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Are Selena Gomez And Cara Delevingne In A Romantic Relationship? (Pic Credit: Instagram, Youtube) Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne have been friends and then co-stars for a long time. Their steamy relationship on Hulu’s light-hearted murder mystery show ‘Only Murders In The Building’ was the talk of Twitter for ages. But new photos have surfaced that might indicate more than just a professional relationship or friendliness between the two. Read on to know more! In season 2 of ‘Only Murders In The Building,’ Cara…

“It almost seems as if Van Leeuwenhoek knew that a new microworld was to unfold,” Cocquyt told me. One of his scientific rivals, Johannes Hudde, later said, “isn't it surprising that we never had the creativity to use these ball lenses to observe little things against the daylight, and that an uneducated and ignorant man such as Van Leeuwenhoek had to be the one to teach this to us.”Van Leeuwenhoek was the fifth son of a basket maker, born in the Delft—a small port city in South Holland known for its picturesque…

Representatives for Don’t Worry Darling star Chris Pine have said claims that his co-star Harry Styles “spat” on him at the Venice Film Festival are a “complete fabrication”.On Monday 5 September, a brief yet puzzling interaction between the pair at the Venice Film Festivalwent viral on social media.Styles and Pine were at the Venice screening of Don’t Worry Darling with co-stars including lead actor Florence Pugh and director Olivia Wilde when the moment was captured on video. In the clip, posted by Twitter user…

As much as Olivia Wilde wants movie lovers to focus on all the work and talent that went into making her stylish new sci-fi thriller, “Don’t Worry Darling,” her recent provocative comments about Jason Sudeikis and Shia LaBeouf, and her very “obvious” romance with Harry Styles while directing the production, have made it difficult to focus on anything other than the off-screen drama. In a new report for the industry newsletter, The Puck, author Matthew Belloni acknowledged that Hollywood sexism may make Wilde unfairly…

Firefighters monitor flames as they approach a residence in the valley area of Vacaville, northern California during the LNU Lightning Complex fire on August 19, 2020.Photo: JOSH EDELSON/AFP (Getty Images)A combination of dry lightning and drought conditions have caused some of the worst wildfires in California’s history, a new study finds.The study published this week in Environmental Research: Climate found that dry lightning, which researchers describe as lightning that occurs with “less than 2.5mm of rainfall” or no…

As cryptocurrency finally appears to be shaking off the hold of the bears, a new DeFi project is emerging amidst the noise. Uniglo.io is a newcomer to the crypto space that just gained 25% during the very first week of its presale. The new project recently completed the first portion of its Know Your Customer (KYC) security measures as undertaken by virtual currency consultancy Coinsult. Uniglo.io (GLO) Uniglo.io is a novel social currency that merges two forces: 1) asset backing and 2) an idiosyncratic…

During the worst mass extinction event in Earth's history, vast wetlands suffered increased wildfires, turning the world's largest carbon sinks into carbon sources. Credit: Victor O. Leshyk Researchers at University College Cork (UCC) and the Swedish Museum of Natural History examined the end-Permian mass extinction (252 million years ago) that eliminated almost every species on Earth, with entire ecosystems collapsing. The…

There is no perfect parallel in Earth’s past for present-day climate change—human-driven warming is simply happening too fast and furiously. The closest analog came 56 million years ago, when over the course of 3000 to 5000 years, greenhouse gases soared in the atmosphere, causing at least 5°C of warming and pushing tropical species to the poles. The cause of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) has long been debated, with researchers invoking exotic mechanisms such as…

If you’re concerned about the biases and bigotry of AI models, you’re gonna love the latest addition to the ranks: a text generator trained on 4chan’s /pol/ board. Short for “Politically Incorrect,” /pol/ is a bastion of hate speech, conspiracy theories, and far-right extremism. It’s also 4chan’s most active board, accumulating around 150,000 daily posts. These attributes attracted Yannick Kilcher, an AI whizz and YouTuber, to use /pol/ as a testing ground for…

US regulators are investigating Elon Musk's delayed disclosure of his sizable stake in Twitter last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.Musk disclosed a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 4, a delay of at least 10 days since surpassing the 5 percent threshold for revealing a shareholding, the report said.An investor who crosses a 5 percent stake must file a form with the SEC within 10 days. It serves as an early…