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New Movies Coming To The Global TV App This Week, June 15-21 – Global

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Real Steel (2011) Streaming Saturday, June 20

Set in the near future, where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling promoter feels hes found a champion in a discarded robot. During his rise to the top, he discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.

The Last Witch Hunter (2015) Streaming Saturday, June 20

The modern world holds many secrets, the most astounding being that witches still live among us. Centuries ago, Kaulder (Vin Diesel) managed to slay the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. Before her death, she cursed the valiant warrior with her own immortality, separating him from his beloved wife and daughter in the afterlife. Her resurrection now threatens the survival of the human race as Kaulder, the only one of his kind remaining, faces her vengeful wrath.

Terminator Genisys (2015) Streaming Saturday, June 20

When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.

Romance Retreat (2019) Streaming Monday, June 15

After a breakup, ambitious journalist Dana escapes the coverage of a massive scandal, only to find the tech guru at the center of the scandal at her retreat. As she falls for him, she has to choose between her career or her heart.

A Valentines Match (2020) Streaming Monday, June 15

Fired from her job as a reality TV host, Natalie returns home for Valentines Day, only to find herself running the town festivals auction with her ex-fianc thanks to two scheming mothers.

The Longest Week (2014) Streaming Monday, June 15

Conrad is helped by his old friend Dylan and returns the favor by falling for Dylans girlfriend Beatrice.

No Strings Attached (2011) Streaming Thursday, June 18

Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No Strings Attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?

A Feeling of Home (2019) Streaming Thursday, June 18

Web entrepreneur Abby hides her Texas roots to convince a backer shes from New England, a task complicated by a trip home and an unexpected reunion with Ryan her high school sweetheart.

Love to the Rescue (2019) Streaming Sunday, June 21

When two families want to adopt the same rescue dog, single mom Kate faces her fear of falling in love again after agreeing to shared custody of the pup with single dad Eric and his son.

Perfect Match (2015) Streaming Sunday, June 14

Two competing wedding planners, Jessica and Adam, are forced to work together on the same wedding by a meddling mother-of-the-groom. Jessicas a traditionalist, Adam thinks outside the box and they rarely agree on anything. But as they struggle to co-plan the perfect ceremony the music, caterers, the dress, the flowers they realize that they actually complement each other perfectly both in event planning and in life. And they toast to two perfect couples at the Best. Wedding. Ever.

Made for You, With You (2019) Streaming Sunday, June 21

The owner of a secondhand wedding dress business breathes new life into used dresses, making dreams come true for brides unable to afford pricey gowns. But when she meets the perfect guy, shes afraid to give her own heart a second chance at love.

Love Under the Olive Tree (2020) Streaming Sunday, June 21

The prize of Sunset Valleys annual olive oil contest is a land parcel with disputed ownership. When feisty Nicole and competitive Jake face-off, they never expect sparks to fly.

Truly, Madly, Sweetly (2018) Streaming Sunday, June 21

Natalie, a cupcake food truck owner has always dreamed of owning her own bakery. Eric has always wanted his own business. When an inheritance throws these two opposites together in a business proposal, neither could have imagined what fate had in store for them.

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Episode 21 – Blade of the Immortal – Anime News Network

If Act Twenty One Trap proves anything about Blade of the Immortal, it's that the show might finally be starting to do justice to its female cast, even if it still has a somewhat juvenile preoccupation with boobs and butts. For the longest time, Rin was the sole woman that we could consistently rely on to get any manner of character development, and even then it often felt like she was mostly there to motivate Manji's requisite bouts of bloodletting. Makie was a welcome addition to the story, but her presence in the overall tapestry of the show has been fleeting, and she too exists mostly as the distaff counterpart to Kagehisa. Things picked up quite a bit when Hyakurin became a semi-regular addition to the cast, though we wouldn't get a woman whose character arc wasn't in some way explicitly defined by romantic trauma/sexual assault until Doa joined Rin in rescuing the victims of Habaki's immortality experiments.

