Hope Hicks, formerly one of Donald Trump’s closest aides, is to start a new role in Los Angeles as executive vice president and chief communications officer for New Fox. New Fox is being created as Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox reorganises with the sale of assets to Disney, to be completed next year. The new company will include…
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The opening salvos of the trade war between the US and China were deafening, and while the battle is far from over, a rift between the countries may be beneficial to Beijing in the long term, experts say. Donald Trump, the US President, fired the first warning earlier this year by taxing key Chinese exports including solar…
The world’s first public relations campaign to persuade people that rats have feelings too, and they should learn to love them, has been launched in Paris, where city authorities are waging war to exterminate the four-million strong rodent population. “Stop the massacre of rats,” is the slogan on posters on the walls of dozens of…
On a scorching afternoon in the sleepy countryside town of Sorocaba, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, Adriano Costa e Silva steps out of his latest election campaign meeting with his gun strapped firmly to his waist. In tow of the serving army major and candidate for state governor are a rabble of neatly…
Nasa has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019. It will be the first manned US launch to the orbiting research laboratory since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011, forcing US astronauts to hitch costly rides aboard…
AMD loves to provide PC users with a great $99 CPU, and with the Ryzen 3 2200G, it’s delivered a genuine classic. Traditional wisdom suggests that when constructing a gaming PC, you need to purchase both CPU and GPU, but the Red Team’s latest offering delivers an all-in-one package – a quad-core Ryzen CPU, paired…
Bert and Ernie, the iconic Sesame Street characters, were a gay couple, according to a writer who penned their words for two decades. However, the claim brought a categorical denial from the organisation behind the children’s show, which said the puppets were just friends and did not have any sexual orientation. Mark Saltzman, the writer,…
Nintendo has shifted 4m of its dinky SNES mini consoles. The Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES launched in Europe and North America at the end of September last year, and in early October over in Japan. A month later it had already sold 2m units. The fact the SNES mini has continued to sell shows Nintendo…
Nintendo has confirmed it is working on a Mario movie with Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio behind Minions and Despicable Me. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto is listed as a co-producer on the film, alongside Illumination boss and Minions creator Chris Meledandri. There’s no word yet on a release date. Nintendo has also not yet confirmed…