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Austin Butler attends “AARP The Magazine’s” 21st Annual Movies for Grownups Awards on January 28, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: Amy Sussman (Getty Images)Austin Butler—previously best known for MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles—turned in a performance in Elvis that brought him A-list fame and an Oscar nomination. His next project, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, is similarly high-profile, and it sounds like it’ll showcase yet another aspect of his acting talents.“Everything about his demeanor is terrifying,”…

Microsoft has been criticised for hosting an exclusive Sting concert for top executives last week before announcing mass layoffs the next day. READ MORE: What the hell has happened at Activision and why should you care? The intimate gig of around 50 people was reportedly held last Tuesday (January 17) at a ski resort in Davos, Switzerland – where the annual World Economic Forum was being held – before announcing plans to layoff some 10,000 people the next day. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the announcement was…

A night before Microsoft announced it was laying off 10,000 people, the technology giant hosted a private concert by artist Sting for about 50 people including its top executives in Davos during the annual World Economic Forum meeting, a media report said. The Wall Street Journal said in a report that "on Tuesday evening, Microsoft hosted an event. It was an intimate gathering of 50 or so people, including the company's top executives, who got to while away the evening listening to a performance by the musical artist…

The concert occurred on Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland while the company announced layoffs the following day. Image: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)Layoffs are plaguing the tech industry left and right, but that doesn’t mean the big-wigs have to suffer too. Ahead of laying off several thousand employees, Microsoft hosted an exclusive Sting concert at Davos for executives.The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that the concert was about 50 people, including executives from Microsoft, who got to enjoy the musings of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChris Pratt received a nasty bee sting on his eye after thinking he could “control bees”.The actor, 43, claimed he was lured into a false sense of security after watching a beekeeper handle the insects on TikTok.In an Instagram video, Pratt showed fans his swollen eyelid and said: “So I’ve been following this bee lady on Instagram, she’s so cool and brave.“She goes in front of these…

The US obtained a court order to seize 48 websites, and six people were criminally charged in relation to the takedowns, according to federal prosecutors. The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network of cyberattack-for-hire services, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. In all, the US obtained a court order to seize 48 websites, and six people were criminally charged in relation to the takedowns, according to federal prosecutors. The FBI was…

Some of the world’s poorest economies embraced borrowing in their own currencies as a shield from painful swings in the U.S. dollar. Now that strategy may be coming back to bite.Debt issued by emerging-market governments and companies in their local currency reached $12.5 trillion in 2021, according to data from Bank of America that excludes China’s enormous borrowings in the yuan. That compares with $4 trillion in foreign-currency debt. The fate of local-currency debt has become a key stumbling block in…

Paul Mescal has reflected on filming his first-ever movie scene, which happened to feature him kissing Dakota Johnson.The Normal People actor’s first film role came in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 2021 directorial debut The Lost Daughter, starring Mescal, Johnson and Olivia Coleman as the lead.Reuniting with Johnson for an Interview magazine feature, Mescal recalled being terrified before the moment came for him to kiss her.“For anyone who was interested, I was s***ting myself. It was in The Lost Daughter, and for some reason, the…

Matthew McConaughey’s latest project, the football film Dallas Sting, has been scrapped just six weeks ahead of its planned production start date.The film, which was due to be directed by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Kari Skogland, was going to tell the true story of a 1984 Dallas girls football team who travelled to China and defeated some of the best teams in the world.McConaughey was set to portray coach Bill Kinder, while Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever had been cast to play his daughter.Kinder was a Texan with no…

Jellyfish, sea anemones and corals, a group called cnidarians, sting with tiny, pressurized capsules that fire poisonous darts at explosive speeds. Researchers have been unsure of the exact mechanics of this blisteringly fast process, which occurs using special cell organelles called nematocysts. Now a team led by Matt Gibson and Ahmet Karabulut of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Mo., has used cutting-edge imaging technology to study nematocyst firing in very fine detail. Understanding the…