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Google on Tuesday announced that starting March 23, those using its platform would no longer be permitted to “publicly share images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger.” The following Friday, it said it is reversing itself.
6:53 AM EST 3/2/2015
HTC today unveiled at its Mobile World Congress (MWC) press conference in Barcelona a new virtual reality system it has developed in partnership with the gaming giant Valve.Read more
6:47 AM EST 3/2/2015
Alcon Entertainment which acquired the rights to the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner in 2011 is talks with Polytechnique and Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve to helm the sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Read more
6:42 AM EST 3/2/2015
Poor Dakota Johnson. She just gamely took part in a Saturday Night Live (SNL) scripted sketch parodying Toyota's “My Bold Dad” commercial, where a dad gets tearful after he drops his daughter off to join the army, and now she's getting the brunt of the blast from social media. In the sketch, SNL's Taran Killam, playing the dad, drops off Dakota as his daughter, who said: “Dad, it’s just ISIS.” She boards a truck with actors dressed as Islamic State members, one of whom yells: “Death to America,” as the father asks them to take care of his little girl, much like in the Toyota Camry ad.Read more
6:36 AM EST 3/2/2015
On Friday night, Michelle Rodriguez, as she was cruising out of Katsuya, told TMZ that while minority actors deserve their own characters, they shouldn't take on white ones that are already there.Read more
6:12 AM EST 3/2/2015
Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta), who turns 29 next month, and her fiance Taylor Kinney, 33, who is seen weekly on NBC TV as Lieutenant Kelly Severide in Chicago Fire, were among the more than 4,500 participants in Sunday's 15th Annual Chicago Polar Plunge, a yearly fund-raising event for the benefit of the Special Olympics, the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.Read more
6:02 AM EST 3/2/2015
Taylor Swift has 52.8 million Twitter followers, 22.1 million on Instagram and 74.4 million likes on Facebook, says Telegraph.Read more
5:56 AM EST 3/2/2015
Ludacris (Christopher Brian Bridges), 37, has a new baby on the way with wife Eudoxie Mbouguiyengue, their first as a couple, and the third as far as the actor-rapper and entrepreneur is concerned.Read more
5:41 AM EST 3/2/2015
William Shatner, 83, said he was unable to attend Leonard Nimoy's funeral in Los Angeles Sunday as he was then still in Florida for a Red Cross charity event at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach.Read more
7:30 AM EST 3/1/2015
WGN America is going forward with its 10-episode straight-to-series order with Underground, a pre-Civil War slave drama project created and to be produced by Akiva Goldsman of A Beautiful Mind fame, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Read more
7:26 AM EST 3/1/2015
Music icon and multi-award winning singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder will be serving as an executive producer in NBC's upcoming epic eight-hour miniseries titled Freedom Run.Read more
7:18 AM EST 3/1/2015
Sam Huntington, 32, best known for his TV role as the werewolf Josh Levison in Syfy's Almost by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley and directed by Gail Mancuso.Read more
7:11 AM EST 3/1/2015
Gotham season 1 will be taking another break for a few weeks, but before it does, it will on Monday be airing episode 18 titled “Everyone Has A Cobblepot.”Read more
7:05 AM EST 3/1/2015
Leonard Nimoy, who famously portrayed Mr. Spock, the unflappable, always logical human-Vulcan hybrid first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the iconic television and movie franchise series Star Trek was found dead at age 83 on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles.Read more
6:59 AM EST 3/1/2015
MTV announced on Friday that it has renewed Are You the One? and The Challenge and has ordered two pilots to series.Read more