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In the rapidly evolving landscape of the digital economy, businesses find themselves traversing uncharted waters, encountering new challenges in the realm of cross-border taxation. This blog sets sail to explore the complexities of cross-border tax challenges in the digital age and how the expertise of an international law firm and international lawyers becomes instrumental in…
Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
By January 19, Tiktok must be removed from Google and Apple’s app stores. This was the communication made known by the two American legislators through a letter addressed to the respective directors of the companies. Last week, the US Federal Court of Appeals upheld a […]
Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
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There has been a lot of talk online that China is battling another epidemic after many posts on social media alleging that the country’s hospitals are overburdened writes economictimes.indiatimes.com. Reports suggest China is facing another epidemic five years after the outbreak of the deadly Covid-19 […]
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Apple is teasing a mysterious announcement it will make during the first weekend of 2025, January 4 and January 5. The tech giant has run an ad campaign showing scenes from various Apple TV+ shows with the “See for yourself” label superimposed on the image. […]
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By January 19, Tiktok must be removed from Google and Apple’s app stores. This was the communication made known by the two American legislators through a letter addressed to the respective directors of the companies. Last week, the US Federal Court of Appeals upheld a […]
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Researchers at Cleafy have discovered a new Android banking trojan called “DroidBot” that steals login information for more than 77 cryptocurrency exchanges and banking apps. DroidBot has been active since June 2024 as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform. Criminals who want to use DroidBot pay a […]
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Novak Djokovic is more and more hated by the public. There has never been “love” between him and the crowd, but this time at Roland Garros, the hatred towards the Serbian racket has increased due to the political gesture at the end of a match […]
SportsNovak Djokovic is more and more hated by the public. There has never been “love” between him and the crowd, but this time at Roland Garros, the hatred towards the Serbian racket has increased due to the political gesture at the end of a match where he wrote on camera that “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia”.
During the challenge of the fourth round against Davidovich Fokina, in the 36th minute he was booed for a long time by the fans present in the main field of the French Open. Novak’s behavior on the field of play is never sportsmanlike and this has made the public hate him more and more while at the end of the match he said:
“Most of the people come to watch the matches and enjoy the tennis, but unfortunately there is also a small part who make such gestures. There are people who boo everything he does and that’s their right because they pay the ticket to come to the stadium. However, I consider it rude on their part and I can’t understand why they do it.”
Djokovic’s message about Kosovo has not been punished by the organizers, while the French Minister of Sports called the message inappropriate, asking him not to include politics in Roland Garros.
Today, Korça celebrates the 16th edition of the carnival, which also coincides with the opening of the tourist season. The party started in the morning and will culminate with activities until dinner.The reporter is closely following the activity throughout the day. the journalist said that […]
LifeStyleToday, Korça celebrates the 16th edition of the carnival, which also coincides with the opening of the tourist season. The party started in the morning and will culminate with activities until dinner.
The reporter is closely following the activity throughout the day. the journalist said that 30 different groups from the country but also from other countries, such as North Macedonia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, will participate.
“The special feature of this year is its massiveness, the fact that 30 artistic groups will participate, the main ones are Albanians, but there will be participants from neighboring countries, including Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
What is currently happening is a small walk in the Pedonales area to arrive at the city’s Cathedral, where the big scene will be tonight. The symbolism of this walk is the fact that all citizens should be given the message that today is a holiday and that there is one more reason to go out into the city, even in the characteristic alleys of Korca, wearing a costume and a mask. “, said the journalist.
Carnivals began to be celebrated in Korça before the 1940s, a period in which the cultural life in this city was diverse. Although a pagan holiday, Carnival was later celebrated on All Souls’ Day in the month of February.
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The carnivals of Korça got a big boost after the creation of cultural societies such as “Rinia Korçare” etc. In this period, carnivals were accompanied by mandolins, guitars and humorous songs. The celebration of Carnival was discontinued after the 60s, to resume under different social conditions after the 90s.
A couple of years have passed since Apple acquired Primephonic, a company specializing in curated classical music made available to audiophiles through a subscription. Apple has since leveraged the acquisition as Apple Music Classical, a dedicated app independent of Apple Music. It is finally ready […]
TechnologyA couple of years have passed since Apple acquired Primephonic, a company specializing in curated classical music made available to audiophiles through a subscription. Apple has since leveraged the acquisition as Apple Music Classical, a dedicated app independent of Apple Music. It is finally ready for its debut on Android, a privilege afforded to very few Apple apps.
