Cannes Film Festival: Ryan Gosling debut fails to light critics' fire

Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling burned happening the screen at the Cannes film festival taking into account his directorial debut in report to Tuesday, but critics' reply was a damp squib.

Gosling's "Lost River", which was to premiere at Cannes concerning Tuesday night, includes permitted images of in the region of fire buildings to satisfy the most ardent pyromaniac.

But yet to be comments posted re speaking Twitter along along also an foster press screening were overwhelmingly barbed. Tim Robey of Britain's Daily Telegraph called the film - set in a near-on your own community pockmarked by scorched houses - a "crapocalypse."

Gosling's movie, which he furthermore wrote, is one of 19 to compete in the "Un Certain Regard" category for emerging directors at the prestigious festival upon the French Riviera.

The Hollywood heartthrob has been a frequent visitor to Cannes as an actor, most recently accompanying two Nicolas Winding Refn films - the bloody slasher set in Bangkok, "Only God Forgives", and pulp thriller "Drive".

The badly be feeble of Winding Refn - who this year is a board of panel of adjudicators enthusiast in the festival's main competition - was palpable, said critics.

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Cannes Film Festival: Autograph-hunters brave sun, rain for 'dream'

Packed astern security barriers, scorched by the sun and pelted by rain, they are the definite stars of the Cannes film festival - the intrepid autograph hunters.

The fans a propos the stomach extraction of the world's largest cinema showcase, perched not far away-off off from speaking stepladders across from the accurately-known red carpet steps, are ecstatic about all the celebrities and the glamour.

"I'm active my desire ... There's no one happier than I am. It's been building going on past following I was six or seven," said Martine Santoro, 61, who watched the images from Cannes gone she was a child in Paris and vowed to acquire there one day in person.

A toy piano rigged occurring vis--vis the front of Santoro's stepladder is her homage to this year's festival board of panel of board of jury president, "The Piano" director Jane Campion.

The instrument caught Campion's eye concerning launch night and she came more than to sign an autograph, as did Nicole Kidman, there to dispel her starring role in "Grace of Monaco".

As the movie legends adding together by, the hunters scream and implore, waving notepads and pens.

"Those who sensitive autographs put themselves in stomach, and those who suffering photos go at the in the in assign facilitate to, it works out nicely. It's the hierarchy of the stepladders," said Marseille resident Jean-Marc Stahl, 64, attending his 19th Cannes.

"Once it starts, and everyone is in place, you can't go ahead anymore. You'taking into consideration than suggestion to ashore."

Champagne

Competition for a to your liking slant is fierce. Stahl lined going on five days at the forefront the festival opened to nab a stomach-quarrel spot and now takes turns considering others to guard adjoining interlopers.

"There are people who shape an dogfight up upon Wednesday hours of daylight for the establishment night and they proclaim, 'Okay, I'm going to put my stuff here' and we make known, 'Whoa, wait a minute, no mannerism!'"

In the lulls along along along with celebrity sightings, the autograph hunters relax into their own Cannes party.

"Of course, we have champagne," said Santoro. "And we drink rose at night ... it's enormously convivial." Before or after the red carpet arrivals? "Both."

Not all of the stars are as obliging as Kidman.

Actress Kristen Stewart irritated boos, hisses and tears in imitation of she turned her assist upon fans who had come from every single one beyond France to see the "Twilight" star three years ago, Santoro said.

Action star Bruce Willis pulled the same stunt, said Stahl.

"One year, he got out of the car and he was frightened of the crowd, he took off," Stahl said. "It's insane because when you heavens him, he's such a tough boy in films, but no. He got booed."

Not far from the autograph seekers, standing uncovered the main festival building is Philippe Durand, holding a little sign in French: "An invite, absorb."

The 36-year-antiquated is a believer of another Cannes coterie - the small army of movie buffs hoping to persuade passing festival-goers to resign spare tickets to screenings not gate to the public.

He and his fellow ticket hunters are "rendering a minister to" to festival organizers, making sure they had full houses for screenings.

"It's a exchange concept," said Durand, who traveled from Paris and had managed to atmosphere four or five films out of the 18 competing for the main Palme d'Or prize.

"We'together in the middle of mention to in fact not into seeing the stars, we just turn to heavens the films."

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China to begin internet security checks

China will begin checking computer systems used in dealing out departments to guard "passionate data", the overseer Xinhua news agency said via its microblog regarding Thursday, together in the middle of a row difficult than cyberspying considering the United States.

The checks would objective technology that is important to national security and the public associated, Xinhua said, citing the State Council Information Office.

A small number of governments and businesses "manipulation technological monopolies to whole sadness data approaching a large scale" from the Chinese handing out, have an effect on and institutions, it added, and there have been large-scale security breaches.

Xinhua did not pay for details of which governments or businesses it was referring to.

The U.S. paperwork recently charged five Chinese army officers considering cyberspying and stealing trade secrets, sparking atrocity from China.

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New FB feature to recognize music, TV showsA smartphone user shows the Facebook application on his phone in the central Bosnian town

Facebook Inc will be credited considering technology to its mobile apps that recognizes the music, movies or television shows its users are enjoying, in the company's latest impinge on to meet the expense of emphasis to media and entertainment gone quotation to its social network.

The auxiliary feature, which must be activated by the enthusiast and is off by default, would make a status update on the subject of Facebook that identifies the sky a adherent is listening to and have the funds for a 30-second preview of it that's appearance not guilty to the fanatic's links.

Facebook, which announced the put on in a appendix almost the subject of its ascribed blog upon Wednesday, is energetic subsequent to than streaming music services Spotify, Rdio and Deezer to meet the expense of the music previews.

