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Billie Eilish fans are complaining about “outrageous” ticket prices for her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour.The 22-year-old singer unveiled an 81-date tour programme this week, sending fans rushing to secure tickets.But some expressed disbelief on social media at the prices.”I know I moan about this all the time, but look at the price of Billie Eilish tickets,” one fan called Marianne wrote on X, sharing a screenshot of seated tickets priced at £398.50. “Something seriously needs to be done about ticket prices, it’s f*****g outrageous!” Another complained they had paid less for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which was also criticised for…
In the past month, in Google-land, we have spoken a lot about the March 2024 core update, which ended 45 days later on April 19th, a week before Google notified us it was done. This core update was painful for many, especially those who were hit by the September helpful content update. But more is to come, we have the site reputation abuse penalty coming in the next few days – are you ready? Sites like Forbes are already making changes, and many others are as well. Meanwhile, Google has been busy responding to mocking and Reddit ranking for everything.Google…
Popular mobile financial service provider upay and United Commercial Bank PLC have recently organised a freelancer meetup to highlight the growth of the industry, discuss on the different struggles of those involved in freelancing and the need for addressing the issues through time-befitting solutions and banking services. The meetup was organised at the Comilla Club located in Kandirpar,reads a press release. Around 100 freelancers from adjoining areas took part in the event and shared their woes. Along with the freelancers, upay and UCB bank’s local branch officials were present at the event. Themed as ‘Freelancers’ Contribution to Building Smart…
Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT, in a strategic move driven by concern and envy over Google’s potential leadership in the field of artificial intelligence. A series of emails revealed in the US Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, published by Business Insider, detail the urgency that drove this investment. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, backed the initiative after receiving an extensive email from Kevin Scott, the company’s CTO, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI”.In the email, Scott expressed deep concern about Google’s rapid advancement in AI, especially in the gaming field, referring to the…
The Pound Sterling falls below 1.2500 despite the Fed’s guidance on interest rates was slightly less hawkish than expected. Fed’s Chair Jerome Powell said he is still confident about a reduction in interest rates this year. The BoE is expected to hold interest rates steady at 5.25% for the straight sixth time at its May 9 meeting. The Pound Sterling (GBP) fails to hold gains above the crucial resistance of 1.2500 in Thursday’s early New York session amid uncertainty as investors pivot to the US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) data and ISM Services PMI report for April, which will be published on Friday. Economists have…
You may not know it, but the cybersecurity world is about to have its Super Bowl. More than 40,000 people from over 130 countries will descend on San Francisco the week of May 6 for the 33rd annual RSA Conference on cybersecurity. This will be my 16th year as chairman of RSA Conference, and there is an intensity and urgency ahead of this year’s event that I’ve never seen before. To understand why, my team analyzed the thousands of speaker submissions coming into the conference from the world’s defenders of cyberspace. Three themes stood out: artificial intelligence, information manipulation, and…
SAINT LOUIS, Mo. — Nylah Walker is a 12-year-old with a passion and a mission. She is a home-trained dancer who has wowed crowds on the stage and has even garnered a fairly large following on Instagram. Recently, Nylah was invited to a national competition in Las Vegas, and the hope is that not only will she be able to perform but also teach and learn new routines. Nylah is asking raising money to help reach her dreams. “I want the community to know that I didn’t have a traditional dance studio or traditional dance classes” said Nylah, but luckily…
Ryan Hogue loathed how much time he spent in northern Virginia traffic. He calculated he spent nearly eight days’ worth of time sitting motionless in his car each year.Life was otherwise good: It was 2016, and Hogue sat next to his best friend every day at his senior web development job. He had a side gig as an adjunct web development professor at his alma mater, George Madison University in Fairfax, Virginia. He was making $117,300 per year, but driving back and forth felt like a waste of time and money, he says.He started thinking about ways to earn passive…
Since 2000, Variety has been naming its annual 10 Comics to Watch — and watching them go on to impressive careers. We decided to invite a few notable alumni who happen to be performing at the Netflix Is Joke Festival this year for a conversation over Zoom. We were joined by comics Hannah Berner, Zarna Garg, Jay Jurden, Matteo Lane, Brian Simpson and Jenny Yang. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity, space and to remove lots of random digressions. •Who or what inspired you to get into comedy? Zarna Garg:It was my kids who said, “Mom, you…
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