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Sony’s Finally No Longer Supporting Its E-Readers

Pop quiz: which big company was the first to popularize electronic paper e-readers with consumers by making it easy to find and load ebooks and other digital documents? If you answered Amazon, we’ll see you in summer school, because Sony’s e-readers outdated the Kindle by years. Unfortunately,the company will soon be out of that business entirely as it plans to finally shut down its Reader desktop software as well.Although the Rocket eBook and the Sony Data Discman were handheld devices created for the sole purpose of

SAG Awards 2023: Ke Huy Quan becomes first Asian actor to win Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEverything Everywhere All At Once star Ke Huy Quan hailed the increasing diversity within the entertainment industry, as he collected a top Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award.The actor, who won best male actor in a supporting role, became the first Asian actor to win in the category and thanked those who had “contributed to these changes”.Quan beat Irish stars Brendan Gleeson and Barry…

Carey Mulligan incorrectly named Best Supporting Actress winner at Bafta Film Awards 2023

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere was confusion at the Baftas on Sunday night (19 February) as Carey Mulligan was incorrectly named winner of the Best Supporting Actress award.Last year’s Best Supporting Actor winner, CODA star Troy Kotsur, presented the award using sign language.While Kotsur was signing that Banshees of Inisherin actor Kerry Condon had won, the sign language interpreter mistakenly said the name…

‘This is a bad moment’: Carey Mulligan incorrectly named Best Supporting Actress winner at Baftas

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere was confusion at the Baftas on Sunday night (19 February) as Carey Mulligan was incorrectly named winner of the Best Supporting Actress award.Last year’s Best Supporting Actor winner, CODA star Troy Kotsur, presented the award using sign language.While Kotsur was signing that Banshees of Inisherin actor Kerry Condon had won, the sign language interpreter mistakenly said the name…

Supporting evidence-based policymaking in The Gambia

Supply gap under business-as-usual (BAU) and production added under climate-smart agriculture adoption (CSA), enhanced productivity (boost) and combined CSA and enhanced productivity (boost & CSA). Credit: Securing sustainable and resilient food systems for The Gambia, (2023) Researchers working on the FACE-Africa project have co-developed country-specific information and tools with Gambian food system stakeholders to…

Google Messages app may begin supporting user profiles soon

Last month, Google added end-to-end encryption support for RCS group chats in the Messages app. Google has focused on improving the default messaging experience for Android users in recent months and Google Messages now may be gearing up to add the ability to support user profiles in the Google Messages app. As per a screenshot posted in a Reddit post by u/seeareeff, Google may begin adding user profiles to Google Messages. The screenshot contains a page in the app’s settings called “Profile” with ‘Visibility’…

Coven of Chaos Nets Its Directors and Supporting Cast

Image: Marvel StudiosEven though WandaVision ended with her trapped in her TV character persona, it was a given that we’d see eventually Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness again somewhere in the MCU. Busy as Hahn’s been recently with Glass Onion, she’ll have the spotlight all to herself with Agatha: Coven of Chaos.Ahead of the show’s production starting next week, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed more of the show’s supporting cast, all of whom previously appeared in WandaVision proper. Returning for the new series are

Golden Globe Awards January 2023: Angela Bassett wins Best Supporting actress

Actress Angela Bassett won the Golden Globe award for her performance as Queen Ramonda in `Black Panther: Wakanda Forever`, making the 64-year-old the first actor ever to win a major individual acting award for a movie based on Marvel Comics. The evening marked Bassett`s second win and second nomination at the Globes; she took home the trophy for best actress in a musical or comedy for 1993`s Tina Turner biopic `What`s Love Got to Do With It,` reports `Variety`. She said on stage: "I got to find my words. I`m so…

Golden Globes 2023: Tyler James Williams wins Best Supporting Actor in TV Series

American actor Tyler James Williams walked home with the trophy for Best Supporting Actor - Television Series for his role in the mockumentary sitcom television series `Abbott Elementary`. Tyler edged out the likes of John Lithgow and John Turturro. His win is a much-needed boost for network shows at the Globes which have largely been left behind in recent years as cable and streamers dominate. This was Tyler`s first nomination-turned-first win which deservedly came for his work as the bashful Gregory Eddie in the…