Monthly Archives: August 2022

Twisted Metal TV show wraps filming and moves into post-production

Filming has now wrapped on the Twisted Metal TV show. Set to star Will Arnett, Anthony Mackie, and Samoa Joe, the crew working on the live-action television series adapting destruction racer Twisted Metal had a wrap party over the weekend. “That’s a wrap on season one!” tweeted showrunner Michael Jonathan, who also wrote the fan-favourite…

Andrew Tate on Rumble

Andrew Tate, arguably the most famous person in 2022 has been banned from almost every social media platform. According to Fox News, Tate is dubbed the “Most censored man in the world“. He was banned from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and many other platforms. Apparently, these platforms banned him despite numerous pieces of evidence that…

A guide to K-pop fan apps

The K-pop industry has always been skilled at monetizing fan-artist relationships, but has been frustratingly slow to digitize them. Until 2019, merchandise and albums were often only available through third party websites, and official fan communities were hosted on Korean-language forums. In the past three years, a handful of platforms have bubbled up to deliver…

The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy’s shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn’t old news — it’s at its scientific peak

The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 and has provided humanity a front-row seat to the cosmos for more than three decades. NASA Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has made revolutionary achievements in astronomy. The new James Webb Space Telescope is popular, but Hubble has skills, like capturing visible and ultraviolet…

I tried a high-end photoshoot to see why people are paying hundreds for the ‘perfect’ headshot on LinkedIn. It was a fun experience, but maybe not worth the money for the average worker.

Michael Benabib A good, professional LinkedIn profile has grown in importance in a post-pandemic world, some career coaches say.  A growing number of people are reportedly paying upwards of $1,000 for a professional LinkedIn photo.  Here are photos from my own “high-end” LinkedIn photoshoot with a celebrity photographer.  For some, an actively managed LinkedIn profile…

UK farm faces $17 million bill for natural gas as huge rises in energy costs threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs

Peppers are often grown in greenhouses heated by natural gas. Getty Images A UK farm is facing a $17 million natural gas bill as energy prices soar across Europe.  British businesses are exposed to massive increases in natural gas price rises this winter.  About 500,000 UK jobs are at risk because firms can’t afford the…