Now, not only has Rin's agency and role in the story been much more clearly defined, we also have Meguro and Tanpopo to add some much needed comic relief while still being competent warriors in their own right. None of the women in Blade of the Immortal have roles that are not in some way tied to the men in their lives, but we've at least reached the point where they feel like individual people in their own rights, with desires and strengths that allow them to stand apart in the ensemble. The opening scene where Magatsu, Meguro and Tanpopo help nurse Rin and Manji back to help works because we've come to care for these men and women in spite of their mixed and muddled allegiances. Even when the show's pacing isn't exactly doing the scripts any favors, the heart and soul of the story comes through in the end in moments like these, where a handful of barely held-together killers (and one incredibly stubborn teenager) are able to be friends, if only for a little while.

I wish I was as on board with Renzo's presence in the story, which hasn't lived up to its dramatic potential for me. I always figured the cost of Rin's vengeance would come back to her eventually, but the show is intent on drawing out story beat with unnecessary obfuscations. It takes forever for Rin to admit her role in the death of Renzo's father, and she still refuses to implicate him in the torture and murder of his parents; even Magatsu insists on sending Renzo out to discover the truth about his old man and the Itto-ryu on his own. I get why Rin would want to preserve whatever respect the child has for his dad, but it makes for a decidedly unsatisfying payoff to a story thread that can't have many more places to go in the few episodes that remain in Blade of the Immortal's run. We're at the point where the worst thing the show can do is waste time. Just tell the kid his pop was a sociopathic monster, hash out whatever drama comes from that, and move on already.

Even if Rin and Manji don't accomplish much other than standing up on their own two feet again in the first half of Trap, the plot keeps moving at the very least, whisking us back to Ryo's mission to fulfill her role in her father's clan and destroy the Itto-ryu. This second half of the episode begins somewhat slowly, but it eventually picks up into yet another thrilling battle to the death, which Blade of the Immortal has been excelling at lately. She's joined by Inroku Ban, a shifty warrior who favors pistols over the blade, and though Ryo and Inroku get within a hair's breadth of killing each other, they eventually join forces when they come to blows with one of the most fascinating Itto-ryu members yet: Koji.

Koji is an elderly fighter who uses subterfuge and his expertise in survival and poison-making to launch his solo assault against Habaki's troops. What makes this sequence especially fun is how trippy it gets; Ryo and Inroku both get asphyxiated with the jars of carbonic acid Koji has littered across the mountainside, giving the episode a chance to flex the surreal visuals that have marked some of the series' most compelling chapters. It's also just a great fight, with Inroku's painful death and Ryo's incredibly close victory giving the whole thing a sense of shifting balance and momentum, a hallmark of all great fight scenes.

Ryo's conflict is a bit simplistic compared to the other women in the cast she wants to live up to Habaki's expectations, though she's his last living descendant, which puts her at odds with Habaki's men but it is powerful indeed. I would never want her to actually win against Rin and Manji, but I'll be upset if she doesn't get some kind of vindication before her story is done. There are only a few weeks left before the Blade of the Immortal story concludes for good, and all of these disparate warriors are bound to meet eventually. It is possible Ryo might get her happy ending, just as it is possible that Hyakurin and Giichi might find some kind of peace in their life together, or even Rin and Manji for that matter. There are no guarantees in this web of revenge, though, and I can't even hold out too much hope that our heroes will be able to make it out intact.

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Blade of the Immortal is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Here Are 8 New Streaming Shows You Should Check Out This Winter – BuzzFeed News

Streaming service: Apple TV+

When you can watch it: Jan. 17, 2020

Following the success of The Morning Show, which earned two Golden Globe nominations and Critics' Choice and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Apple TV+ continues its slate of original programming with Little America. The eight-part anthology series tells the stories of immigrants living in the United States and was already renewed for a second season in December before the show had even started streaming. The episodes are based on a collection of true stories published in Epic Magazine.

While Little America details the lives of immigrants, including a Nigerian college student in Oklahoma and a gay man from Syria living with his husband in Idaho, there is no explicit mention of Donald Trump and the show doesnt address anything overtly political.

We want these stories to stand on their own, executive producer Kumail Nanjiani told the Washington Post. We dont want this to be a medicine show, a message show. It seems like immigrations a big topic now, but obviously immigrations always been a big topic.

According to Nanjiani, this was an intentional decision from everyone involved in creating the series, including Nanjianis wife, Emily V. Gordon, Master of None co-creator Alan Yang, and The Offices Lee Eisenberg. Its 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes shows that Little America is resonating with people by telling real stories about immigrants experiences living in America.

