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12 July 2021
V&A museum exhibition to highlight African fashion
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London will showcase the creativity of African fashion designers.
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9 July 2021
Nintendo announce new Switch OLED model
The new Switch model will launch on 8 October 2021 and sees incremental improvements over its predecessor rather than an overhaul. New changes include a larger OLED screen, 64 GB of storage and an in-built LAN port for wired online gaming.
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9 July 2021
Study finds that human activity contributing to global rainfall
Conducted by University of California, Los Angeles researchers, the study found that extreme precipitation events such as flooding and landslides, were affected by human actions.
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9 July 2021
Audacity denies accusations of being 'potential spyware'
The claims, which were made by the technology website Fosspost, have been denied by the audio-editing software, which was acquired this year by the Cyprus-based firm Muse Group.
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2 July 2021
Pinterest becomes first platform to ban weight loss advertisements
The social media company, which revolves around the sharing of content through images and animated GIFs, announced a ban on all advertisements that promote weight loss through their language or imagery.
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2 July 2021
BBC Bitesize amends climate change 'benefits' page
The page on the educational website has been changed only to explain the negative effects of climate change after outrage from social media.
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2 July 2021
TikTok to increase video length cap to three minutes
The change was announced in a blog post by Product Manager Drew Kirchhoff, and will be made available for all users of the video sharing app over ‘the coming weeks’.
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28 June 2021
Live streaming at a record-high as British artists export more music than ever before
The UK is the second largest exporter of music in the world according to the latest BPI report.
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25 June 2021
EE to reintroduce roaming charges in EU from January 2022
The mobile network operator becomes the first in the UK to reintroduce roaming charges for those travelling to European destinations since the agreement of a trade deal between the UK and EU in December 2020.
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24 June 2021
Young Norfolk Creatives call for creative change
Young Norfolk Creatives have produced a film with the simple yet effective message, "listen to us", as they champion the need for more support to the creative industries.
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22 June 2021
Nicola Abram awarded Theatre Book Prize 2021 by The Society for Theatre Research
Exploring unpublished materials and responses to societal issues, Nicola Abram’s Black British Women's Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics has received the Theatre Book Prize for 2021 by the Society for Theatre Research.
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21 June 2021
Saturday Night With Hayley Palmer
TV Presenter Hayley Palmer announces new TV show, 'Saturday Night With Hayley'.
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7 June 2021
Michaela Coel wins big at 2021 BAFTA Television Awards
I May Destroy You received the BAFTA for Best Mini-Series, while Coel herself won the BAFTA for Best Actress for her role in the show, dedicating the award to intimacy director Ita O’Brien.
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7 June 2021
Coventry Moves event kickstarts UK City of Culture 2021
The year-long celebration of Coventry’s City of Culture was kickstarted by an all-day event on 5 June.
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2 June 2021
Profits for publisher Bloomsbury soar due to lockdown reading
The publisher has seen its third profit upgrade of 2021 after sales have increased to £185 million.
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27 May 2021
UK theatres pledge to stop casting cisgender actors in trans roles
Several of the biggest theatres in the UK have committed to only casting trans, non-binary or gender non-conforming actors in roles that portray those identities.
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26 May 2021
Jhalak Prize 2021 winners announced
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence won big at the 2021 Jhalak Prize Awards for their respective titles, The First Woman and Eight Pieces of Silva. Both authors received £1,000 and a unique commissioned trophy.
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26 May 2021
Amazon to acquire MGM Studios for $8.45 billion
The deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, will see Amazon acquire a catalogue of more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows, including titles like Robocop, The Silence of the Lambs and Vikings, among numerous others.