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Princess Protection Program No, she's not on the next season of The Masked Singer or Traitors, and she's definitely not checking out the botched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory family event Throw a dart at a map and no matter where it lands, there’s probably a conspiracy theory swirling around online about Kate Middleton being there. Earlier this week, the internet became fixated on her current whereabouts after realizing she’s been out of the public eye for a while, not…

Apple has bought the “iWork.ai’ domain, fuelling speculation that its office suite, consisting of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, could all be getting some big artificial intelligence features soon.According to BuyAIDomains, Apple became the owner of the domain very recently, with its company name and business address of Apple Park in the owner records of “iWork.ai”. In Mark Gurman’s ’Power On’ newsletter back in October 2023, he mentioned that Apple was already working on several AI features for many of its apps —…

Drone photo of Khaltaryn Balgas (MA21). Credit: Journal of Field Archaeology (2023). DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2295198 A team of archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, working with a colleague from the National University of Mongolia, has conducted a study of the 405-km wall system in eastern Mongolia known as the Mongolian Arc in order to learn more about its history and purpose. In their paper…

This new image of supernova remnant SN 1006 combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The red, green, and blue elements reflect low, medium, and high energy X-rays, respectively, as detected by Chandra. The IXPE data, which measure the polarization of the X-ray light, is show in purple in the upper left corner, with the addition of lines representing the outward movement of the remnant’s magnetic field. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO (Chandra); NASA/MSFC/Nanjing…

NASHVILLE —  The night before this week’s winter meetings launched inside a dystopian resort and convention center, the event’s top storyline was plastered all over Major League Baseball’s official website.The homepage Saturday featured a box in the top right corner titled “Ohtani Watch,” where readers could “keep track of the latest news and rumors.” There was a photo of Shohei Ohtani with a map of the United States and various team logos in the background with a question: “Where will Shohei Ohtani sign?” There was…

Doja Cat stan accounts across social media are going dark, the result of an ongoing battle between the Grammy-nominated, rapper-pop star and her fanbase. The hot war has already brought up thorny issues about what exactly celebrities owe their biggest fans. But another major player has been embroiled in the controversy: Doja’s long-rumored boyfriend J. Cyrus, who has been accused of manipulating and emotionally abusing members of his Twitch team and community.  While Cyrus (real name Jeffrey Cyrus), doesn’t have…

Is Lilith up to no good? It took a bit longer than I expected, but the Diablo 4 hardcore contest has come to an end. Blizzard revealed on Twitter that 1000 qualifying players have hit level 100 on hardcore mode and will have their names carved into history. Unfortunately, the contest has been plagued by drama before it even began, and then some. Shortly after revealing the list of 1000 winners, the tweet became flooded by players claiming they should be on the list but aren’t. Please look into some of the people who's…

Apple's World Wide Developer Conference 2023 (WWDC 2023) is set to kick off today, June 5, and after months of anticipation, we cannot wait to see what new tech Apple has in store. While tipsters have already hinted at software updates such as iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS 14, and watchOS 10, new hardware including a 15-inch MacBook Air and a new mixed reality headset is also expected to be unveiled. The event will kick off today at 10 AM PT or 10:30 PM IST at Apple Park, California.With just hours to go until Apple brings…

Awkwafina photo Unique Nicole/Getty Images, Flounder courtesy Walt Disney Pictures Comedy actress Awkwafina has been getting a lot of attention for playing Scuttlebutt in the live action remake of The Little Mermaid, and not only because people want to stab their eardrums when she sings. In a recent interview with SlashFilm, Awkwafina and costar Jason Tremblay (Flounder) were asked one of the most pertinent questions anyone could ever ask about mermaids: what do they eat? And also, wouldn’t they want to eat…

Extending high above and below the Milky Way's galactic plane, a pair of huge, symmetrical blobs of gas stretch out like the lobes of a cosmic hourglass, glowing faintly with an X-ray radiance.They're known as eROSITA bubbles, named after the X-ray telescope that spotted them in 2020, and are located in the Milky Way's massive shell of gas, or 'circumgalactic medium', extending some 45,661 light-years either side of the galactic center.The energetic gasses making up the bubbles were assumed to have a fairly even, if…