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Image: A24The 95th Academy Award nominations are here, and while there aren’t any big surprises, Michelle Yeoh and Everything Everywhere All at Once continued to receive their justly deserved due.Yeoh was, of course, nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, while Everything Everywhere All at Once was announced as a potential Best Picture. Everything also picked up nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Score, and more. The equally beloved Ke Huy Quan is in contention for Best…

Responding to humanitarian disasters quickly, better still, anticipating them can save lives . Data is key to this, not just having lots of data, but clean data which is well understood in order to create a clear view of the situation on the ground. In many cases this critical data is stored in hundreds of small spreadsheets, so piecing them altogether can be time consuming and difficult to maintain as new data comes in during a humanitarian incident. Automating the process of data discovery would potentially speed…

C.J. Harris, a singer-songwriter from Jasper, Ala., who competed on “American Idol,” has died. He was 31.Harris died Sunday after suffering from what appeared to have been a heart attack in his hometown, a family member told TMZ. He was rushed to Walker Baptist Medical Center in Jasper after CPR efforts were unsuccessful, a spokesperson for the Walker County Coroner confirmed to People.In 2014, Harris finished in sixth place on the 13th season of “American Idol.” During his audition, Harris dedicated his cover of the…

...More than the Japanese, the men of the subcontinent proclaimed the richness of their spiritual heritage, and the delegates included Buddhists, Jains, theosophists, the most orthodox of Brahmins, Brahmos, and of course Vivekananda. At the Parliament, they hid their divisions to stand together. Christians, and especially missionaries, were the common enemy, traducing eastern religions as “those barren, vague, meaningless abstractions in which men babble nothing under the name of the infinite.” ...The South Asians…

WASHINGTON —  Three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve. Texas authorities have not confirmed their involvement, but the bus dropoffs are in line with previous actions by border-state governors calling attention to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.The buses that arrived late Saturday outside the vice president’s residence were carrying 110 to 130 people, according to Tatiana Laborde, managing director of…

PITTSBURGH —  Franco Harris, the Hall of Fame running back whose heads-up thinking authored “the Immaculate Reception,” considered the most iconic play in NFL history, has died. He was 72.Harris’ son, Dok, told the Associated Press that his father died overnight. No cause of death was given.Harris’ death comes two days before the 50th anniversary of the play that provided the jolt that helped transform the Steelers from also-rans into a member of the NFL’s elite, and three days before Pittsburgh is scheduled to retire…

Gen Z acts like Conan Gray, Olivia Rodrigo, and Billie Eilish stack up against legacy acts like Fleetwood Mac and Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Spotify Billions Club this year.Graphic: Lori PedrickSpotify is one of the premiere music services of the 21st century, and modern music consumption favors streaming over nearly all formats. In 2021, Spotify unveiled the Billions Club, which consists of every song that has accrued at least one billion streams on the platform since their respective date of upload. So far, the…

I have made a career out of being an author. It has been a great privilege to be able to do that. But I am deeply saddened that the job I love has become inaccessible and unsustainable for others – and increasingly ruled by luck.I’m not talking about the luck that plays a part in the writing process, or in getting our work in front of the right agent or the right editor at the right time. I’m talking about the luck that comes later, once our work has been signed and contracted, and we’ve earned our way to the status of…

WASHINGTON —  Vice President Kamala Harris will swear in Karen Bass as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles on Sunday.The pairing is freighted with historical significance: In 2020, Harris became the first Black woman and first South Asian woman to be elected vice president. Last month, Bass became the first Black woman to be elected mayor of L.A.Bass asked the vice president to administer the oath of office as a nod to their status as two of California’s most powerful Black women, according to a Harris aide. Harris was honored…

| In August 2004, two creators that many would consider to be all-time greats co-created a comic called Ex Machina. Writer Brian K. Vaughan was already working on Y: The Last Man at the time and would, of course, go on to write and create arguably more titles in the "greatest of all time" conversation than any of his contemporaries, including Saga, Paper Girls, and more. Artist Tony Harris was well-known for his celebrated Starman run and unique technique, which used extensive photographic references of his own making.…