Sara

Canadian twins Tegan and Sara Quin’s 10th album was born out of lockdown-assisted stress and trauma, a fact hammered home by song titles such as Smoking Weed Alone, Pretty Shitty Time and This Ain’t Going Well. Adroit at pairing incisive, deeply personal lyrics with stadium-sized pop melodies – either housed in elastic synth pop or, as they favour here, more roughed-up indie-rock – on Crybaby they’re soundtracking the world’s bleakest house party.Galloping opener I Can’t Grow Up sets the tone. While it rushes forward on…

High School, an Amazon Freevee adaptation of the memoir by twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin, concentrates on the pair’s 90s adolescence before they became the indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara. The first episode is about as boring as those of us who also went through a 90s adolescence remember it being. The girls are played by twins Railey and Seazynn Gilliland, who are TikTok creators in their first acting roles (but don’t let that put you off: they are not bad and get better as the series goes on). They moon morosely as they…

While Bollywood celebrities usually prefer buying comfort-oriented S-Classes and Maybachs, there are very few of them who chose the road less taken within the Mercedes-Benz stable. We are talking about the Mercedes-Benz G-Class, also known as G-Wagen, which offers a perfect combination of luxury and off-road worthiness. We take a look at popular names from the film industry who are proud owners of the G-Wagen or are using them without owning one. Also read: 10 DC Design cars & how they look in the REAL world: Maruti…

When we think about celebrities in India, swanky cars used by them would also come to your mind. We don’t usually see a celebrity in a humble inexpensive car everyday. Along with luxury and exotic cars, there are some celebs in india, who like to have a humble cars which they can take out for their daily chores. There are some actors in the bollywood who still use such mass segment vehicles which are commonly spotted on our roads. One such Bollywood actress who was recently spotted in a humble car was Sara Ali Khan. The…

Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Looper.Image: SonyTen years ago, when Rian Johnson’s Looper was released, it was pretty universally loved. This site loved it, fans loved it, I loved it, and that adoration hasn’t really gone away. However, while I liked the film when I saw it, it’s never one I felt the need to rewatch. And so, for its 10-year anniversary, I did just that, and discovered time has only made this time-travel movie better. Things that were once confusing are no longer so; themes that were a little…

The first song I remember hearingI shared a bedroom with my two big sisters, and remember being put in an oversize nightie that trailed behind me like a fabulous gown, and made to lip-sync to I Will Survive. This was before RuPaul’s Drag Race, so I was way ahead of the curve.The first single I boughtI wish it was a cool one, but as I’m so giving and selfless, it was a charity single for Great Ormond Street hospital called The Wishing Well. By about 12, I was allowed to go into Bolton town centre by myself, and would head…

Explaining the proposed AI regulations in the EUPhoto by Andrea De Santis on unsplash.Proposal for EU’s new AI regulation, “AI act” in short, was published in April 2021, and it has been a widely discussed topic in data circles. And no wonder as it will have a large impact on some fields of AI and there’s a lot of uncertainty of how this Regulation will be applied in practice. As a senior data scientist I’ve been involved in numerous data science projects and I have special expertise in explainable AI methods and AI…

My earliest reading memoryI was six, walking home from school with a book that had the word “city” in it. I only knew the hard “c” and couldn’t figure out what a kitten had to do with the story.My favourite book growing upLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott. I first read it when I was seven or eight. I was the only girl in a family of boys, and I loved immersing myself in the family of sisters. My family also had a lot of anger and volatility, and the thoughtful, attentive parenting Marmee gave her daughters offered a…

Whenever I visit LinkedIn lately, I almost always see an update from Sara Taher, the SEO Team Lead at Flywheel Digital. And many of her posts tend to get a lot of engagement. Her updates regularly attract hundreds of reactions, comments and shares.  So what’s her secret to posting effectively on LinkedIn and being so visible? Has she figured out the LinkedIn algorithm? Taher was kind enough to give a little insight into her LinkedIn posting strategy. What follows are…

For as long as the internet has been in existence, abortion was, until last week, a constitutionally guaranteed right. The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade will have a number of obvious ripple effects, most significantly the so-called trigger laws that 13 states enacted to immediately ban the procedure. The decision also has huge implications for the information we access through our phones: Personal reproductive data collected in apps and sold to brokers becomes far more dangerous, as it could…