Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018. Steve Jennings | Getty Images for TechCrunch When Coinbase hits the public market in the coming weeks, CEO Brian Armstrong is poised to rank among the wealthiest people in tech. Armstrong, who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange in 2012 after working for a year
Actor George Segal, best known for starring in US sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87. Segal, who was Oscar-nominated for 1966 black comedy-drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, died on Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California. His wife Sonia Segal said: “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal
EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has found its latest British crime series in the shape of Adrian Scarborough starrer The Chelsea Detective, which is created and co-written by Peter Fincham, the man who originally greenlit Downton Abbey for ITV. Scarborough, a prolific English actor who has starred in Killing Eve, Gavin & Stacey, 1917,
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off its world premiere in the Berlin International Film Festival’s competition program, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize, Maria Speth’s feature documentary Mr Bachmann And His Class has sold into multiple territories. Berlin-based sales rep Films Boutique has closed deals for: Austria (Filmgarten), BeNeLux (Periscoop), China (Huanxi Media), Ex-Yugo (Five Stars Film
News black midi Announce New Album Cavalcade, Share Video for New Song: Watch “John L” is the lead single from the experimental UK band’s sophomore album By Noah Yoo March 23, 2021 Facebook Twitter black midi, image by Anthrox Studio Facebook Twitter black midi are back. The experimental UK band has announced its second album,
It’s not a news week in the book world without some headline about censorship. Whether it’s about a book deal getting dropped after the author was racist on Twitter or a trans kids’ book getting banned from storytime, there’s always someone claiming cancel culture, censorship, or first amendment violations. So who’s right? What counts as
We don’t know about you but we are in desperate need of a holiday – yet it seems like a staycation could be our safest bet for some serious downtime this year. While May 17 has been pencilled in as the date where foreign holidays could begin after the government outlined its roadmap out of
Los Angeles County’s Covid-19 case rate continued to fall on Tuesday, putting the region on pace to move into an even less-restrictive tier of the state’s economic-reopening Blueprint by early April. That would allow for higher capacity in many business sectors including movie theaters, restaurants, concerts and sporting events. L.A. and Orange County currently sit
Cardi B tries ballet in her new ‘Cardi Tries’ Facebook series! Watch as she trades her ‘WAP’ moves for something more traditional. New episodes of ‘Cardi Tries’ will air on Facebook every Thursday through Feb. 4. Exclusives from #ETonline : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv
Jim Cramer on “Mad Money.” Scott Mlyn | CNBC CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday said the stock market won’t reach a bottom until sentiment finds a low point, akin to how stocks rebounded from the historic coronavirus-fueled plunge last year. ”A year ago, we caught a weird bottom as the market experienced a changing of
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the “courage, discipline and patience of the nation” one year after he first announced a lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, he said: “We suffered so many losses.” And he said we have at times been “fighting in the dark” against a
A semiconductor wafer during an Intel event ahead of a IFA International Consumer Electronics Show. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Intel announced on Tuesday that it will spend $20 billion to build two new chip factories, called fabs, in Ocotillo, Arizona. The announcement, coinciding with new CEO Pat Gelsinger’s first public remarks since
A Banksy original offering an “image of hope” during the pandemic has sold for a record £16.8m, auction house Christie’s has said – with the proceeds going to health charities. The anonymous artist’s Game Changer work appeared at Southampton Hospital as a thank you to staff during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. While
The ball is in John Stamos’s court, in the first official trailer for Disney+ original series, Big Shot. Premiering on the streaming service on Friday, April 16, the show centers on Marvyn Korn (Stamos), a volatile college basketball coach, who gets fired from his job. Subsequently, Korn returns to the sport, as a teacher and coach at an
Family movies seem to be the golden ticket to getting people back into the habit of going to theaters as they reopen slowly. If that continues to be the case, the Covid-delayed sequel to Sony’s 2018 franchise starter, Peter Rabbit, should hit the bull’s-eye as this follow-up not only delivers on what was so appealing about
News The Knife Announce First-Ever Vinyl Release of Tomorrow, in a Year Their 2010 collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock will be pressed on two 180-gram LPs By Madison Bloom March 23, 2021 Facebook Twitter The Knife in 2013 (Photo by Paul Bergen/Redferns). Facebook Twitter Karin and Olof Dreijer are continuing their 20th anniversary celebration
Recognizing the best in audiobook and spoken word entertainment, the Audio Publishers Association announced the 2021 Audie Award winners last night in a virtual ceremony hosted by actor and narrator John Leguizamo. Winners were announced in 25 categories total with highlights including Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, being named the 2021 Audiobook
Sun loungers are up there with the most sought-after pieces of garden furniture of 2021. One scroll down John Lewis’ almost entirely sold-out selection of stylish garden loungers acts as proof: they’re selling like hot cakes. It’s no surprise – the evenings are getting lighter, the weather is getting warmer and overseas travel has been
The drag superstars and hosts of ‘UNHhhh’ sit down for a one of a kind interview experience. New episods of ‘UNHhhh’ premiere weekly on the WOW Presents Plus app. Exclusives from #ETonline : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv
An employee draws up a syringe and a container with the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, in Schwaz, Austria. JOHANN GRODER | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — The European Union is “facing a serious situation” in rolling out Covid-19 shots, but it is “highly unfair” to accuse the bloc of vaccine nationalism, the region’s trade chief told