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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards came to a shimmering close on Sunday evening (7 January) following a Beverly Hills-set ceremony that showed Hollywood’s star power is stronger than ever.It was less a question of who was there than who wasn’t there, as Taylor Swift, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and Kylie Jenner graced the red carpet. Globes debutants wobbled on stage, mentioning…

Masimo, a medical technology company based out of California, has been embroiled in a legal battle with Apple that led to a temporary cessation of Apple Watch sales in the US. Recently, Joe Kiani, the Masimo CEO, has spoken to the Wall Street Journal about being one of the few CEOs willing to take on Apple. Just last month, it was revealed that the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 would be pulled off sale in the US as Masimo claims Apple has infringed on its Blood Oxygen monitoring patents, with sales officially stopping…

Just after being released from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard discussed the impact of unnecessary surgeries imposed by her mother and her quest for liberation.The 32-year-old Munchausen-by-proxy victim recalled which of the experiences living under her abusive mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, was the most excruciating.Gypsy Rose said that it was a surgery “to remove two salivary glands behind my neck.” She recalled that she “didn’t respond very well to the anesthesia,” making the recovery process “really, really hard.”Gypsy…

This video meeting device removes the complexity of running meetings with multiple attendees in the same room. Jack Wallen/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe Kandao Meeting Ultra is available now and you can save $200.00 if you purchase it before December 20, 2023.This all-in-one device greatly simplifies video conferencing for attendees in the same room.It's pretty pricey.Video meetings are one of my least favorite things to deal with, and I'm certain numerous readers feel the same way. When you have multiple attendees at…

A mysterious miracle is at the heart of this absorbing and superbly acted film from the Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, which refuses the cliched “issue movie” beats of confrontation, catharsis and resolution. Like his previous work Hannah, which starred Charlotte Rampling as the haunted, troubled woman of that name, Monica is marked by its cool compositional rigour: scenes from a life are evoked with studied, often wordless vignettes and middle-distance shots from fixed camera positions, combined occasionally with…

Work isn’t the most pleasant of things in life, but calling it a necessary evil in the literal sense of the word is unfair too, I guess.Sure, while some work is soul-crushing, you do get paid for it and it has other benefits too. So, all in all, you can get by without it being too much of a hassle.That, however, doesn’t stop all the exaggerated satire in the form of memes, and there is actually an Instagram page that provides some cathartic relief to those whose jobs are just the worst. Work isn’t the most…

What if you could pay to become taller?Instagram influencer Yeferson Cossio spent thousands of dollars on a lower limb lengthening surgery to stretch his legs to add an additional six inches to his height in order to become six feet tall.The 29-year-old has reportedly spent $175,000 to leave his original five-foot-eight height behind, describing the procedure as the “most painful surgery ever”.Taking to his Instagram page followed by 11 million people, Yeferson shared a video explaining: “I’m not a dwarf, nor am I the…

If 2022 was the year mpox infections exploded globally, 2023 was the year much of the world stopped paying attention.Yet Canadian researchers, in collaboration with scientists working on the ground in hot spots such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are still shining a spotlight on the virus that sparked last year's unprecedented global outbreak — and one that still seems capable of new surprises. One joint Canadian-DRC research team, co-led by Jason Kindrachuk from the University of Manitoba, has…

Joe Maring/Digital Trends Motorola’s latest clamshell foldable, the Motorola Razr Plus, has won well-deserved praise for its design and the functionally rewarding cover screen that occupies almost one-half of the rear panel. In my brief time with the phone, I felt that Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 5 will have a hard time beating this one. Praise aside, it looks like the Razr Plus’ top selling point could also be its undoing. Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything put the phone through his customarily brutal stress and…

In the new season of the Seventies workplace comedy Minx, Joyce Prigger’s fortunes couldn’t be more on the rise. The titular magazine, which pairs feminist journalism with full frontal male photo spreads, is thriving, turning Joyce into a minor celebrity who hobnobs with Linda Ronstadt, Gloria Steinem, and other icons of the period. When Rolling Stone comes to profile her (in an episode with more than a whiff of Almost Famous), she admits to the reporter that getting everything she wants has only left her fearing that…