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Safari Story Season 8 Episode 42 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Dateline,” titled “Safari Story,” promises to be a gripping exploration of a tragic event that unfolded in Zambia’s Kafue National Park. The episode centers around dentist Dr. Larry Rudolph and his wife, Bianca, who set out for what was supposed to be an exciting hunting safari. However, their adventure takes a dark turn when a shot is heard coming from their cabin.

Viewers will learn about the couple’s background and the circumstances leading up to that fateful moment. The episode will delve into the details of their safari experience, highlighting the beauty of the park and the thrill of the hunt. But as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that this trip is not just about adventure; it leads to a shocking incident that turns their dream getaway into a nightmare.

“Dateline” will provide insights from investigators,...

Chrissy Teigen, Andy Cohen, the cast of The Valley and numerous Real Housewives will be celebrating today after Bravo unveiled its latest programming slate.

The NBCUniversal cable network has ordered one new show, New York-set reality series Making It In Manhattan, revealed it is developing a South African Bush series produced by Chrissy Teigen and handed out a large swathe of renewals including for buzzy Vanderpump Rules spinoff The Valley and Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.

Making It In Manhattan follows a tight-knit group of friends navigating the trials and triumphs of young adulthood. While some hail from the spotlight of well-known families, others have created a legacy of their own, but they all are looking to thrive in the city that never sleeps. Together they will challenge societal norms, redefine success, juggle personal and romantic relationships, and lean on each other for support in order to turn their skyline-high aspirations into reality,...

E!, USA Network and Oxygen True Crime have revealed their programming slates for the 2024-25 season which include a docuseries that follows the daughter of Snoop Dogg and a true crime series about homicides in Philadelphia.

USA Network also confirmed new competition show from the producers of The Traitors, as revealed by Deadline last month.

At E!, the network will launch its untitled Cori Broadus and Snoop Dogg Project, a three-part docuseries that follows Snoop’s daughter Cori Broadus and her fiancé, Wayne Deuce. It’s produced by Death Row Pictures and 101 Studios.

E!’s returning slate includes Season 2 of House of Villains, E!’s most-watched freshman series since 2020; the entertainment news series E! News, hosted by Justin Sylvester and Keltie Knight; and Live from E! hosted by Laverne Cox.

Oxygen True Crime has seven new series and specials planned for the new season. Among them: Dateline: The Smoking...

Apple today announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in the European Union (EU) to comply with the Digital Markets Act (Dma). The changes include more than 600 new APIs, expanded app analytics, functionality for alternative browser engines, and options for processing app payments and distributing iOS apps. Across every change, Apple is introducing new safeguards that reduce — but don’t eliminate — new risks the Dma poses to EU users. With these steps, Apple will continue to deliver the best, most secure experience possible for EU users. The new options for processing payments and ... Read more...

The best home-theater experience coming to the market? According to Apple, it’s one you’ll be able to strap onto your head.

Apple unveiled several new entertainment experiences that will be available on Apple Vision Pro — its expensive new mixed-reality headset — when it begins shipping on Feb. 2. The tech giant touts visionOS, a platform that lets developers tap into the Vision Pro to make the viewing experiences within their apps “even more immersive.” The Vision Pro, which Apple has been developing for more than seven years, will be priced starting at $3,499.

At launch, Apple Vision Pro users can watch more than 150 3D movies, including “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Dune,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” “Avengers: Endgame,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Elemental” and “Encanto.” Users can access 3D versions of eligible movies when they become available to rent or purchase from the Apple TV app,...

English actor Glynis Johns, who played the daffy suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the classic film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, her manager Mitch Clem confirmed to Variety. She was 100.

“Glynis powered her way through life with intelligence, wit, and a love for performance, affecting millions of lives,” Clem said in a statement. “She entered my life early in my career and set a very high bar on how to navigate this industry with grace, class, and truth. Your own truth. Her light shined very brightly for 100 years. She had a wit that could stop you in your tracks powered by a heart that loved deeply and purely. Today is a somber day for Hollywood. Not only do we mourn the passing of our dear Glynis, but we mourn the end of the golden age of Hollywood.”

