Quibi, an upcoming mobile-first video streaming service, will create a series based on Snap’s founding. Film executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman — HP Enterprise’s former CEO and current Quibi chief — have announced their plans for Quibi and SXSW, and they include making both scripted and unscripted originals available for streaming. The duo picked […]
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Lizard Squad’s founding member pleads guilty to cyber-crimes
A 20-year-old has pleaded guilty in a Chicago federal court to launching cyberattacks and harassment campaigns as a founding member of the hacker-for-hire groups Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp, according to the Chicago Tribune. Between them, the two outfits knocked both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live offline in 2014, took down the UK’s National Crime […]
AC/DC founding member Malcolm Young has died at age 64
AC/DC Guitarist Malco.m Young, one of the founders of AC/DC, has died at age 64. He had been suffering from dementia since 2014. The band announced his death on its Facebook page Saturday. NEW YORK (AP) — Malcolm Young, the rhythm guitarist and guiding force behind the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, has died. […]
EU became a ‘caricature’ of its founding values – former Catalan leader
Sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has lashed out against the European Union (EU) over its response to the Catalan crisis, in which Brussels sided with Madrid in suppressing the independence drive of the region. Puigdemont criticized the EU as a “caricature of what Europe is and of what we want Europe to be,” claiming, there […]
Thomas Jefferson: Founding Father … White Supremacist?
In the series “American Hypo-cracy,” OZY looks at America’s lengthy struggle to live up to its lofty ideals by exploring some of the uglier episodes in its past that are often overlooked by the history books. Eight months after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” in Washington, D.C., another minister and […]
Chuck Berry (1926-2017): Remembering a Rock ‘n’ Roll Founding Father
The musical pioneer enduringly bridged the gaps between blues, country and R&B. WSJ.com: What’s News US