All posts tagged: January

Apple Bought Color Grading Tool Color.io in January

Apple Bought Color Grading Tool Color.io in January

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Apple purchased a small, one-person company called Patchflyer back in January, according to new acquisition disclosures provided by the European Union. Patchflyer was owned by Jonathan Ochmann, who created Color.io, a web-based color grading tool popular with photographers and filmmakers. Apple purchased Color.io and is employing Ochmann. Last year, Ochmann announced Color.io’s impending closure in November, and said that he was joining a company that will let him work at a scale he could not reach on his own. “After 10+ years of running everything alone, I’ve reached a point where I need to grow in ways that aren’t possible as a solo builder,” he wrote. Color.io was known for an easy-to-use but powerful tool for adding film-like color and texture to images. It used a custom color engine and custom color models, and it had a rich library of tools for manipulating color. Ochmann also designed the popular VisionColor LUTs prior to creating Color.io. Color.io went offline on December 31, 2025, with about five weeks of warning for the app’s 200,000+ users. Now that …

Irish pop group Westlife performing in Singapore in January 2027

Irish pop group Westlife performing in Singapore in January 2027

Published by Sam Flores

Pop group Westlife will be back in Singapore on Jan 16, 2027, in a show to celebrate their 25th anniversary.  Details, including ticket sales and venue, will be announced at a later date. Singapore is among the six new stops announced as part of The 25th Anniversary World Tour’s Southeast Asian leg. Westlife will also perform in Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Source link

Utah charges man with murder in January shooting outside church in Salt Lake City

Utah charges man with murder in January shooting outside church in Salt Lake City

Published by Sam Flores

Prosecutors in Utah are seeking the extradition of a man from California on murder charges in connection with a deadly shooting in January at a church parking lot in Salt Lake City that left two people dead, according to court documents unsealed Monday. Law enforcement took 32-year-old John Vea Uasike Jr. into custody on April 14 in connection with six felony charges including two counts of murder and weapons violations, the Salt Lake County district attorney’s office said in a news release. It was unclear if Uasike has an attorney who could comment on his behalf. The shooting took place Jan. 7 in the back parking lot of a place of worship for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon church. Investigators had said the gunfire broke out from a dispute between people who knew each other and were attending a funeral. All the victims were adults. Police have previously said they do not believe the violence was connected to animus toward a particular faith. The church mostly serves …

Dry January, but for Your Smartphone

Dry January, but for Your Smartphone

Published by José Betancourt

In March, I put my iPhone into a yellow cardboard box with MO stamped on top—the M looked like a riff on the Motorola logo; the O looked like a flower. Over the next several weeks, I left my phone there for roughly 23.5 hours out of every day. I did so as a participant in “Month Offline,” which started last year in Washington, D.C., as a kind of Dry January challenge, but for smartphones. Now it is a fledgling business with a footprint in New York City. Members of each monthlong “cohort” pay $75 for the experience, during which they swap their iPhones for a lower-tech device and participate in weekly meetups. I joined the cohort that began on March 2 and received an email just before the first meeting: “Excited 2 see u soon,” it said. My month offline began with the MO pledge—a document with curious capitalization that declared us all “Free and Independent Human Beings” who were “Absolved from all dependence on big tech and their attention-grabbing algorithms.” By signing at …

UK economy unexpectedly flatlined in January, official figures show | Economic growth (GDP)

UK economy unexpectedly flatlined in January, official figures show | Economic growth (GDP)

Published by Sam Flores

The UK economy unexpectedly flatlined in January, stoking concerns over growth amid the global energy price shock triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed 0% growth in gross domestic product (GDP), down from an increase of 0.1% in December, as the economy failed to recover from uncertainty surrounding the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget. Falling significantly short of City predictions for growth of 0.2%, the figures came as the UK and other countries faced a potentially severe economic hit as the Middle East conflict drove up oil and gas prices, hitting consumers with higher living costs. The pound fell against the US dollar after the figures were released and government borrowing costs rose. In a fresh blow to the government’s growth ambitions after a challenging start to the year, output in the service sector flatlined amid falls in recruitmentactivity and the hospitality sector. Unemployment in the UK has risen to the highest level in five years in recent months, with businesses complaining that employer tax increases …

They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts

They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts

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An events company whose associates helped stage the January 6, 2021 rally has signed contracts worth over $26 million with the United States government, according to documents reviewed by WIRED. Since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Event Strategies, a Virginia-based firm with deep ties to Trumpworld, has negotiated a contract with the General Services Administration that could be worth up to $100 million over the next 15 years. It’s a remarkable rise for the 26-year-old firm, which until the recent windfall had received what appeared to be around $50,000 dollars in government contracts over the past decade. It also appears that Event Strategies won these new contracts with very little competition. According to HigherGov, a tool used by contractors to track federal and state contracts, Event Strategies was the only company to bid on eight of the 11 contracts tracked by the site. Many of the recent contracts are related to America 250, an 18-month-long commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In early 2025, the …

The U.S. unexpectedly loses 92,000 jobs in January : NPR

The U.S. unexpectedly loses 92,000 jobs in January : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

The U.S. economy lost jobs in February, and job gains for December and January were revised downward. A report from the Labor Department on Friday dashed hopes that the job market was stabilizing. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images The U.S. job market turned weaker last month, dashing hopes for an economic rebound. A report from the Labor Department on Friday shows employers cut 92,000 jobs in February, when economists had expected the U.S. would continue adding jobs, albeit at a sluggish pace. The unemployment rate inched up to 4.4%. Job gains for December and January were also revised downward, with December now showing a net loss 17,000 jobs. February’s job losses were widespread, with factories, construction companies and the federal government all shedding workers. Even health care, which has been a source of strength in the job market, lost 28,000 jobs in February — partly as a result of a nurses strike. Policymakers had hoped the job market was stabilizing after anemic hiring in 2025. But February’s job loss suggests …

Best TV shows to watch on NOW (January 2026)

Best TV shows to watch on NOW (January 2026)

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you’re looking for inspiration for shows to watch on NOW, you’ve come to the right place In new series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Game of Thrones gets another spin-off, but with no dragons in sight. Instead, we’re following a minor knight and squire named Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), who want to win some money at a local tournament. In among the festive treats at the end of last year, Sky original series Amadeus may have got somewhat lost in the shuffle. The drama stars Will Sharpe as Mozart and Paul Bettany is Salieri, and provides a new take on their almost certainly fictional rivalry, as first presented in Peter Shaffer’s play. All five episodes are available to stream on NOW in the UK, sitting alongside other recent acclaimed series such as It: Welcome to Derry and The Chair Company. NOW is also home to widely discussed dramas The Last of Us and The Day of the Jackal, plus highly decorated comedy Hacks, with gritty crime thriller …