Apple Music Classical came to iOS and iPadOS in March this year, and the new Android app seems to have most of the same features. You can enjoy over five million tracks with properly curated metadata, and some even have spatial audio head tracking support if you’re rocking compatible audio gear (via 9to5Mac). The app supports streaming Hi-Res Lossless audio in up to 24-bit/192 kHz, just as it does on iOS. You just need an existing Apple Music subscription to enjoy the classical tunes.
As with most subscription-style streaming services, Apple is promising Android users an ad-free experience. People on Apple Music’s individual, family, and student plans get access to the service free of charge, but those using the Siri-specific Apple Music Voice Plan cannot use Apple Music Classical.
When the new app’s Android debut was confirmed, we were fully expecting it to drop after around six months, but Apple surprised us with a two-month gap. Meanwhile, Apple hasn’t updated the App Store listing for the Classical app since its launch. CarPlay support and the Mac app aren’t ready, and the iPad app hasn’t been optimized yet.
While Apple is giving classical music its own app, Google is busy doing the exact opposite — effectively fusing podcasts with YouTube Music after removing Google Podcasts from Search results. Individual apps dedicated to types of music may be a challenge to maintain in the long term, but it does help avoid shuffle picking Beethoven after an Eminem track.
Okay, let’s do this one last time: five years ago, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse changed… well, everything. The big-screen arrival of Brooklyn-based Spider-Man Miles Morales not only thrillingly remixed the arachno-hero’s oft-told origin story and preluded a deluge of live-action multiverse stories — it also entirely redefined […]
EntertainmentOkay, let’s do this one last time: five years ago, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse changed… well, everything. The big-screen arrival of Brooklyn-based Spider-Man Miles Morales not only thrillingly remixed the arachno-hero’s oft-told origin story and preluded a deluge of live-action multiverse stories — it also entirely redefined what mainstream animated movies could look like with its wildly expressive visual style. It was a cinematic lightning strike; a single film that fundamentally shifted an entire medium — and a genre — in one quick thwip. Now what?
As sequel logic dictates, you go bigger, bolder, darker. Which Across The Spider-Verse (to be followed by 2024’s Beyond The Spider-Verse) does, on all accounts — if the last film was a punky, all-killer no-filler debut, the back-to-back sequels are leaping into psychedelic rock-opera double-album territory.
And fear not: Disc 1 is another instant classic. Last time, several Spider-beings entered Miles’ universe; now, Miles is heading out into a handful of other ’verses, with wormhole-spewing baddie The Spot (a brilliantly off-kilter Jason Schwartzman) and other reality-destabilising anomalies threatening a multiversal collapse. Misanthropic Miguel O’Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099 (teased at the end of Into The Spider-Verse), has assembled an elite Spider-team to stop it.
Narratively, Across The Spider-Verse is as satisfyingly structured as its predecessor, spinning its sprawling story in clean lines and compelling character arcs. That’s no mean feat, since it takes us from Gwen’s universe, to Miles’, over to the India-inspired Mumbattan, into Miguel’s Nueva York, and beyond — while also introducing Issa Rae’s heavily pregnant, motorbike-riding Jessica Drew; the charismatic Pavitr Prabhakar (Karan Soni); the “oi-oi!”-ing Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk
(Daniel Kaluuya, who nearly steals the whole movie); and ever-wilder Spider-variants. That clarity can be attributed to writer-producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller — joined on script duties by Shang-Chi’s Dave Callaham — whose ability to find emotional resonance and creative potential in unlikely places (21 Jump Street, LEGO bricks) remains miraculous.
The mechanisms under the surface are seamless, then — but the overwhelming power of Across The Spider-Verse remains the sheer eye-sizzling excellence of its animation, and the electrifying energy it creates. The spectacle here is unparalleled — delivering Gaspar Noé-style glitching credits, evocations of ’70s Indian comics, mixed-media scrapbook collages, and Stanley Donwood-esque monochromatic scrawls. It is endlessly inventive in its use of colour, composition and texture to convey mood and tone.
Nowhere does that come through stronger than in Gwen’s Earth-65, all washed-out watercolours that shift seamlessly with the storytelling, her emotions blossoming into a symphony of swirling hues — pure cinematic synaesthesia. And as the film opens with an extended sequence in her world (this is Gwen’s film as much as it is Miles’), your mind will be blown ten times over before the opening credits even roll. It’s utterly breathtaking.
