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Google AI Search Overview leaves website makers feeling betrayed
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/04/2025
» NEW YORK -- In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. But by the time the ad ran about a month later, traffic from Google had fallen more than 70%, McBride said.
Sean Combs files defamation suit against man who said he had sex tapes
New York Times, Published on 23/01/2025
» Sean "Diddy" Combs, the music mogul facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges, filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against a man who said in interviews that he had been given videos that showed Combs in sexual encounters with celebrities, including assaults of people he said appeared to be minors.
Championing accessibility
Life, Aspen Anderson, Published on 19/08/2024
» Pat Bourne, Ireland's ambassador to Bangkok, self-identifies as a part-time advocate for disability. Upon arriving in Thailand two years ago, he hit the ground running, making it a part of his mission to identify and champion businesses that support equal accessibility and inclusivity.
Hollywood A-listers donate millions to striking actors
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» LOS ANGELES: A dozen of Hollywood's highest-earning stars, from George Clooney to Meryl Streep, have each donated $1 million or more to support out-of-work actors as their strike enters its fourth week, their union's charitable foundation said Wednesday.
Nirvana album cover lawsuit dismissed
Reuters, Published on 03/09/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Nirvana has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a man who claimed his depiction as a naked four-month-old baby on the cover of the band’s groundbreaking 1991 album Nevermind was child pornography.
Legendary novelist Wilbur Smith dies aged 88
AFP, Published on 14/11/2021
» JOHANNESBURG - Internationally acclaimed author Wilbur Smith died at his home in South Africa on Saturday after a decades-long career in writing, his office said. He was 88.
2020: The year virtual concerts took off
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 22/12/2020
» International concerts were absent for much of 2020 as every tour and festival was postponed or cancelled due to the pandemic. While there was not much to look forward to, one ray of hope we had amid the absence of live music was to see the number of artists around the globe covering all genres turning to the virtual world as a new medium to engage with their music fans. They took to social media live-streaming to give fans a much-needed virtual music fix and while the novelty of DIY online concerts filmed in artist's living rooms and home studios via Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube wore off after a few days in quarantine, many musicians and music labels quickly became even more creative in lockdown and evolved a whole raft of innovative and all-round entertaining virtual concerts bringing the new experience of live music into people's homes.
Redemption redux
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 11/09/2020
» I was a little hesitant at first to give Cobra Kai a try when I heard that the first two seasons of the new Karate Kid spin-off series had eventually arrived on Netflix.
'Walking Dead' to conclude record-breaking run in 2022
AFP, Published on 10/09/2020
» LOS ANGELES: Once the highest-rated series in US cable television history, "The Walking Dead" is officially on its last legs.
Another dose of high school drama
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 07/08/2020
» Following the response to the original back in 2018, The Kissing Booth 2, a sequel to Netflix's original teen romantic comedy featuring Joey King and chaotic high school stories about love and friendship, is now on the streaming service.