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Actor Mark Wahlberg was there to present the last award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, the one for best ensemble to the predominantly Asian cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once. The move was criticised by many, as many questioned the decision of the SAG awards for giving the actor to present the award who went to jail for committing hate crimes against two Asian men when he was 16 years old. (Also read: SAG Awards 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once to The White Lotus, see the full list of…

A student has admitted to a misguided prank that saw them send a bomb hoax to the passengers of an airplane bound for Chicago using their iPhone's AirDrop feature.The hoax saw the student send an AirDrop file transfer request to other passengers that read "I have a bomb would like to share a photo."The plane was subsequently taken back off the runway and returned to a gate while authorities were called.AirDrop gone wrongAirDrop is a feature that allows iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to wirelessly transfer files to each…

It’s now going to be harder to land in “Facebook jail.” Meta says it’s its penalty system so that people are less likely to have their accounts restricted for less serious violations of the company’s rules. “Under the new system, we will focus on helping people understand why we have removed their content, which is shown to be more effective at preventing re-offending, rather than so quickly restricting their ability to post,” Meta explains in a . “We will still apply account restrictions to persistent violators,…

Reality star Todd Chrisley has a new look these days, a month after starting his 12-year prison sentence for tax evasion and bank fraud in January. Savannah Chrisley revealed on Tuesday’s episode of her “Unlocked” podcast that her father, who is best known for the USA Network reality series “Chrisley Knows Best,” isn’t sporting his signature blond highlights anymore.“I will say it’s really weird seeing him with gray hair. Like really weird,” Savannah Chrisley told guest Britney Ruby Miller. “He’s definitely used some…

Gary Glitter has been freed from prison after serving half of his 16-year sentence for sexual abuse crimes, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.The former pop star, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.The 79-year-old left HMP The Verne – a low-security category C jail in Portland, Dorset – on Friday after eight years behind bars.He was freed automatically halfway through a fixed-term determinate sentence and will be subject to licence conditions.Glitter,…

Recently, I stood on a raised court podium being cross-examined by a roomful of barristers. I was there as an “expert witness” to the case in hand – a group of young Black men from a small English city charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm – which mostly involved commenting on the extensive use of rap lyrics as evidence.Local police officers had transcribed, translated and interpreted songs and YouTube music videos, many of which had been recorded and released more than five years before the alleged crime, to make…

Researchers have created a new class of robots that can shift between solid and liquid forms on demand. In a series of tests, these new bots could move and change shape to run obstacle courses, carry objects, or even escape from a jail cell like a Terminator.Robots usually come in two flavors – there are the traditional ones that are hard and strong, but not particularly flexible. And then there are soft robots, which are more flexible but not as strong. For the new study, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the…

Joshua Browder, the CEO of New York startup DoNotPay, recently announced that his company's AI will represent a defendant fighting a traffic ticket in the courtroom on February 22nd. "istory will be made," Browder wrote in his tweet. "DoNotPay A.I will whisper in someone's ear exactly what to say. We will release the results and share more after it happens," he added. We may never know how the "robot lawyer" will fare in court, though, because a few days later, Browder announced that DoNotPay is postponing its court case…

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An Australian man has been sentenced to jail for more than two years over an SMS phishing scam, during which he stole AU$100,000 ($69,751) and targeted 450 victims. The Sydney Local Court found the man guilty of various cybercrime offences, including obtaining and supplying data with intent to commit a computer offence. He was sentenced to two years and eight months' imprisonment, said the Australian Federal Police (AFP), which gathered evidence from website registrations suspected of being used to facilitate the phishing…