We didnt conceive of this show as a brick through anyones window, Yang also told the Washington Post. The show is an observed portrait of eight people. The narrative of human experience is not as different as you might think.

Streaming service: Hulu

When you can watch it: Feb. 14, 2020

Hulus adaptation of High Fidelity, which was originally supposed to stream on Disney+, is a departure from Nick Hornbys 1995 novel and the 2000 film adaptation that starred John Cusack. The new 10-episode series, which starts streaming on Valentines Day, is flipping the gender of the storys main character Rob Brooks is now played by a woman: the one and only Zoe Kravitz.

Co-creator Veronica West told television reporters last Friday at a Television Critics Association (TCA) panel that she didnt want to retell the story for television without making this change.

We have so much respect for the book and the film and I think they are perfect iterations of that story. But to say that, like, its weird, we watch a lot of romantic comedies with female leads and the problem always seems to be, you cant find the right man, or youre desperate to get married, or youre self-destructive in some ways, West said. And when a man gets to be the lead, the problems are internal. And it was interesting for us to put that in a womans point of view and let her issues with romance really just be about learning how to figure out herself and not finding Mr. Right. You know, theres lots of Mr. Rights in the show, which is part of what makes it so much fun.

Kravitz plays a record store owner in Crown Heights, a gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, who thinks back on her past relationships through music while also attempting to get past her one true love.

I lived in New York for a long time and Ive seen a lot of neighborhoods change. In terms of creating Rob in her environment, I drew upon my own experience, Kravitz said.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph also stars in the series as Robs friend Cherise, akin to Jack Blacks character in the 2000 film.

Two black women get to tell this story, Randolph said. There are many different variants within the black culture. I feel like whats so beautiful is that we got to represent the other side of that girl that you havent seen.

Streaming service: Netflix

When you can watch it: Feb. 21, 2020

America Ferrera and Wilmer Valderrama are executive producing the new Netflix series Gentefied about three Mexican American cousins living in Los Angeles who are trying to balance chasing their own dreams while staying true to the traditions of their neighborhood, including their immigrant grandfather and the local taco shop their families own.

Creators Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chvez are adapting Gentefied from its original iteration as a short film, which premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.

Ferrera and Valderrama will guest-star in the dramatic comedy series, and Ferrera directed two of the half-hour episodes.

As a producer, its a thrilling opportunity to support incredible talents like Linda Yvette Chvez and Marvin Lemus. As a Latinx millennial its a rare treat to see our lives, families, and neighborhoods depicted with such humor, heart and style, Ferrera told BuzzFeed News in a statement.

Described as a love letter to the Latinx and Boyle Heights communities, Gentefied stars Joaqun Coso, Karrie Martin, JJ Soria, and Carlos Santos. The bilingual series also explores intergenerational and cross-cultural family dynamics, like the younger characters needing to translate memes for their parents, and other themes like class and identity.

In Gentefied, we get to peek through the lens of bold Latinx storytellers as they celebrate the lives of a Latinx community navigating self-identity, class, and culture, Ferrera said. Were so proud of the show, and hope you enjoy!

Streaming service: Amazon

When you can watch it: Feb. 21, 2020

Oscar-winning actor Al Pacnio, who was most recently nominated for his ninth Academy Award for his role in Netflixs The Irishman, stars in yet another streaming project with Amazons Hunters.

The new show, created by David Weil and produced by Jordan Peeles Monkeypaw Productions, is about a group of justice-seeking Nazi hunters in 1977 New York City who have learned that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials live among everyday citizens and are planning another uprising. The Hunters, played by Pacino and Logan Lerman, set out to stop the Nazis by any means necessary.

During a TCA panel in Pasadena, California, Weil told reporters he had been inspired to create Hunters because of his familys history as Holocaust suvivors, calling the TV show a love letter to my grandmother.

My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and she told me about her experiences during the war, Weil said. Hearing this felt like the stuff of comics books and superheroes.

Weil also said the show speaks to the [current] rise of anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

The purpose of the show is an allegorical tale to draw the parallels between the 30s and 40s in Europe, the 70s in New York, and what were seeing today, Weil said. This show is really a question: What do you do? For this group of vigilantes, the question it poses: If you hunt monsters, do you become monsters yourself?

Pacino said what appealed to him when he first read the script of the series, which he referred to as a 10-hour film, is the fact that things are not what they seem.

