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One-time fans who perhaps remember comedian Jon Stewart only taking satirical swipes at conservatives while host of The Daily Show were shocked and aggrieved when he returned to host the program after almost nine years on Monday to take aim at President Joe Biden. During an “Indecision 2024” segment that anchored the first half of the show, Stewart aired exasperation over Donald Trump and Biden being the oldest-ever candidates for president, breaking a record they themselves set in the 2020 election. (In his usual…

Every once in a while, scientists embark on a study to test some weird and wacky hypothesis that makes you wonder why. But let's indulge them; it can be fun.A new study from a team of paleontologists and aerospace engineers has simulated a dinosaur's tail as it lashes about, all to see whether long-necked sauropods could whip their appendages faster than the speed of sound – quick enough to produce the crack of a small, supersonic boom.Previous research has suggested the dinos could, if their tails had a bullwhip-like…

Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer for Meta, Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer for YouTube, Vanessa Pappas, Chief Operating Officer for TikTok and Jay Sullivan, General Manager of Bluebird, Twitter, testify during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing to examine social media’s impact on homeland security, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.Photo: Alex Brandon (AP)Executives at four social media giants appeared yesterday before a Senate committee to receive what’s become…

Chance the Rapper says he still has love for Kanye West, despite being a target of one of his outbursts.During a recent appearance on The Morning Hustle, Chano was asked about a circulating leaked video that captured a tense moment between him and Ye in Wyoming. The footage was reportedly part of a Donda-focused documentary that was helmed by Dame Dash.“Sit your ass down and listen to the album or leave,” Kanye shouts at his fellow Chi-Town rapper.The clip included an interview with Dash, who shed more light on the…