With Movie Theaters in Limbo, Netflix Plans Its Biggest Year Yet

Netflix will release 70 original movies in 2021, the company said in a statement Tuesday, touting the streaming service’s most ambitious slate yet as the theatrical movie business remains stuck in limbo. From a report: Netflix’s lineup of movies includes one of its most expensive to date, “Red Notice,” an action movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, as…

Descubre cómo Rayan encontró un nuevo camino profesional en marketing digital.

Te presentamos a Rayan, un analista de marketing de Belo Horizonte, Brasil. En este post, Rayan nos cuenta cómo a través de su compromiso con el aprendizaje de nuevas habilidades en Coursera pudo empezar su trayectoria para tener una carrera exitosa en marketing digital.  Listo para un cambio  Después de completar mi título universitario en […]
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Mac Certificate Check Stokes Fear That Apple Logs Every App You Run

Last week, Apple released macOS Big Sur and the rollout was anything but smooth. The mass upgrade caused the Apple servers responsible for checking if a user opens an app not downloaded from the App Store to slow to a crawl. Apple eventually fixed the problem, “but concerns about paralyzed Macs were soon replaced by an even bigger worry — the…

Robinhood Users Say Accounts Were Looted, No One to Call

An anonymous reader shares a report: It took Soraya Bagheri a day to learn that 450 shares of Moderna had been liquidated in her Robinhood account and that $10,000 in withdrawals were pending. But after alerting the online brokerage to what she believed was a theft in progress, she received a frustrating email. The firm wrote it would investigate and respond…

How the Brain Handles the Unknown

Uncertainty can be hard for humans. It drives anxiety, an emotion neuroscientists are trying to understand and psychologists are trying to better treat. From a report: Under the threat of a virus, job insecurity, election uncertainty, and a general pandemic life-in-limbo that is upending school, holidays and more, people are especially anxious. Before the pandemic, anxiety was already climbing in the…

Is Momentum Growing for Universal Basic Incomes?

“A successful basic-income trial in Stockton, California, has inspired a chain of similar pilots in other cities,” reports Business Insider:
The city council of Saint Paul, Minnesota, voted to approve funding for a pilot there on Wednesday. The program is set to begin this fall and will give up to 150 low-income families $500 per month for up to 18 months —…

Disney+ Passes 60.5 Million Subs, Reaches 5-Year Streaming Goal In First Eight Months

In Disney’s earnings call today, CEO Bob Chapek said there are now 60.5 million global subscribers to Disney+, reaching the 60 million-90 million range it told investors it would get to by 2024. Deadline reports: He also said today that Mulan, long in limbo amid the COVID-19 pandemic, will debut September 24 on Disney+ for $24.99, a new wrinkle for the…

See how Rayan found a new career path in digital marketing

Meet Rayan, a 26-year-old marketing analyst from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In this post, he discusses his journey to a successful digital marketing career, and how his commitment to learning new skills on Coursera helped make it possible. Ready for a change After completing my Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics in 2016, I stayed unemployed for two […]
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Cruise ship with apparent coronavirus outbreak is held offshore near San Francisco

A cruise ship with a suspected COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak is being kept in limbo near San Francisco Bay, where officials will screen people on board for the virus. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-holds-cruise-ship-off-california-coast.html

TiVo’s Unreleased Roku and Apple TV Apps Are ‘In Limbo’

Although TiVo has an exciting new product at CES with the TiVo Stream 4K media player, it also has some bad news for DVR owners: The promised ability to stream live and recorded video from TiVo to other streaming players in the home won’t happen any time soon. From a report: TiVo’s vice president of consumer products and services Ted Malone…