What the Near Future Holds for Media & Tech

People are being urged to look out for a mouth cancer symptom that may be noticeable in your teeth.

Aldi shoppers are praising the bargain giant's BB cream - and it's on sale for less than £2. The tinted face cream is part of the retailer's Lacura beauty range and offers up to "24 hours of moisturisation", while also concealing pesky blemishes.

Labour has its narrowest lead over the Conservatives since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, according to a new poll.

Mediaite.Twitter has similarly blocked would-be rivals like Mastodon from sharing live links on the platform. But Substack is the home of hundreds of influential writers who need platforms like Twitter and Facebook to share it beyond their subscription bases.Taibbi said in a Substack chat that Twitter is now “unusable” for him, and that Musk did not respond to his questions about the move, Mashable’s Matt Binder reported.

Marks and Spencer shoppers looking for a new summer outfit have been sent swooning over a midi tea dress that looks perfect for the sunny season.

K.J. Yossman As negotiations between the WGA and the studios and streamers gather steam, the reverberations are being felt well beyond the confines of Sherman Oaks where the sides are sitting down to wrangle over complicated issues at stake. Thousands of miles away, on the other side of the Atlantic, questions are already being asked about what impact a WGA strike may have in the U.K. – and whether British writers, who harbor many of the same concerns as their American counterparts, could ever stage a strike. “The problems that U.K. writers and U.S. writers face are basically the same,” says Robert Taylor, a lawyer and screenwriter who also acts as a legal advisor to the Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB). “The things in the U.S. strike about not getting paid enough by the streaming services, the things about mini [writers’] rooms and the writers being expected to contribute for small amounts of money and then being dropped, not being taken forward into the series, it’s exactly the same in the U.K.”

EXCLUSIVE: Members of a House select committee on China met with Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger and later with a group of Hollywood filmmakers and executives on Wednesday, amid concerns over industry business practices in engaging with Beijing.

Sainsbury's has been forced to defend its new minced beef packaging after it caused outrage with shoppers who slammed it for turning the meat to mush.

Easter time is just about upon us again, and it wouldn't be the same without a Creme Egg or ten, right?

Naman Ramachandran SISTER, the media group co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider, has unveiled a creative partnership with and taken a significant stake in new TV and tech entertainment company Yes Yes Media. Yes Yes, an unscripted entertainment venture, is founded by broadcaster and format developer Richard Bacon, who has presented “The Big Breakfast” and “Top of the Pops” and created formats “The Hustler,” hosted by Craig Ferguson (ABC), “This Is My House” (BBC1) and “I Literally Just Told You,” hosted by Jimmy Carr (Channel 4). The deal allows Yes Yes to leverage access to the SISTER’s global network of creative companies and investments spanning television and film, podcasting, publishing and live events.

The wife of US fugitive Nicholas Rossi has moved out of their Glasgow home after his latest bail bid was denied.

EXCLUSIVE: A film adaptation of the Jerry Torre memoir The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens has been greenlit by Unger Media. Torre’s story was detailed in the book co-authored by him and Tony Maietta released in 2018.

A Polish woman who believes she is Madeline McCann has shared with Dr Phil what her future plans are once she has received the results of her DNA test.

A Scottish photographer has shared photos of a mysterious stone slab dating back thousands of years.

A former police officer has recouped a £75,000 investment he put into a company owned by conman Matthew Farr.

Matt Hancock is claiming an extra £13,200 a year in expenses from the taxpayer to rent a love nest after quitting his marital home. The former Health Secretary has been claiming £3300 a month for a property in London since September, shortly before he earned £320,000 for appearing on TV reality show, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here.

A Virgin Media customer on Facebook has shared how they manage to haggle their way out of an upcoming surge in price on their bills.

Grateful to be alive. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Meredith Marks revealed she survived a near-fatal car accident after the vehicle she was in almost drove off a cliff.

A man has been arrested after a horror 'stabbing' left a 45-year-old with life-threatening injuries.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon used to share a bank account in order to fund acting auditions.The Oscar-winning duo have famously been friends for the entirety of their careers and beyond, and that friendship even extended beyond the usual boundaries. Appearing on a recent episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast (as per Variety), the two actors revealed they had one bank account between them starting in the late 1980s.The pair set up the bank account to help make their dreams of making it in Hollywood a reality. “It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, before adding the arrangement was “a weird thing in retrospect.”Weighing in, Affleck said: “We were going to help each other and be there for each other.