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A Rutgers study found that individuals who avoid COVID-19 precautions are more likely to purchase firearms, a pattern observed among moderate and conservative individuals. Surveying 6,404 adults from three states, the researchers used latent class analysis to identify four distinct groups based on defensive behaviors and political beliefs. Groups that engaged in fewer behaviors to avoid illness were more likely to have purchased firearms since March 2020 and had less faith in scientists acting in the public’s best…

Image via 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios/ Remix by Apeksha Bagchi James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water was a monumental success when it hit the theaters in December 2022 and emerged as one of the biggest box-office earners in the history of Hollywood proving that all the skepticism against it couldn’t dismantle its decided success. But it is now on Disney Plus and many of the criticisms against it are back in full force — whether it is its rather long runtime or how its plot is just a rehash of the…

I meet Charles Dance in a cute French bistro on Islington Green, north London. He is 76 and has one of those faces that holds its adamantine shape, although its seriousness is offset by his easy, expansive manner, the relaxed confidence and ready laugh of a person who is “doing this fantastic job that I’ve been all over the world with. I get paid pretty well. Something has to be really bad for me to turn it down, otherwise I keep on doing it.”The restaurant staff love him. The waiter tells me afterwards that he was the…

Apple does not want to resort to layoffs, unlike many other major tech companies, which have been downsizing since around the turn of 2023. The tech giant is so desperate to not become another Google, Microsoft, or Meta (which thought 11,000 Meta staff layoffs were so nice that it did it twice) that it has put a hold on some major product releases, like a planned Homepod with in-built screen to allocate more resources to other projects. Any hopes of ChatGPT-like Apple AI powering your smart home will also probably have…

We keep reading reports of layoffs happening at big companies. Meta has announced to Cut 10000 jobs in the second round of layoffs. Wipro, Credit Suisse,…

A Russian Su-27 fighter jet releases fuel as it approaches the rear of a U.S. Air Force MQ-9, in what the Pentagon says was "an unsafe and unprofessional intercept" over the Black Sea. Credit: U.S. European Command video The extraordinary footage of a Russian jet intercepting a US drone over the Black Sea earlier this week demonstrates just how potentially disastrous such encounters outside actual war zones can be.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJessica Alba has opened up about her early years in the film industry and how she protected herself against “predators in Hollywood”.The actor, now 41, was just 12 years old when she landed her first on-screen role in the 1994 adventure-comedy Camp Nowhere.From then on, Alba made a name for herself, portraying characters whose beauty and sexuality were at the centre of their…

Shania Twain thinks Brad Pitt is avoiding her ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Singer-actress Shania Twain is of the opinion that Hollywood star Brad Pitt is “avoiding” her. The 57-year-old country icon famously referenced the ‘Fight Club’ star in her 1998 hit ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’ but admitted she is yet to meet him despite having written about him in the chart-topping track, reports Female First UK. In the song, she sings: “You think you’re special Oh-ooh-oh, you think you’re something else, OK, so you’re Brad…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Preventing accidents by computing impending collisions of drones or cars: that is the goal of Darius Burschka. The professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) tracks every point in images generated by cameras carried by flying drones or cars on the road. In principle he applies the "constant bearing" technique traditionally used by navigators at sea.…

Noam Chomsky, an American linguist criticizes ChatGPT saying ‘it’s a way to avoid learning’! Read more tech news Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Says the Company Has Been Working on ChatGPT-Like Tech for a Long Time. Fast-Track Insights: Bitcoin Funding Rates Fall into Negative Territory as Investor Caution Grows. The American philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky described ChatGPT, a sophisticated artificial intelligence chatbot from…