Monthly Archives: September 2022

Months-old movies ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Spider-Man’ scored Labor Day weekend box office wins as theaters sold $3 tickets

Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick.” Paramount. Older movies like “Top Gun” and “Spider-Man” beat some newer releases this Labor Day weekend. A re-release of “Jaws” also appeared in the top 10 during a typically slow holiday weekend. Theaters saw a bump in attendance after selling heavily discounted tickets to lure in moviegoers. “Top Gun:…

TikTok denies security breach after hackers claim to have records of more than a billion users

TikTok has denied a security breach after posts on hacking forums claimed to have compromised the app’s source code, as well as account details of potentially billions of people. In a statement posted to Twitter, the company said it “found no evidence of a breach,” following an investigation of the claims. The company also told…

Netflix’s Arcane is the first streaming series to win an Emmy award for animation

Image: Netflix Arcane, the popular Netflix animated series based on the League of Legends video game has won the award for Outstanding Animated Program at the Emmys’ Creative Arts ceremony, on top of the three other animation-related trophies it earned earlier this year. This marks the first time that a streaming-exclusive show has won the…

A utility company locked thousands of customers out of their smart thermostats in Colorado

The sun sets behind electric power lines as the California Independent System Operator urged conservation to avoid blackouts in Redondo Beach, California on August 31, 2022.  | Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Thousands of Colorado residents found themselves locked out of their smart thermostats during sweltering temperatures last week in an effort…