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‘Young And The Restless’ Spoilers: Comings & Goings News–Two Huge ‘Y&R’ Returns, Plus Is Adam Coming Back?

‘Young And The Restless’ Spoilers: Comings & Goings News–Two Huge ‘Y&R’ Returns, Plus Is Adam Coming Back?

The Young and the Restless (Y&R) spoilers reveal the comings and goings for the week of November 6. Thad Luckinbill and Jess Walton will return for an emotional storyline. Michael Muhney teases that he could be returning as Adam. Plus, someone will die this week on Young and the Restless. Morgan Obenreder will return this […]

6y ago

Du Yun’s Opera About Human Trafficking, ‘Angel’s Bone,’ Wins Music Pulitzer Prize

Du Yun’s Opera About Human Trafficking, ‘Angel’s Bone,’ Wins Music Pulitzer Prize

Du Yun, the 39-year-old, Chinese-born composer just won the Pulitzer Prize for music yesterday with her opera Angel’s Bone. The announcement of the prize was made during a ceremony in New York in which the Pulitzer jury board said that Angel’s Bone “integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a […]

7y ago

Steve Jobs’ Life Is Getting Turned Into An Opera — You Read That Correctly

Steve Jobs’ Life Is Getting Turned Into An Opera — You Read That Correctly

After revolutionizing the tech industry and dying too young of pancreatic cancer, the life of Apple founder Steve Jobs has been a remarkable one. Many have attempted to tell the story of Steve Jobs through films and documentaries, but never has it been told through music — until now. According to CNET, the fascinating tale […]

8y ago

Marilyn Monroe Opera Debuts In U.S.

Marilyn Monroe Opera Debuts In U.S.

The Long Beach Opera presents the United States debut of Marilyn Forever, an opera based on the life and emotions of screen legend Marilyn Monroe, and adapted from Anyone Can See I Love You, a series of Marilyn Monroe’s interior monologues developed for BBC Radio and later made into a book of poetry by Marilyn […]

9y ago

Internet Explorer, As We Know It, Is Going Through Changes

Internet Explorer, As We Know It, Is Going Through Changes

Internet Explorer is undergoing big changes. And, as you would expect, it’s taking the same amount of time Internet Explorer took to load a page — seemingly forever. The New York Post is reporting that IE, the default browser for the Microsoft Windows operating system, is undergoing an overhaul for the new Windows 10. Gone […]

9y ago

Muslim Woman In Face-Veiled Burka Ejected From Paris Opera When Cast Refuses To Perform

Muslim Woman In Face-Veiled Burka Ejected From Paris Opera When Cast Refuses To Perform

No matter what, goes the old saying, the show must go on! Well, unless it’s in France and a member of the audience is in a burka and has their face covered with a veil. The Telegraph reports that a Muslim woman, out for a night of opera in Paris, didn’t get to see the […]

9y ago

New York City Opera Fails At Kickstarter, Claims Bankruptcy

New York City Opera Fails At Kickstarter, Claims Bankruptcy

The New York City Opera was in financial trouble when it opened a Kickstarter campaign with the hopes of raising $1 million. The campaign started last month and ended on September 30. Unfortunately the Opera’s Kickstarter page managed to rack up just $300,000 of its $1 million goal. Because it refused to pick up big-time […]

10y ago

Bruno Bartoletti Dies, Lyric Opera Director Established ‘La Scala West’ In Chicago

Bruno Bartoletti Dies, Lyric Opera Director Established ‘La Scala West’ In Chicago

Bruno Bartoletti has died one day short of his 87th birthday. Italian music company Maggio Musicale Fiorentino informed the Associated Press that he died in a Florence, Italy hospital on Sunday after a long illness. A wake and a funeral are already planned for Monday in the Florence suburb where the longtime musical director for […]

11y ago

Christoph Waltz To Make Opera Debut (Don’t Worry, He’s Not Singing)

Christoph Waltz To Make Opera Debut (Don’t Worry, He’s Not Singing)

Christoph Waltz has decided to take a break from winning Academy Awards and direct his first opera production, according to a recent article in The Los Angeles Times. The Quentin Tarantino favorite, who has appeared in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, will helm a new production of Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, the newspaper reported. […]

