Luxury label Gucci has joined a pilot program with startup Xpondr to protect high-value shipments crossing the world’s oceans. The company is testing ANTS — an integrated security platform that combines active RFID, GPS and satellite uplinks to monitor sealed cargo containers. Xpondr’s president, Link Charlot, described the trial during the Maritime Security Expo in New York,...

RealNetworks Expands Mobile Music Presence Through Strategic Vodafone Partnership In a significant move to strengthen its position in the mobile music market, RealNetworks has established a partnership with Vodafone, one of Europe's leading wireless carriers. This agreement follows just a day after Napster announced its collaboration with Motorola to power music services on ROKR handsets. The...

Riot Games has offered a brief glimpse of the upcoming agent set to join Valorant during the Summer Game Fest kickoff. The teaser, lasting just seven seconds, depicts a helmet positioned before a mechanical torso, seemingly trying to pick up a signal. The snippet leaves much to the imagination, with no details about the agent's identity or their unique abilities. Speculation suggests the agent...

Netflix's Opioid Crisis Drama Netflix's Opioid Crisis Drama "Painkiller" Set for August Debut A powerful new limited series examining America's devastating opioid epidemic is coming to Netflix this summer. "Painkiller" offers viewers a fictionalized yet impactful exploration of how this national health crisis began and its far-reaching consequences. The six-episode drama features an impressive...

Upcoming Netflix Releases Writer-director Juel Taylor expanded a running gag into a full-length movie: what began as the image of an entrepreneur, a pro, and a hustler walking into a bar became the seed for a mystery-comedy-thriller. Taylor told Netflix earlier this year that the offhand joke grew into the concept behind his new film. They Cloned Tyrone pairs Oscar winner Jamie Foxx with John...

Warner Bros.' opening weekend figures for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" ultimately reached $90,294,621 ' This sum slightly surpassed Universal’s "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" four-day Memorial Day record of $90,161,880 set in 1997 ' Sunday projections were overestimated by approximately 3%, aligning with typical recent weekly variances ' Friday’s final earnings...

Heartstopper Season 2 Preview Season 2 of Heartstopper lands on Aug. 3, bringing Charlie (Joe Locke), Nick (Kit Connor) and their friends back to Truham Grammar. In the trailer, Nick tells Elle (Yasmin Finney) that you don’t have to have your emotions perfectly figured out — “you don’t always have to understand your feelings completely. you don’t have to always...

A 37-year-old Kate Bush track has surged back into the pop consciousness, hitting No. 1 on iTunes and seeing streaming numbers explode — Spotify plays jumped by thousands of percent after its appearance on Stranger Things season 4. The song in question, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” passed the billion-stream mark on Spotify on June 22, 2023, and then enjoyed an...

Faronics Anti-Executable 3.0: Compatibility Issues Arise with Popular Security Solution Security administrators in educational institutions and law enforcement agencies have long relied on Faronics' Anti-Executable to maintain control over their systems. The application's stringent whitelisting approach has made it a go-to solution for environments where restricting software installation is...

Sweet Magnolias Season 3 "Fresh bonds and fresh obstacles nourish the spirit," reflects Maddie Townsend, portrayed by Joanna Garcia Swisher, in the preview footage for the third installment of "Sweet Magnolias." Her philosophical outlook appears timely, as the trailer reveals that the trio of lifelong friends—Maddie, Helen Decatur (played by Heather Headley), and Dana Sue Sullivan...