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Spotify is set to lay off 17 per cent of its global workforce, marking the third round of layoffs this year for the music streaming service, In a strategic move to cut costs and focus on profitability. CEO Daniel Ek communicated the decision in a blog post on Monday, framing it as a “strategic reorientation.” While the post did not specify the exact number of job cuts, a spokesperson told news outlets that approximately 1,500 employees would be affected. The announcement revealed that Spotify,…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image India is gearing up for a massive increase in 5G subscriptions, predicts a recent report by Ericsson. Right now, India is at 130 million, but by 2029, It might hit a whopping 860 million. The report also predicts that 5G coverage will be available to more than 45% of the global population by the end of 2023 and 85% by the end…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image OpenAI's recent shake-up saw Sam Altman returning as CEO after some intense events. Microsoft, a major investor with a 49 percent stake, now has a non-voting observer seat on the board. The new board includes chair Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo. “We will build a qualified, diverse board of exceptional…

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 only used 10 per cent of the dialogue recorded for Venom, according to voice actor Tony Todd. Venom serves as one of several antagonists in Spider-Man 2 but speaking at Fan Expo San Francisco 2023, Todd suggested a bigger role was originally planned (via Twitter user Evan Filarca). Apparently one of the scrapped scenes involved Miles Morales taking on the symbiote. .@TonyTodd54 has confirmed that he recorded lines for scrapped scenes when Miles had the symbiote in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2! 👀🕸️…

If you were at a 50 Cent show, and he was teasing a special guest, and the guest was behind a rising box emblazoned with the harrowing message, “There is a monster in this box,” and you thought, “There’s no way that’s gonna be Ed Sheeran” — well, you’d be wrong. The menacing maestro of pop, the Lucifer of the loop pedal, the acoustic animal himself made a surprise appearance at 50 Cent’s show in London Tuesday night, Nov. 21. It wasn’t even to perform their one collaboration together, “Remember the Name,” off…

Sean “Diddy” Combs has landed deep into trouble after former partner Casandra Ventura pressed rape and abuse charges against him. While Diddy's legal team has refuted these allegations and attempted to flip the narrative, multiple celebrities have taken to social media to express their support for the You & Me singer. From 50 Cent to Aubrey O’Day, Yung Joc, and so on, celebs are making explosive comments against the CEO of Revolt. Sean Diddy has many business interests other than music. Yung Joc's old video…

There are a couple of signifiers in my eyes that show you when a product has had lots of thought, care, and attention put into it. One of them is the USB-C charging port — the amount of metal from the plug that shows once a cable is plugged in shows how much attention to detail there’s been. Take the AirPods Pro 2 for example. When you plug a USB-C cable in, the metal plug disappears into the socket, the lower portion sitting flush with the bottom of the AirPods case.Now try something a little cheaper. The plug goes in,…

What was the impetus behind writing about your own journey? Psychologist and author Scherezade Siobhan (Courtesy the subject) My entire journey to becoming a psychologist has been linked to my struggles with depression from a very early age. I grew up at a time where the amount of information and the openness wasn’t the same. Owing to my circumstances, I did not have a lot of external stability either. I struggled a lot with trying to understand what I was dealing with because I started experiencing signs of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDevon Sawa has joined the throng of actors sharing horror stories from the industry amid the SAG-AFTRA union strike, which has ground Hollywood to a halt.Follow along here for real-time updates on the Hollywood actors’ strike.Final Destination star Sawa, 44, reportedly took to Twitter on Friday (14 July) to allege that he was never paid for his cameo in Final Destination 5…

Rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is no fan of L.A. County’s reinstated zero-bail policy. “LA is finished,” he said in an Instagram post.In late May, a Los Angeles County judge issued a preliminary injunction against cash bail for people suspected of most nonviolent misdemeanors who had been arrested but not yet arraigned.In the cash bail system, bail amounts are set by a predetermined schedule, not by a person’s ability to pay. Those unable to pay bail or secure a bond must remain in custody.The injunction stemmed from a…