What makes Skylight great is the software. It’s easy to use, and it quickly imported my Google Calendar and the wide variety of calendars shared to it, so I could immediately add all of my family’s schedules to the device. The left-side menu bar shows all the pages you can toggle between. Calendar, Lists, Tasks, … Read more
Wilson’s Odysseus himself is, by turns, heroic, cunning, cruel, conniving, maudlin, and ever-blubbering—in a word, complicated. Such sympathies naturally offended the sensibilities of those who hold Homer (and Odysseus himself) as foundational to that amorphous notion of “Western civilization,” which can seem like little more than myth sustaining white, patriarchal, Eurocentric supremacy. Some other scholars … Read more
The Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival and Variety have announced a new partnership to deliver the first-ever Variety Lounge in the U.K. at this year’s EIFF, supported by VisitScotland. The Variety Lounge, a regular fixture at other major international film festivals including Sundance and Toronto, will be hosted by Variety’s Alex Ritman and capture exclusive in-depth … Read more
Oprah Winfrey turned her Cannes Lions appearance into a call for creators to use their platforms for good, talking with festival chair Phil Thomas about philanthropy, legacy and her improbable path from rural Mississippi to becoming one of the most powerful self-made figures in media. Inside the Lumière Theatre, where she received the festival’s LionHeart Award, … Read more
Prime Day is here, finally. Amazon’s annual summer sale will get blanket coverage across the internet as publishers step over each other to push discounted air fryers and phone chargers. Prime Day has moved up a few weeks from its usual timeline to get ahead of July 4, and all the incoming Sesquibicentennial Sales. (“America’s … Read more
Opening Annecy’s 2026 work-in-progress sessions, where both animation fans and curious professionals get a glimpse of the animated features of tomorrow, Netflix Animation Studios unveiled “Steps” in an in-depth behind-the-scenes session filled with delightful insights, humor and stunning visuals. On stage, directors Alyce Tzue, John Ripa, art director Dan Casey and head of character animation … Read more
If you’ve given much thought to the Federal Communications Commission in recent years, it probably had something to do with Brendan Carr. The group’s chairman since 2025, Carr has been on an ongoing, public rampage against freedom of speech: he’s gone after late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, threatened to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war … Read more
German actor and director Jonathan Berlin (“The Forger”) is set to write and direct his first feature “Mio”, a queer coming of age drama about a teenager who must embark on a journey into the unknown after his parents disappear. Set in a small Spanish town, Mio undertakes an odyssey between childhood and adolescence that … Read more
The model I tested isn’t the base configuration, which only features a 1920 x 1200 display. While that’s perfectly usable, the $60 upgrade to the 2880 x 1800, 120-Hz display is a no-brainer. Unfortunately, HP forces you to also upgrade the CPU to at least the 12-core Snapdragon X2 Elite to get it. It’s a … Read more
Banijay U.K. boss Patrick Holland defended the company’s investigation into sacked “MasterChef” host Gregg Wallace, saying it was “completely right” for the production company to take the reigns over BBC, which is the show’s longtime broadcaster. “We are independent producers,” Holland said. “We have our duties and responsibilities, legal responsibilities to our staff that work … Read more