Amid all the chaos, Lord and Miller — and incoming directors Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson — deepen every relationship. Miles and Gwen’s will-they-won’t-they romance is one thing (there are, she points out, deadly consequences for Gwens who date Spider-Men), but it’s the parental push-pull that gets the biggest look-in: Gwen’s bond with her father reaching breaking point, and Miles’ loving parents terrified of a world that likely won’t treat him as kindly as they do. And it’s breathlessly funny too. A brawl between Miles and The Spot (desperate to be more than a “villain of the week”) is interrupted by an unruly goose; a da Vinci-styled Vulture comes face-to-face with Jeff Koons sculptures; The Wire’s infamous F-bomb-laden crime-scene investigation gets a PG homage (“Shoot!”).
Make no mistake, Across The Spider-Verse is masterful. It’s pop art that doesn’t just pop — it hums, fizzes and bangs; art that doesn’t just exist for the sake of being regarded, but uses everything at its disposal to make you feel deeply. It’s a blockbuster drum solo — literally, at one point — dazzling on so many levels while never losing the beat; a paean to what’s possible when rewriting the rules.
It’s as good as sequels get — challenging its own mythology, questioning the notion that “anyone can wear the mask”, and interrogating the tenets of what makes a Spider-Man. If Beyond The Spider-Verse sticks the landing, we could be in for a new all-time-great trilogy. What’s up, danger?
Nine days before the Champions League final in Istanbul between Manchester City and Inter, the referee of the challenge can change. Pole Szymon Marciniak is in question according to Sports Mediaset, after attending an event organized by Polish far-right leader Mentzen, known for his homophobic […]
SportsNine days before the Champions League final in Istanbul between Manchester City and Inter, the referee of the challenge can change.
Pole Szymon Marciniak is in question according to Sports Mediaset, after attending an event organized by Polish far-right leader Mentzen, known for his homophobic and anti-Semitic stances.
The unprecedented decision is expected to be taken tomorrow, but in the meantime UEFA has announced that it has asked the referee for urgent clarifications and that it has taken this issue very seriously.
In UEFA’s response, it is emphasized that the entire football community is totally against the ideas defended by the group in question.
There was also a storm of reactions for the Englishman Anthony Taylor, who after leading the final of the Europa League, where Roma lost on penalties against Sevilla, was confronted at the Budapest airport by dozens of aggressive Roma fans, who physically attacked his wife.
Tutankhamun stares at us through the millennia after scientists rebuilt his face, revealing a pharaoh that looks like more like a ‘young student’ than a king. His features were brought to life by an international team of academics from Brazil, Australia and Italy using a digital model of […]
TechnologyTutankhamun stares at us through the millennia after scientists rebuilt his face, revealing a pharaoh that looks like more like a ‘young student’ than a king.
His features were brought to life by an international team of academics from Brazil, Australia and Italy using a digital model of his mummified skull.
The reconstruction reveals the youthful and ‘delicate’ visage of a king who was still a teenager when he died more than three thousand years ago.
Brazilian graphics expert Cicero Moraes, who co-authored the new study, said: ‘To me he looks like a young man with a delicate face.
‘Looking at him, we see more of a young student than a politician full of responsibilities, which makes the historical figure even more interesting.’
The famous ‘boy king’ was discovered along with dozens of incredible treasures by British archaeologist Howard Carter in November 1922 in Egypt’s Valley of Kings.
Because the international team did not have direct access to the pharaoh’s skull, completing the new model was especially challenging.
Thankfully, previous studies had already recorded the skull measurements, and published reference images.
Mr Moraes said: ‘It was a detective work, where traces of information were concatenated [linked together] in order to provide us with a three-dimensional model of the skull.
‘With the proportion data and some important cephalometric measurements, it was possible to take the digital skull of a virtual donor and adjust it so that it became the skull of Tutankhamun.’
From there, Mr Moraes said, they recreated ‘the size of the lips, the position of the eyeballs, the height of the ears and the front size of the nose’.
‘All of these projections are based on statistical studies that were performed on CT scans of living individuals from several different ancestries,’ he said.
Markers were then applied to the skull indicating the thickness of soft tissues in various places, using data from modern Egyptians as a guide.
With these and other techniques, the face was gradually rebuilt into an objective reconstruction.
Subjective elements like eye colour were then added to further humanise the subject.
It’s not the first time scientists have tried to rebuild the likeness of the young pharaoh – another attempt was made in 2005.
Michael Habicht, an Egyptologist and archaeologist at Flinders University in Australia, who co-authored the new study, noted the startling resemblance between the two reconstructions.
He said: ‘Our reconstruction is amazingly close to the one made by a French team a few years ago.
‘It also corresponds with the ancient depictions of Tutankhamun, especially with the head on the lotus flower from his tomb treasure.’