Theres an originality in this show. Its somewhat eccentric, Pacino said. Youll see it from certain angles where its not a dry thing. Theyll catch you off guard, and you really cant believe it you never know when a joke is going to come.

Streaming service: Netflix

When you can watch it: Feb. 26, 2020

The producers of the popular original series Stranger Things and the director and executive producer of the hit series The End of the F***ing World are bringing a brand-new coming-of-age series to Netflix: I Am Not Okay With This.

Originally based on the Charles Forsman graphic novel of the same name, Sophia Lillis stars as high schooler Sydney, whos grappling with complicated family dynamics and her sexuality, all while discovering she has mysterious superpowers. Lillis is known for her past roles in Sharp Objects, the It franchise, and Gretel & Hansel.

I Am Not Okay With This executive producer Jonathan Entwistle told BuzzFeed News in a statement that hes particularly excited about this new Netflix series compared to other shows hes worked on because of its supernatural element.

Yes, there is adventure, heartbreak, high school and everything in between along the way, but what this story has that is different to my other shows is that magic, Entwistle said. Oh, and some EPIC dance moves!

The YA series will consist of seven 30-minute episodes and also stars Wyatt Oleff from the It and Guardians of the Galaxy franchises as Stanley, Sofia Bryant from The Good Wife as Dina, Kathleen Rose Perkins from Episodes and Youre The Worst as Maggie, Aidan Wojtak-Hissong from The Mission and Falling Water as Liam, and Richard Ellis as Brad Lewis.

I want viewers to come away from I Am Not Okay With This absolutely in love with the characters, Entwistle said. And maybe the thought that things that feel impossible to overcome when you are 17 do get easier.

Streaming service: Hulu

When you can watch it: March 6, 2020

Hillary Clinton is the subject of a four-part documentary series coming to Hulu this March, following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 25. The Hillary docuseries follows Clinton along the 2016 presidential campaign, when she lost the Electoral College to Donald Trump but still won the popular vote.

At a TCA panel, Clinton told reporters she sat down for about 35 hours of interviews to make the docuseries and that nothing was off limits.

Its really hard watching yourself for four hours. Thank god it was only four hours, Clinton said.

The project was directed and executive produced by Nanette Burstein, who said the documentarys original focus was Clintons campaign, but because of the outcome of the election, it became about the history of womens rights and how Clinton has been the tip of the spear in various ways.

More than anything, I wanted people to understand that this is a historical figure who is incredibly polarizing and why, Burstein said. When you actually get to know her and really understand the intimate moments of her life you realize how misguided we can be in the way that we understand history and media. That is the beauty of documentary filmmaking: that you get to know the personal and the intimate and the details, and that sort of washes all of this other stuff away.

The docuseries includes unprecedented access to Clinton and footage from the 2016 campaign thats never been seen before, as well as interviews with her husband, her daughter, her friends, and journalists.

Clinton also noted that the series starts streaming three days after Super Tuesday in the middle of the primary elections.

This is an election that will have such a profound impact, she said. I want people to take their vote really seriously. Lord knows what well do if we dont retire the current president and his henchmen.

Streaming service: Hulu

When you can watch it: March 17, 2020

Based on the 2017 novel by Celeste Ng, an eight-episode adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere is coming to Hulu from Hollywood royalty: Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. The actors are costarring as two mothers in Shaker Heights, Ohio, whose lives and families become intertwined through secrets, and also serving as executive producers.

At a TCA panel discussion, Witherspoon said shes especially happy to be able to adapt this story because she doesnt think it wouldve been possible eight years ago.

I wasnt happy with the choices that were being made for me, and I didnt see a place to exist within the industry that we had. There just wasnt a spectrum of storytelling for women that was reflective of the world that we walked through, Witherspoon said.

Washington said her character in the series adds an important element of race to the story in a way that the book doesnt address.

The book really does delve into class and sociopolitical differences and cultural differences, so I think adding the level of race to that really enriches the storytelling, Washington said. We are stepping away from this binary idea we have of race in this country, of black and white, because were also dealing with Asian American identity and immigrant identity.

In the first trailer for Little Fires Everywhere, an urgent Mia Warren (Washington) tells Elena Richardson (Witherspoon), You didnt make good choices. You had good choices.

