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Kylie Jenner Almost Had A Different Name ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Kylie Jenner’s parents had thought of a different name for her with a political pedigree. The reality TV star revealed on TikTok that her parents, Kris and Caitlyn Jenner, almost named her Kennedy Jenner. “My name is Kylie, but it was almost,” she wrote over a video of her and daughter Stormi Webster, 4. The video continued with a series of pictures from the beauty mogul with the name “Kennedy” written over them, reports People…

Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter’s award-winning awards columnist and host of its Awards Chatter podcast, who has interviewed the industry’s biggest players and broken vital stories, has been named executive editor of awards. In Feinberg’s new role, he will report directly to editorial director Nekesa Mumbi Moody. “Scott is the pre-eminent awards expert, responsible for breaking exclusive stories, writing great features, interviewing luminaries for Awards Chatter, and of course, making…

A first-of-its kind database of arrested narcotics offenders has been made operational for use by various central and state prosecution agencies tasked to enforce anti-drugs laws in the country, officials said.The portal — NIDAAN or the National Integrated Database on Arrested Narco-offenders — has been developed by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).It is part of the narcotics coordination mechanism (NCORD) portal that was launched by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on July 30 in Chandigarh during the national conference…

In a bid to warn people about excessively hot weather and the dangers associated with it, scientists have started naming heatwaves now. At first, a heatwave in Spain, which resulted in temperatures touching as high as 44 degree Celsius, was named Zoe. The rise in temperature was recorded between July 24 and July 27 when the heatwave gripped Seville city of Spain, according to Jose Maria Martin Olalla, an associate professor in the department of condensed matter physics at Sevilla University. The naming was done by the…

For the first time, scientists have named a heat wave. They called it Zoe.According to USA Today, the Spanish scientists bestowed the moniker on a heat wave that sent temperatures soaring to 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44.4 degrees Celsius) in Seville between July 24 and July 27.It's a new effort to alert the public to extreme temperatures and warn them of the dangers, José María Martín Olalla, an associate professor in the department of condensed matter physics at Sevilla University, told the newspaper.Hurricanes have long…

From data preparation to model training for NER tasks — and how to tag your own sentencesPhoto by Aaron Burden on UnsplashNowadays, NLP has become synonymous with Deep Learning.But, Deep Learning is not the ‘magic bullet’ for every NLP task. For example, in sentence classification tasks, a simple linear classifier could work reasonably well. Especially if you have a small training dataset.However, some NLP tasks flourish with Deep Learning. One such task is Named Entity Recognition — NER:NER is the process of identifying…

Microsoft and UnityMicrosoft and Unity announced that Microsoft's Azure had been named the official cloud partner of the Unity game engine. Game engines like Unity allow for the game and digital experience creators to design and realize 3D environments and assets for games, training tools, and other digital experiences. The Unity engine itself has powered a slew of popular games since its launch in 2005, with some notable recent releases including Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Fall Guys, Genshin…

South Korea is headed for the moon. Last night, the country launched its first-ever lunar mission — in fact, its first-ever mission beyond low Earth orbit. Formerly called the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), the mission, managed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), is now named Danuri, a play on the Korean words for “moon” and “enjoy.” Its primary goal is to test South Korea’s lunar spacecraft technology before it makes a bid to land on the surface, tentatively in 2030 if all…

Content warning: The following article contains mentions of alleged instances of sexual assault.Mystikal was arrested in Louisiana over the weekend on multiple charges, including first-degree rape and domestic abuse.Per a report from regional outlet WAFB, Mystikal was arrested and booked after deputies with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a hospital in the area in connection with an alleged sexual assault, with Mystikal—whose real name is Michael Tyler—ultimately being named as a suspect.A press release…

CLIMATEWIRE | The world’s first named heat wave hit Seville, Spain, this week, pushing temperatures past 110 degrees Fahrenheit and earning the most severe tier in the city’s new heat wave ranking system. Heat wave “Zoe” has brought scorching temperatures to the southern part of the country for the last few days, particularly the region of Andalusia where Seville is located. Even in the evenings, the Spanish meteorological service recorded temperatures that hovered in the mid-80s in some areas — an extra stress on the…