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David Bowie would have been dropped before he ever made a global hit record in today’s hyper-competitive music industry, according to Chic’s Nile Rodgers, who said labels were failing to nurture unique talent and were instead focusing on profit.The songwriter and musician who produced Let’s Dance alongside Bowie – which took him into the pop mainstream in the 1980s – said no modern label would have given Bowie time to produce a hit record after his run of albums in the 1970s that failed to win commercial success beyond…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie has recalled standing her ground against an Oppenheimer producer who requested that Barbie change its cinematic release date to avoid clashing with Christopher Nolan’s war drama. The 33-year-old Barbie star and producer shared the anecdote with Oppenheimer lead Cillian Murphy on a recent episode of Variety’s “Actors on Actors”.“One of your producers, Chuck Roven, called…

The Depop application on a smartphone arranged on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSix months after launching his secondhand clothing shop on digital marketplace Depop in 2020, Blake Robertson, a 15-year-old high schooler at the time, received a death threat from a customer.It came via Instagram, from someone who had not received her purchase in time for Christmas.  "Nothing happened, but I don't know, it just opened my eyes to the fact that some people, they just really want their items,"…

In early January, a New York public relations firm sent an email warning about what it characterized as a threat to the federal government's program to revitalize the U.S. semiconductor industry.The message, received by The New York Times, accused Intel, the Silicon Valley chip titan, of angling to win subsidies under the CHIPS and Science Act for new factories in Ohio and Arizona that would sit empty. Intel had said in a recent earnings call that it would build out its facilities with the expensive machinery needed to…

Halloween is almost here, and like several other digital storefronts, Fanatical is celebrating the Spooktober season with plenty of discounts across a wide range of games. While the focus is primarily on horror-genre games, there's also a bunch of deals on less frightening titles now on in case you keep your heart beating at a normal rate.If you are looking for chills and thrills, you can score a great deal on those games plus a devilish extra 6.66% off of the price by applying a coupon that will appear…