Johns won a Tony for her...

New Delhi, Sep 13 (Ians) Apple iOS 17 will be officially available as a free software update for newly-launched iPhone 15 series, including the older models, on September 18.

The iOS 17 will offer new features across Apple’s first-party apps, including the Phone app, Messages, FaceTime, and more, and will introduce new functionality like Live Voicemail, FaceTime audio and video messages.

iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max feature iOS 17, making iPhone even more personal and intuitive with new features.

The Phone app gets major updates, with Contact Posters that allow users to customise how they appear to their contacts, and Live Voicemail, which leverages the power of A17 Pro to see real-time on-device transcription as someone leaves a voicemail. Users can even pick up the call while the caller is leaving their message.

Messages gets a new stickers experience, more powerful search, transcription of audio messages, and Check In, which allows users to automatically...

Update: Google’s market dominance has been due to the company’s continuous innovation in its search engine, not by exclusionary conduct that stifle competitors like Microsoft’s Bing, the company’s lead attorney said in his opening statement in the landmark antitrust trial on Tuesday.

John E. Schmidtlein, lead attorney for Google, said that Microsoft failed to win over consumers with Bing because it did “invest, innovate and prioritize the development of search.” He said that Microsoft, having been beaten in the market, chose instead to focus on its Windows operating software.

The Justice Department and state plaintiffs claim that Google’s deals to become the default browser on search engines and phones have given it an unfair advantage over rivals.

But Schmidtlein said that browers like Mozilla and Apple conducted competitions on which search engine would be the default and that Google won “on the merit.” Apple’s Safari,...

San Francisco, Aug 8 (Ians) The mega $5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘incognito mode’ tracking via Chrome browser is a step closer to trial after a judge in the US rejected the tech giant’s request for summary judgment.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers in a California court on Monday denied Google’s push for summary judgment in the lawsuit, which claimed the tech giant is tracking and collecting data even when people use the private ‘Incognito’ mode on its Chrome browser.

Google Chrome’s ‘Incognito’ mode gives users the choice to browse the internet without their activities being saved to either browser or devices.

However, the judge pointed to statements in the Chrome privacy notice, Privacy Policy, Incognito Splash Screen, and Search & Browse Privately Help page about how incognito mode limits the information stored or how people can control the information they share, reports The Verge.

He wrote that, “Taken as a whole,...

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The Indian parliament has passed the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, which aims to curb piracy that causes losses of INR200 billion ($2.4 billion) to the film industry, according to government estimates. Those found guilty of film piracy by way of camcording in theaters or unauthorized copying and online transmission and exhibition of a pirated copy of any film will now face punishment of minimum three months imprisonment and a fine of $3,650, which can be extended up to three years imprisonment and fine up to 5% of the audited gross production cost.

The bill also introduces age-based categories of certification by further sub-dividing the existing UA category into seven years (UA 7+), 13 years (UA 13+) and 16 years (UA 16+), instead of 12 years. These age-based markers are recommendatory only, meant for the parents or guardians to consider whether their children should view a film. In addition, films certified by the Central Board of Film Certification...

San Francisco, July 25 (Ians) Tech giant Microsoft is testing Bing’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on Google Chrome and Safari.“We are flighting access to Bing Chat in Safari and Chrome to select users as part of our testing on other browsers,” Caitlin Roulston, Microsoft’s director of communications, said in a statement to The Verge.

“We are excited to expand access to even more users once our standard testing procedures are complete.”

It seems that there are some limitations to using Bing Chat on Chrome and Safari.

For instance, users can only type 2,000-word prompts, as compared to the 4,000-word limit that the company provides when using Bing Chat on Edge.

The chatbot’s communication with users will also restart after five turns rather than 30.

Microsoft has also introduced a dark option for Bing Chat in addition to a wider rollout across other browsers.

Users can access dark mode...

San Francisco, June 21 (Ians) Tech giant Google has introduced new features for Chrome on iOS, including built-in Lens support.

In the coming months, users will be able to “use your camera to search with new pictures you take and existing images in your camera roll,” the tech giant said in a blogpost on Tuesday.

