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The brand new Carnival Cruise Line ship Mardi Gras, docked at Port Canaveral, Florida, on July 30, 2021.Joe Burbank | Orlando Sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesShares of Carnival fell below their pandemic lows Friday after the cruising company posted third-quarter earnings that revealed higher costs associated with inflation, supply chain disruptions and the maintenance of health and safety protocols.Shares of Carnival shed 23% during the session. The stock closed at a new 52-week low of $7.03, below its…

Samsung has got the best after-sales software support policy in the world of Android devices at the moment. Some of its flagships get four major OS upgrades while many flagship and mid-range Galaxy devices are eligible for three major OS upgrades, and pretty much all devices that don’t fall in either of those camps get two big Android OS upgrades at the very least. As for security updates, Samsung is excellent at those, too, often beating even Google at rolling out new monthly security updates for many of its phones and…

The wait has been long, but we finally got a look at the live-action The Little Mermaid in the form of its first trailer, featuring lead actress Halle Bailey. After initially being the target of racist backlash for her Disney casting, the young star is now getting some major praise for her performance of a classic Little Mermaid song that's featured in the trailer. Unfortunately, on the heels of the trailer drop, some of her Twitter-using fans are going as far to drag the original Ariel actress.Given the backlash that…

Photo: Josh Edelson (Getty Images)Mark Zuckerberg’s recruiting some help to inch his metaverse vision closer to reality. On Friday, Meta and Qualcomm announced they’re partnering up to design custom chipsets for Meta’s virtual reality headsets which they believe could power, “a new era of spatial computing.” The multi-year agreement between the two companies will see Meta’s Quest headsets powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon tech. The agreement means Meta, unlike other competitors like Google and Apple, won’t ship hardware…

| Dave Sim has, in recent years, taken his highly regarded 300-issue Cerebus graphic novel and transformed it into the ridiculed-then-mostly-ignored Cerebus In Hell. A series of one-shot cut-and-paste strips using his own work and that of Gustave Dove, alongside the likes of Benjamin Hobbs, Sean Michael Robinson and David Birdsong railing against and mocking what he sees as society's and comic books' moral deficiencies, with a series of Cerebus In Hell comics. And with each one-shot, tries to parody some aspect of comics…

In the past few weeks, Jennifer Aniston has garnered headlines that have raised questions about her allegiance to some of the female empowerment messages of the  #MeToo movement. Aniston faced social media backlash this week after she made some rather salty comments in Variety about Monica Lewinsky and Paris Hilton becoming famous “for doing nothing.”  Aniston’s comments were seen as insensitive, tone-deaf and demeaning, in light of the fact that both women have spoken out in recent years about being the targets of public…

Snap shares closed down 43% on Tuesday, marking its worst day ever and dragging down other social media and digital ad company stocks.The tumble comes after Snap issued a warning on Monday to investors saying it won't meet its own targets for revenue and adjusted earnings in the current quarter."Since we issued guidance on April 21, 2022, the macroeconomic environment has deteriorated further and faster than anticipated," the parent company of Snapchat said in an SEC filing. Snap's shares are down about 84% from a 52-week…