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In director Park Chan-wook’s 2003 neonoir thriller Oldboy, a man is held captive for 15 years before being stuffed in a trunk and hauled out into an empty field, left alone to solve the mystery of how he got there and why.Two decades and 8,000km away, the members of high-octane hip-hop collective 1300 (pronounced one-three-hundred) smooth down their collars, mess up their hair and do their best impressions of the character Oh Dae-su and the goons terrorising him for their single, also named Oldboy. But where Oh Dae-su…

TikTok on Monday said it will start letting some popular accounts at the video-snippet streaming star charge subscriptions for live streams.Similar money-making tools have been added to rivals such as Instagram and Facebook as the social media platforms compete for online personalities that attract audiences."LIVE Subscription is an extension of our efforts to build diversified creator monetization opportunities that suit a range of creator needs," TikTok said in a blog post.TikTok said the subscription feature being…

India is one of the biggest market for two-wheeler manufacturers in the world. We have two-wheeler manufacturers like Hero, Honda, Yamaha, Bajaj present in the market. Initially when motorcycles were introduced, there sole purpose was commuting but now, things have changed and now other than Indian brands, there are several international brands and models available on sale in India. Motorcycling culture has also grown or changed and we now have a lot more technologically advanced and powerful machines. Here we have a…

“So, how does it feel to be a publishing phenomenon?” the Irish writer Marian Keyes asks TV producer-presenter and now fellow novelist Richard Osman, over Diet Cokes and chocolate croissants. “A record-breaker of record-breakers?”For once, publishing “phenomenon” (pronounced as four words by Keyes for emphasis) is no exaggeration: Osman’s first novel The Thursday Murder Club sold 45,000 copies in three days in 2020 and his follow-up, The Man Who Died Twice (released in paperback this month), was one of the fastest-selling…

There are several different awards granted to tech companies every year. Some are for display technology and some are for camera technology just to name a few. Google won an award for its software design. According to 9To5Google, Material You, introduced last year, was given the iF Gold Design Award.Getting this award is a prestigious honor, even if a lot of people haven’t heard of it. The iF Award was established back in 1954, and it’s been a sought-after award ever since. Each year, there are thousands of entries, and…

Google has removed three Android apps from its Play Store and having them installed on your phone could leave you with a nasty bill. The Mountain View firm has purged its online marketplace after it found the trio of apps were capable of installing the notorious Joker bug. This infamous piece of malware steals money from Android users by secretly signing them up for costly subscription services which can be worth hundreds of pounds a year.The Google Play Store apps - called Style Message, Blood Pressure App and Camera PDF…

Smartwatches, the full-featured kind, are quite popular – nearly half of you have one, according to last week’s poll. The challenges for makers are laid out in the second poll, the most important feature of a smartwatch or band is long battery life. The watches running watchOS, Wear OS, Tizen or HarmonyOS tend to last between one and four days depending on usage. Improving on that will take a lot of work as the form factor limits battery capacity while advanced features require more power. For those wearing a smart…

It’s been quite the turnaround for Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch, who spent the better part of a decade as a strictly supporting player in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, before evolving into one of the most popular superheroes on the planet. In fact, the netizens of Reddit are now debating whether or not the actress’ Wanda Maximoff can justifiably be called the single most popular female live-action comic book character we’ve ever seen, and the results look to be leaning towards the affirmative. Their kickoff point for…

Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood is taking a break. The Bridge & Tunnel Restaurant Group on Friday announced the popular deli and NYC style bagel hot spot is closed. The temporary closure will allow the restaurant, at 725 E. 26th Ave., to “focus on the health of our staff and our old building,” the announcement said. A reopening date has not yet been announced. Rosenberg’s apologizes for inconveniences that the location closure may cause for patrons. “We look forward to…

As if this week weren’t bad enough for many cryptocurrency owners, with stablecoins crashing and Coinbase suffering an outage at a particularly bad time, now they’ve reportedly been targeted by a new phishing attack. As reported by CoinDesk and The Block Crypto, sites including Etherscan, CoinGecko, and DexTools all warned users that they were aware of suspicious popups appearing for visitors, and advised them not to confirm any transactions based on popups. Like many recent phishing attacks, this one appeared to…