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TikTok’s rough week in the west went from bad to worse today when Italian authorities slapped the app with a €10mn fine over a viral challenge called the “French scar.” The game invites users to pinch their cheeks until they leave a lasting bruise. It became particularly popular in Italy, which prompted scrutiny from the country’s competition regulator. Following a probe, investigators concluded that TikTok had failed to protect users from “the potentially dangerous” content. The watchdog…

Throughout his career, Adam Sandler has built himself a reputation whose singularity makes him arguably tantamount to a mythological figure in the world of cinema; here we have a man who has demonstrated time and time again that he has the acting chops necessary to tango with the best, and yet, when we hear the name “Adam Sandler,” the first thing that tends to spring to our minds is one of his many, goofy man-child turns in the vein of The Waterboy or Billy Madison. To that point, Spaceman, the latest film to put the…

Aaah yes, work… can’t live with it, can’t live without it. This blessing-and-a-curse is something most individuals who’ve ever tried to support themselves financially have had to experience. And while some love what they do and are happy to go to work every day, others despise the thought of it alone; often thanks to the toxic environment they find themselves in.The toxic environment is just one of the many reasons why arguably no one wants to work anymore. And while such a statement might not be exactly true, this…

The transition from an unregulated to a regulated environment has caused a lot of pain for the online gaming industry in India, said Harsh Jain, cofounder and CEO of Dream Sports, which operates online fantasy gaming platform Dream11.He was speaking at a panel discussion at the Mumbai Tech Week on Monday.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science &…

Mexican film-maker Michel Franco, famed for his icily contrived, pitilessly controlled dramas, often shown in static tableau scenes, has made another of his complex, painful and densely achieved movies; at Venice it won its leading man, Peter Sarsgaard, the Volpi cup for best actor. It is about abuse, violence, recovery and the redemptive power of sexual intimacy, but also about just what its title proclaims: memory, and how this accumulates over a lifetime to form an identity. Yet memory is unreliable building material;…

As producer and lead actor, Cillian Murphy has brought to the screen a piercingly painful and sad story with a very literary intensity, juxtaposing the detail of the present with flashback memories of the past. It is about Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries: the church’s homes for unwed mothers who were made to work in an atmosphere of wretchedness and shame and had their babies taken away and sold to foster parents. Enda Walsh has adapted the much admired novel by Claire Keegan and the director is Tim Mielants.This…

Anybody who grew up in the ‘80s or ‘90s is likely aware of the brightly colored stickers and school supplies designed by Lisa Frank. So it’s pretty easy to assume that there’s some nostalgia-fueled intrigue for the upcoming horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein. This movie with the clever portmanteau title puts an ‘80s twist on a classic monster flick and is set to hit theaters on February 9, but critics have already had a chance to screen the movie, and some definitely liked the effort better than others. Diablo Cody, writer…

Jennifer Lopez Once Reflected On Her Painful Breakup With Ben Affleck ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) They say if two people are meant to be, they will find their way to be with each other. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are living proof of that. After over a decade, the couple reignited their love for one another and are now happily together. But when they broke up two decades ago, it was pretty hard on JLo. She once recalled the experience and called it the biggest heartbreak of her life. Lopez met Affleck on the sets of…

Every time a new Galaxy flagship is unveiled, experts put it through all kinds of tests. The most painful of those tests are undoubtedly drop tests, and the first one for the Galaxy S24 Ultra is now online on the YouTube channel PBKreviews. The Galaxy S24 Ultra brings several changes to the design: it has a titanium frame and the display is now flat. The display is also protected by the new Gorilla Glass Armor, which has four times better scratch protection than (unnamed) competing protective glasses and 75% lower…

As It Happens6:44AI used to create comedy special of dead comedian George CarlinA new comedy special starts with the quote, "I'm sorry it took me so long to come out with new material, but I do have a pretty good excuse. I was dead."The voice sounds like comedian George Carlin, but that would be impossible, as Carlin died in 2008. The voice in the special is actually generated by an artificial intelligence (AI). "This is not my father. It's so ghoulish. It's so creepy," Carlin's daughter, Kelly Carlin-McCall, told As It…