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Social media celebrating women's submission is propaganda, not a reflection of reality

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Marla Sokoloff, 44; Jake Gyllenhaal, 44; Alyssa Milano, 52; Tyson Beckford, 54. Happy Birthday: Put your energy where it brings the highest return or is needed most this year, and you’ll find your happy place in the universe. Opportunity is within reach if you don’t give in to indecisiveness or […]

Analysing footage of what happens when people jump into water, and using a robot to mimic them, has revealed how do the perfect dive-bomb using a Maori technique called the Manu

Scammers have become skilled at creating convincing fake websites that can easily fool unsuspecting users. The CyberGuy offers tips to protect yourself.

Maureen Strickland, 80, doesn't plan to stop working her job as a retail assistant at David Jones and even promised to continue until she's 90.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s aesthetic vision alone will not create jobs.

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Fewer cuts from the Fed in 2025 mean mortgage rates may not go down as much as expected.

Dr. Mohammad Rasekhi agreed to give up his license after the Medical Board of California detailed allegations that he sexually abused three women under his care.

Mel and Jack, the couple at the center of Netflix's romance series, have finally tied the knot. The cast and crew discuss how the two-episode wedding came together.

Denizens of New Eden, 

The YC126.11.28 Groundbreak event has concluded, and the impact of the Vanguard on the war was undeniable. Planetside operations turned the tide in key moments, with the system of Raihbaka being overturned due to Vanguard activity, and much more.  

To watch the wrap video from the event, and get information on the future of EVE Vanguard, visit the Vanguard website. 

Stay connected with developers and your fellow warclones until the next deployment on Discord... Читать дальше...

The mother of a murdered teenager says the child killers responsible have "taken my heart" and don't "understand the impact" of what they've done.

Barely moments after Donald Trump announced that he’d chosen loyalist Kash Patel as FBI director, Republicans stampeded forth to insist that this in no way means Trump will unleash law enforcement on his enemies, even though Trump himself has threatened to do so. Senator John Cornyn suggested such threats were only for “public consumption.” Senator Rick Scott said Trump is “not gonna do it.” And Representative Dan Meuser scoffed that the very idea is “nonsense.”

“I simply no longer know what to do. The situation is an absolute catastrophe.”

If Tilda Swinton hadn’t been born in time to play the androgynous protagonist of Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992), the director would have had to invent her. Ever since the beginning of her career as a cover girl for the British avant-garde, Swinton has seemed strangely ageless: a protean figure projecting a beguiling mix of Sphinx-like wisdom and fairy-tale whimsy; an alabaster statue granted benevolent sentience. In Orlando, Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Swinton is a shape-shifter... Читать дальше...

A free VPN app called Big Mama is selling access to people’s home internet networks. Kids are using it to cheat in a VR game while researchers warn of bigger security risks.

If you’re reading this, you probably know there’s no shortage of advice — good, bad, middling — in our digital landscape. Influencers are always peddling one weird trick to help you “hack” your health; many people on the internet won’t bat an eye before telling you to “divorce him,” and Reddit has become the de facto […]

At the age of 29, Jeremy Bray can no longer move his face, arms, hands or legs. The only thing that can stop or even reverse the weakening of his muscles is a treatment the Manitoba government is refusing to pay for.

Entertainment Today: Watches television shows about people gossiping, fighting, and having sex. Entertainment in 1884: Gossiping, fighting, and having sex.

Across culture and politics, 2024 was a year of great expectations followed by disastrous misses. What space might these upsets open up in their wake?

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This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The vibes in the climate world this year have largely been … less than great. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit a new high, reaching 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024. This year is…

Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace are putting their moon landers on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which is scheduled to lift off in January.

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Penguins head south for a meeting with the Predators and Pens Points has all the headlines to catch up on before puck drop.

There may be more families in need than people realise, says founder and chairman of Neighbour Neighbour charity Errol Griffith. That’s why he is encouraging more Barbadians to give what they can throughout the year and not just during the holidays. “The demand for our assistance increased during COVID and it never dropped. It increased […]

Much of the failure of American schools is due to the adherence to a flawed system of teaching students how to read. Homeschoolers often don‘t seem to have that problem, and there is a good reason why.