Two climate activists glued themselves to a 200-year-old masterpiece in London’s National Gallery on Monday, the latest in a series of protests by British environmental group Just Stop Oil. The duo covered John Constable’s famous landscape painting “The Hay Wain” with a modified version of the image before getting their hands on the frame. The […]
Netflix, HBO, Prime Video, Star+, Disney: Check Out What’s Coming to Streams in July
In the month of school holidays, the streaming schedule is full of options to have fun. Among the most anticipated premieres, it is worth mentioning the second part of the fourth season of “Stranger Things “, the debut of the live-action series inspired by the video game franchise”resident Evil ” and the series “The Terminal […]
EU lawmakers approve regulatory framework for tech giants
European Union lawmakers on Tuesday approved a set of rules to rein in the power of tech giants, but enforcing them could be a problem given regulators’ limited resources. The measures impact companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. In addition to rules known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), lawmakers also passed the […]
Resumption of cinema in Brazil: audience increases 485% in the first half of 2022
Films from major studios like Disney, Warner and paramount have driven the resumption of Brazilian cinema. In the first half of 2022, the screening rooms have already received 44.5 million people, mainly to watch foreign productions, according to data from the National Film Agency (Ancine). The number for the last six months almost matches the […]
Instagram denies update rumor that shows profile visitors
Instagram, from the company Meta, denied this Monday (4) the rumors that were circulating on social networks about a possible update of the platform that would allow you to know who visited your profile – as in the free version of LinkedIn. In an emailed note from the press office, Meta’s spokesperson wrote: “We inform […]
Paris Fashion Week: how to watch the couture shows live
THE haute couture week returns this week to Paris with a four-day program promising moments of artistic and fantastic fashion. houses like Chanel, Dior, Schiaparelli and Giorgio Armani Privé are ready to show new designs. Meanwhile, the Balenciaga announced that it will open a couture shop this Wednesday, July 6 – the same day as […]
Old Vampire Killing Kit Triggers Auction Bidding War
Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be proud. A vampire-killing kit that once belonged to a British aristocrat sparked an international bidding war before it sold for six times its estimated price, according to auction house Hansons Auctioneers. The late 19th century box, which sold for €13,000 on Thursday, belonged to Lord William Malcolm Hailey (1872-1969), […]
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed 12-year-old boy’s doghouse
Famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed iconic buildings like the Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania and the Guggenheim Museum in New York — and he also designed a doghouse for a 12-year-old boy who sent him a letter. Jim Berger grew up in a house in San Anselmo, California, which his parents commissioned Wright to […]
Researchers discover nearly 1,000 new microbes in Tibet’s glaciers
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ACC) found nearly 1,000 species of microbes, most never seen before, in snow and ice samples collected from 21 glaciers in Tibet. The findings were published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. In the study, the ACC team assesses how species of bacteria and viruses in snow and ice […]
China denies NASA claims it wants to take over the moon
China on Monday rejected a warning from the head of the US space agency, NASA, that China could take control of the moon as part of a military program. The country considered the statement irresponsible defamation, stressing that it has always called for the construction of a community of nations in space. China has stepped […]