“You can already use Lens in Chrome on iOS by long-pressing an image you find while browsing.”

The tech giant also introduced better translations for Chrome on iOS.

Users can now translate a specific portion of a page using Google Translate right within Chrome on their iOS device.

Chrome now uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect addresses on webpages, the company added.

Users will see the option to view detected addresses on a mini Google Maps right within Chrome, when they press and hold an address.

The company further mentioned that Chrome on iOS users can...

New Delhi, June 18 (Ians) Those who have tried their hands on the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air for productivity, creativity and entertainment, the smooth and powerful experience has just got bigger and better, with the same ultra-light portability to take it anywhere with ease.

The world’s thinnest 15-inch laptop (measuring only 11.5mm thin) is now available with an expansive 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display and M2 silicon chip — offering an all-new six-speaker sound system and a silent, fanless design.

The new 15-inch MacBook Air comes packed with incredible features for people from all walks of lives — professionals, creative souls, students and innovators. It comes in four finishes — midnight, starlight, space gray and silver.

It weighs just 1.49 kgs, so it’s incredibly portable. Even with its expansive display, the new MacBook Air is solid and durable.

On the performance front, the 15-inch MacBook Air with the M2 chip is up to 12 times...

April is international Earth Month, and to commemorate the planet that sustains us Xumo Play is adding a new free ad-supported TV (Fast) channel. The Xumo Free Nature and Wildlife TV channel is available to all Xumo users now, at no cost.

Watch Now $0 / month play.xumo.com

Channel highlights include two docuseries: “Butterflies: Superheroes of Nature” and “Nature’s Ultimate Survivors,” both of which are debuting in the United States for the first time. These series come from the production house Off the Fence, a United Kingdom-based studio that won an Oscar for its documentary “My Octopus Teacher.” Xumo’s engineers will curate the channel into themed programming blocks such as Big Cats, Safari, Wildest Places and more.

“Our new Nature and Wildlife TV channel will offer Xumo Play viewers a wide array of engaging and high-quality nature programming, including two new exclusive documentaries from the Academy Award-winning production house,...

New Delhi, April 4 (Ians) The Indian cyber agency has issued warnings for some Apple products in the country, saying that users must upgrade their devices to the latest watchOS, tvOS, and macOS versions to safeguard their personal data.

According to Cert-In, multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple products which could allow an attacker to bypass privacy preferences, execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges, gain access to sensitive information, and spoof user interface on the targeted system.

On Macs, the vulnerabilities lie in Apple’s proprietary Safari web browser.

Cert-In said that the flaw exists due to “improper state management” in the WebKit component.

Although there isn’t a warning for iPhone and iPad users, it is advisable to update devices.

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April will see a host of new movies and TV show arrive on Netflix.

Alongside film versions of TV shows The Last Kingdom and Power Rangers will be the second season of cult hit Sweet Tooth, and Beef, an intriguing new series from Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.

There is also a music documentary about Lewis Capaldi as well as Brett Morgen’s David Bowie film Moonage Daydream, and a stand-up special from American comedian John Mulaney – not to mention the arrival of a long-awaited season of TV that will make subscripers very happy.

There is a wide selection of titles being added in the UK that aren’t going to be on US Netflix, so below, we’ve signalled where you can find everything.

Find a full list of every movie being removed from Netflix here.

Nb: We put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix.

April will see a host of new movies and TV show arrive on Netflix.

Alongside film versions of TV shows The Last Kingdom and Power Rangers will be the second season of cult hit Sweet Tooth, and Beef, an intriguing new series from Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.

There is also a music documentary about Lewis Capaldi as well as Brett Morgen’s David Bowie film Moonage Daydream, and a stand-up special from American comedian John Mulaney – not to mention the arrival of a long-awaited season of TV that will make subscripers very happy.

There is a wide selection of titles being added in the UK that aren’t going to be on US Netflix, so below, we’ve signalled where you can find everything.

Find a full list of every movie being removed from Netflix here.

Nb: We put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix.

The Nordic region’s largest streamer, Viaplay, has debuted in Canada, continuing its expansion into North America after landing in the U.S. on Feb. 22.