Showrunner Liz Tigelaar said the line was written by Attica Locke and explained this was why it was important to have a well-rounded, diverse writers room for the series.

Everybody had these multiple connectivity points for the show. I cant necessarily write Mias character because that wasnt my experience, Tigelaar said. And the parts I couldnt write to, what was so great was I got to bring in seven other people who could write to those parts and then write to parts I didnt even know.

Streaming service: Amazon

When you can watch it: March 27, 2020

After hosting Project Runway together for 16 years and then announcing theyd be leaving the show in 2018, television hosts and fashion icons Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are following the shows 18-season legacy with a brand-new fashion competition show, Making the Cut. The unscripted Amazon series will air two episodes weekly for five weeks starting on March 27.

Klum and Gunn explained why they left Project Runway and took their talents to Amazon during a TCA panel, saying they wanted to grow and evolve beyond the limits that were set for them by Bravo and Lifetime.

"Our imagination was bigger than what we were allowed to do," Klum said. "Everything kind of fell apart."

Amazons sizable budget provides for even more creative freedom, and viewers will be able to shop for the fashion pieces that are featured on each episode.

"We couldnt break out of it because there was a fear, Gunn said. Not among us were the ones who were thinking creatively and innovatively about what we wanted to do."

When it comes to body positivity and including a range of sizes on the new iteration of their show, Klum said, For us, its not really a thing anymore.

Gunn echoed Klums sentiments, saying plus-size models are an important part of inclusivity on the new show, following the legacy of Project Runway which also included a variety of sizes.

"Its the real world. Its fully integrated into Making the Cut, as its fully integrated into a good deal of the fashion industry because its the way things should be, he said.

While Making the Cut has big shoes to fill, Klum and Gunns expertise and longevity on Project Runway not to mention their built-in viewership and fanbase shows promise.

"Project Runway is the undergraduate program and Making the Cut is the graduate and PhD program," Gunn said.

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The 20 technologies that defined the first 20 years of the 21st Century – The Independent

The early 2000s were not a good time for technology. After entering the new millennium amid the impotent panic of the Y2K bug, it wasnt long before the Dotcom Bubble was bursting all the hopes of a new internet-based era.

Fortunately the recovery was swift and within a few years brand new technologies were emerging that would transform culture, politicsand the economy.

They have brought with them new ways of connecting, consuming and getting around, while also raising fresh Doomsday concerns. As we enter a new decade of the 21st Century, weve rounded up the best and worst of the technologies that have taken us here, while offering some clue of where we might be going.

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There was nothing much really new about the iPhone: there had been phones before, there had been computers before, there had been phones combined into computers before. There was also a lot that wasnt good about it: it was slow, its internet connection barely functioned, and it would be two years before it could even take a video.

But as the foremost smartphone it heralded a revolution in the way people communicate, listen, watch and create. There has been no aspect of life that hasnt been changed by the technologies bundled up in the iPhone an ever-present and always-on internet connection, a camera that never leaves your side, a computer with mighty processing power that can be plucked out of your pocket.

Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone on 9 January, 2007 (Reuters)

The 2000s have, so far, been the era of mobile computers and social networking changing the shape of our cultural, political and social climate. All of those huge changes, for better or worse, are bound up in that tiny phone.AG

Though few people noticed, online social networks actually began at the end of the last century. The first was Six Degrees in 1997, which was named after the theory that everyone on the planet is separated by only six other people. It included features that became popular with subsequent iterations of the form, including profiles and friend lists, but it never really took off.

It wasnt until Friends Reunited and MySpace in the early 2000s that social networks achieved mainstream success, though even these seem insignificant when compared to Facebook.

Not only did Mark Zuckerbergs creation muscle its way to a monopoly in terms of social networks, it also swallowed up any nascent competitors in a space that came to be known as social media. First there was Instagram in 2012, for a modest $1 billion, and then came WhatsApp in 2014 for $19bn.

Between all of its apps, Facebook now reaches more than 2 billion people every day. It has come to define the way we communicate and heralded a new era of hyper-connectedness, while also profoundly shaping the internet as we know it. In doing so, Facebook has not only consigned the site Six Degrees to the history books, it has also re-written the theory itself cutting it down to just three-and-a-half degrees of separation. AC

At the start of this century, the complete reinvention of the entire economic system wasnt something many people were talking about. But then the 2007-08 financial crisis happened. As mortgages defaulted, companies collapsed, and governments bailed out the banks to the tune of trillions of dollars, people began to wonder if there might be a better way.

