This April, Black Coffee, the famed South African DJ and record producer whose real name is Nkosinathi Maphumulo, made history at the Grammys. With his seventh studio album “Subconsciously,” he became the first African act to win an award in the Best Dance/Electronic Album category. His win came when the global appetite for Amapiano, a…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Over the past 18 months, Inflection Points has been working in stealth mode to build out a crypto-focused employment and corporate training business and just secured $12.6 million in funding. The firm was founded by Colton Sakamoto and long-time crypto entrepreneur and investor Anthony Pompliano in an effort to help connect crypto companies looking for…
DeltaStream, which is developing a streaming database platform geared toward enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $10 million in a seed round led by New Enterprise Associates. The funding will be put toward product development, CEO Hojjat Jafarpour told TechCrunch in an email interview, as well as hiring five new employees by the end…
Sites that created Wordle archives have been pressured by the New York Times to shut down. That means there’s no longer any way to access the full archive, but we’ve provided a list of the past 15 Wordle answers for you to see what’s been used, and plan your strategy going forward. The free daily…
Still suffering with Demogorgon-themed nightmares after the latest Stranger Things outing? Well we may have just the antidote. On Tuesday, the official Stranger Things Twitter account tweeted a behind-the-scenes clip of the Demogorgon fight scene that takes place in the Russian prison in Season 4. As you can probably guess, it wasn’t quite as unnerving…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any Jane Austen novel in possession of an introspective romantic heroine, strategic matchmaking, and highly silly siblings, must be in want of a screen adaptation. As well as novellas, early verses, and unfinished books, the groundbreaking 19th century author penned six of the most famous novels of all…
In the second season of The Mindy Project, a lovelorn Dr. Mindy Lahiri (or Mindy Kaling as we know her) once made a strong case for “heartache days”: a phrase she coined but a concept that has the potential to be universal. After breaking up with her fiancé in Season 2, priest-turned-DJ Casey Peerson (Anders…
When I was at university, trying to play Team Fortress 2 on a crappy old office laptop in my cramped (yet still expensive) student housing, I spent a full year using a folding wooden garden chair for gaming. I’m never going back to those days, and neither should you; a gaming setup deserves luxury, but…
Major spoilers follow for Ms Marvel episode 6. You’ve been warned. Ms Marvel‘s season finale has landed on Disney Plus – and there’s a fair deal to digest after the Marvel TV series’ sixth episode. Unsurprisingly, the newest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero roster – well, if you discount Jane Foster’s Mighty…
We appear to have reached the next stage in the evolution of ransomware, as operators now allow people to search through the files stolen from companies that declined to pay up. Multiple ransomware operators are reportedly now adding the feature to their leak sites – and while some have done a poor job, as their…