagement—of […]
Tesla releases new software update to enable Sirius XM and …
Tesla has started pushing a new software update that enables Sirius XM and “immersive sound” in the new Model S. While Tesla started delivering the new Model S with a refreshed interior and a new powertrain in June, the automaker hadn’t completed the software just yet. For example, the vehicles were sold with Sirius XM […]