One person or group believed they had the answer. Satoshi Nakamotos true identity may still be a mystery, but their creation of a new electronic cash system called bitcoin in 2009 could have implications far beyond just currency. The underlying blockchain technology an immutable and unhackable online ledger could potentially transform everything from healthcare to real estate.

Bitcoin is yet to take off as a mainstream form of payment or transform the global economy like it might have promised, but we are barely a decade into the great cryptocurrency experiment. It has inspired thousands of imitators, including those currently being developed by Facebook and China, and it may be another 10 years before its true potential is finally realised. AC

Alright, so here we are, in front of the, er, elephants. And the cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks. And thats cool.

It may have been an inauspicious start, but these words would go on to fundamentally transform the way people consume media in the 21st century. It was 23 April, 2005, and Jawed Karim had just uploaded the first ever video to YouTube a video-sharing website he had helped create.

The YouTube channel homepage for Indian record label T-Series, which overtook controversial Swedish vlogger PewDiePie in 2019

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PewDiePie has been the most popular YouTuber since 2013

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5-Minute Crafts, which offers quick and quirky DIY tips to viewers, didn't even feature in the top 15 YouTube channels in July 2018

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Brazilian music video producer and director KondZilla began his career after buying a camera with life insurance money left to him after his mother died when he was 18

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Sony Entertainment Televesion (SET) launched in 1995 and has recently seen huge growth of its Hindi-language YouTube channel

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Canadian musician Justin Bieber held the number-two spot in 2018 before T-Series took over

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World Wrestling Entertainment has managed to gain a huge following on YouTube by sharing clips of fights and interviews with its stars

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This YouTube channel specialises in 3D animation videos of nursery rhymes, as well as its own original songs. It is owned by the American firm Treasure Studio

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YouTube personalities Coby Cotton, Tyler Toney, Cody Jones, and Cory Cotton form Dude Perfect, a sports entertainment channel from the US

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YouTube personality German Garmendia is a Chilean comedian and writer

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One of several musicians that populate the top 15 most popular YouTube channels, Ed Sheeran joined the list in 2017

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Music channel Badabun's subscriber count has not been publicly visible since 6 March 2019, at which point it had 37.2 million subscribers

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US rapper Eminem first entered the list of the top 15 YouTube channels in 2013, the same year that PewDiePie took over

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Brazilian Whindersson Nunes Batista joined YouTube in 2013 and became popular for his comedy videos

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US singer and actress Ariana Grande is the latest addition to the top 15 YouTube channels

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The YouTube channel homepage for Indian record label T-Series, which overtook controversial Swedish vlogger PewDiePie in 2019

AFP/Getty

PewDiePie has been the most popular YouTuber since 2013

PewDiePie / YouTube

5-Minute Crafts, which offers quick and quirky DIY tips to viewers, didn't even feature in the top 15 YouTube channels in July 2018

5-Minute Crafts

Brazilian music video producer and director KondZilla began his career after buying a camera with life insurance money left to him after his mother died when he was 18

Getty

Sony Entertainment Televesion (SET) launched in 1995 and has recently seen huge growth of its Hindi-language YouTube channel

AFP/Getty

Canadian musician Justin Bieber held the number-two spot in 2018 before T-Series took over

Getty

World Wrestling Entertainment has managed to gain a huge following on YouTube by sharing clips of fights and interviews with its stars

WWE

This YouTube channel specialises in 3D animation videos of nursery rhymes, as well as its own original songs. It is owned by the American firm Treasure Studio

Cocomelon

YouTube personalities Coby Cotton, Tyler Toney, Cody Jones, and Cory Cotton form Dude Perfect, a sports entertainment channel from the US

Getty

YouTube personality German Garmendia is a Chilean comedian and writer

HolaSoyGerman

One of several musicians that populate the top 15 most popular YouTube channels, Ed Sheeran joined the list in 2017

Getty

Music channel Badabun's subscriber count has not been publicly visible since 6 March 2019, at which point it had 37.2 million subscribers

Badabun / YouTube

US rapper Eminem first entered the list of the top 15 YouTube channels in 2013, the same year that PewDiePie took over

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Brazilian Whindersson Nunes Batista joined YouTube in 2013 and became popular for his comedy videos

Whinderssonnunes / YouTube

US singer and actress Ariana Grande is the latest addition to the top 15 YouTube channels

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Just over a year later, Google bought the site for $1.65 billion and the fortunes of Karim, his co-founders, and countless future content creators were changed forever.

