February 2020

Oscars 2020: 17 quirky facts about this year’s Academy Awards

Image copyright Getty/Lionsgate/Sony/Pixar The short gap between the Baftas and the Oscars this year has barely left Joaquin Phoenix enough time to wash his multi-use tux. The Joker star is just one Hollywood actor currently hot-footing it from London to Los Angeles in time for the Academy Awards on Sunday. This year’s ceremony is being

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Pretty Little Thing: ‘Overly sexualised’ advert banned

Image copyright Pretty Little Thing An advert for fashion retailer Pretty Little Thing which featured women wearing exposing lingerie has been banned for being “offensive”. The YouTube ad presented the firm’s products in an “overly-sexualised way” and depicted women as sex objects, the Advertising Standards Authority said. The retailer is one of several online fast

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Trump’s Kansas Tweet Made Me Miss ‘Veep’

According to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, HBO’s “Veep” would resonate on an entirely different level if it were to return in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election.  The 11-time Emmy winner stopped by “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Tuesday to discuss, among other things, President Donald Trump’s since-deleted tweet congratulating the wrong state for the Kansas City

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Google Says Some Users’ Private Videos Were Accidentally Sent To Strangers

Some Google users who exported their private videos to a Google storage program may have had their videos sent to total strangers, the tech giant said this week. A technical issue in November caused some videos that users exported to the backup storage program Download Your Data (formerly Google Takeout) to be unintentionally sent to

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