Sevilla has won the Europa League again. The Spanish team beat Rome with 11-meters, in the final that took place in Budapest, and triumphed for the seventh time in this competition, which has won more than any other team in history. Regular time ended in […]
SportsSevilla has won the Europa League again. The Spanish team beat Rome with 11-meters, in the final that took place in Budapest, and triumphed for the seventh time in this competition, which has won more than any other team in history.
Regular time ended in a 1-1 draw. Dybala put the Reds ahead in the 35th minute, while Mancini scored in his own goal in the 55th minute, equalizing the score.
90 minutes ended 1-1 and even 30 minutes of extra time did not change the balance, with the teams going to the penalty shootout.
There, the Spaniards proved infallible, while Roma were betrayed by their two central defenders, Mancini and Ibanez.
Communication has never been easier than nowadays, because mobile devices are always with us, but that does not mean that we can use them to make calls in every situation. Some guidelines, even if they are unwritten, exist and for some decency, people should follow […]
LifeStyleCommunication has never been easier than nowadays, because mobile devices are always with us, but that does not mean that we can use them to make calls in every situation.
Some guidelines, even if they are unwritten, exist and for some decency, people should follow them. Unless it’s an emergency.
Therefore, five public places are particularly controversial when it comes to avoiding phone calls with a cell phone.
<h4>Public transport</h4>
Noise and crowds are a common reason why we should avoid calling on public transport, unless you want a one-way conversation.
You should also be considerate of other passengers, who may not want to hear what you are saying. So try to stick to text messages.
<h4>Cash registers in stores</h4>
Don’t be “that person” that everyone looks at with a certain amount of anger because when it’s their turn, they keep everyone else a phone call away.
It’s best to wait until you’re done with everything at checkout before making a phone call.
<h4>Public toilets</h4>
This is not only about respecting privacy in a shared space, but also about possible pollution due to dirt.
It is enough to put the cell phone anywhere and there is a possibility of an infection.
<h4>Restaurants</h4>
It may seem appropriate to make a phone call while waiting for your food order, but it is very rude, not only to those around you, but also to those eating with you.
If it’s really important, excuse yourself and go out and make the call.
<h4>Shared workspace</h4>
This does not apply to the types of jobs where talking on the phone is a necessity. But any private conversation should be avoided, at least in the vicinity of colleagues and in a place where silence and concentration are very important.
Again, if the call is important, go somewhere where you have privacy and don’t disturb anyone.
Daniil Medvedev is the big surprise of the first round of Roland Garros. The Russian tennis player suffered one of the most incredible losses of his career against the unknown Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild, world number 172, who usually participates in low-level tournaments (Challenger). Medvedev, […]
SportsDaniil Medvedev is the big surprise of the first round of Roland Garros.
The Russian tennis player suffered one of the most incredible losses of his career against the unknown Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild, world number 172, who usually participates in low-level tournaments (Challenger).
Medvedev, fresh from winning the Rome Masters, seemed to have gained confidence in his game on the red clay courts, but the loss in the first round shows that the Russian is still lacking on this surface.
The match ended 7-6, 6-7, 2-6, 6-3 and 6-4 for the Brazilian, who in his career has won only one tournament (in Chile, in 2020).
France is asking Twitter to abide by the rules, or it will block its signal. Also, the French Minister of Digitalization requests from the European Union restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence. Social networks are facing a series of restrictive measures in many countries […]
Politics TechnologyFrance is asking Twitter to abide by the rules, or it will block its signal. Also, the French Minister of Digitalization requests from the European Union restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence.
Social networks are facing a series of restrictive measures in many countries around the world. Recently, it is France that threatens to close “Twitter”.
The Minister of Digitization and Telecommunications in France, Jean-Noel Barrot, stated that Twitter will be banned in his country if it evades the rules.
Barrot made a statement about the social network’s avoidance of non-binding rules of practice prepared by the European Union to combat disinformation.
“Twitter plays an important role in public debate, but we don’t risk that a social network like Twitter will allow supporters of disinformation to influence us by hijacking public discussion and our democracy,” Barrot said.
But Twitter, it seems, is only the first step of austerity measures in France.
Minister Barrot has informed that even for artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT, a framework must be defined that limits their use within the scope of legal regulations in Europe.
Commenting that such technologies should not be completely excluded by subjecting them to strict sanctions, Barrot said: “These AI models are subject to a furious race that we must not allow ourselves to be left behind.”
For this reason, the French ministry Barrot emphasizes that Europe should invest in artificial intelligence programs.
