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The cover of Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran features a closeup shot of Shakira crying, her tears turning into diamonds as they run down her face. It’s a neat summation of relatively recent developments in the singer’s career. Her 2023 single Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol 53 transformed the toxic fallout from her breakup with footballer Gerard Piqué into one of her biggest ever hits. Within days of release, it was the most streamed track in the world and had broken the record for the number of YouTube views for a Latin American song.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJimmy Kimmel wasn’t – despite Donald Trump’s assertion, posted to his social media site Truth Social mid-show – the worst Oscar host ever. But his opening monologue wasn’t especially funny, inspiring light titters rather than belly laughs. But it fit a melancholy ceremony nearly derailed by a protest right outside the venue, and an industry uncertain about its own future.Kimmel has…

Indian IT major Infosys has reasoned higher exposure to digital business as the key reason for the moderate growth in revenue over the nine-month period ending December in the current fiscal year, as per a research note by Nomura Holdings.“Infosys management believes its higher exposure to discretionary work (digital business, which formed ~65% of revenue) has been a key reason behind tepid revenue growth in the current environment,” said a Global Markets Research report on Infosys by Nomura.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

Everybody loves a good underdog story — especially when the events being portrayed actually happened — and Daniel James Brown’s 2013 nonfiction novel The Boys in the Boat has been lauded for its inspiring account of the University of Washington junior varsity rowing team’s unlikely rise to the 1936 Olympics. Now that story is being adapted for the big screen, and before it hits theaters on Christmas Day, critics had the opportunity to attend a screening. Let’s see what they have to say about upcoming sports drama.At one…

Stephen Edelstein/Digital Trends They say good things come to those who wait. General Motors is hoping customers will take that maxim to heart. The 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV, an electric crossover SUV sharing the name of a similarly sized gasoline model, but nothing else, was first shown in the summer of 2022 and quietly entered production a few months ago. But few cars have made it to customers due to production issues that have plagued not just the Blazer, but all of GM’s new EVs, which use a shared component set…

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.  Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.  FYI, next week I will be in Austin to attend SXSW. I’ll be on stage March 14 and March 15 and you can find me by going to the SXSW schedule. See ya there. In the days…

Dell has joined the list of technology companies that are cutting jobs. As per a report in Bloomberg, the computer giant will cut 6,650 jobs. The layoffs are likely to affect 5% of the company’s global manpower. Post the job cuts, the company is likely to see its employee count drop to lowest since the year 2017. The company is experiencing market conditions that "continue to erode with an uncertain future," co-chief operating officer Jeff Clarke wrote in a memo to employees, as per the report. “We’ve navigated economic…

India Inc witnessed a significant decline in deal volumes and values in January, recording 145 deals, valuing $2.7 billion, with overall deal activity down by 41 per cent, a report showed.The merger and acquisition (M&A) deal volumes declined by 62 per cent, at 26 deals valuing $311 million, owing to the volatile market conditions and the cautious approach adopted by strategic investors, according to the report by Grant Thornton Bharat.Private equity (PE) investments recorded 119 deals valued over $2.4 billion, while…

via Shout! Studios There aren’t many horror franchises in history more enduring, iconic, and altogether excellent than Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s The Evil Dead, so taking a page out of the Deadite playbook is no bad thing. Whether by accident or design, though, director Elle Callahan’s Head Count comes across as an updated ripoff of an all-time classic. That’s not to say it’s an abhorrent affront to cinema, even if that sentiment will vary depending entirely on who you ask. Rotten Tomatoes has seen fit to…

Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue down 3.4% YoY to $4.67B, breaking a run of double-digit growth since 2020, and issues tepid Q1 guidance below estimates — Texas Instruments Inc., one of the world's largest chipmakers, suffered its first sales decline since 2020 and gave a tepid forecast … Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue down 3.4% YoY to $4.67B, breaking a run of double-digit growth since 2020, and issues tepid Q1 guidance below…