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Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a third-year math course heavy on advanced algebra. To meet her math requirement, she opted instead for an introductory data science course, approved a few years ago by the University of California as an alternative to advanced algebra. She loves the challenge of learning how to code, conduct surveys and analyze data on topics…

Rihanna shined “like a diamond in the sky” this weekend. The R&B star came out of an eight-year-long live performance hiatus this weekend for the pre-wedding party of an Indian billionaire’s son. But a viral video of Rihanna’s performance at the private party sparked debate, not about the singer’s groundbreaking show but about the device used to record the footage.French model Joh Masse captured Rihanna’s private concert at Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding celebration in Jamnagar, India, and confirmed…

Working as a babysitter is tough. Not only do you have to take care of the kids, but you also have to be mindful of any requests from parents to maintain a good reputation. One issue that babysitters face is that many of them aren’t paid as much as they’d like for their efforts. So, the chance to up their earnings is usually appreciated.Kansas City-based mom, teacher, and small business owner Katrina Ivan, who is known as @kivankc on TikTok, has recently gone viral after giving her babysitter a list of chores that she…

An image of a young polar bear napping on an iceberg is focusing minds on vanishing polar habitats.The image won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award, hosted by London's Natural History Museum.Amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani took the photo during a three-day expedition off Norway's Svalbard archipelago."This photograph has stirred strong emotions in many of those who have seen it. Whilst climate change is the biggest challenge we face, I hope that this photograph also inspires hope; there is…

‘You might not know what Virginia looks like,” says Oliver Anthony to a sold-out crowd in Glasgow. “But I’m writing about home, and it’s not much different from here.” Last year the ascendant country star, real name Christopher Lunsford, became one of the few unsigned artists to reach No 1 in the US, with Rich Men North of Richmond. An everyman screed against political elites, the song is quintessentially populist: it criticises both the wealthy and welfare recipients, and has been co-opted by Republicans, to Lunsford’s…

There have been many discussions about the use of AI and other algorithms to capture images using smartphones. And this isn't something new. There have been controversies around the pictures of the moon captured using Huawei's and Samsung's smartphones. Now, a high-level Samsung executive has stirred up a controversy, saying there are no real pictures in this day and age. Samsung says all pictures from modern cameras have some AI components Speaking to TechRadar, Samsung EVP Patrick Chomet said that there is no such…

Parking can really sour your day. Finding a blocked car is more than inconvenient; it’s frustrating. Especially when you’re in a hurry. It angers people so much that, for example, one in three drivers in the UK admits they have written a passive-aggressive note to neighbors about it and left it on their vehicle. Some of these cases even end up in heated arguments.Recently, redditor u/2ndbreakfastfan was drawn into such a quarrel without even owning a car. After leaving the grocery store and making his way back home, a…

Food-delivery platform Zomato set up a 'war room' on December 31 to handle the ordering frenzy for new year celebrations across the country, which also pushed the company at the center of a work-life balance debate online.Deepinder Goyal, cofounder and chief executive of Zomato, on Sunday shared images from the company's 'war room' showing employees huddled in conference rooms, to take on heightened demand on account of New Year's Eve. "Ready to get (India’s) party started 🤞," his post on X read.Elevate Your Tech Prowess…

As Taylor Swift’s romance with Travis Kelce appears to grow ever more serious, her longtime publicist Tree Paine made what’s been called an unusual move Thursday to fiercely denounce one of the many online rumors that tend to percolate about the singer — this one alleging that she had a secret “marriage”-like ceremony with her last serious boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, before their shock split earlier this year. The secret ceremony claim was made by a writer on the infamous gossip account Deuxmoi, and it was vehemently slammed by…

A group of children find a body in the river: the village witch, her throat slit, writhing with snakes.The opening scene of Hurricane Season, a new Netflix movie based on Mexican novelist Fernanda Melchor’s book, plunges the viewer straight into a tropical, lawless, superstitious version of rural Veracruz, Melchor’s home state.Mexico has a level of violence rare in peacetime, and Veracruz, by some estimates, is the state with most victims of atrocities in 2023. It also often among those with most femicides. Hurricane…