11y ago

Opera Fires Developers After Announcing Shift To WebKit

Opera Fires Developers After Announcing Shift To WebKit

Desktop and mobile web browser company Opera has announced plans to fire part of its core developer team. News of the layoffs come just after the browser manufacturer announced plans to shift from its own web-rendering engine Presto to the more popular WebKit standard. Opera is now dismantling part of a core developer team. According […]

11y ago

Opera Browser Hits 300 Million Monthly Users, Replaces Presto With WebKit

Opera Browser Hits 300 Million Monthly Users, Replaces Presto With WebKit

The Opera browser is now serving 300 million monthly users. In celebration of its major milestone, the company has ditched the Presto rendering engine in favor of the WebKit. The company’s 300 million users are spread over all formats including smartphones, smart televisions, tablets, and personal computers. WebKit is an open source project that has […]

11y ago

Your Web Browser Is Like

Your Web Browser Is Like

This handy comparison sheet is actually incredibly accurate.

11y ago

Opera Mini now all up on your iPhone

Opera Mini now all up on your iPhone

Opera has always been totally underrated. Blazing fast and lacking some major problems found with other browsers (in comparison, Firefox is incredibly sluggish), Opera has some loyal fans- many of whom use Opera Mini on Blackberry. Regular old non-mini Opera has a few features that might deter the internet-habitual, like the strange behaviors of the […]

14y ago

Microsoft fearing yet another EU bite of its wallet gives in

Microsoft fearing yet another EU bite of its wallet gives in

I am sure that this news will be giving a bunch of browser competitors a climax to their eternal wet dream of Microsoft being brought to its knees but in the end I don’t think it will make a huge difference in what browsers end up being used in Europe. The news that Microsoft has […]

14y ago

First Microsoft shook up its search – next up: Internet Explorer

First Microsoft shook up its search – next up: Internet Explorer

There were, and still are, a lot of naysayers about Microsoft’s recent reworking of its search offering and subsequent launch of Bing. Its impact on the whole search business was never expected to be earth shattering but it has surprised more than a few by gaining percentage points. One can’t be sure if it will […]

15y ago

Oh Duncan, if Opera Unite is the future then we’re going back in time

Oh Duncan, if Opera Unite is the future then we’re going back in time

When I got up this morning and started going through my morning reading as the coffee was slowly returning my caffeine levels to normal I saw the first few posts about this thing Opera is trying to foist on us as something new. Then I saw Duncan’s post and thought maybe I should send him […]

15y ago

I’ve seen the future and its name is Opera Unite

I’ve seen the future and its name is Opera Unite

Opera has released Opera Unite, an extension to the Opera web browser that allows every computer running it to act as a web server. On paper the idea of running your own web server may not sound all that exciting, and I’ll admit that was my first reaction as well. But that was before I […]

15y ago

The EU, Google, Mozilla and especially Opera are a bunch of asshats

The EU, Google, Mozilla and especially Opera are a bunch of asshats

I’ve been stewing over this bucketful of crap about the European Union wanting to give Microsoft the good old underhanded grab because Opera is whining about how it can’t get any market share away from Microsoft because of Internet Explorer being shipped as part of the Windows OS. Then Mozilla decides that ya that sounds […]

15y ago

Opera Prepping Superfast “Carakan” JavaScript Engine

Opera Prepping Superfast “Carakan” JavaScript Engine

Opera is getting into the game of speedy JavaScript processing with a new JavaScript engine called Carakan. The under-development engine is said to be 2.5 times faster than the engine available now in Opera 10. That engine — called Futhark — was designed to cut down on memory usage rather than hit the highest possible […]

15y ago

Internet Explorer Loses More Ground While Other Browsers Grow

Internet Explorer Loses More Ground While Other Browsers Grow

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has lost market share for its seventh straight month. New numbers released by Net Applications show IE dropping to 67.55 percent of the worldwide browser market. That’s 0.6 percent less than it had one month ago, and a full 7 percent less than it had in March of 2008. Firefox, in the […]

15y ago

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