Pioneer DJ’s new mixer isn’t for the average DJ

Overhead of the Pioneer DJ DVM-V10 mixer. | Image: Pioneer DJ

Pioneer DJ has announced a new professional gig mixer for gear-heads that want more control over how mixes and tracks sound while performing. Called the DVM-V10, it sports six channels (in comparison to the usual four), dual headphone inputs to seamlessly play back-to-back with other DJs, and the ability to EQ the master output.

The release confirms circulating rumors about the mixer, which have been repeatedly popping up on Facebook and Reddit over the past 24 hours. While some excitement over Pioneer DJ rumors is to be expected, it’s rare to have this much hyped-up chatter in advance of a new product from the company. But, the DVM-V10 isn’t a simple update; it’s a drastic form and function departure from Pioneer DJ’s established line...

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Oppo F15 with 48MP Quad Rear Camera launched in India at Rs. 19,990

Today, Oppo F15 debuted in India at an event in New Delhi. The phone checks the ingredients of a contemporary smartphone feature sheet. This includes a 48-megapixel Quad Rear camera, a waterdrop notched display with underlying fingerprint support, VOOC fast charging, and more. Oppo F15 features Oppo hasn’t cut back on design dynamics here. The […]

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Sophie Devine Made New Zealand Women Captain

New Zealand have named all-rounder Sophie Devine as captain of their women team in place of Amy Satterthwaite beginning with the series against South Africa which leads to the Women's T20 World Cup.

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Bhuvneshwar to Train at NCA After Hernia Surgery in London, Shaw Passed Fit

Bhuvneshwar Kumar underwent a sports hernia surgery in London on January 11 and will continue his rehabilitation at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore, the BCCI said on Thursday.

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Russell Domingo Wants Bangladesh to Follow India Template in Tests

Bangladesh coach Russell Domingo wants the team to follow the example of India to grow after years of stagnation in the long format and has identified winning an away test as one of their goals in 2020.

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Australia Name Women's T20 World Cup Squad, Annabel Sutherland Gets Surprise Call-up

Hosts Australia have announced their squad for the women's T20 World Cup, with the core of the team remaining largely the same as the one that featured in the country's victorious T20 World Cup campaign two years back in the West Indies.

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James Bond Producer Says 007 Can Be Non-White, But Has To Be Male

After 14 years, Daniel Craig’s record-breaking tenure as James Bond comes to an end this April with No Time to Die. And with the actor on his way out, speculation is at an all-time high over who will be found to replace him. In recent years, discussions of whether 007 should be recast as a person of color have become a lot more prevalent, as has the idea that Bond could even be reimagined as a woman. Now, an official word has finally been given on both of these options.

Variety has shared a new interview with EON producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. The pair have been in charge of the franchise for decades and so know the character better than anyone. As such, they have strong ideas about who Bond is and who he isn’t. And, according to Broccoli, their vision for the hero means that he doesn’t have to be white, but he does have to be male.

“He can be of any color, but he is male. I believe we should be creating new characters for women — strong female characters. I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that.”

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While there’s been an increasing call for Bond to be gender-flipped, other people have made the point that it would be far better to create new female characters to equal Bond. Craig’s own wife Rachel Weisz is one of these people, in fact. So, Broccoli’s comments here will likely be supported by many, especially if she delivers on her promise to create these new leading female roles.

No Time to Die should provide at least one of them. It’s been widely rumored that Lashana Lynch’s Nomi is another 00 agent – possibly even the new 007. We Got This Covered has reported that Nomi could get her own spinoff movie in the future, as well. As for Bond’s own future, Broccoli might be suggesting here that there’s a strong chance that an actor of color could replace Craig. But keep the speculation going for now, as we likely won’t find out the identity of Bond no. 7 for a long time yet.

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Ireland Stun World Champions Windies by Four Runs in T20 Opener

Ireland rode a career-best 95 from opener Paul Stirling before keeping their nerve in a nail-biting final over to pull off a four-run win over world champions West Indies in the first of a three-match Twenty20 series on Wednesday.

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Injury-hit New Zealand Call Up Hamish Bennett For India T20 Series

New Zealand have called in Hamish Bennett to shore up their attack for the Twenty20 series against India this month, while Trent Boult and Lockie Ferguson remain on the injured list.

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Toyota makes a big bet on secretive flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

Joby Aviation, a California-based aerospace company that has been working on electric aircraft for over a decade, just closed its latest round of financing with $590 million in venture capital funding — and a major new partner.

