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Last week, it was announced that five former members of revered Manchester post-punk group the Fall would be releasing an album under the name House of All – without the original band’s late frontman and only constant member Mark E Smith, who died in January 2018 aged 60. Almost immediately, they incurred the wrath of the famously irascible singer’s family, who strongly disavowed the project.“The family and estate of Mark E Smith in no way endorse or wish to be associated with House of All,” they wrote in a statement.…

Fntastic founders Eduard and Aisen Gotovtsev have hit back at claims that their upcoming open-world survival game The Day Before is a scam, following numerous delays. The game was originally due for release in June 2022, before being delayed until March 1, 2023 last year. Earlier this week, Fntastic revealed that The Day Before would be delayed by eight months after the studio failed to trademark the game’s name. It’s now set to release on November 8. At the same time, the studio hasn’t shared any new footage of The Day…

Google has added the new `Purchase Requests` feature that will provide family managers the option to approve or deny children`s purchases. Purchase Requests will make it easier for families to safely purchase both paid apps and in-app purchases, the tech giant said in a blogpost on Tuesday. If users do not have a family payment method set up, children under 13 will be able to send a purchase request directly to the family manager. Users can then evaluate the request and important information about the application or…

A U.S. federal judge has ruled against the nation’s largest biomedical agency in a long-running battle over the fate of dozens of former research chimpanzees. On Tuesday, a Maryland court declared that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated federal law by not moving the animals out of biomedical facilities to a government sanctuary. The ruling could force the agency to transfer the great apes, though the details remain to be worked out. “We’re…

Deepcake, a Russian tech company, previously created Willis’ deepfake for a 2021 phone commercial.Image: Theo Wargo (Getty Images)Bruce Willis was back in headlines last week as news broke that the actor had seemingly sold the rights to his face to Deepcake, a Russian AI company specializing in deepfakes. Willis’ representatives, however, are contesting these reports. Willis and Deepcake previously collaborated on a 2021 Russian phone ad, with an AI-generated likeness of the actor appearing in the spot. The sale of…

Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh did not have a “screaming match” on the set of Don’t Worry Darling, according to the film’s crew.The psychological thriller, which was released on Friday (23 September), has been plagued with reports of behind-the-scenes drama, in particularly regarding an alleged feud between director Wilde and star Pugh.A recent report by Vulture, citing an anonymous source who spent a significant amount of time on set, alleged that the pair even once got into a verbal altercation on set.According to the…

Representatives for Don’t Worry Darling star Chris Pine have said claims that his co-star Harry Styles “spat” on him at the Venice Film Festival are a “complete fabrication”.On Monday 5 September, a brief yet puzzling interaction between the pair at the Venice Film Festivalwent viral on social media.Styles and Pine were at the Venice screening of Don’t Worry Darling with co-stars including lead actor Florence Pugh and director Olivia Wilde when the moment was captured on video. In the clip, posted by Twitter user…

Demi Lovato’s latest single, “29,” was released Wednesday, but even before the full song was out, it had already made quite a splash online. Lovato, who uses she/her and they/them pronouns, initially shared a snippet of the track on her TikTok account earlier this month. Soon enough, Lovato’s fans connected deeply to the song’s emotional lyrics and made it an anthem about older men “grooming” teenage girls.Fans have speculated that the song is a swipe at Lovato’s ex-boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama, the actor Lovato dated…

So I don’t know entirely what’s in Elon Musk’s counterclaims against Twitter — they are still under seal — but I did get an inkling today, when Twitter dropped its response. It’s spicy! Rather than let Musk get his complaints out first, Twitter went ahead and released a blow-by-blow response, the better with which to dunk on Elon along the way. I do love this: The Counterclaims are a made-for-litigation tale that is contradicted by the evidence and common sense Usually legal documents have arcane, passive-aggressive…

Many of the apps you install ask for permission to access your location - and if the app seems useful, you're going to allow it more often than not. But we tend to forget about this afterwards, and over time, you've got a dozen different apps that are asking for location information and draining out the battery. For both privacy reasons and practical concerns about battery life, this kind of usage is a problem. Or sometimes it happens you deny an app location access on first launch, but you may need to enable it later,…