Gifted

Receiving a bottle of wine from a loved one or friend always feels great. Yet, if you are honest, don't you ever wonder how much they spent on that bottle?CLICK TO GET KURT’S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTEROr you may have asked yourself the question, "should I open this now?" What if it’s an expensive bottle and you want to save it for a special occasion, or it could be the perfect bottle you could regift when you head to someone else's house.While…

11-year-old Autistic boy Jude Kofie, who is a prodigious musical talent, was recently surprised with a $15,000 grand piano that was gifted to him by a stranger who heard him play.Per CBS News, Aurora, Colorado piano tuner Bill Magnusson was made aware of Jude’s talents after a local news story that went viral last year. He was so impressed by the boy’s talents that he felt compelled to gift Jude a piano so as to not waste his gift.Despite his impressive talents, Jude hasn’t had a single piano lesson. “I was here watching…

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Oh the holidays: that time when a much sought after gift can lead to another present that keeps on giving: social media clout. Only, in the case of a kid gifted some much sought after tickets to the upcoming Taylor Swift tour, Tik Tok has become a bit of a marketplace of offers rather than messages of jealousy and Ticketmaster outrage. As it turns out, the recipient doesn’t seem to want them, and Swifties are more than willing to buy those Eras Tour tickets off of their hands.The viral TikTok in question saw user…

In the late David Cavanagh’s definitive history of Creation Records, My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize, the 80s indie band Felt are depicted existing in a continual state of luckless disarray. Their hugely original albums ultimately prove influential – on Belle and Sebastian, the Charlatans and Manic Street Preachers among others – and provoke a rabid cult following, but everything else goes wrong. Band members depart with alarming regularity, career-boosting magazine cover features are pulled at the last minute, a…

Photo: Chris Delmas (Getty Images)The shell company struggling to take Donald Trump’s Trump Media and Technology Group public just bought itself some desperately needed time. Thanks to a newshareholder vote, Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) will now have until September 8, 2023 to complete its merger with the Truth Social parent companyMore than 65% of DWAC shareholders on Tuesday voted in favor of extending its merger agreement deadline with TMTG after delaying the vote six separate times. The extension vote,…

Russell Crowe Gifted A $20K Worth Rolex To Liam Hemsworth ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ) Actor Russell Crowe has given actor Liam Hemsworth a $20,000 plush Rolex watch. Appearing alongside and directing the 32-year-old actor in their new film ‘Poker Face’, the 58-year-old star – who also wrote the screenplay – gave him a plush present before the motion picture’s premiere in Sydney, Australia, reports aceshowbiz.com. “He bought me this Rolex. I went over to his house tonight. He gave me this. He’s a great friend. I love…

T-series boss Bhushan Kumar has gifted Adipurush director Om Raut a Ferrari F8 Tributo. The sports car by the Italian automaker costs around Rs 4 crore in India. Adipurush, starring Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan and Kriti Sanon, is set to hit the theatres early next year. Bhushan Kumar and Om Raut have worked together in the box office success Tanhaji, which starred Ajay Devgan and Saif Ali Khan. There are videos doing the rounds on the Internet which show Om Raut driving the Ferrari with Bhushan Kumar in the passenger’s seat.…

The writer and journalist Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in the Habsburg crown territory of Galicia, in what is now western Ukraine. An eastern European of impoverished Jewish origins, he craved literary recognition and won it, deservedly, for his 1932 novel, The Radetzky March. In prose of dark foreboding, it articulates the lost political tolerance and cosmopolitanism of the long-vanished Austro-Hungarian empire. With the rise of nationalist demagogueries in interwar Europe and antisemitism in Hitler’s Germany, the book…

Conman Sukesh Chandrashekar allegedly gifted Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez’s agent Prashanth a Ducati Scrambler superbike in a bid to win over the actress. The Delhi police has seized the Ducati Scrambler superbike. Ms. Fernandez’s agent has said that although he was forcibly gifted the Ducati, he never rode it. He has also added that he asked Sukesh to take back the superbike. From the pictures of the seized Ducati Scrambler released on the internet, it appears that the superbike has been ridden. The telltale…