Gone are the days of Apple‘s insistently walled-off ecosystem. Though the tech giant first debuted Apple Music exclusively on iOS devices like iPhones and Macs, it quietly extended the music-streaming service to Android deviceslater on, and now it’s going even further: On Friday, Amazon announced that Apple Music subscribers will …
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Rob Waltman tried to tell his partner, Peter Dovak, he looked fine. He didn’t need to look any different. He especially didn’t need to inject himself with silicone to look bigger. “Peter had the worst body dysmorphia out of anyone I ever knew,” Waltman tells Rolling Stone. “For years it …
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General Motors announced on Monday that it will halt production at five North American plants and lay off 15 percent of its salaried and contract workforce. In total, nearly 15,000 people will lose their jobs as a result of the large-scale move to restructure operations.“The actions we are taking today …
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Travel hither and yon and it’s probably only once in a great long while that you come across someone like Tim Blake Nelson. Frankly, he doesn’t look all that impressive. Ebbing hairline, a wide-open-plains-type forehead, blues that seem almost beady, a top right central incisor that stands disturbingly aloof of …
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Steve Carell portrayed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a Saturday Night Live sketch that trolled Donald Trump and the president’s long-standing beef with the e-commerce giant. Earlier in the week, Amazon announced plans to open two new headquarters in Long Island City, New York and northern Virginia. “Some folks have …
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Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is developing a new film connected to the critically acclaimed series. The writer-director is currently plotting a two-hour feature,Variety reports,though it’s unclear whether the project will wind up in theaters or on television. According toThe Albuquerque Journalreports, citing the New Mexico Film Office, the project …
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Lucinda Williams had been knocking around the music business for two decades by the time she released Car Wheels on a Gravel Road in the summer of 1998. By that point she had released four other solo albums, but she was still best known as the writer behind the Mary …
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M. Night Shyamalan totally M. Night Shyamalan’d Samuel L. Jackson with the ending of his 2016 comeback hit, Split. Shyamalan told Jackson he needed to set up a screening to see the film, adding, “Call me when it’s over.” Split’s final moments offer one of Shyamalan’s best twists ever (spoiler …
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On Thursday, the Russian Duma held its first reading of a new bill: “On the Citizenship of the Russian Federation.” According to the newspaper Kommersant, the government has prepared a paper representing a “first step toward a serious review of immigration policy.” Included is the idea that: Russia should be …
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The Music Modernization Act — a copyright reform bill enthusiastically labeled as “historic” by music industry leaders that blazed its way through Congress this summer — is set to be signed into law by President Trump on Thursday, with artists like Kanye West and Kid Rock slated to attend the …
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