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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain I have been researching the psychology of conspiracy beliefs for seven years now and people often ask me why people believe in them. This is not a simple question. There are many reasons people might endorse conspiracy theories. Something that stands out to me, though, is how our thinking styles can influence the…

Every few years a YA franchise will become a sensation, and the Hunger Games franchise was definitely in that category. While Jennifer Lawrence's franchise is streaming with a Peacock subscription, Panem recently returned to theaters with the prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. And actress Rachel Zegler quoted Olivia Rodrigo while opening up about the odds of a potential sequel. Zegler led the cast of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from District 12 who formed a bond with a young…

For the second time in a week, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has blessed the Trump campaign with a favorable ruling. The former president, who upon leaving office had nothing but scorn for the court he built, has been gushing about his success at the high court this term to colleagues in private.  According to two people who’ve recently spoken to Trump about the Supreme Court this year, the ex-president has repeatedly praised the conservative justices for being “very fair” to him, in the face of a…

There are a handful of things every relationship ought to have. Respect is probably at the top of the list—and that goes double for respect for the other’s time.A woman recently shared her bit of petty revenge after having had her time wasted by a boyfriend who favored “me time” over their date time. Twice.Every relationship should be based on a several things for it to work, with respect being somewhere at the topShare iconImage credits: Majestic Lukas / unsplash (not the actual photo)And when someone isn’t showing…

Consumer court cases against car manufacturers and judgments in favor of the consumers have now become a lot more common phenomena in India. The latest incident comes from Delhi where a customer who bought a brand new Kia Seltos SUV faced issues with some of the panels on the vehicle. The customer who was not satisfied with the response from the manufacturer took things to the court and made the manufacturer pay Rs 70,000 for his issue. Also Read: Maruti Suzuki To Launch 8 New Cars Over The Next 4 Years: Details…

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD and Nvidia are always competing when it comes to producing the best graphics card of the year. It’s safe to say that they both always try, but AMD’s latest attempt feels like it may seriously backfire. The new RX 7600 XT feels like an attempt to fix problems with the original RX 7600, but it ends up being something that Nvidia should be sending AMD a fruit basket for. AMD repeated Nvidia’s mistakes Nvidia’s RTX 40-series is, for the most part, a success. The addition of DLSS 3 made…

There are so many amazing potential villains for Spider-Man 4 — Scorpion (remember him from Homecoming?), Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin (no, I’m not letting that one go), and Jared Leto’s Morbius (no, wait, scratch that last one). But what Marvel and Sony really need is someone who can bring something fresh to the franchise as well as perhaps tapping into another arm of Spider-Man media that is universally beloved. So what about skipping the usual suspects and having Tom Holland’s wallcrawler face off against Mister…

The Environmental Protection Agency has scrapped a plan to phase out mammal testing for studying chemical toxicity, . In 2019, the regulatory agency vowed to completely phase out animal testing for toxicology studies by 2035 in favor of non-animal “test subjects” programmed into computer models.The call to challenge the status quo was controversial from the start — it not only was going to impact thousands of studies and experiments, but many scientists argued that computer models were nowhere near ready to replace…

“We want you to be able to throw out your user manual,” was one of the first things Dean Miles, Amazon’s director of product for its smart vehicles, told me as we sat down to chat over Amazon’s big push to stick AI in cars at CES 2024. The idea was first billed to me as—essentially—“yo dawg, we put a chatbot in your car...” Less than a means for your car to hallucinate bad poetry at you, Amazon is trying to work with BMW to make your car the best authoritative source about your car. I would be sold if it weren’t for the…

The electric-vehicle startup Fisker is abandoning a direct-to-consumer sales model in the U.S. in favor of using traditional dealerships, after it found the approach too expensive and struggled in 2023 to get its cars to buyers quickly.The company is in talks with U.S. dealers and hopes to sign up at least 50 this year, said Chief Executive Officer Henrik Fisker. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 The electric-vehicle startup Fiskeris abandoning a…