On Wednesday, Chinese New Year box office achieved yet another new milestone with grosses for the holiday period growing to an estimated RMB 7.78B ($1.2B). This beats the previous all-time high set during the comparable 2019 holiday (RMB 5.9B). China often outdoes itself, but the fact that 2021’s Lunar New Year frame came with Covid
SAN FRANCISCO – The Quebec government will invest 400 million Canadian dollars ($315.5 million) in Telesat’s Lightspeed low-Earth orbit communications network. MDA will produce the constellation’s phased array antennas. And Thales Alenia Space will manufacture the satellites in Quebec, under a memorandum of understanding announced Feb. 18. “The Lightspeed program will create 600 high-paying STEM
Apple launched its first iPhones with 5G wireless speeds a few months ago. Now it’s looking to start work on sixth-generation cellular connectivity, or 6G, indicating it wants to be a leader in the technology rather than relying on other companies. The Cupertino, California-based company this week posted job advertisements seeking wireless system research engineers for
A health worker applies a Sinovac’s CoronaVac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine on an elderly citzen in Sao Goncalo near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 18, 2021. Ricardo Moraes | Reuters President Joe Biden is expected to announce Friday that the U.S. will spend $4 billion on international Covid vaccination efforts, White House officials said. Biden,
Prince Markie Dee, one-third of the famous ’80s hip hop group The Fat Boys, has died. Prince passed away suddenly Thursday, according to SiriusXM’s Rock The Bells channel, where he used to host a radio show. The report did not mention a cause of death. The rapper helped start The Fat Boys, a pioneering rap
Jeff Green, CEO of The Trade Desk Scott Mlyn | CNBC The Trade Desk CEO and co-founder Jeff Green says last year was a wake-up call to the advertising industry, as consumers move away from watching traditional TV and toward streaming and online video instead. “2020 was a wake-up call to the advertising industry when
Courtesy Proenza Schouler After stepping out on the national stage to great acclaim in January, Ella Emhoff walked her first runway this week. The knitwear aficionado and Parsons fashion student—better known to many as the stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris—was among the models cast in Proenza Schouler’s Fall 2021 show at New York Fashion
Last year, comedic powerhouse Kristen Wiig surprised everyone with her villainous turn as The Cheetah in Wonder Woman 1984. Now, the actress is once again playing a villain in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. The director of the movie, Josh Greenbaum, recently revealed that Wiig disappeared so completely into the role that
Clarice was the right person in the right place at the right time, although it took some time for others to realize that. Despite that, it was a bumpy ride when the fledgling profiler made her return to Appalachia on Clarice Season 1 Episode 2. While speaking her truth on Clarice Season 1 Episode 1 was
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the
The second dose of Covid-19 vaccine is crucial in creating longer and complete immunity as well as preventing variants of the virus, according to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “We need to know that this is a two-dose vaccine, period,” Offit told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard
Illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover firing its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed on Mars, completing its seven-month journey to the red planet. The Mars 2020 mission will search for signs of ancient microbial life and collect rock samples that will be returned to Earth
by Trevor Kimball, February 17, 2021 (CBS ©2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) CBS won’t be back to The Big Easy for the 2021-22 television season. The network has decided to cancel the NCIS: New Orleans TV series and end it with the current seventh year. NCIS: New Orleans stars Scott Bakula, Vanessa Ferlito,
In the span of six days, the Chinese box office roared to a $1.2B Lunar New Year record, with Wanda Pictures’ Detective Chinatown 3 setting global benchmarks for the biggest opening day and weekend in a single market. This happened even as some Covid restrictions remain in place in the Middle Kingdom. While the pandemic
SAN FRANCISCO – German propulsion startup Morpheus Space has opened a Los Angeles office and named a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer and fighter pilot as its chief revenue officer. David Kalinske, who retired from the Marine Corps in 2013 after serving as commanding officer of a fighter squadron and an aide to Presidents George
The Infinix Smart 5 was launched recently in the sub-Rs. 8,000 price segment as the newest addition to the Smart series. When I unboxed this smartphone, I was surprised to see how big it is, thanks to the bigger-than-usual battery capacity, considering its price. The Smart 5 has some decent specifications on paper, and an
The anti-Trump Lincoln Project paid a consulting firm run by former Obama deputy press secretary Bill Burton to conduct a Black voter outreach program in Pennsylvania, which turned out to be the decisive state in the 2020 election. The super PAC paid $1.5 million to the firm, BG Causes LLC, during the 2020 election cycle,
Toronto’s Ebhoni has released X, which is being billed as “her debut mini project/EP.” The four-song effort includes “X-Ting,” “Hit This,” and “MIA,” as well as a new track called “All to Myself.” Below, listen to X and also watch Ebhoni’s new BBY Chris–directed music video for “X-Ting.” Read Pitchfork’s interview “Ebhoni Is Reclaiming the