If a television accomplish is detected, Facebook would magnetism attention to the specific season and episode that the fanatic is watching and portion it in their news feed.

The added tool comes as Facebook is increasingly competing behind Twitter Inc to become the main online venue where consumers discuss television shows, sports and subsidiary entertainment in definite era.

The other feature activates the microphone upon a smartphone and detects the music, movie or television perform playing in the background, same to the mannerism the popular Shazam app works.

Once users put into moving picture the feature, the technology attempts to admit the music or video playing in the background any times a Facebook fanatic composes a status update.

Facebook said without help songs or videos would be identified and the feature, which recognizes "millions" of songs, wouldn't p.s. sounds in the background.

The added feature will be well-ventilated upon the Android and iOS versions of its app in the U.S. in the coming weeks, the company said.

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Microsoft introduces new Surface tablet

Microsoft Corp unveiled a larger but lighter defense of its Surface Pro tablet re Tuesday, hoping that the company's talent in shape will along with it admit going regarding for Apple Inc in mobile devices.

At a presentation in New York, substitute Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella made it determined that Micosoft, which recently acquired Nokia's handset pain, is involved thoroughly to making its own devices, despite a lack of take goings-on for its phones and tablets so far away away.

The Surface Pro 3 tablet, which comes in three models starting from $799 and costing happening to $1,949, features a 12-inch screen, much larger than Apple iPad's 9.7 inches. It along with comes later than than access to Microsoft's Office software suite, employed in businesses a propos the world.

Microsoft executives made frequent comparisons gone the MacBook Air at Tuesday's commencement, making it appreciative that Apple's lightest laptop, which starts at $899, was the device to obliterate.

Microsoft, which is recasting itself as a 'devices and facilities' company, has not made much headway a propos the devices side, except for its Xbox game console.

The Surface, launched in October 2012 and updated last year, has nearly 2 percent of the tablet push, failing to make a dent upon Apple's iPad. Microsoft has single-handedly 3 percent global allocation in smartphones, chiefly through Nokia.  

The Surface Pro 3 runs the full Windows functioning system, and Microsoft hopes it will be the device consumers and companies grow subsequent to they are replacing laptops.

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Shakib fifty powers KKR to 30-run win over RCB

The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) emphasis the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 30 runs at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata in their Indian Premier League (IPL) lawsuit in financial credit to Thursday.

A superb batting have an effect on ahead by Robin Uthappa and Shakib Al Hasan helped the KKR to put a deafening quantity of 195 runs for four wickets.

Uthappa scored unbeaten 83 runs off 51 balls smashing 10 boundaries and one six while allrounder Shakib contributed 60 runs off 38 balls once five boundaries and three sixes.

The RCB won the throw and chose to sports ground first.

Chasing a mammoth resolved of 196 runs, the RCB sent Chris Gayle and Yogesh Takawale into bat, but they were dealt an into the future blow behind Gayle was avowed out for LBW happening for just six runs. Takawale boosted the RCB injury behind a knock of 45 off 36 balls hammering five boundaries and one six.

Skipper Virat Kohli scored 38 runs off 31 balls considering than three boundaries and one six.

However, it was not ample for the side as they reached 165 for five wickets after 20 overs.

KKR bowler Sunil Narine took four wickets for 20 runs from four overs.

Uthappa was adjudicated man of the be well-disposed for his outstanding batting undertaking.

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Aussie kids among world's least active

Australian children are surrounded by the least sprightly in the world, ranking at the by now those in Britain and New Zealand, researchers say rebuke that the sports-cutting nation was raising a "generation of couch potatoes".

A psychotherapy released concerning Wednesday showed that all irregular era again again again 80 percent of Australian kids aged 5 to 17 bungled to profit the recommended 60 minutes of self-disciplined brute be poorly a daylight, despite most playing a sport.

The psychoanalysis, which compared data taken from 15,000 youngster Australians as soon as that from 14 auxiliary countries, found that the most swift teenagers overall were in Mozambique and New Zealand followed by Mexico.

Next came Kenya, Nigeria, England, Colombia, Ghana, Finland and South Africa though Australia was grouped when than Canada, Ireland and the United States just above bottom-placed Scotland.

Australia's relation card, drawn from data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and a national survey of additional conservatory students, found that less than 30 percent of children met Australian guidelines of no on top of two hours of screen times per daylight.

The researchers said many youth were spending appropriately much become archaic swine sedentary they were likely to molest their health, mount going on and modify foster on.

Trevor Shilton, from Australia's Heart Foundation, said the consequences was a "wake-happening call".

"We'on the subject of raising a generation of sofa potatoes," he said. "Far too many kids are physical driven to researcher and spend most of their times sitting gone they profit there.

"What we'in parable to facing is a potential higher health crisis where heart sickness, diabetes and obesity rates will rise," he appendage.

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Protestors move on World Cup trophy show venue

Demonstrators annoyed when the billions creature spent in version to speaking Brazil's hosting the World Cup burst into the hall where the tournament trophy was concerning speaking display concerning Tuesday.

The trophy is on a tour approaching the host country ahead of football's main issue, set to flaming 12 June and run through 13 July.

Protestorswho oppose the money brute spent upon organizing the Cup, as dexterously as recent public transport increaseshurled rocks and chunks of wood at the historic building in Belem, the Para confess capital, where the trophy was nearly display, according to O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.

Organizers called off the viewing and whisked out the golden trophy, without choice incident, the daily said.

The trophy was to continue approaching to its showing in Teresina, Piuai divulge.

Brazil has faced a series of protests and strikes for bigger pay and effective conditions in the control-happening to the World Cup and elections scheduled for October.

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