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Too Long; Didn't ReadThe Metaverse is an opportunity worth $1 trillion every year. With a potential to generate $5 trillion in value by 2030, the metaverse is too big for companies to ignore. Different sectors and companies are embracing this flexibility to create different use cases, services, and products. Forrester: 3D content and Web3 will still become the new normal in the next ten years. Too Long; Didn't ReadThe Metaverse is an opportunity worth $1 trillion every year. With a potential to generate $5 trillion in…

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she began her career as an actor. She was talked into going to auditions by her mother, Debra, whose own acting aspirations were thwarted by her disapproving parents. “I want to give you the life I never had, Net,” Debra would tell her. “I want to give you the life I deserved.” McCurdy went on to land roles in the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly and later in Sam and Cat, alongside Ariana Grande. But her comic turns on screen masked a malaise that manifested in disordered eating and…

After winning the Mercury prize with his 2015 debut At Least for Now, Benjamin Clementine chose the path of art, not commerce. His second outing, I Tell a Fly, was an anguished 2017 commentary on the refugee crisis framed by the conceit of two houseflies in love. For his third, Clementine – from London, but a veteran of Paris busking spots – finds himself on his own label, having seen out Covid in California, where he has a promising side-gig as an actor (The Herald of the Change in 2021’s Dune). His last release was as…

Credit: LucasFilm If there has been one discussion Star Wars fans have come back to time and time again, it’s got to be the safety standards of the Death Star. For instance, how on earth did the design for the Death Star end up approved with one cheeky exposed vent which could send the whole installation to kingdom come? Mind you, this particular burning question ended up being addressed and answered in the Star Wars mythos during Rogue One when the death star’s architect Garlen Erso revealed the design flaw to…

Images Marvel Studios/Warner Bros. Whichever side your personal preferences lie on, no one can deny that the MCU is in much ruder health than the DCEU right now. There are a multitude of Twitter threads and Reddit discussions on why that is, but it probably comes down to the fact that Marvel Studios, generally speaking, knows what its fans want — or, maybe more accurately, need — while DC… really doesn’t. And that’s never been brought into sharper focus than this knife-sharp tweet. User @tonygoldmark struck a…

What?(A screenshot from the Samsung ad) Chris Matyszczyk/screenshotIt's over. The iPhone 14 has emerged and you can finally look forward to ordering an iPhone in a new color.Or, as Steve Jobs' daughter Eve seemed to suggest, not ordering an iPhone at all.Samsung, though, still can't cope with the idea that you're a such a myopic, unimaginative Apple cult member that you'll simply buy the iPhone 14 because that's what you always do.So it's spent a large sum of money to explain to you just how much of a myopic,…

via Universal What happens when you take an acclaimed director with several classics under their belt, a script based on one of the most famous murder cases in history adapted from a book from the author behind L.A. Confidential, and assemble a star-studded cast to tell the story? You get The Black Dahlia, one of the most disappointing would-be prestige movies in recent memory. The prospect of Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible‘s Brian De Palma helming an intensely atmospheric…

If Gen Z has a “sound” – what grunge was to Gen X, or EDM to Millennials – it has yet to emerge. The pop albums that have attempted to capture the spirit of youthful malaise over the past few years have been remarkably varied in tone: Lorde sought communion with nature on her pastel-toned 2000s throwback Solar Power, while Olivia Rodrigo bemoaned her “fucking teenage dream” to the sounds of glittery emo and pop rock on her debut album Sour. On their sophomore album Here Comes Everybody, Western Australian indie stars…