Actor Ellen Page has announced that he is transgender and now goes by the name of Elliot. The star, known for starring in hit films Juno and Inception, posted a lengthy statement on Twitter. It said: “I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot.”
Month: December 2020
Airbnb plans to price at $44 to $50 per share in its IPO, giving it a valuation of up to $35 billion on a fully diluted basis, according to a new filing the company submitted to the SEC Tuesday. The company seeks to raise about $2.5 billion in the IPO. Existing investors seek to sell
England’s new tiered system of coronavirus restrictions has been approved by MPs, although a sizable number of Conservatives appear to have rebelled against the measures. The system was approved by 291 votes to 78, a majority of 213. A full breakdown of the vote has not yet been released, but the figures suggest that there
At least two people have been killed and several are injured after a car drove into pedestrians in the German city of Trier, police say. Public broadcaster SWR reported that the driver had been detained by police, adding that details of the incident were unclear. Police said rescue crews were on the scene. Advertisement
Government officials have drawn up a detailed dossier looking at the impact of coronavirus on every economic sector which it is refusing to publish. The Business Department has drawn up a spreadsheet looking at the size of each sector, the concerns of each sector, its financial stability and whether there will be job losses. Officials
2:18 AM GMT Pablo Matera has been stripped of the Argentina captaincy and suspended along with team mates Guido Petti and Santiago Socino for posting racist comments on social media, the Argentine Rugby Union [UAR] said on Tuesday. The scandal has thrown the Argentina camp into crisis days before their final Tri-Nations match against Australia
The U.S. and China remain locked in a wrestle for power, and it’s worrying that they’re not working to engage and collaborate with each other, energy expert Dan Yergin told CNBC. He was weighing in on a Reuters report that cited sources saying U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to add China’s national offshore oil
Tesla has started to release a new software update with a bunch of small improvements to its navigation system and text messaging user interface, as well as a few new features. It’s not the big holiday update yet, but there are still a few interesting improvements. The new update is called 2020.48.5 and it’s started
Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of web services at Amazon.com Inc., speaks during the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in San Francisco on April 19, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon’s cloud division on early Tuesday announced the availability of new virtual computing instances for software developers that run Apple’s MacOS
Shoppers have been waiting in virtual queues for over an hour as they rush to snap up deals on the Debenhams website after the chain’s collapse. The department store chain is being wound down after JD Sports pulled out of talks on a rescue takeover, placing 12,000 jobs at risk in a horror week for UK
Debenhams is to be wound down after JD Sports pulled out of talks on a rescue takeover, placing 12,000 jobs at risk in a horror week for UK retail. The decision was taken after a sale process, initiated by administrators when the troubled 242-year old department store collapsed in April, was officially concluded leaving it
November 30th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan In the first 3 quarters of 2020, while renewable energy accounted for 70% of new power capacity in the country, it still accounted for just 20.4% of total electricity generation in those 9 months. That’s down a bit from the 22.2% share that renewable energy held in the first