A major exhibition centered on Spike Lee at the Brooklyn Museum began with an offhand comment the director made two years ago. In Los Angeles, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was showing some of the director’s props, scripts, costumes... Read More
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Traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Meta’s Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, has collapsed over the past year, according to data from Similarweb. Why it matters: Website business models that depended on clicks... Read More
Get ready to hear an emergency alert test go off on your smartphone at 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4 — but don’t panic. Millions of us will hear the same test going off on all of our phones at the same time. It will also happen on... Read More
Gen Z and Millennials report using subtitles or closed captions for movies and TV at much higher rates than Gen Xers and baby boomers. That’s the opposite of what many would expect, given hearing deteriorates with age, but accessibility and... Read More
The transportation company continues to look for new revenue streams, now beginning to offer return package shipping through UPS, FedEx, or USPS on its Uber and Uber Eats apps. Customers can send up to five packages per trip for a $5 flat fee or... Read More
National Bullying Prevention Month celebrates its 17th year this October. Established in 2006 by PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center, the goal of this nationwide event is the prevention of childhood bullying through creating... Read More
Taylor Swift’s trip to watch the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce play football on Sunday didn’t just have the internet talking nonstop. Following the 12-time Grammy Award winner’s appearance at Arrowhead Stadium, jersey sales for... Read More
The creators of John Wick never expected to have a franchise. The first film was designed to be the directorial debut of stunt and second unit directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch. But audiences loved Keanu Reeves’ titular assassin... Read More
The newest member of the NYPD weighs 400 pounds, gets paid $9 an hour and works midnights without a single complaint. And transit commanders couldn’t be happier. K5 is a robot that will patrol the Times Square subway station in the overnight... Read More
When streaming services first came into our lives, they promised us the world. But as competition has heated up in the space, resulting in more streaming services than days of the week, the product began looking more and more like traditional... Read More
The Monday Night Football schedule is now something of a hodgepodge for the Walt Disney Company. Fifteen games will get the simulcast treatment across ESPN networks and ABC. The full ABC schedule is as follows: Browns-Steelers (Sept.... Read More
Land-grant, historically Black colleges and universities have missed out on more than $13 billion they should have gotten in the last three decades or so, according to letters the Biden administration sent to the governors of 16 states appealing to... Read More
The social media giant will begin subsidizing up to 50 percent discounts for its TikTok Shop sellers in late October. The news comes the same week as it rolled out TikTok Shop in the U.S., offering to hold and ship sellers’ products using its... Read More
Renting an apartment in New York City is not easy. Demand is always high and apartments get snatched up quick. But there are some tactics that real estate agents say you can employ to make sure you are the best candidate for an... Read More
Two New York State lawmakers are looking to make significant changes to the state’s recreational marijuana law. Talks are underway between the legislature and the govenor’s office on just what those changes should look like. The Marijuana... Read More