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We recently celebrated our daughter’s marriage, a life-affirming ritual made all the more joyous by being able to reunite with extended family and friends following an endless COVID-induced hiatus. The wedding took place just a few weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which had established a constitutional right to abortion for about 50 years. The near coincidence of the two events left us shaken. It underlined yet again something that we had discussed repeatedly over the decades every time a…

PUBG: New State underwent emergency maintenance on Thursday to remove a bug that allowed in-game items to be mistakenly claimed by some accounts. Developer Krafton has mentioned that the accounts affected by this bug have been temporarily restricted while it rectifies the issue. Players with these blocked accounts will also be getting some compensation. Earlier this week, PUBG: New State received a mandatory update that brought new measures to improve detection of hackers in the game. These measures have been introduced…

Tesla is now allowed to sell the Model Y vehicles it produced during the long “test phase” at Gigafactory Berlin. While no number has been disclosed, we are talking about potentially thousands of electric vehicles. For the better part of a year, Tesla was stuck in a regulatory limbo at Gigafactory Berlin before it was finally allowed to officially start production in March 2022. But the automaker disclosed that it actually started producing vehicles at the plant in late 2021. Those vehicles were produced under…

A former Facebook content screener says he was fired for raising alarms about a new company protocol allowing employees to resurrect data that users deleted.Brennan Lawson sued Meta, Facebook's parent, Tuesday in California claiming he was informed about the new protocol during a staff meeting in late 2018 and immediately questioned its legality. Soon after, he said he was fired and remained unemployed for 18 months. He's seeking more than $3 million (roughly Rs. 23 crore) in compensation plus punitive damages.The new…

‘Control is a funny thing,” says Caleb Landry Jones. “It can keep you from finding something inherent that is deeper and better for the film: things inside you. Sometimes there’s a kind of control that can be very stilted and boring. I think there’s some kind of balance between knowing what needs to be done and also getting there.”The livewire 32-year-old actor walks that tightrope in an extraordinary performance in Nitram, the new film by Snowtown director Justin Kurzel about Martin Bryant, the Tasmanian who murdered 35…

Facebook and its parent company, Meta, don’t exactly have a great track record when it comes to combatting online disinformation. At the start of the covid-19 pandemic, Meta came out publicly against advertisements pedaling questionable health information and things like vaccine misinformation, yet they persist. Advertisements for unproven, debunked, and even harmful cancer treatments continue to appear on Facebook and Instagram, according to a report from MIT Technology Review. The ads still show up on Meta’s social…

In view of the exponential increase in pollution levels in Delhi, the state government has decided to ban the entry of diesel commercial vehicles in the capital from October 1, 2022. The order will be valid till February 28, 2023. Earlier, these heavy diesel vehicles were barred from the national capital for only 15-20 days in November-December. Now, the new order covers a span of almost four months. As per the official numbers, roughly 75,000 trucks enter Delhi every day. Although stubble burning plays a major role in…

The Joint Commissioner of Police, Pune, has said the traffic police of the city are not allowed to take any punitive action (collecting spot fines and seizing vehicles) against motorists. This has been done after several citizens complained that they were facing issues. Having said that, it is important to note that the cops would still be allowed to file direct charges and fines will be issued through CCTV. People complained of illegal towing charges. The tow truck would pick up the vehicle from the “No Parking” area…

One year after Roc-A-Fella filed a lawsuit against him for attempting to auction Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt album as an NFT, Dame Dash has reached a settlement with the record label.As first reported by TMZ, per court documents reviewed by Complex, Dash has been prohibited from selling Jay-Z’s 1996 debut album as an NFT, as Roc-A-Fella owns all rights to the LP.“Unless duly authorized by RAF, Inc., no shareholder or member of RAF, Inc. may alter in any way, sell, assign, pledge, encumber, contract with regard to, or in any…

Cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S. just received a new platform to promote on: Microsoft Advertising.To date Microsoft has been stringent on all crypto related ads, and thankfully there will be a layer of protection included in this release that should help to curtail spammers and hucksters.Limitations. Cryptocurrency ads will be rolling out in the United States only, and will be limited to only showing within the Microsoft Advertising Search Network. The inventory in the Microsoft Audience Network (display and native)…