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Netflix’s new No 1 film The Man From Toronto has been lambasted by viewers on social media.The comedy-thriller stars Kevin Hart as a sports instructor who is mistaken for an assassin. Woody Harrelson plays the assassin himself, the so-called “Man from Toronto” who becomes entwined in the mistaken-identity caper.The Man from Toronto has risen to No 1 in the Netflix film rankings, although reactions to the film on Twitter have been distinctly mixed.“Is it just me or is The Man from Toronto one of the worst films ever made?”…

UOC Headquarters in Barcelona. Credit: UOC The COVID-19 pandemic has driven the digital transformation of university education. Over the last two years, the rest of the world's higher education centers have joined the pioneering universities which were created and established in an exclusively online format, like the UOC. And today, the vast majority offer at least some courses that are entirely digital. However, although the…

Tech giant Google has clarified how its Googlebot ranks pages, saying it will crawl the first 15 MB of a webpage and anything after this cutoff will not be included in rankings calculations.Google specified in the help document that "any resources referenced in the HTML such as images, videos, CSS and JavaScript are fetched separately"."After the first 15 MB of the file, Googlebot stops crawling and only considers the first 15 MB of the file for indexing," Google said."The file size limit is applied on the uncompressed…

If you're concerned that the usual web search engines might be biased, don't worry — Brave thinks it can help. The company has introduced a beta Goggles feature for Brave Search (itself no longer a beta) that lets anyone set their own criteria for search rankings. You can refine a "politics" query to shift the focus to blogs instead of major news outlets, for instance. You can create, modify or use others' rankings just by running a search and tapping the "Goggles" button. You won't necessarily have to spend time…

Peter Rice joined Disney as part of the company’s acquisition of entertainment assets from 21st Century Fox. Photo: bonnie cash/pool/Shutterstock…

High inflation has left executives with a tricky choice. Should they pass along their companies’ cost increases to their customers, preserving profit margins? Or should they swallow some of their rising expenses, cutting into margins in a bid to hold down prices for consumers and thereby maintain, or possibly even pick up, market share? High inflation has left executives with a tricky choice. Should they pass along their companies’ cost increases to their customers, preserving…

There seems to be little logic behind the films and TV shows that dominate Netflix’s Top 10 rankings.Sometimes, it will be the streaming service’s newest original offering – other times, it’s an arbitrary forgotten thriller from more than a decade ago.Interceptor, the film currently topping the Netflix rankings in a number of countries including the UK, falls into the former category.Released on 3 June, Interceptor follows an Army captain (played by Elsa Pataky) who tries to avert a missile attack on the US.Despite its…

There seems to be little logic behind the films and TV shows that dominate Netflix’s Top 10 rankings.Sometimes, it will be the streaming service’s newest original offering – other times, it’s an arbitrary forgotten thriller from more than a decade ago.Interceptor, the film currently topping the Netflix rankings in a number of countries including the UK, falls into the former category.Released on 3 June, Interceptor follows an Army captain (played by Elsa Pataky) who tries to avert a missile attack on the US.Despite its…

The US has succeeded in developing the world's first 'true' exascale supercomputer, honoring a pledge made by President Obama almost seven years ago, and ushering the world into a new era of computational capability.  Until now, the most speedy supercomputers in the world were still working in the petascale, achieving a quadrillion calculations per second. The exascale brings this to a whole new level, reaching a quintillion operations per second.The Frontier supercomputer, built at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge…

Apple CEO Tim Cook took home $770.5 million in compensation in 2021, earning enough to put him second in a list of the top ten Fortune 500 CEOs. Fortune figures published this week reveal that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was the most highly compensated CEO, earnings an eye-watering $23.5 billion thanks to options on Tesla stock awarded in 2018. Cook followed up in second: Cook has been CEO of Apple Inc. since 2011. He earned $770.5 million in 2021 alone, mostly as a part of a 10-year grant of shares worth $1.7…