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Norrie beats Tomic at Los Cabos Open in 50 minutes
Cameron Norrie reached the Los Cabos Open semi-finals after beating Australia’s Bernard Tomic 6-1 6-0 in just 50 minutes. The result extends a marked turnaround for the British number two, who had arrived in Mexico on a six-match losing streak and had not won since April. Fifth seed Norrie won 12 consecutive games after Tomic…
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Top new prog from King Gizzard, Green Carnation, Temic and more in Prog’s brand new Tracks Of The Week
Prog has published a new Tracks Of The Week roundup featuring six recently released progressive-leaning tracks, including music from King Gizzard, Green Carnation and Temic. Readers are invited to watch or listen to the selections and vote for their favourite. – Last week’s vote was narrowly won by Dutch band Lesoir’s “Is It Nothing?” -…
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Sheffield proposes city-centre bus gates to prioritise public transport
Sheffield City Council plans to introduce bus gates in the city centre to give buses greater priority and improve journey reliability. The measures are intended to reduce through-traffic, support cleaner streets and make public transport a more attractive option for reaching jobs, shops and services. The gates on Furnival Gate will permit buses, taxis, cycles…
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Horror master James Wan’s greatest movie franchise officially returns in 3 weeks
Insidious: Out of the Further, the sixth film in James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s paranormal horror franchise, is due to arrive in cinemas in three weeks. It matters because it continues a series that has run for 15 years and returns to the Further, the demonic purgatory realm central to the earlier films. The 106-minute…
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Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester
Forrester says organisations are increasingly treating digital sovereignty as a core design requirement for new cloud and AI projects, rather than addressing it later. This matters particularly in Europe, where regulatory and geopolitical concerns are heightened by reliance on US technology providers and limited domestic hyperscale AI capacity. Buyers are examining not only where data…
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Moreno unloads on Fauci after Senate hearing, calls him Democrats’ ‘hero’ over pandemic policies
Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, criticised Dr Anthony Fauci after Fauci declined to answer questions at a Senate hearing, invoking the Fifth Amendment. In a Fox News interview, Moreno called Fauci a Democratic “hero” and argued that his pandemic response was motivated by control rather than public health, reflecting continuing political disputes over…
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Sainsbury’s to sell Argos to three retail veterans in £120m deal
Sainsbury’s has agreed to sell Argos for £120m to Swift Partners, a company set up by three experienced retail executives, as it seeks to concentrate investment on its core food business. The deal marks a significant reversal of Sainsbury’s 2016 purchase of Argos’s parent group for £1.3bn and reflects the supermarket’s “food first” strategy amid…
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‘Black Zombie’ Review: An Engaging Doc on How the Flesh-Eating Hordes of Screen Fame Obscured Painful Real-Life History
Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary “Black Zombie” examines nearly a century of zombie cinema and argues that the genre has obscured the painful Haitian history and beliefs from which it emerged. The review finds the film engaging for treating the zombie not simply as a horror icon, but as evidence of cultural appropriation and distortion. The…