The direct-to-consumer platform touts itself as the premiere platform for Nordic Noir, the term used to describe the growing subgenre of Scandinavian crime dramas, thrillers, dark comedies and YA offerings.

Available in every Nordic and Baltic country, Viaplay has been gaining ground over the past several months, expanding across Europe, U.K. and Australia. In February, it reported an 83% rise year-over-year in streaming subscribers, a number that is expected to swell with the North American launches.

At launch, Viaplay is available at a rate of Cad$6.99 ($5.13) monthly after a free seven-day trial. A subscription includes the exclusive Canadian premieres of more than 50 premium series and films throughout 2023. Titles include biopic series “The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen,” starring Connie Nielsen; Berlinale selection “The Architect”; and...

Nat Wolff has been really famous a couple of times. The first was in 2007, when his show The Naked Brothers Band (based on his real-life musical group) became Nickelodeon’s most popular kids’ series — that was the kind of fame that got him bullied at his New York City middle school. Then, in 2015, he led Paper Towns, the big-screen adaptation of John Green’s blockbuster YA novel — that was the screaming-teen-girls-following-you-on-a-global-press-tour variety.

Now he’s preparing for the release of a series that features his first starring TV role — and a run alongside Parker Posey and Hari Nef in an off-Broadway adaptation of The Seagull/Woodstock, NY — and feeling further from those days than ever. “A couple of girls followed me home from rehearsals the other day, and it made me realize I barely think about being a child star,” says the 28-year-old over late-morning shrimp tacos in Times Square.

New Delhi, Feb 14 (Ians) Apple has issued a new security update to fix a vulnerability in iPhone and iPad’s operating systems that hackers have been exploiting in the wild.

The security patch is available for iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 5th generation and later, according to the company.

“Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution,” said Apple.

The tech giant admitted that it “is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited”.

Apple acknowledged The Citizen Lab at The University of Toronto’s Munk School for their assistance in discovering and alerting the company about the vulnerability..

The Citizen Lab is known for exposing government hacking sypware made by Israel’s Nso Group.

This latest bug was in WebKit, Apple’s browser engine that’s used in Safari.

These artists are ready to “Giddy up, giddy up, 409.” The Beach Boys sometimes sang about cars in their original albums, specifically mentioning one Chevrolet in Surfin’ Safari. Here’s what we know about “409” and the meaning behind this track.

The Beach Boys often sang about sun, surf, and cars Rock and roll band The Beach Boys walk along the beach holding a surfboard | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Originally comprised of Al Jardine, Mike Love, and brothers Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, the Beach Boys made waves with their surf rock music — literally.

The group earned a reputation for singing about California’s sun, surf, and sand. They also shared an affinity for cars, sometimes singing about the “hot rod thing.” The Shut Down album featured tracks from several Capitol Record artists and bands, with the Beach Boys contributing “409” and “Shut Down.”

As noted in I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir,...

2022 was a mixed bag for Twitch. The Amazon-owned platform expanded monetary payouts for smaller streamers but also rankled some partners with changes to its revenue sharing policy. A new Guest Star feature fostered collaborations in the Just Chatting category, but the elimination of host mode drew criticism.

Twitch is hoping the next 12 months will be universally pleasant for its community. In a blog post, the company’s Chief Product Officer outlined his team’s plan for 2023. Here’s an overview of what Tom Verrilli had to say.

“More options to earn” are coming.

Verrilli said “growth” is Twitch’s “main focus” for 2023. The platform is looking to improve upon a year in which it paid out 1 billion to streamers. “In the first half of 2023, we’re launching products and tools that make it easier for you to earn without impacting growth,” Verrilli wrote, “while also improving many of our existing...

New Delhi, Jan 24 (Ians) Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new set of educational resources designed to help users take control of their data, as Data Privacy Day approaches on January 28.

To drive awareness about the importance of data privacy, Apple has also partnered with Apple TV+ Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed in “A Day in the Life of an Average Person’s Data.”

“Privacy is built into all of Apple’s products and services from the ground up, from the moment users open their devices to every time they use an app,” according to the company.

Apple products and features include innovative privacy technologies designed to minimise how much user data anyone can access.

