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Juano Diaz’s elegant and heartbreaking memoir immediately brings to mind Douglas Stuart’s Booker-winning Shuggie Bain, which told a fictional tale of similar territory – Glasgow tenements and moments of sublimity balanced against the brutality of a breadline existence. Slum Boy manages descriptions of grinding poverty also alongside images of extraordinary beauty and is a book in which the reader feels that a large part of the redemptive arc lies in the author’s artistic skill in describing his past with clarity and…

Waymo has voluntarily recalled its driverless taxi technology after two of the company’s self-driving cars crashed into a pickup truck that was being towed in Phoenix, Ariz., in December.  This is the company’s first recall.  “This voluntary recall reflects how seriously we take our responsibility to safely deploy our technology and to transparently communicate with the public,” Waymo chief safety officer Mauricio Peña wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.  The self-driving car firm said it developed, tested…

Oscar-nominated actor America Ferrera still gets star-struck by some actors. During her appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the `Barbie` star revealed that she has been meeting people this awards season whom she can`t help but admire, like Martin Scorsese and Tom Hanks, whom she acknowledged she aspired to be as a child, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ferrera also recalled meeting Leonardo DiCaprio in 2007, noting to the late-night host that being star-struck sometimes sneaks up on her. "More often than…

There’s a complex relationship that exists between Hollywood A-listers and the paparazzi. Some stars relish the attention and initiate what are known as setups. (And if you’re Kanye West, you even direct photogs on how to film you.) Of course, in most cases though, it would seem that celebrities prefer to avoid the attention that they receive from camera people. Timothée Chalamet is apparently one such person who would prefer not to be photographed in certain instances. With that, he recently recalled a moment in which…

Despite his recent arrest at the Grammys, Killer Mike is on a hot streak. The rapper stopped by The Daily Show to chat with host Jordan Klepper about his Grammys wins and said he owes his success “to the fact that I was just too stubborn to give up.” “So I have a lot of talent, but it took me 20 years to get here,” he said. “And I was just too stubborn to quit. And I think that that’s half the battle, just being tenacious about it.” Klepper acknowledged that they while couldn’t discuss “what else happened” at…

Sylvester Stallone is throwing open the archives, offering a glimpse into the heart and humor of his iconic partnership with the late Carl Weathers. The American actor and filmmaker who recently made his comeback on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, shared a never-before-heard story about Weathers' unforgettable Rocky audition, taking us back to the very beginnings of their on-screen rivalry. Stallone also revealed behind-the-scenes moments from the intense rehearsals for the climactic fight scene in Rocky 1.…

A developer on the frontline of the infamous and game-changing firing of Call Of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella from Infinity Ward in 2009 has revealed what happened next. After creating the original Call Of Duty in 2003 and taking it to new heights with Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007, both West and Zampella were abruptly fired from Infinity Ward by parent company Activision in 2009. The pair were reportedly let go for “insubordination” and went on to set up Respawn Entertainment with the backing of…

On March 17, 2023, one week ahead of the release of John Wick: Chapter 4, Lance Reddick died at the age of 60. The actor had starred in the action film series as Charon, concierge of the New York branch of The Continental hotel chain, thus giving him to share many scenes with Keanu Reeves. Nearly a year later, the John Wick lead recalled once writing a letter to Reddick crediting him with being the reason why people “love” his assassin character.During a conversation with People at the 51st Saturn Awards, where he…

Tesla is recalling nearly all of the vehicles it has sold in the US because some warning lights on the instrument panel are too small.The recall of nearly 2.2m vehicles announced on Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a sign of stepped-up scrutiny of the electric vehicle maker. The agency also said it has upgraded a 2023 investigation into Tesla steering problems to an engineering analysis, which is a step closer to a recall.Documents said the update will increase warnings and alerts to…

After conducting a dozen recalls in 2023, Tesla’s latest recall of 2024 might also be its strangest. On Thursday, Tesla filed a recall notice with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for virtually every make and model the company has ever sold — all 2,193,869 cars. Shockingly, it has nothing to do with Autopilot, the steering wheels, or seatbelts. Instead, Tesla had to recall all of its cars due to “an incorrect font size.”The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) require vehicles…