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The Mozilla Foundation and dozens of other research and advocacy groups are pushing back on Meta’s decisions to shut down its research tool, CrowdTangle, later this year. In an , the group calls on Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until after 2024 elections, saying that it will harm their ability to track election misinformation in a year where “approximately half the world’s population” are slated to vote.The letter, published by the Mozilla Foundation and signed by 90 groups as well as the former CEO of CrowdTangle, comes one week after Meta confirmed it would the tool in August 2024. “Meta’s…

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Poco C61 may launch in India soon. Details about the purported handset, including design renders, key features, RAM and storage variants, as well as the expected price have surfaced online. The phone has been tipped to be a rebranded version of the Redmi A3, which was unveiled in India in February this year. The phone may, therefore, share similar specifications as the Redmi model. The rumoured smartphone is expected to succeed the Poco C51 that was introduced in the country in April 2023.Leaked renders of the Poco C61 were shared in an Appuals report. The handset is seen in black, blue,…

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It’s a big day for NBC’s so-called Dick Wolf Universe. The network has ordered new seasons of all three shows in the One Chicago franchise: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD. Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU have also been renewed, but today’s news is a mixed bag for NBC’s longest-running interconnected shows: There’s been no decision yet on Law & Order: Organized Crime, whose status is “still under discussion,” an NBC source tells The Hollywood Reporter. Today’s announcement sets the path for a 26th season of SVU, cementing the show’s place…

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the 2025 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 21, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersWASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday defended President Joe Biden’s 2025 fiscal budget proposal as Republican senators said they feared taxes would rise for the middle class as the result of a law due to expire next year.”For years, President Biden has vowed no tax increase on individuals earning less than $400,000,” Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing where Yellen was testifying.”And now President Biden is choosing…

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Not a whit. We defy augury. Hamlet, V. ii. 233 We were gone for almost all of August. When we got back, we found a rime of black and white bird shit and feathers encrusted on the top few steps of the stoop. Pigeons had been roosting on the pediments atop our windows. Whatever normally kept them away from our building was no longer keeping them away. Who’s to say where they came from; pigeons come from nowhere. Nadia and I figured the late summer rains would wash the fecal matter away, and the pigeons would eventually leave. Find some…

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The 1960s men’s fashion era stands as a remarkable period of transition and innovation, setting the stage for the diverse and expressive styles that define modern menswear to this day. This decade was marked by a dynamic shift from the conservative, tailored looks of the 1940s and early 1950s to more widespread and mainstream eclectic, bold expressions. Not to mention huge history-changing moments, like the US landing on the moon, the beginning and superstar rise of Muhammad Ali, the British Invasion (the popularization of UK music like The Beatles and Rolling Stones), the JFK assassination, the civil rights movement, and…

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I know I’m not the only one currently on a budget dealing with a strong taste for all things designer. As a fashion editor, that shops professionally, this gets tricky real quick with a constant stream of temptations crossing my screen on a daily basis. It’s for that very reason that when I hear that one of my favorite retailers is having a sale, I make a beeline to the site to see what discounted designer goodies might pique my interest before they sell out. Such is this case this week with go-tos like Saks Fifth Avenue, Farfetch, and Nordstrom.To…

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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Girls on the Bus Season 1, Episode 3, “The Audacity of Nope.”] The campaign trail continues in Max‘s The Girls on the Bus, and viewers got a closer look at Scott Foley’s candidate, Hayden Wells Garrett, in more than ways than one. The irony isn’t lost on the former Scandal star that he’s playing presidential candidate now, like his former costar Tony Goldwyn. “I was so excited to do this. Rina Mimoun, who’s the showrunner, and I had worked on a pilot before that didn’t make it to air, and when she…

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates steady as expected and signaled it still plans multiple cuts before the end of the year.Following its two-day policy meeting, the central bank’s rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee said it will keep its benchmark overnight borrowing rate in a range between 5.25%-5.5%, where it has held since July 2023.Along with the decision, Fed officials penciled in three quarter-percentage point cuts by the end of 2024, which would be the first reductions since the early days of the Covid pandemic in March 2020.The current federal funds rate level is the highest in more…

