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Billie Eilish said she wants the internet to “leave me alone” about liking both women and men, after her sexuality became red carpet talk for Variety. “Thanks Variety for my award and for also outing me on a red carpet at 11am instead of talking about anything else that matters,” she said in an Instagram post Sunday, before adding,”literally who cares.” The Grammy-winning singer was one of a handful of honorees at the magazine’s annual Hitmakers Brunch on Saturday. Eilish and brother Finneas‘ “Barbie” hit “What Was I…

The human civilisation has come to depend a lot on satellites. However, US Space Force's Chief Master Sergeant, Ron Lerch fears that this spells doom for us, considering the variety and number of weapons we are sending to space, that can take down vital satellites…

Ben Wheatley hopes The Meg 2 is his ticket to directing Godzilla some day. Saw X has its eyes on you in a creepy new poster. The Scooby gang prepares to enter the DC multiverse. Plus, what’s coming on Riverdale. Spoilers away!Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksBarneyWhile discussing the company’s roster of upcoming films with Variety, Executive Producer of Mattel, Robbie Brenner, described Daniel Kaluuya’s Barney movie as something akin to “a Being John Malkovich or an…

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts may not have been the box office beast Paramount wanted it to be, but those who saw it surely won’t forget its ending. It’s an ending that required lots of planning and even more approvals, with one in particular being the most difficult to get: producer Michael Bay.Breaking the Fourth Wall in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | io9 Interview(Rise of the Beasts is now on Paramount+ if you want to see it for yourself,but from here, we’re going to go full spoilers.) That ending sees Anthony…

Last Wednesday, Rolling Stone and Variety made more news regarding their upcoming Truth Seekers Summit, presented by SHOWTIME on August 2nd. The two brands announced a digital content hub for attendees, featuring the kind of reporting that’s at the heart of the event’s celebration of hard-nosed journalism and documentary and investigative storytelling. Seeking to dig “underneath the surface to reveal what’s hidden, what happened and what might come next,” the content hub will showcase stories on documentaries of all…

A lot has been written and said about the gut microbiome – the community of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea that lives in our intestines. But the gut is not the only place that has a microbiome.The mouth, nose, skin, lungs, and genitals have microbiomes of their own. And they all play an important role in our health.Here is a brief introduction to each one.Oral microbiomeArguably, this was the first microbiome discovered.In the late 1600s, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch scientist, scraped the inside of his mouth…

Even though we could, most of us don’t want to eat the same food for every meal. Now researchers have discovered it's the same for African elephants, whose diverse and individualistic food selection shows they're incredibly discerning at the dinner table.While the huge herbivores have a base diet of staples – also not unlike us – they eat a massive range of plant taxa, with one animal even showing to have more than 100 different species present in their poop sample.A global team of scientists including Brown University…

Just like some people, elephants seem to prefer a rich palette of foods, research out this week suggests. Studying decades-old poop, researchers found that elephants tend to have diverse diets that can differ significantly from others in the same community. These diets are further influenced by the time of year and the elephants’ specific circumstances.What is One Change Mark Zuckerberg Should Make to His Social Platforms? | Gizmodo InterviewPast research has been able to show the broad strokes of an elephant’s…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As public concerns mount over lack of transparency in political giving, a new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin is the first to illuminate how and why corporations choose to legally conceal their lobbying and campaign contributions. U.S. companies are required to disclose…

Friday, June 30 was meant to be the cutoff date for negotiations between Hollywood studios and SAG-AFTRA. Had a deal not been struck by then, the actors guild was going to join the WGA’s strike efforts in a more official capacity. But much like what recently happened with the DGA, actors have gotten something of a reprieve just hours before the midnight deadline.What is One Change Mark Zuckerberg Should Make to His Social Platforms? | Gizmodo InterviewNow, conversations between the two parties will continue all the way…