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The cover of Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran features a closeup shot of Shakira crying, her tears turning into diamonds as they run down her face. It’s a neat summation of relatively recent developments in the singer’s career. Her 2023 single Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol 53 transformed the toxic fallout from her breakup with footballer Gerard Piqué into one of her biggest ever hits. Within days of release, it was the most streamed track in the world and had broken the record for the number of YouTube views for a Latin American song.…

More than 20 years have passed since the claymation magicians at Aardman Animations had the brainwave of relocating The Great Escape to a north of England chicken farm. The original Chicken Run remains a classic of family entertainment, unbeatable in its inventiveness, distinctive aesthetic and deliciously absurd humour. Disappointingly but perhaps not surprisingly, this sequel fails to match the original on any level whatsoever. It’s not bad exactly, although there’s a synthetic look to the colour palette that feels very…

Samsung is a little late to the party, but the company has finally launched a desktop version of its Android browser. Windows 10 and Windows 11 users can download Samsung Internet from the Microsoft Store, and it's available for any desktop or laptop PC, not just Samsung's Galaxy Books. Samsung Internet has long been one of the best browsers for Samsung and other Android smartphones and tablets, but it hasn't been available on PCs, making syncing browsing data impossible. That's a feature I can't live without, so I have…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said about 98.5 per cent of eNaira wallets downloaded after the unveiling of the digital currency have been abandoned. The IMF made this known in a working paper released recently titled ‘Nigeria’s eNaira, One Year After’. In the report, the Bretton Woods institution highlighted how the digital currency fared within its first year, noting that the adoption of the eNaira has been disappointingly low. “The average number of eNaira transactions since its inception amounts to…