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Nearly 15 years after The Blind Side earned Sandra Bullock her first Oscar, along with being a Best Picture contender, its subjects, Michael Oher and the Touhy family, entered into a public disagreement earlier this year. In August, the NFL football player claimed he was never adopted and exploited by the couple who took him in, and filed a legal filing detailing his allegations. The latest development in the conflict has Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy removing Oher references from their marketing materials. In a Wednesday…

by David John Eldridge, Andrew Macintosh, David Alan George and Don Butler, The Conversation Forests are highly unlikely to grow on semi-arid terrain like this, even if grazing animals are removed. Credit: TBC, CC BY-ND If you run a large polluting facility and can't work out how to actually cut emissions, you might buy carbon credits to offset your emissions from the…

Destiny 2 is patching out a move that allowed players to one-hit kill an enemy in PvP by using a shoulder charge or slide melee, with the change coming into place at the start of Season of the Wish.The new restriction on one-hit kills follows on from a change made almost two years ago in update 3.4.0, which stopped the Titan's shoulder charge ability from giving a guaranteed one-hit kill. Bungie explains that players found a way to work around this change, getting one-hit kills by sliding, firing their…

If you have fond memories of chatting with Reddit friends, you might want to check your archives. Reddit has confirmed user reports that it's removing all chats and messages from before 2023. As the social site explained in June, it's moving to a new chat architecture and believes pulling older messages will enable a "smooth and quick transition" to the new architecture. The change took effect June 30th, but many users only noticed days later. There may be a way to recover some of those messages, Mashable says. You can…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeYou have a short left of time to watch a bunch of movies on Netflix.Every month, the streaming service quietly reveals which titles will be removed – so if certain titles disappear from your watchlist, this will be why.While Netflix used to release a full list of everything being taken down, users can now discover what’s in the firing lane if they happen to select it while…

On the morning of June 22, Karl Verboten tried to log into the Instagram account for Klub Verboten, his London kink space and fortnightly party, but was met with the message: "We suspended your account ... Your account is not visible to people on Instagram right now, and you cannot use it.”Klub Verboten, founded in 2016, has a team of 70 freelancers and 50 safety staff, and has developed into a “community for modern human interaction,” with more than 70,000 followers on Instagram. The platform has been an integral part of…

Users in Canada are once again serving as involuntary first adopters of Netflix's new policies. Following its February decision to charge more for account sharing between houses in the country, the streamer has now announced its basic plan will no longer be an option for Canada's subscribers, The Winnipeg Free Press reports. Anyone already on a basic plan doesn't have to worry about being kicked off it, but if they choose to move to another option or close their account, they can't get back on that tier. New users can no…

“There was no understanding that would even be enforced in Texas at the time because it was appealed up to the Supreme Court,” she says. “So even before this law actually had significant teeth, they were banning the two hashtags of the two most commonly used abortion medications.”Rathe, the TikTok spokesperson, says that TikTok has never restricted these hashtags, even after the Texas law was passed.And while Shakouri and others worry that accurate reproductive health information is being removed, research from Media…

Autonomous trucking company TuSimple last week successfully completed a fully autonomous semi-truck run on public roads in China without a human present in the vehicle and without human intervention. The company claims to have completed China’s first so-called “driver-out” run. This is the second time TuSimple has pulled the driver out of operations on public roads. The first time was back in December 2021 and took place along 80-miles of surface streets and highways between a railyard in…

Researchers discovered that the removal of the APOE ε4 gene from neurons in mice resulted in a significant decrease in Alzheimer’s disease hallmarks, including cell death and tau tangle proliferation. This breakthrough suggests that the APOE ε4 gene plays a significant role in promoting Alzheimer’s development and opens up new potential therapeutic targets for treating the disease. Credit: NIAResearch on mouse neurons reveals a new therapeutic role of removing a genetic variant for <span class="glossaryLink"…