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It’s been 20 years since Mark Zuckerberg first brought thefacebook.com online from his dorm room. What happened next has been endlessly documented: the Harvard-only social network took over college campuses and, eventually, the world.The social network occupies an increasingly awkward space in Meta’s “family” of apps. A majority of American adults the service, but three out of four Facebook — perhaps because it fueled a global misinformation crises and promoted genocidal hate speech — is “making society worse.” Facebook…

The Best Actor race at this year's Oscars will be a head-to-head between Oppenheimer lead Cillian Murphy and The Holdovers' star Paul Giamatti. However, there's seemingly no competitive animosity—only love—between their female counterparts, Emily Blunt and Da'Vine Joy Randolph. After loads of Oscar buzz, both actresses are officially among the 2024 Academy Award nominees, and they are honored in the same category, Best Supporting Actress, for Blunt's role as J. Robert Oppenheimer's fierce wife Kitty and Randolph's…

An image showing the OpenET data explorer raster view of evapotranspiration. Credit: DRI/OpenET Sustainable water management is an increasing concern in arid regions around the world, and scientists and regulators are turning to remote sensing tools like OpenET to help track and manage water resources. OpenET uses publicly available data produced by NASA and USGS Landsat and other satellite systems to calculate…

More than two dozen prominent names from the acting world — including Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon, The Crown actors Khalid Abdalla and Tobias Menzies, and Game of Thrones stars Charles Dance, Carice van Houten and Lena Headey — have contributed to a series of videos supporting South Africa’s historic case charging Israel with genocide at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. The video series is published by the Palestine Festival of Literature, a British-based cultural association…

Comedian Jo Koy found himself caught in a swirl of controversy after poking fun at Taylor Swift during the 2024 Golden Globes. However, he is now claiming to be a genuine supporter of the pop sensation, just days after the incident. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Jo Koy expressed his confusion over the backlash, stating, “I didn’t understand the Taylor tiff. What hurts the most is me just supporting Taylor, I support her, I love her work. There’s no ill intent in that joke.” During his Golden Globes…

Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr. won the Golden Globe for the Best Supporting Actor for one of 2023`s biggest blockbusters `Oppenheimer`. This marks his fourth Golden Globe win after `Short Cuts`, `Ally McBeal` and `Sherlock Holmes`. He played the villainous Lewis Strauss in the hit Christopher Nolan-directorial which saw Cillian Murphy essaying the titular role. "Yeah, yeah, I took a beta blocker so this will be a breeze," he says. The actor said he`s glad Universal "went all in" for Nolan and crew to "render a…

The first honour at the 81st Golden Globe Awards has been doled out and it goes to actress Da`Vine Joy Randolph as the Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her work in the film `The Holdovers`. She played the role of Mary Lamb in the Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. The film, which is set in 1970, follows a bad-tempered history teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on Christmas break. Da`Vine Joy Randolph won her…

Image Source : FILE Why did Meta stop supporting Chromecast from Quest VR headsets? Meta has reportedly discontinued the functionality of Chromecast from Quest VR headsets with the new software update with the build number (firmware version) 60.0, which was released in December (2023). As per the reports of Android Central, the changes were especially noticeable on the…

I’m a nurse and I work in a unit that is almost exclusively female staff. One of our coworkers, it turns out was in an abusive relationship and needed to flee with her children, and was worried because she didn’t feel safe, she didn’t have any extra money, or a place to stay. The rest of the staff.(and there are eight of us total including this particular nurse)got a fund together, and moved her and her children out of her house, and into one of our coworkers family, Summer cabin (a near by lake). We made all of this…

Dec. 4, 2023 3 AM PT To the editor: Robin Abcarian ends her piece on former President Trump’s continued support in the GOP, despite his explicitly authoritarian behavior, with two questions: Are Republicans rational? And, do they care?My answer is that Republicans are rational, and they do care.They think they are getting what they want: an authoritarian leader who is anti-democracy, racist, sexist and vengeful. Too many journalists seem to discount this, believing that once these voters know more, they will abandon…