“This is why Safari throws trackers off the trail. It’s why the Health app keeps user records under wraps, and why Siri learns what the user needs rather than who they are,” said the tech giant.

Wrestling star Nikkita Lyons during an unboxing video on her Instagram. Pic credit: @nikkita_wwe/Instagram

WWE Nxt superstar Nikkita Lyons, real name Faith Jefferies, is living her best life and taking fans along for the magical journey.

Nikkita continues to share various content from her in-ring performances and outside life on her social media, with the latest featuring her in a skimpy bikini while she enjoys the vibes.

For her recent Instagram clip, the 23-year-old wrestling star rocked a gorgeous red string bikini as she danced in an outdoor hot tub. The two-piece featured what appeared to be pearls as part of the top’s straps.

Pearls were also part of the unique bikini top’s lower portion, as they were connected to a metal clasp in the center and extended to Nikkita’s sides. The top’s design also included other charms dangling beneath it.

Nikkita’s look included skimpy bikini bottoms,...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (Ians) Apple has fixed fresh vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS, including a zero-day flaw being actively exploited by hackers.

The zero-day flaw, known as Cve-2022-32917, allows a malicious app to run arbitrary code on an affected device with kernel privileges, Apple said in a security update.

Apple fixed the bug in updates for iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7, macOS Monterey 12.6 and macOS Big Sur 11.7.

Apple warned that it is aware that this flaw “may have been actively exploited”.

According to TechCrunch, this is the eighth zero-day vulnerability fixed by Apple this year.

In addition to these fixes, Apple also released a fix for a Safari browser flaw that could lead to address bar spoofing.

The security fixes were released along with iOS 16, which brings several security and privacy features, including support for Apple Passkeys and Lockdown Mode.

“Keeping your software up to date is one of the most...

New Delhi, Sep 13 (Ians) Apple has launched iOS 16 to turn your iPhone into a more personal device, that brings the biggest update ever to the Lock Screen, the ability to edit and collaborate in Messages, new tools in Mail, and more ways to interact with photos and video with Live Text and Visual Look Up.

iOS 16 is now available as a free software update for iPhone 8 and later, Apple said in a statement.

In an update later this year, Apple will introduce iCloud Shared Photo Library to give families a new way to share photos seamlessly with a separate iCloud library that up to six users can collaborate on, contribute to and enjoy.

The reimagined Lock Screen in iOS 16 features a new depth effect that artfully displays subjects in front of the time, expressive type styles and colour choices that can change the look of the date and time, and...

New Delhi, Feb 23 (Ians) Microsoft’s Edge browser is on the verge of surpassing Apple’s Safari as the world’s second most popular desktop browser According to data from web analytics service StatCounter, Microsoft Edge is now used on 9.54 per cent of desktops worldwide, a mere 0.3 per cent behind Apple’s Safari, which stands at […]...

Better luck next time, Spurgie! Jessa Duggar took to Instagram Stories on Thursday, Aug. 9 to share a screenshot of her son's attempt to talk to Siri — but he didn't quite get the chance to make a call. The two-year-old stole his mom's phone and said "Phone Duggar," which brought up a list of 19 family members he could contact. Watch the video above to see the cute snap! The 25-year-old mama has been posting a ton of content with Spurgeon these days. Most recently, she shared a video of her little boy giving his own rendition of Peter Rabbit on Instagram, and fans just couldn't get enough. "Awwww... I love how he keeps saying 'mommy' like he wants to make sure he has your attention,...

The German festival runs from June 28 to July 7.

The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.

The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.

The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.

When it comes to courting, the Duggars have some pretty strict rules that don't even allow private texting — but what about FaceTime? In the Duggar family, most of the kids who are ready to start dating have started seeing someone relatively close by, whether it was a family friend like Austin Forsyth or Kendra Caldwell or someone who just lived within driving distance for weekend trips. But what happens when a couple doesn't live all that close together before they get hitched, like Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard? How do they keep in touch enough to start courting from two very different places? Well, apparently, they use FaceTime and Skype. But, like texting, it's not exactly a free-for-all. Just because they're not going out to eat and bringing a chaperone (or a few) along, it doesn't mean they're without supervision. After all, the Duggars do have cell phones, but they...