Toyota will work with Joby to design and build a fleet of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for use in a ride-hailing service. The Japanese auto giant was part of a previous Joby funding round that closed in 2018, helping the secretive startup raise $100 million. Obviously Toyota liked what it saw, because it stepped up to lead this latest round of fundraising, bringing Joby’s total raise to $720 million. Joby recently announced a deal with Uber to deploy its air taxis on its ride-hailing network —...

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Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow

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Today, Google shared an updated timeline for when Chrome apps will stop working on all platforms. June 2022 is when they’ll be gone for good, but it depends on which platform you’re on (via 9to5Google). Previously, we knew that Chrome apps someday wouldn’t work on Windows, macOS, and Linux, but today, Google revealed that Chrome apps will eventually stop working on Chrome OS, too.

A Chrome app is a web-based app that you can install in Chrome that looks and functions kind of like an app you’d launch from your desktop. Take this one for the read-it-later app Pocket, for example — when you install it, it opens in a separate window that makes it seem as if Pocket is functioning as its own app.

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Toyota makes a big bet on secretive flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

Joby Aviation, a California-based aerospace company that has been working on electric aircraft for over a decade, just closed its latest round of financing with $590 million in venture capital funding — and a major new partner.

Toyota will work with Joby to design and build a fleet of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for use in a ride-hailing service. The Japanese auto giant was part of a previous Joby funding round that closed in 2018, helping the secretive startup raise $100 million. Obviously Toyota liked what it saw, because it stepped up to lead this latest round of fundraising, bringing Joby’s total raise to $720 million. Joby recently announced a deal with Uber to deploy its air taxis on its ride-hailing network —...

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Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Today, Google shared an updated timeline for when Chrome apps will stop working on all platforms. June 2022 is when they’ll be gone for good, but it depends on which platform you’re on (via 9to5Google). Previously, we knew that Chrome apps someday wouldn’t work on Windows, macOS, and Linux, but today, Google revealed that Chrome apps will eventually stop working on Chrome OS, too.

A Chrome app is a web-based app that you can install in Chrome that looks and functions kind of like an app you’d launch from your desktop. Take this one for the read-it-later app Pocket, for example — when you install it, it opens in a separate window that makes it seem as if Pocket is functioning as its own app.

You probably aren’t using Chrome apps anyway

Y...

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Senators won’t be trusted to keep eyes off their phones during Trump impeachment trial

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President Donald Trump has been impeached, and his trial in the US Senate is expected to begin in earnest on January 21st. Don’t expect to see any Senators tweeting @ Trump from the proceedings, though — because they’ll have to leave their phones at the door.

Tablets and laptops can’t come along for the ride, either: according to an official sheet of “Decorum Guidelines” for Trump’s impeachment obtained by CNN, there will be no “electronic devices” allowed. They’ll have to be stored in the cloakroom outside the proceedings, apparently in a special new cabinet for that purpose.

“I just saw a piece of cabinetry in the cloakroom where we will be required to turn over our iPads and our iPhones,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), according to The...

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Senators won’t be trusted to keep eyes off their phones during Trump impeachment trial

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President Donald Trump has been impeached, and his trial in the US Senate is expected to begin in earnest on January 21st. Don’t expect to see any Senators tweeting @ Trump from the proceedings, though — because they’ll have to leave their phones at the door.

Tablets and laptops can’t come along for the ride, either: according to an official sheet of “Decorum Guidelines” for Trump’s impeachment obtained by CNN, there will be no “electronic devices” allowed. They’ll have to be stored in the cloakroom outside the proceedings, apparently in a special new cabinet for that purpose.

“I just saw a piece of cabinetry in the cloakroom where we will be required to turn over our iPads and our iPhones,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), according to The...

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Helen Lyle Returning For Candyman Reboot

It was a surprise when it was announced another Candyman movie was being made, but the intention to take the story back to its roots was a good way to go, a path now being doubled down on by bringing back the movie’s other main character of Helen Lyle.

The plot of Candyman, incidentally the second-best movie ever made adapting a Clive Barker tale, followed Helen, a graduate student researching urban legends who encountered the tale of the titular ghost said to stalk the residents of a crime-riddled housing project, who can be brought forth by saying his name five times into a mirror, whereupon he will kill his summoner with a hook jammed into the bloody stump of his wrist. After discrediting the myth, he begins killing to re-perpetuate the fear and belief necessary for him to exist, with Helen being blamed for the deaths. Events ultimately culminate in her surpassing him and taking her place as a figure of modern-day folklore, existing in the dreams of those who continued to tell her story.

