The health secretary has played down criticism from Dominic Cummings, who described the Department of Health and Social Care as a “smoking ruin” in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Matt Hancock said the UK’s rollout of COVID-19 jabs was a “huge team effort” by the health department, the vaccine taskforce and the NHS
Amazon’s redesigned Echo Dots Kids Edition Amanda Ringstad, Amazon The Amazon Alexa voice assistant on your Amazon Echo can whisper. And you can also limit how much it says when you talk to it. I’m finding it useful at home with a baby in the house, when I don’t need Alexa saying “OK” every time
Piers Morgan’s outbursts about the Duchess of Sussex on Good Morning Britain have become Ofcom’s most complained about TV moments ever. The presenter’s comments, made after Meghan and Harry’s bombshell-filled interview with Oprah Winfrey, have now seen more than 57,000 people – including Meghan herself – get in touch with the broadcasting watchdog, which is
Karen Robinson (Schitt’s Creek), Joe Regalbuto (Murphy Brown), Kathleen Chalfont (The Affair), Maxwell Whittington-Cooper (Human Capital) and Abubakr Ali (Power Book II: Ghost) are set as series regulars opposite Caitlin Kinnunen and Bella Ortiz in the CW’s untitled drama pilot executive produced by Jennie Snyder Urman. Written by Claire Rothrock and Ryann Weir and directed
In The Fallout, writer-director Megan Park approaches the grief of a school shooting through multiple lenses. There’s Vada (Jenna Ortega), a once free-spirited teen who is lost in emotion; Mia (Maddie Ziegler), the popular girl who struggles alone till she bonds with Vada; Quinton (Niles Fitch) who loses a brother but tries his best to be
News Share Your Favorite Live Music Memories With Pitchfork Help us all look forward to the day when we can sing and dance together again By Pitchfork March 17, 2021 Facebook Twitter Photos: Elena De Soto (tickets; crowd, right), Ryan Watanabe (crowd, left) Facebook Twitter One year into the COVID-19 pandemic means it’s been one
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Friends has been ingrained in our culture – and conversations – ever since it first aired over 25 years ago in 1994 (yep, we feel old too). But one debate about the long-revered TV show still remains: who is the best character? Whether you see yourself as more of a Type-A, mother of the group
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A handheld ultrasound (Vscan Air) to go beyond highly specialized branches of medicine such as obstetrics and cardiology to primary care physicians. Source: G.E. General Electric on Tuesday announced the launch of its new wireless, hand-held ultrasound device, Vscan Air, as the company seeks to capture a leading position in the growing market. It’s the
Dominic Cummings, the former Downing Street aide described as Boris Johnson’s “Rasputin”, is to break his silence following his dramatic departure from Number 10 late last year. The prime minister‘s former de facto chief of staff, who quit in a bitter power struggle involving Mr Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds, is appearing before a high-powered committee
The Baidu Inc. logo is displayed on the company’s headquarters on July 3, 2019 in Beijing, China. Wan Xiaojun | Visual China Group via Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Chinese search giant Baidu will raise nearly $3.1 billion in its upcoming Hong Kong secondary listing, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Baidu has
Racing driver and Top Gear star Sabine Schmitz has died, aged 51. The German, widely known as the ‘Queen of the Nurburgring’, had suffered a long illness with cancer. A statement issued by the famous German racetrack said: “The Nürburgring has lost its most famous female racing driver. “Sabine Schmitz passed away far too early
Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel addressed the need to “remain vigilant” with regard to the Covid-19 pandemic, with businesses across the U.S. opening up, and a potential new wave of the virus on the horizon. “The White House is trying to get as many people vaccinated before the new, more contagious variants
Phoebe Dynevor is to lead Sky original movie The Colour Room alongside Matthew Goode, marking her first major role since headlining Netflix’s record-breaking Regency-era drama Bridgerton. Dynevor will play Clarice Cliff, a pioneering ceramic artist who roared to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry. The Colour Room is produced by Caspian
News Helado Negro Covers Deerhunter’s “Futurism”: Listen Check out Tune-Yards’ Breeders cover, Bing & Ruth’s rendition of Pixies’ “Gigantic” from 4AD’s Bills & Aches & Blues By Evan Minsker March 17, 2021 Facebook Twitter Helado Negro (Alessandro Bosio/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter A new compilation from 4AD called Bills & Aches & Blues
Hold on to your galactic blasters and gather up your space dragons—the finalists for the 56th annual Nebula Awards have been announced and they are out of this world! The awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. They have been voted on, and presented by, full
Apparently it’s Spring, who knew? After what felt like the longest winter of all time (seriously, January and February felt like an entire year), the promise of warmer weather is very welcome news. But looking out my window as I write this, it’s chucking it down with rain, I’m wearing two jumpers, and I have
New York City’s annual symbol of summertime – Free Shakespeare in the Park – will return from its Covid hiatus in July, the Public Theater has announced. “We have spent the last year getting ready,” the theater posted on its website to announce the upcoming production of Merry Wives, described by the Public as Jocelyn
Ford touts its 2021 F – 150 Police Responder as “America’s only purpose-built, pursuit-rated pickup truck. Ford The next time you get pulled over, it may be by an officer in a Ford pickup truck instead of a traditional “cop car.” Ford Motor unveiled its new 2021 F-150 Police Responder on Tuesday ahead of spring