Instagram is now completely blocked in Russia. Roskomnadzor, the country’s media regulator, officially banned the app on Friday but gave Russians a 48-hour in-between period before it would be instituted. The ban, implemented at midnight on Monday, was confirmed by GlobalCheck (via Bloomberg), a service examining internet restrictions in Russia. Last week, Russian prosecutors requested […]
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There were plenty of big winners at this year’s BAFTA Awards on Sunday, but the person who seemed to get most of Twitter talking wasn’t even nominated. Emma Watson, who made a cameo to present the award for Best Outstanding British Film (Kenneth Branaugh’s Belfast won) during the ceremony, managed to do that with a […]
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Musicians have taken to Twitter today to complain about a website that is ostensibly selling their music as NFTs without permission. HitPiece claims to sell one-of-one NFTs, meaning each one is singular and unique (as opposed to the endless iterations of ugly monkeys we are now subjected to). “Each HitPiece NFT is a One of […]
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Pack your bags, Stranger Things fans: We’re leaving Indiana and heading to California. November 6 is also known to fans as Stranger Things day — it’s the day Will Byers went missing in 1983, as shown in Season 1. To commemorate the moment, Netflix is revealing tantalizing new details about its upcoming fourth season. The […]
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It’s OK if you forgot. What with the pandemic, and the hurricanes, and fires, and the general mess everything’s in. But Demi Adejuyigbe remembers. Every year since 2016, in fact, the artist and comedian honors the Earth, Wind & Fire song “September” with a video dance tribute that drops on Sept. 21 — the date […]
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It doesn’t hurt to ask. The decentralized finance platform (DeFi) Ploy Network pleaded with hackers Tuesday morning to return approximately $600 million worth of cryptocurrency it said was stolen earlier that same day. If confirmed, the theft, which Poly Network said included wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) and wrapped ether (WETH), among other cryptocurrencies, would be one […]
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