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Composer Randy Edelman in collaboration with Sue Phillips Fragrances has launched “ITALIAN STAR” perfume in celebration of National Fragrance Day. The perfume is named after a beautiful and romantic new music release by Edelman entitled “The Italian Star” via Tribeca Records. The perfume comes in three scents,  including Citrus, a fresh and zesty smell, like that of lemon, lime, or blood orange, and is a  harmonizing, optimistic scent. The Woodys blend has a mysterious opulence coming from the likeness of the woods, the trees, and pine cones. Lastly a fruity scent, light and sweet and juicy and almost edible. Edelman’s…

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WASHINGTON — U.K.-based Hanwha Phasor plans to release its first flat panel antenna this summer to join a wave of multi-orbit broadband terminals coming to the market in 2024. Phasor L3300B is designed to connect land vehicles for government and commercial users seeking connectivity from Ku-band satellites, such as those in Intelsat’s geostationary fleet or the low Earth orbit (LEO) OneWeb network. Weighing 30 kilograms with a 15-centimeter thickness, the electronically steered antenna is mainly targeting users of military and first responder vehicles. Hybrid antennas promise customers greater network redundancy and the flexibility to access the strengths of various orbital…

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Body odour normally gets worse around pubertyCarlos Barquero/Alamy Teenagers appear to produce chemicals in their sweat that lead to body odour with notes of urine, musk or sandalwood. Being aware of these chemicals could lead to more effective means of odour control, such as better deodorants. The chemical compounds in sweat are volatile, meaning they easily turn into gas, which we perceive as smells. The hormonal changes that occur during puberty are associated with an increase in body odour. Helene Loos at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany and her colleagues looked into how body odour changes between early childhood and…

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Reddit shares jumped as much as 70% in their debut on Thursday in the first initial public offering for a major social media company since Pinterest hit the market in 2019. The 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range. Reddit and selling shareholders raised about $750 million from the offering, with the company collecting about $519 million.The stock opened at $47 and reached a high of $57.80. At Thursday’s peak, the company had a market cap of about $10.9 billion.Trading under the ticker symbol…

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A Ruth’s Steak House restaurant on May 03, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Darden Restaurants said Wednesday it is buying Ruth’s Hospitality Group, the parent company of Ruth’s Chris Steak House, for $715 million. Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesDarden Restaurants on Thursday reported mixed quarterly results as the Olive Garden owner’s same-store sales shrank for the first time since the pandemic.Shares of the company fell more than 5% in premarket trading.Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv:Earnings per share: $2.62 adjusted, meeting expectationsRevenue: $2.97 billion vs. $3.03…

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Justice have announced a handful of new tour dates in support of their forthcoming album, Hyperdrama. The new shows take place in Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Boston in the summer. See all of Justice’s tour dates, including stops at California’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, below.Hyperdrama, the follow-up to 2016’s Woman, is out April 26. The album includes “Generator,” the Tame Impala collaboration “One Night/All Night,” “Incognito,” and a brand new song with Miguel, “Saturnine.” Listen to the latter track below.“We don’t think we’ve ever made anything that sounds remotely like this track before,” Justice said of “Saturnine”…

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Eddie Vedder joined The Who on stage during the band’s Teenage Cancer Trust show in London last night (March 20) – check out the footage below. The group played their second orchestral show of the week at the historic Royal Albert Hall after kicking off the 2024 TCT concert series on Monday (March 18). READ MORE: Roger Daltrey on Teenage Cancer Trust and the chances of new music from The Who To begin the third and final part of yesterday’s gig, frontman Roger Daltrey introduced Pearl Jam‘s Vedder to join The Who on a collaborative rendition of ‘The Punk And The…

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At the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, LG officially unveiled a curious little box-like projector that comes with a handle that kinda looked like a crank. Well that model, called the CineBeam Q, is now available for pre-order for $1,299 and will come with some extras and freebies if you make your purchase on or before April 7. LG called the CineBeam Q “one of the smallest projectors available” and one that was designed to be portable so that you could easily take it outdoors or indoors, depending on where you want to hold your projector watch party. As…

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