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Chelsea in talks with Euro giants, 92-cap int’l could be on his way to Stamford Bridge
Chelsea are considering a swap deal including Jorginho this summer. As per Guardian, the Blues have opened talks with Juventus regarding an audacious swap deal which will involve Miralem Pjanic as well. Apparently, Sarri wants to be reunited with Jorginho once again and Chelsea will be offered Pjanic in exchange. Sarri has worked with Jorginho for a while now. The two had a great relationship at N...
Report: Newcastle keen on midfield starlet who is attracted to their project
Newcastle have been linked with a move for the Aston Villa youngster Carney Chukwuemeka. As per reports (via Birmingham Mail), the player is attracted to Newcastle’s project. The Magpies are in the middle of a takeover and once the formalities are complete, they are expected to spend heavily on new players. The new owners will look to showcase their ambitions by bringing in top talents. The Villa ...
EDX Taps Jess Ball for “I Found You (Neptune),” Breathing New Life Into 2019 Hit [Premiere]
Switzerland’s most streamed electronic artist, EDX, took the world by storm back in 2019 when he went back to his progressive house roots on the hit single “Neptune.” After the track garnered an abundance of international support and skyrocketed its way to the top of the Beatport charts within days of its release, EDX knew it was time to reignite the fire and bring vocals to...
Martin Garrix Drops Long-Awaited John Martin Collab “Higher Ground”
Martin Garrix has finally dropped the curtain on his highly anticipated collaboration with John Martin, the scintillating progressive house jam “Higher Ground.” Garrix ripped a page out of his old progressive playbook for “Higher Ground,” producing a euphoric peaktime bomb that would slay the festival scene if it weren’t underwater due to COVID-19. Dropping ...
How Ike Turner Invented Rock ‘N Roll
Ike Turner wasn’t born in a crossfire hurricane, but he more or less died in one. He passed away at 76 in 2007, from a cocaine overdose, but by then he was very sick anyway, with heart disease and emphysema. In the last 30 years of his life, he was mostly broke, mostly disgraced, drug-addicted, sometimes homeless and, for 17 months, in jail. A few years before he died he released a record of new m...
Pandemic fallout: 40 percent of lower-income households hit by job losses
Thirteen percent of all U.S. adults, or 20 percent of people who were employed in February, were laid off or furloughed as the pandemic began sweeping through the country in March, the Fed said. Another 6 percent of all adults worked reduced hours or went on leave without pay, the central bank found in the survey, included in its annual Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households. For tho...
Job losses have now hit 40% of low-income homes
Thirteen percent of all U.S. adults, or 20 percent of people who were employed in February, were laid off or furloughed as the pandemic began sweeping through the country in March, the Fed said. Another 6 percent of all adults worked reduced hours or went on leave without pay, the central bank found in the survey, included in its annual Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households. For tho...
The Epic Games Store goes down as everyone tries to get GTA V for free
The Epic Games Store has been counting down to the launch of an unnamed free title at 11AM ET today, and we learned last night that game would be Rockstar’s smash hit Grand Theft Auto V, thanks to an early tweet posted by Epic Games’ official Twitter account. However, since the clock passed 11AM ET, the Epic Games Store has been down entirely, presumably as people have been refreshing the site try...
TikTok hit with complaint from child privacy advocates who say it’s still flouting the law
A group of child privacy advocates has filed a complaint against TikTok with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming the video app violated an agreement to protect children on its platform, The New York Times reported. TikTok paid a $5.7 million fine to the FTC in February 2019 over allegations that an earlier version of its app, called Musical.ly, violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection ...
Twitch establishes a safety advisory council to help it sort out its rules
Today, Twitch is announcing the formation of its new Safety Advisory Council, a group made up of streamers, academics, and nonprofit leaders that will advise the company on online safety issues. The council will help Twitch draft new policies and update old ones, develop new products for safety and moderation, protect the interests of marginalized people, and identify new, toxic trends emerging fr...
T-Mobile will begin eliminating the Sprint brand this summer
T-Mobile and Sprint are preparing to take the next step in merging their wireless companies, with the two brands reportedly planning to merge their customers and retail stores under a single T-Mobile banner this summer, via Fierce Wireless. In other words: the end of Sprint is near. The immediate changes are largely surface-level: Sprint’s brand will be eliminated in favor of T-Mobile’s on things ...
DMX Owes New York Almost $225K In Back Taxes
Source: Prince Williams / Getty DMX needs to get his finances in order. Reportedly, Dark Man X owes the state of New York almost $225,000 in back taxes. The homie’s at Bossip report that the state of New York’s Division of Taxation has filed a tax warrant against the Yonkers rapper. X, born Earl Simmons, allegedly owes a cool $224,845 in state income taxes, per the warrant. Clearly, X was still co...
