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Remakes are part and parcel of the movie business, but the speed at which acclaimed Danish thriller The Guilty was a acquired was enough to make your head spin. Co-writer and director Gustav Möller’s intense thriller boasted an ingenious central premise, a breathlessly brief running time, and an incredible performance from Jakob Cedergren as Asger Holm, an emergency services dispatcher who answers a call from a kidnapped woman and finds himself determined to beat the clock and save her from certain doom. Image via…

Research conducted by Future between May 2022 and March 2023 has revealed that as the cost of living bites, 50% of respondents in both the UK and the US are stopping or cutting back on entertainment subscriptions like Netflix and Spotify. The research, which is powering the relaunch of our tech-expert buddies over at TechRadar, was conducted over three separate surveys in May 22, September 22, and March 2023. It comes as the cost of living crisis and rising inflations sees consumers searching for ways to cut costs or to…

Cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Wyre is winding down, feeling the pinch of dwindling interest in a market that was once hailed as the next frontier of finance.The decision, announced in a tweet on Friday, comes months after online checkout company Bolt Financial scrapped its planned $1.5 billion purchase of Wyre. Since then, the digital asset market has seen a high-profile bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX and lawsuits from the U.S. securities regulator against Binance and Coinbase Global. Wyre's decision was not…

Researchers analyzed data from eight US cities, from 2009 to 2018, which included 69,525 dog bite incidents, noticing that incidents rose by eleven percent on days with higher UV levels, four percent on hotter days, and three percent on days with elevated ozone levels.A recent study suggests dog bites may increase by up to 11% on warmer, sunnier days, and those with high air pollution. The ten-year data showed increases with higher UV, temperature, and ozone levels, but decreased slightly on rainy days. However, as the…

Summer has finally arrived, bringing long days and plenty of sunshine. But, it has also brought one of the most annoying things of this time of the year: mosquitos. These pesky insects are known for their irritating bites, which can be a nuisance during summer. Then there’s also the concern of malaria-carrying varieties. Luckily, scientists appear to have made a “mosquito camouflage.” The camouflage is made up of natural components. The scientists claim it could be more effective at keeping those annoying and…

Transport fares and prices of essential goods and services shot up significantly across the country last week as Nigerians grappled with the ripple effect of the government’s decision on fuel subsidy removal. PREMIUM TIMES’ correspondents who monitored the situation across the country found that food prices and transport fares for intrastate and interstate commuting increased significantly in most parts of Nigeria. Fuel queues returned to Nigerian cities last week Monday as motorists scrambled to get petroleum…

Jeremy Hunt ruled out tax cuts in the near future as Britain grapples with decades-high rates of inflation, rising interest rates and slow growth that looks set to crimp government finances for years to come.  Jeremy Hunt ruled out tax cuts in the near future as Britain grapples with decades-high rates of inflation, rising interest rates and slow growth that looks set to crimp government finances for years to come.  FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender…

When Molly Ringwald was first approached to translate My Cousin Maria Schneider, by Vanessa Schneider, she said no. It’s not that she wasn’t interested in the late French actor, whose life was so horribly defined and dominated by Last Tango in Paris. Nor was it that she felt too close to the industry to tackle the life story of such a tragic figure. “The opposite,” she says, speaking to me from Vancouver, where she is filming the supernatural drama series Riverdale. “I felt my experience as an actor would only bring more…

Mosquitoes are responsible for around 350 million human illnesses every year, with the number sure to increase as climate change bolsters the disease-carrying insect's numbers. A recent study even showed how another human impact, light pollution, may be responsible for extending the mosquito blood-drawing season.New research into bite-protection has taken a readily available natural molecule, cellulose, and manipulated it to produce a product that saw an 80% reduction in mosquito feeds on human skin.Cellulose, which is…

Nigeria’s manufacturing sector shrank for the second month in a row in March as cash scarcity in Africa’s biggest economy hampered private sector activity. The development forced output and new orders to drop at rates steeper than those of the preceding month. The latest edition of Stanbic IBTC Bank Nigeria PMI, which measures factory activity in the country, puts Nigeria’s purchasing manager index for March at 42.3 compared to 44.7 for February. That signals the second deepest plunge since the survey started…