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After sweeping multiple Best Actor awards for `Oppenheimer`, lead star Cillian Murphy is, without a doubt, a hot favourite to bag the award at Oscars 2024 as well. However, the actor is in no mood to take in the pressure and in a typical Irish fashion says he is "just going to enjoy it" and "do our best". The Oscars 2024 ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on March 10. Ahead of the ceremony where he is nominated in the Best Actor category for his role Christoper Nolan`s `Oppenheimer` said that the support he is getting…

Amsterdam-based Mews, a cloud-based property management system (PMS) for the hospitality industry, has become the latest Dutch unicorn. In a fresh funding round, the startup — which is also a TNW community member — achieved unicorn status after raising $110mn (€101mn) at a valuation of $1.2bn (€1.1bn). Mews was founded in 2012 by Richard Valtr, an ex-hotelier on a mission to accelerate the digital transformation of the hospitality space. “Digital transformation is challenging for many…

American actor and comedian Adam Sandler admitted that he gets nervous when he`s around pop superstar Taylor Swift. `The Hollywood Reporter` reported that during a recent interview on SiriusXM`s `Conan O`Brien Needs a Friend`, Sandler and host Conan O`Brien discussed childhood idols and how contemporary celebs don`t always have the same impact on them. "What I have found is that people can be absolute icons, make the biggest stars in the world, but if they came along five years ago, I`m very happy to meet them, but they…

Quite frequently, actors and other famous folk can seem like they are never nervous or even remotely intimidated by working with those in their chosen profession who have even more recognizable names and have been in the game for way longer. So, it’s nice when people like recent first time Oscar nominee Emily Blunt open up about their anxious moments at work and how they got through them. Blunt recently revealed that she had big nerves while making The Devil Wears Prada, but co-star Meryl Streep gave her confidence in a…

The first human patient received an implant from Elon Musk's computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend, the billionaire says.In a post Monday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was "recovering well." He added that "initial results show promising neuron spike detection."Spikes are activity by neurons, which the National Institutes of Health describe as cells that use electrical and chemical signals to send information around the…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends Samsung finally unveiled its next generation of flagship Android phones, the Galaxy S24 series, during the January Unpacked event in San Jose, California. The new Galaxy S24 lineup includes the base model S24, S24 Plus, and the top-of-the-line Galaxy S24 Ultra. There’s a lot to love about these new phones. They’re powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip that’s blazing fast and a top performer, especially when combined with at least 8GB or 12GB RAM. The S24 Ultra goes a step further…

The actor, who will host the show this weekend with musical guest Reneé Rapp, has reached incalculable levels of baby girlness Even Jacob Elordi, Hollywood’s reigning heartthrob of the 2020s, can’t help but fall head over heels for himself — literally. The actor will make his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and he’s feeling the pressure. It’s not that he has to worry about his charm translating on stage; he’s pretty much got that part nailed down. It’s more so that in all his…

When Adam Greenbaum started buying NFTs in 2021, pretty much as soon as he learned of their existence. “I always wanted to be an art collector,” he says, “and this seemed like a cool thing to get into that wasn’t as expensive as being a fine art collector.”Greenbaum, who works as the CMO of veterinarian SaaS startup Petvisor, says he’s always been an early adopter of new technologies, and with NFTs and crypto he was keen to join a craze he saw as thrilling and lucrative. He bought Alien Frens art pieces, some real estate…

Residents in many areas of B.C. reported feeling the effects of a minor earthquake that struck in B.C.'s Coast Mountains, about 220 kilometres north of Vancouver on Sunday afternoon.Earthquakes Canada says the quake was recorded at 3:23 p.m. PST and registered at a magnitude of 4.9, but so far there are no reports of damage or secondary impacts, such as landslides.John Cassidy, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, says earthquakes are a relatively rare occurrence for the central part of the province's coastal…

Greta Gerwig's Barbie emerged as a record-breaking standout this year, earning a top spot on my list of the best comedies of 2023. However, its billion-dollar box office triumph wasn't always a certainty. According to the director, investors were apprehensive about the film's prospects due to concerns surrounding a banned Barbie-adjacent short film crafted by Todd Haynes over three decades ago.In a candid conversation, directors of some of this year's standout films, including Blitz Bazawule (The Color Purple), Bradley…