ADVERTISEMENTBritish singer and songwriter Jessie J revealed in a social media post on Wednesday that she has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. The 37-year-old now plans to undergo surgery following a festival performance in London later this month. “Cancer sucks in any form, but I’m holding on to the world ‘early’,” she said in a video
ADVERTISEMENTWell, that didn’t take long... Banksy’s newest work, a traffic bollard casting a shadow of a lighthouse with the words "I want to be what you saw in me" written over it, was temporarily defaced once its location was confirmed last weekend. Geoguessers on social media turned out to be right when they speculated that the
ADVERTISEMENTWhile exiting Air Force One last Friday, Donald Trump held his phone and waved to the photographers, unintentionally showing his lock screen.The images have since gone viral online, as the US president’s lockscreen shows a picture of himself doing his signature finger-pointing pose.One social media user, “johnny maga,” posted a photograph of the lock screen with
ADVERTISEMENTIsraeli soldiers on Monday barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organized by the directors of the Oscar-winning movie No Other Land.The directors of the deeply compassionate and powerful documentary, which focuses on the systematic Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, said they had invited the
ADVERTISEMENTIsraeli soldiers on Monday barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organized by the directors of the Oscar-winning movie No Other Land.The directors of the deeply compassionate and powerful documentary, which focuses on the systematic Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, said they had invited the
ADVERTISEMENTGreenpeace activists stole the wax statue of French president Emmanuel Macron from the Musée Grévin on Monday before planting it outside the Russian embassy in Paris. According to reports, activists posing as tourists entered the famous Parisian museum, located in the 9th arrondissement. After posing as museum employees, they managed to steal the statue, worth
ADVERTISEMENTFollowing controversy over a quiet update to the terms of use that seemed to permit the content uploaded to the streamer being used to train AI, SoundCloud has updated its AI policy. Futurism had previously reported that SoundCloud “quietly” updated its terms and conditions in February 2024 in which users were “explicitly agreeing” by using the platform
ADVERTISEMENTThe revolution in the European fashionworld continues. After the arrival of Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia at Gucci and Pierpaolo Piccioli at Balenciaga, as well as the departure of Donatella Versace, who sold the historic brand to the Prada group, a new change of chair has been announced by Dior today.Italian artistic director Maria Grazia Chiri
ADVERTISEMENTAn erotic-themed mosaic from the Roman era was returned to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii on Tuesday, after being stolen by a Nazi German captain during World War II.The artwork was repatriated from Germany through diplomatic channels. It was arranged by the Italian Consulate in Stuttgart having been returned from the heirs of the last owner
ADVERTISEMENTBilly McFarland, the scam artist and convicted fellon who gained notoriety for the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival, has officially sold the rights to the event’s brand on eBay for $245,300 (approx. €211,135). The auction, which reportedly drew a 175 bids, included intellectual property, trademarks, and social media accounts tied to the Fyre name. The identity of