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We miss a good old-fashioned disaster movie. Before superheroes seized the summer blockbuster crown it was common to see movies like Dante’s Peak, Armageddon, or The Day After Tomorrow become some of the highest-grossing movies of the year. Sadly, if 2021’s 13 Minutes is any indication, a return to past successes may be unlikely. This tornado movie stars American Beauty‘s Thora Birch and was the final Anne Heche movie released before her untimely death in 2022. The movie focuses on multiple characters in an Oklahoma town…

Image via Walt Disney Pictures If you have not paid attention recently, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has issues with the Disney corporation. They have fought over control of the Disney World resort area, the “Don’t Say Gay” law, and now, SNL says DeSantis is queer, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcu7w0uPK4g The show brought in Bowen Yang as Jafar from the Aladdin film series to castigate the likely 2024 presidential candidate during a recent Weekend Update segment. DeSantis has been angry…

Screenshot: https://www.soundhound.com/SoundHound, a voice AI company, laid off nearly half of its remaining staff last week—roughly 200 people—in a major company-wide downsizing, according to three employees who lost their jobs and an email from the CEO viewed by Gizmodo. What’s more, the former SoundHound employees are in for a rough landing. Their severance package includes no healthcare and just two weeks of severance, and that’s only if SoundHound can raise more money, the three laid off staffers told Gizmodo. If the…

A new parliamentary report has called for the UK government to streamline its policymaking in creative industries, in order to make the country’s music ecosystem more amenable to British musicians.The report was authored by a committee that scrutinises the spending, policies and administration of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and follows a 2021 report into music streaming and the state of the industry, which instigated an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority into the power…

Oh, his lover will really appreciate this.(A screenshot from a McDonald's ad.) Chris Matyszczyk/screenshotIt's all about the money. It's always about the money.When one of your favorite brands begins to encourage you to use its app, there's really only one reason -- to get you to buy its wares more often.That's where the pandemic suited fast-food brands perfectly. People were stuck at home. They could use apps to get pick-up or delivery. For the likes of McDonald's and Chick-fil-A, business did rather well.You might…