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The ‘spiritual sequel’ returns to the neighbourhood of the original, the public housing now upgraded and the area gentrified, but the legend of the hook-handed killer still looms large over the area. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Anthony McCoy, who as a baby was saved by Helen in the original film’s climax.

Cassie Kramer will take over the role from Virginia Madsen, but exactly what part Helen will play in the movie is yet to be established. It’s most likely she will have remained an ethereal presence in the area, no amount of demolition and rebuilding able to destroy the memory of her, with the retellings of her actions and sacrifice becoming inflated until she is an unrecognizable figure of myth as haunting as the Candyman himself. Perhaps she has become a force of vengeance punishing men on behalf of women scorned or wrongly accused, and we’ll find out how her fable has been updated when the movie is released in June.

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Stephen King Coming Under Fire For Anti-Diversity Tweets

In the wake of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announcement of a slate of award nominees for this year’s Oscars that is once again overwhelmingly Caucasian and significantly male – a decision that inspired the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag just five years ago – one of the biggest names in popular literature is drawing criticism for defending the homogeneity of this year’s nominees.

In a pair of tweets shared yesterday morning, horror novelist Stephen King – whose own works, including most recently It and The Dark Tower, have been adapted to film with varying degrees of success – said: “As a writer, I am allowed to nominate in just 3 categories: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay. For me, the diversity issue–as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway–did not come up. That said… / I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.”

And in an ideal scenario, King would be absolutely right. All things being equal, filmmakers certainly should not be, as another King put it some 56 years ago, “judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” or in this case, their art. But that was, and continues to be (albeit decreasingly), a dream, because even today, all things are not equal. As King’s fellow novelist Laura Lippman rightly responded: “A meritocracy could work only if the game weren’t rigged.”

Eisner Award winner Roxane Gay likewise responded that “diversity and quality … are not separate things. Quality is everywhere but most industries believe in quality from one demographic,” which speaks to the true issue that underlies King’s initial sentiments. Not that he turns a blind eye (or tone-deaf ear) to diversity, but that he can only apply his standards of quality to the works that the industry presents him with.

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Later in the day, King mitigated some of the backlash, explaining in another pair of tweets: “The most important thing we can do as artists and creative people is make sure everyone has the same fair shot, regardless of sex, color, and orientation. Right now such people are badly under-represented, and not only in the arts. / You can’t win awards if you’re shut out of the game.”

Given his professional and personal history, it is extremely unlikely that King would imply that non-white non-males get nominated for and win fewer awards because they inherently produce fewer worthy works of art. Rather, as usual, this is a clearly case of a mere tweet or two only barely grazing the surface of a vastly complex social issue, and thereby misrepresent the author’s opinions.

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Joker Returning To Theaters For One Week Only

In a quite incredible turnaround for a movie that Warner Bros. didn’t even initially want to make in the first place, Joker will go down as one of the defining movies of 2019. Throughout development, many were skeptical that an R-rated, dark and violent origin story for one of popular culture’s most iconic villains stood much chance of securing either critical and box office success, but it would be a huge understatement to say that Todd Phillips’ comic book flick has blown even the loftiest of expectations out of the water.

Despite the swirl of controversy that surrounded the build-up to release, nothing could slow Joker down as it smashed countless records and became one of the best-reviewed movies of the year in the process. Once the tale of Arthur Fleck finally wrapped up a massively lucrative run at the box office, it had become both the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history as well as the most profitable entry the comic book genre had ever seen.

This set it up nicely for the long-rumored awards season push, and even there Joker didn’t disappoint. Months after winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival following the premiere, star Joaquin Phoenix and composer Hildur Guonadottir picked up Best Actor and Best Original Score at both the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards, making them frontrunners at the upcoming Academy Awards, where Joker became the most-nominated comic book movie of all-time after landing the nod in eleven categories.

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To celebrate that success, Joker is heading back to theaters this weekend for a final seven day run, with Warner Bros. virtually admitting in their official statement that they’re making one more attempt to rustle up even more box office dollars and capitalize on the Oscar buzz, even though the movie is already available on home video.

“With the continued interest in Joker as a result of its recongition during this exciting awards season, we wanted to give audiences the chance to see the film on the big screen, whether for the first time or again.”

Joker already has already made $1.069bn globally, and it seems unlikely that the DC adaptation will come anywhere close to topping the box office this weekend with 1917 still playing well, and Bad Boys For Life set to be the number one choice for audiences looking for a little R-rated action. Joaquin Phoenix may be sick of talking about it, but he’ll need to keep on discussing his turn as the Clown Prince of Crime for a while yet as it makes a serious play in the major categories at the Oscars.

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