There are now hundreds of hours of video published to YouTube every minute and it all started with that 18-second clip at the zoo. AC

Arthur C Clarke famously quipped that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. But there is surely nothing more like magic and no magic more powerful than the fact that the 21st century has brought the ability to instantly connect to information and people at the other side of the world.

First, at the beginning of the century, came 3G, and then 10 years or so later came 4G. Every decade of this century has been marked by new advances in the speed and reliability of mobile data connections.

And those mobile data connections have helped re-write the world that relies on them. Just about every other major breakthrough in technology that came through the 2000s social media, instant photo sharing, citizen journalism and everything else relied on having data connections everywhere.

5G which has ostensibly already rolled out, but is yet to make its full impact is likely to be similarly transformative through the decade to come, if its evangelists are to be believed.

Debates have raged about whether this constant connectivity and the distractions and dangers it has brought has really driven us apart. But that too is surely testament to its power. AG

Many of technologys biggest developments in the 2000s havent really been about technology at all: piracy and then streaming changed how we make and consume culture entirely, social media has turned politics on his head. Nowhere is that more clear than in the gig economy and the apps and websites like Uber, Deliveroo and Airbnb that power it, which claim to be tech businesses but are really new ways of buying and selling labour.

The real revolution of the gig economy was not the technology that powers these apps: there is little difference between calling for a cab and summoning an Uber, really. Nor was it what the companies like to suggest, that they have opened up a new and inspiring way of working that allows anyone to clock on whenever they log on.

Instead, it was the beginning of a process of changing the way that people work and relate to those who fulfil services for them. It is likely that we have not seen the end of the kinds of profound changes that these companies have made to working conditions or the ways that those workers have fought back. AG

Virtual reality has been the future before: ever since the first stereoscopes, people have been excited about the possibility of disappearing into other worlds that appear before their eyes. But it has never quite arrived.

But in the more recent years of the 2000s it started to look a bit more meaningful. Virtual reality headsets have been pushed out by many of the worlds biggest companies, and consumer computers are finally powerful enough to generate believable worlds that people are happy to spend their time in.

In recent years, much of the focus has turned to augmented reality rather than virtual reality. That technology allows information to be overlaid on top of the real world, rather than putting people into an entirely virtual world. If it comes off if it is not confined to failed experiments like Google Glass then it could change the way we interact with the world, potentially giving us information all of the time and could even do away with things like smartphones as our primary way of connecting with technology. AG

Quantum computing has not really happened yet. A few months ago, researchers announced that they had achieved quantum supremacy by doing an operation that would not be possible on a traditional computer but it was a largely useless, very specific, operation, which didnt really change anything in itself.

Already, however, the promise and the threat of quantum computing is changing the world. It looks set to upend all of our assumptions about computers, allowing them to be unimaginably fast and do work never thought possible. It could unlock new kinds of health research and scientific understanding; it could also literally unlock encryption, which currently relies on impossible calculations that could quickly become very possible with quantum computers.

A new era of computing could bring about a 'quantum apocalypse' (iStock)

It isnt clear when it will arrive, of course; like other potentially revolutionary technologies, it could take a very long time or never arrive at all. But it is sitting there in the future, ready to turn everything on its head and, as researchers rush to understand it, it is already changing the world. AG

No vision of the future would be complete without the ability to speak to and control your home. And now it seems like we are finally living in it.

Through the 2000s, just about everything came to be hooked up to the internet: you could buy smart kettles, internet-enabled doorbells, and a video camera for every room in your house. And to control them came microphones and speakers that you put in your house and could talk to.

But as the smart home and the voice assistants that power it have soared in popularity, they have been beset by concerns, too. Is giving over control of your home to internet-enabled devices safe, when those devices can break down or be seized by hackers? Should we be allowing internet giants like Amazon and Google to put microphones in our home? As we enter the new decade, it looks like our homes are set to be defined not by the capabilities the technology in our homes give us but who we want to have power over them. AG

Before there was Spotify, there was Napster, and before people were watching movies on Netflix, they were downloading them through PirateBay. Piracy has been one step ahead of legal ways to consume media but in doing so it has led the way for new platforms that now dominate our online lives.