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Apple, which has used its commitment to consumer privacy to distance itself from its Silicon Valley rivals, doubled down on privacy and security with the latest version of its Mac desktop operating system, dubbed “Mojave.”

Apple Senior Vice President Craig Federighi said new data protections in the macOS, which is due out this fall, will require apps to get a user’s permission before accessing the camera and microphone or peering at personal data in mail or messages.

“We believe your private data should stay private,” said Federighi, in a line that drew robust applause today’s keynote address to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose.

The latest version of the Safari browser will come with intelligent tracking prevention to prevent companies from using “like” or “share” buttons to track users without their permission — that’s a direct shot at Facebook, whose privacy practices have come under fire.

This summer, rock/metal fans will be able to check out a pretty killer lineup when Rest, Repose hits the road with Drewsif Stalin on “The American Safari Tour”. Joining them for select dates will be The Home Team (6/10-7/10) and For The Likes of You (7/6-7/20). The full tour schedule can be found below and […]

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YouTube TV is now available on Mozilla Firefox -- marking the first time that the live cable service can be consumed on a web browser other than Google's Chrome.

YouTube TV’s gradual exodus from the Google ecosystem was first spotted yesterday morning by Your Tech Explained, and subsequently confirmed on the YouTube TV help page. That said, these are the only two browsers on which YouTube TV can be consumed via desktops to date. While Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge and other users are currently out of luck, YouTube says that it is currently “working to bring YouTube TV to more browsers in the future.”

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Many parents have technology rules for their kids, but Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar are stricter than most, as you might imagine! So do the Duggars have cell phones? Can the kids use social media? And what about TV? We've got the answers below. In 2014, Jessa Duggar told the Times Free Press all the Duggar kids get a cell phone when they get their driver's licenses. But in a 2015 interview with Covenant Eyes Radio — a podcast run by the "Internet accountability" service Covenant Eyes — Michelle and Jim Bob said not all the kids get smartphones, and those who do get dumbed-down smartphones, so to speak. "Young men would have more of a struggle seeing bad stuff, so what we've done with the smartphones is that we've … actually locked out Safari and any Internet search at all, and then we've just had basic apps," Jim Bob said. "We have emails and...

YouTube is reportedly testing a picture-in-picture feature for web browsing -- meaning it would port to computers the very same mobile capability where users can browse YouTube while watching a minimized video at the bottom of their screens.

The feature is being piloted on both Chrome and Safari browsers among a small user subset, reports 9 To 5 Google, which notes that the one user on its team who is seeing the feature happens to be a YouTube Red subscriber. It is unclear if the feature would be exclusive to YouTube Red -- which offers premium programming, no ads, and background viewing for $10 per month.

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The macabre ultra-luxury sport of ‘canned’ trophy hunting in Africa comes under unflinching scrutiny in a documentary to make your blood boil

Trophy is a documentary about the highly commodified and macabre ultra-luxury sport of “canned” trophy hunting, in which legally restricted big-game hunting events in various African countries are auctioned off for colossal sums to rich people, often from the United States. These smug types want to play at being the great white hunter but have everything laid on for them, so they get an easy kill.

Just as with Safari, Ulrich Seidl’s recent documentary about the same subject, it is impossible to watch this without boiling with rage as these grotesque, pampered beta-males preen themselves over the animals’ corpses, occasionally blubbering sentimentally. The film has a stomach-turning scene at a hunters’ convention held at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas (the site of the recent mass shooting).

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As we make our way deeper and deeper into the Fall Festival season, some of the highlights from festivals earlier in the year are finally arriving in theaters. Be it the Safdie Brothers Cannes-stealing Good Time or Eliza Hittman’s Sundance stunner Beach Rats some of the spring’s most talked about festival pictures are just now making their way into theaters around the country. But what about those that went relatively unspoken of? There are some true discoveries to be had.

