As hotel workers in Los Angeles struck for a second day Monday — and with thousands more workers poised to join them in what could be the biggest hotel-industry strike in years — the hotels and the union representing the workers appear to be nowhere close to reaching an agreement.…
TweetDeck, the popular Twitter viewing tool, will be put behind a paywall and available only for verified users starting next month. In a tweet late Monday, Twitter said it has “just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck,” and that “In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck.”…
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Meta Platforms Inc.’s answer to Twitter is poised to launch, according to a new report, as Elon Musk’s faltering microblogging app struggles to hold onto advertisers and over the weekend placed restrictions on posts viewed by users. The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that Meta’s META, -0.33% Threads will…
South Korea’s headline inflation slowed to a 21-month low in June after easing for a fifth consecutive month. The benchmark consumer-price index gained 2.7% from a year earlier in June — the slowest pace since September 2021 — after rising 3.3% on year in May, the country’s statistics office said…
China will ban the export of gallium and germanium, two components for chips and radars, in a bid to respond to the U.S.’s curb on supplies of high-tech components to China, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement released Monday. The ministry will impose export controls on gallium and…
Max’s July 2023 schedule doesn’t look particularly impressive, but there are some gems if you look hard enough.Director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon are behind “Full Circle” (July 14), a limited-series drama about a botched kidnapping that unravels many characters’ long-held secrets. It’s got an impressive cast, including Zazie Beetz,…
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Hulu has a ton on tap in July 2023, including revivals of “Justified” and “Futurama,” livestreamed concerts and all the shark programming you can handle.“Justified: City Primeval” (July 19) picks up the story of gunslinging U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), after the crime drama “Justified” ended its six-season run…
Netflix has a relatively light lineup in July 2023, though it’s not without a few highlights.After dropping the first half of its third season in June, Part 2 of the fantasy drama “The Witcher” (July 27) will wrap up Henry Cavill’s tenure as monster hunter Geralt of Rivia (Liam Hemsworth…