• Apple may soon ditch charging ports in iPhones: report

    Apple may soon ditch charging ports in iPhones: report

    Forget the headphone jack — Apple is looking to get rid of all the ports in its future iPhones. That’s the prediction from a known Apple leaker, who says that after this fall’s iPhone 12, the Cupertino, California, tech giant is going to make the shift to completely wireless phones. At least one iPhone model …
  • Did Japan Beat COVID-19 with a Decentralized Response?

    Did Japan Beat COVID-19 with a Decentralized Response?

    A grassroots movement of local actions has been credited for Japan’s success. Yesterday, Japan’s nationwide state of emergency was officially lifted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who declared COVID-19 to be under control in the country. In his announcement of the move, Abe said, “Recently, new infection cases have fallen below 50 for the entire …
  • Paley Center announces upcoming ‘Front Row’ virtual panels

    Paley Center announces upcoming ‘Front Row’ virtual panels

    Stars including Alec Baldwin, Kristen Bell and Mika Brzezinski are set to take the virtual stage as part of Paley Center for Media’s “Paley Front Row” discussion series. First, on May 29, the cast and creatives from Apple TV+’s animated musical comedy “Central Park” will chat about the upcoming series. Kristen Bell, Daveed Diggs, Kathryn …
  • Chris Evans almost turned down ‘Captain America’ over panic attacks

    Chris Evans almost turned down ‘Captain America’ over panic attacks

    Even superheroes can suffer from anxiety. While he might seem like a paragon of confidence on screen, “Captain America” actor Chris Evans reportedly rejected the star-making role several times due to debilitating panic attacks. “All of a sudden your hobby becomes your job,” Evans, 38, told the Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast of struggling to …
  • New app delivers food for out-of-work chefs

    New app delivers food for out-of-work chefs

    All they wanted was a home-cooked meal and now they’re helping out-of-work chefs survive the coronavirus pandemic. Israeli entrepreneurs Oren Saar and Merav Kalish Rozengarten founded WoodSpoon out of a desire find food like grandma used to make. “We missed the food from home, like real homemade hummus, and kunefe,” Saar says, referring to the …
  • Meghan Markle believed royal courtiers hatched a ‘conspiracy’ to shame her

    Meghan Markle believed royal courtiers hatched a ‘conspiracy’ to shame her

    Meghan Markle believed there was a “conspiracy” hatched against her by royals once she moved into Kensington Palace during her courtship with Prince Harry. Markle, 38, began to fear the palace’s courtiers were out to harm her reputation due to her American style of management once the couple moved into Frogmore Cottage. “She was convinced there was …
  • Gregg Jefferies complicated Mets’ failure looks different now

    Gregg Jefferies complicated Mets’ failure looks different now

    All these years later, Gregg Jefferies’ tormentors are apologetic. Time not only heals wounds but changes acceptable traits. How silly it all seems now to care about how someone handled his bats or trained. “He was revolutionary in what he did,” Ron Darling says now, with Jefferies three decades removed from a Mets tenure that …
  • NHL better not cheat the teams bound for draft lottery

    NHL better not cheat the teams bound for draft lottery

    So what now of the Stigmatized Seven, those clubs who couldn’t play up to an NHL .500 level before the league entered its pause phase on March 12 and have thus been deemed unworthy of an invite to the league’s imagined 24-team Stanley Cup tournament? What about the fate, primarily as applies to the draft …
  • Rapper Boosie says ‘f–k you’ to God over tumultuous 2020

    Rapper Boosie says ‘f–k you’ to God over tumultuous 2020

    Like many of us, 2020 hasn’t been the best year for Louisiana rapper Boosie Badazz, who cursed the almighty himself after receiving news of a family member’s death. In screenshots captured by Hollywood Unlocked, Boosie, 37, wrote, “RIP my lil cousin, smh. F–K 2020. f–k everything about it, f–k the world. God, f–k you too!,” …
  • Marcia Gay Harden schools the men in Nat Geo historical series ‘Barkskins’

    Marcia Gay Harden schools the men in Nat Geo historical series ‘Barkskins’

    Marcia Gay Harden had some interpretive freedom regarding Mathilde, the strong-willed innkeeper she plays in “Barkskins,” Nat Geo’s new historical drama set in 1690s New France. The Monday-night series, co-starring David Thewlis (“Big Mouth,” “Fargo”), is based on Annie Proulx’s 2016 novel and is set in Wobik, a small settlement in what’s now the Canadian …