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The desperation pervading Los Angeles County’s juvenile halls can be distilled into a single incident and its aftermath.A veteran probation officer — too afraid of retaliation to reveal their name or gender — was so overwhelmed by the staffing crisis in the facilities that house the county’s most violent young offenders that they begged to be demoted so they wouldn’t have to go back inside.The officer had been left alone as a fight broke out among more than a dozen youths. When they radioed for help, none came. The…

Hell hath no fury like streaming services pumping out new originals before the festive season, with Netflix’s latest Christmas caper gunning straight for the charts on debut. Churned out like butter in the summer months is Christmas with You, the streaming giant’s latest seasonal film. In its first week, it has seen an eye-watering near 18 million hours viewed as it looks to cement itself as a go-to 2022 holiday season film. With none other than Freddie Prinze Jr. and Dexter star Aimee Garcia, the film has clearly used…

Image via Warner Bros. Nowadays, the only Black Christmas that millennials and Gen Z’s will know is the 2019 remake, not the 1974 original from Porky’s director Bob Clark. Sophia Takal took the helm on the Black Christmas remake, which was more of a feminism protest than a worthwhile horror flick. Sitting with a measly score of 39% on Rotten Tomatoes, it isn’t hard to understand why the 1974 source material is held in much higher regard. Through the mystical powers of the internet, this long-forgotten classic…

One person who may be relieved that media titan Rupert Murdoch is divorcing Jerry Hall is the former supermodel’s longtime ex, Mick Jagger. The Rolling Stones frontman was reportedly left “seething” when Murdoch, then 85, and Hall, then 59, surprised many by becoming romantically involved and then marrying in 2016, according to the Daily Mail. It’s not clear if Jagger had a problem with Murdoch’s politics, as the Australian billionaire controls right-leaning media outlets, including Fox News and the British Sun tabloid,…

SamsungNaver's autonomous mobile robots will utilize Samsung's private 5G networking tools to connect to the Naver cloud. The cloud will act as a sort of "shared brain" for the robot, in lieu of a built-in chipset. The 40 robots will serve as assistants for Naver employees, delivering packages, coffee and lunch boxes. While they'll start with 40 robots across three floors, the plan is to eventually deploy hundreds of robots across the entire 36-floor building.Among other things, the deployment should showcase…