Streaming has not only changed the way we listen to music and watch films, it has also given rise to new ways to create content. Live streaming video games on Twitch is one of the fastest growing mediums, while live video broadcasts through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube give people instant access to everything from street protests to rocket launches.

The Pirate Bay's latest venture into streaming comes despite battling takedown attempts by authorities for more than a decade (Reuters)

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Is Greys Anatomy New Tonight? Heres When The Next Episode of Greys Anatomy Is On ABC And Hulu – Decider

Were halfway through Greys Anatomy Season 20, but before we reunite with our favorite characters at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital we must survive yet another week without a new episode.

Per ABC, the official Greys Anatomy Season 20, Episode 6 synopsis is as follows: Mika and Teddy receive a patient from a nearby penitentiary. Catherine pushes back on Link and Monicas treatment plan for a VIP. Bailey tries to integrate wellness into the residency program.

But when can we expect the hit medical drama to return? Weve got the answer!

CuriousifGreys Anatomy is new tonight, Thursday, April 25? Want to know whenGreys Anatomy returns with new Season 20 episodes? Wondering how many episodes are inGreys Anatomy Season 20? Or if the medial drama will be returning for a historic Season 21?

Heres everything you need to know aboutGreys Anatomy Season 20, Episode 6 (and beyond), including premiere date, time, and more.

Sadly, no. As we noted, there will be no new episode ofGreys Anatomyairing on ABC, Thursday, April 25. The show is currently on week two of its midseason hiatus, but hang in there. A return is on the horizon.

The next new episode ofGreys Anatomy aka Season 20, Episode 6, The Marathon Continues premieres on Thursday, May 2 from 9:00 to 10:01 p.m. ET with next-day streaming on Hulu. ABC will also be airing new episodes of 9-1-1 and Station 19 this night.

Have trust issues after a week with no Greys Anatomy and need to know when Season 20, Episode 7 is set to premiere? Join the club. Thankfully, ABC released Episode 7 details in advance.

Greys Anatomy Season 20, Episode 7, She Used to Be Mine is set to premiere on Thursday, May 9 from 9:00 to 10:01 p.m. ET with next-day streaming on Hulu. According to the network, the synopsis is as follows: An unexpectedly complex case brings back painful memories for Simone. Jules and Blue make a high-stakes bet on who can finish their procedure log first. Richard suspects Winston is avoiding him.

As a result of 2023 WGA and SAG-AFRTA strike delays and schedule changes,Greys AnatomySeason 20 will be a shorter season, with only 10 episodes. While fans may be upset theres only half a season left after the April hiatus ends, weve got good news

Yes! ABC renewedGreys Anatomyfor Season 21, which means the series will return in the 2024-2025 season for more.

The loyalty and love of Greys Anatomy fans has propelled us into a historic 21st season, and I could not be more grateful, series creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes said in a statement per Variety. Meg Marinis storytelling is a gift that continues to keep the show vibrant, compelling and alive, and I cant wait to see what she has in store for next season.

WhenGreys Anatomydoes finally return with new episodes, heres how you can tune in live: If you have a cable subscription that includes ABC, you can watchGreys Anatomylive by setting your TV to the proper channel a few minutes before an episode airs.You can also use your cable username and password to watch live ABC episodes live onABC.comor withthe ABC app. And if your cable package includes a DVR, you can always record live episodes for later viewing.

Dont have cable? Dont worry! There are other live viewing options, like live TV skinny bundles, which give you access to networks without cable.YouTube TV,Hulu + Live TV,andfuboTV, all come with ABC. But if you dont have cable or a live TV skinny bundle, you can stream episodes the following day on Hulu. Heres how to watchGreys Anatomyonline.

Youll need to be aHulusubscriber in order to watchnew episodes of Greys Anatomy the day after they air on ABC. The good news is youll have access to the episode withany version of the streaming service. The streamers least expensive ad-supported plan costs $7.99 a month (or $79.99 a year), while its ad-free option is $17.99 a month. If you choose to add Live TV to your plan you can select an ad-supported Hulu + Live TV now with Disney+ and ESPN+ bundle for $76.99 a month or go ad-free for $89.99 a month.

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