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The career of producer Frank Farian had a polarising effect. To fans of the music he made – and, having sold hundreds of millions of records, there were a lot of them – he was a dependable bringer of uncomplicated pop joy. Like another Munich-based artist-turned-producer, Giorgio Moroder, Farian was seeking escape from a career singing schlager, the oompah-infused brand of MOR pop huge throughout central and northern Europe and, like Moroder, he called on the services of the city’s crack session musicians, who became…

Is it a “fearful vocaloid wednesday morning,” a “yearning cottagecore thursday afternoon,” or perhaps a “heartbroken karaoke friday evening”? That’s up to your Spotify Daylist, an algorithmically generated playlist inspired by your listening habits, which changes several times per day. Yeah, you may not think it’s a “teen angst mallgoth monday morning,” but Spotify knows something you don’t. Why do you always listen to “The Black Parade” on Mondays? With the sudden uptick in posts about Spotify’s Daylists, you’d…

Theo James is ready to learn the family business in a teaser trailer for The Gentlemen, a forthcoming Netflix series based on the Guy Ritchie film of the same name. The series, which premieres in March, takes place in the same world as the 2019 Matthew McConaughey crime drama, but introduces new characters. The clip reveals the White Lotus star as the new Duke of Halstead, who becomes entangled in the criminal underworld after learning his estate houses an expansive weed business. The series also stars Ray…

Become AI Mastermind with the best ChatGPT tips and tricks to enhance the workflow or simplify daily tasks Becoming an AI mastermind with ChatGPT involves honing your skills and understanding the intricacies of the language model. Ever since ChatGPT was launched, it remains an innovative and disruptive technology that is the most used application in the world. Developed by OpenAI, it understands human-like text based on prompts. Introduced in late 2022, ChatGPT was first introduced as a free generative AI tool. The…

Photo via A24 Of all the genre giants that frequent the box office these days, perhaps the single most fearless of them, ironically enough, is the horror genre. Indeed, it’s no unfair statement to say that horror fans eat the best as far as pure creative weirdness goes, and with names like Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger, and Brandon Cronenberg pumping out such flicks as Nope, Barbarian, and Infinity Pool recently, there’s no end in sight to the fuel for this particular fire. But Ari Aster is set to bring a whole new…

William “Rick” Singer, the self-styled college admissions consultant who bribed coaches and rigged exams to slip the children of his wealthy clients into the country’s best universities, must spend three years and six months in prison for masterminding a scheme that made him millions of dollars and rocked the country’s elite academic institutions.In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel on Wednesday ordered Singer to pay $10 million in restitution to the federal government. The sentence for Singer,…

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police said it unearthed a huge job fraud scam being run from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Odisha Police busted what is said to be the country's "biggest ever" job fraud and arrested the key accused from Uttar Pradesh. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police said it unearthed a huge job fraud scam being run from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. The scammers targeted the unemployed youth in at least five states - Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha. …

At this (latest) time of great crisis for the DCU, you can bet the fans have found a way to turn this into another battle in the never-ending Marvel vs. DC war. In this case, some conspiracy theorists are starting to wonder if Kevin Feige might somehow be behind the implosion of his great rival in the comic book world. Elsewhere, while DC fans are baying for blood, Marvel lovers are asking who is the most murderous Avenger of them all. The results may, or may not, shock you… Who’s the Avenger with the most blood on their…

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online phone number spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind — The ‘iSpoof’ online spoofing service has been dismantled following an international law enforcement investigation that also led … Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online phone number spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people,…

Taylor Swift’s pin-sharp new album, “Midnights,” closes with a song in which the pop superstar patiently explains to someone — perhaps many millions of someones — that their intimate relationship wasn’t a product of kismet but of design.“I laid the groundwork,” she sings over a blippy electronic groove, her voice edging slightly ahead of the beat, “and then just like clockwork the dominoes cascaded in a line.” The tune is called “Mastermind,” which is what Swift calls herself in the chorus, neatly rhyming the word with…