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TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, has reignited concerns and debates about the platform’s ties to the Chinese government. He refused to answer if Beijing has any influence over the wildly popular social media app. Chew tried to steer away from the question despite being repeatedly pressed to answer with a yes or no. This comes just as a nationwide ban on TikTok in the US looms large. TikTok CEO refused to answer if the Chinese government can influence TikTok Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could…

Singer-songwriter Adele refused to use the London Underground Tube for almost 20 years. The 35-year-old pop superstar who was born and raised in the UK capital, stopped using the public transport service in 2005. She made the decision after the city`s public transport network was hit by a series of suicide bombings which targeted underground trains and a bus and killed more than 50 people, reports Female First UK. According to the Mail Online, the singer explained her fears while she was onstage for her Weekends With…

Alphabet Inc. has illegally refused to negotiate with a group of YouTube Music contract workers who voted to unionize, the US labor board ruled. The decision, issued by a panel of three members of the National Labor Relations Board, tees up a federal court battle over whether the internet company is legally the boss of subcontracted staff it claims are not its employees. The YouTube workers, who voted 41-to-0 last April to join the Alphabet Workers Union, are hired via the staffing agency Cognizant Technology Solutions…

The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Google’s refusal to bargain with a group of unionized YouTube Music contractors is illegal. The three-member panel decided that despite denials by Google, which owns YouTube Music, and its subcontractor Cognizant, the two are, in fact, joint employers of the Austin-based workers who perform data-related tasks, like finding errors in its charts algorithm. “At all material times, Respondents Cognizant and Google have codetermined the essential terms and conditions of employment…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSally Field has revealed that her ex-boyfriend Burt Reynolds was “not happy” when she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress in 1980. The 80 For Brady star, 77, went on to win the first of her two Academy Awards for her performance in the title role in Norma Rae. She won the award again five years later for her role in Places in the Heart.However, as People reports, Field told…

Burt Reynolds may have claimed that Sally Field was the “the love of his life,” but she has described how he didn’t treat her in the most loving way when they were a Hollywood golden couple and she was nominated for her first Academy Award for her career-changing performance in the 1979 film “Norma Rae.” In a new book about Academy Awards history, Field said that Reynolds, her boyfriend at the time, “was not happy” with the buzz she was receiving for playing a union organizer in “Norma Rae” — a role that completed her…

GPS systems, while incredibly helpful, are not infallible. Many of us have been in situations where our navigation systems have led us astray. It’s then that knowledge of the local area or traditional maps come in handy.Redditor u/MotorMania85, who studies maps in their spare time, recently shared a story about what happens when someone relies too much on GPS. The OP opened up to the r/MaliciousCompliance community about how his sister was unwilling to listen to his advice about where to drive, meaning their entire trip…

ADVERTISEMENT Christmas gifts can be a headache, so a loved one coming up with a wishlist or revealing what it is they’d like to get can really make things easier. But for this redditor, his girlfriend telling him what she wanted for Christmas only made things worse. She said she wanted a new car, and a rather costly one, which the boyfriend didn’t consider a worthy investment under the given circumstances. Scroll down to find the full story below.Getting the perfect Christmas gift for a loved one is not always…

Being best friends means really knowing a person and fully accepting each other for who they are. It also means considering their needs, being there for them when needed, and assuming they’ll do the same.Unfortunately, not everybody understands the meaning of this kind of relationship the same. One Redditor shares how her supposed best friend asked her to help her plan her wedding, refused to include a vegetarian catering option despite being asked, and still got upset when her friend brought her own food. Scroll down…

Jennifer Aniston served some piping hot tea regarding the infamous sex scene she shot with Jon Hamm for the AppleTV+ series, The Morning Show.The Morning Show’s third season was released in September, but it wasn’t before October that passionate discussions about the series started to circulate, when its sixth episode titled The Stanford Student was released.In the episode, Jennifer, who plays the role of reporter and morning show host Alex Levy, joins Jon, who plays tech billionaire Paul Marks, in a sexy scene.Jennifer…