One of those discoveries is the newest film from Narco Cultura director Shaul Schwarz and co-director Christina Clusiau, entitled Trophy. As one could gather from the title, the film focuses its lens on the world of animal conservation in an age where more and more animals inch closer and closer to extinction. We watch as people try to help nurture animals and their populations back to life as...

If Ulrich Seidl’s “Safari” didn’t depress you enough, there’s another documentary about big-game hunting on the way: “Trophy.” Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau’s film appeared to strong reviews at Sundance earlier this year — our own Jude Dry said that it “unearths layers of an issue much more complex than even the filmmakers initially believed” — and opens in theaters next month. Watch the trailer below.

Read More‘Trophy’ Review: This Big-Game Hunting Exposé is Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful, and Appalling — Sundance 2017 Here’s the synopsis: “Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos, and lions march closer to extinction each year. Their devastating decline is fueled by a global desire to consume and collect these majestic animals. ‘Trophy’ investigates the powerhouse businesses of big game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation.” Read More‘Trophy’ Exclusive Clip: SXSW Documentary Investigates the Business of Big-Game Hunting The Orchard and CNN Films acquired distribution rights to “Trophy,...

Nikoclaus Geyrhalter's Over the Years (2015), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from May 26 - June 25, 2017 as a Special Discovery.In the modern cinema, one cliché that has developed is the notion that “everyone is connected.” A kind of bastardized version of Marxist or Weberian social theory, this is a film structure that often observes a host of seemingly disparate individuals across the majority of the movie’s running time, only to bring them together at the end, supposedly at random, with some sort of cataclysmic event. It could be a car crash, a sinking ship, a bank robbery, or some natural disaster, but the point is clear: no one in the film was put there by chance. The “random” end was preordained, and everything before it has been working up unavoidably to that conclusive moment. The less said about these sorts of films, the better.

The year marks the ninth run of the Panorama Europe Film Festival, co-presented by The Museum of the Moving Image and Eunic (European Union National Institutes for Culture). Panorama Europe’s platform emphasizes new and vital European Cinema.

This year, Europe celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, which established a common market allowing people, goods, services, and capital to move freely. Panorama Europe Film Festival is part of this important celebration, the EU60 campaign. Films screened at the festival hail from the countries of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain.

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The festival will run May 5 – 21 at the Museum of Moving Images and the Bohemian National Hall. The opening and closing nights of the festival promise to have two special screenings.

This year’s True/False Film Fest will hopefully be remembered as Claire Simon’s coming out party. The master French director received a rare three-film retrospective at the Columbia, Missouri festival that collectively highlighted her endless curiosity for life’s spectrum of emotions and anxieties. Within the tight confines of a playground or classroom her inquisitive camera never stops searching for something new, all the while quietly dissecting hierarchies of power and judgment. Comparisons to the great Frederick Wiseman are natural, but Simon’s films always leave room for bits of humor that help transcend the coldness of institutional mechanisms.During a post-screening Q&A for The Graduation, Simon’s latest documentary that examines the intense admittance process for France’s prestigious film school La Fémis, the director described each student’s struggle as “a really big fight to be in the castle.” Dreams of prestige and success validate...

Evil Games

Director: Ulrich Seidl

Writer: Ulrich Seidl

Since premiering his masterpiece Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, the Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has returned to heavy documentary subjects with 2014’s In the Basement, a rather droll exploration of Austrians and their private sexual proclivities, and this year’s excellent (and important) glance at unregulated big game hunting in Africa by tourists with Safari.

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Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I WaitDear Fern,I'm so glad we could share the sheer exuberant pleasure of Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids on an IMAX screen that gave J.T. the 30 foot high stature of a god: eat your heart out, Leni Riefenstahl! As you note, this infectious concert documentary by Jonathan Demme resoundingly describes Timberlake's appeal in thundering audio-visual terms: boyish charisma, guileless performing pleasure, and a remarkable sharing of his musical credit (so much of it studio-finessed, optimized of appropriation of other music and styles) with a veritable community of producers, musicians, backing vocalists, dancers and more. There's one incredible shot (among many) in this beautiful film of the entire collection of performers playing a song that's frankly mediocre—but the camera tracks along the whole band on stage, Timberlake one of many, all of whose smiles are genuine, all who sing along...