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Blackmail Movie Review: A deliciously dark comedy centering around crime and punishment

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critic's rating:  3.0/5 Dev (Irrfan) is a man bored out of his skull working for strategies for promoting toilet paper. One day, at the advice of his friend Anand (Pradhuman Singh), he returns home early from work only to find his wife Reena (Kirti Kulhari) in bed with Ranjit (Arunoday Singh). He kind of loses it at this point and starts blackmailing his wife's lover, leading to all kinds of misadventures for all concerned. Read More...

SpaceX requests permission for direct-to-smartphone service

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TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX could provide “full and continuous” direct-to-smartphone services across much of the globe with less than a third of the 7,500 Gen 2 Starlink satellites approved last week, the company said in a request to add the capability to the broadband constellation. SpaceX filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Dec. 6 to include a “direct-to-cellular” hosted payload on around 2,000 Gen 2 satellites. The payload would enable these satellites to use spectrum from cellular partners to deliver “voice, messaging, and basic web browsing” to standard phones beyond the reach of terrestrial networks, SpaceX senior regulatory engineer Kyle Wesson wrote in an accompanying letter to the FCC. Read More...

Priscilla Presley opens up about Lisa Marie Presley's death in emotional interview

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Priscilla Presley is opening up about her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley, her marriage to Elvis Presley and more. The "Naked Gun" actress, 78, spoke about how she is coping in the wake of her daughter's death in a new interview with Piers Morgan on his TalkTV show, "Piers Morgan Uncensored." During the interview, which she took part in while promoting, "Priscilla," the Sofia Coppola-directed biopic about her life, she described the loss of her only daughter as " Read More...