Marine heatwaves occurred in many parts of the world in 2023Matt Cardy/Getty Not only was 2023 the hottest year ever recorded, many other key indicators of global heating, such as sea level rise, ocean heat, Antarctic sea ice loss and glacier retreat, also smashed records, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) latest State of the Global Climate report. “Never have we been so close – albeit on a temporary basis at the moment – to the 1.5°C lower limit of the Paris Agreement on climate change,†the secretary-general of the WMO, Celeste Saulo, said in a press release. “The…
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In the vibrant tapestry of the entertainment industry, Dede Harlan emerges as a Chinese-American sensation, weaving together a narrative of resilience, authenticity, and unwavering passion within the LGBTQ+ community. His journey is a testament to the transformative power of his self-belief and creative expression, resonating with the hearts of those who dare to dream. “I’ve dreamed of coming to America since I was 16 years old,” reflects Dede, “It’s the freedom of expression that ignited my decision to make my move hereâ€. From humble beginnings, his story is one of determination and unwavering dedication to creative expression & living his…
Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder Inflection.ai & DeepMind, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17th, 2024.Adam Galici | CNBCMicrosoft said Tuesday it has hired former Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of artificial intelligence startup DeepMind that Google acquired in 2014, to lead Copilot AI initiatives. Suleyman will become an executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella.Inside Google, DeepMind became a leader in AI research, receiving placement for its work in the journal Nature and extensive media attention. The traction caught the eye of Tesla CEO Elon…
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO, the modern incarnation of Jeff Lynne and his band Electric Light Orchestra, have announced a farewell tour. Dubbed The Over and Out Tour, the shows will take place across North America this fall, beginning on August 24 in Palm Desert, California and lasting on through to October 25 when the band will conclude their goodbye run in Los Angeles. See the complete list of tour dates below.Electric Light Orchestra spent their original run releasing beloved pop-rock and prog records in the ’70s and ’80s before disbanding in 1986. Jeff Lynne went on to record two solo albums…
Midge Ure has announced details of a 2024 UK headline tour – you can find all the details below. The soloist and former Ultravox frontman is due to head out on the road with ‘Catalogue: The Hits’ trek later this year. He’ll play tracks from his extensive career at the forthcoming shows. “I performed live long before I was ever allowed anywhere near a recording studio and as much as I love spending time writing and recording, live music remains my first love,†Ure said in a statement. “This ‘Catalogue’ tour will allow me to not only play a wide…
I’m a notebook lover and have been for most of my life. I’ve had dozens over the years, serving as safe places for me to dump story ideas, to-do lists, meeting notes and everything in between. But at a certain point, I turned away from physical notebooks because it became easier to save all of those things digitally in various apps that were always available to me on my phone. Today, people like me might be served well by E Ink tablets. They can combine the feeling of writing in a regular notebook with many of the conveniences of digitized…
Google Play Games was released for Windows in 2022, bringing a diverse lineup of select Android games to PC. Google’s gaming service, first announced in 2021, was launched in Beta in India last year, as well, offering optimised Android games for PC. Google recently announced that it will expand support for native PC games on the platform, offering more bespoke PC titles on Google Play Games, in addition to Android games.At its 2024 Google for Games Developer Summit held last week, the company announced that it will bring more PC games from top developers to Google Play Games app on…
Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV kicked off with a bang, taking everything you knew about the beloved children’s network and crushing it to bits. The Discovery premiere, which can now be seen in its entirety on Max, is a shocking and scurrilous look at arguably the most beloved children’s network for decades: Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon began the careers of many actors, including Ariana Grande, Josh Peck, Keenan Thompson, Keke Palmer, Melissa Joan Hart, Zendaya, Nick Cannon, and Ryan Reynolds, among many others. Quite on the Set doesn’t suggest that all Nickelodeon shows…
Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks to members of the media following a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesPolish President Andrzej Duda said Monday that NATO must urgently increase its defense spending to ensure it does not become the next target of a Russian attack.Speaking to CNBC, Duda reiterated his calls for NATO members to increase their military contributions to 3% amid new reports that Moscow could be readying to target the military alliance within two to three years.Citing unspecified German research, Duda said new evidence…
As a young child, I’d wake in my bed, certain I was somewhere I didn’t belong, crying desperately to go home. And so, my relationship with the uncanny began. In Sigmund Freud’s 1919 essay “The Uncanny,†the basic definition of the term is, in-of-itself, a contradiction. For the uncanny, Freud uses the word unheimlich, from his native German, which translates to not of the home. This definition suggest that uncanny events must involve the unknown or unfamiliar, but as the essay continues Freud explains that the uncanny can also be an experience where something heimlich, of the home, becomes unheimlich…
Thieves are getting smarter. But luckily for us, so is the technology trying to tackle them. Thanks to specially designed wallets that protect your credit cards from unauthorized scanning, you can now stop 21st century bandits from gaining access to your personal information and financial data. Keep reading as I help you find the very best RFID wallets for men. Whether you’re looking for something slim, minimalistic, or ultra-luxurious, you’re going to be presented with a plethora of options that’ll keep your money safe and perfectly organized. Key Takeaways Armed with determination and a dash of curiosity, I set out…
Tackling your cognitive distortions can seem intimidating and overwhelming, but the first step is just understanding that they’re there. As Dr. Willough Jenkins, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of California, says: When you label your thought, it takes a little bit of the power away from it. The game plan for reframing your thoughts is fairly straightforward. Don’t Ignore Cognitive Distortions, Notice Them Every time you’re experiencing a distortion, point it out to yourself. As an example, feeling anxious before a presentation. Are you telling yourself you’re going to blow it? Does it lead to you thinking that…
Former Nickelodeon headliner Drake Bell is opening up about the “brutal†sexual abuse he experienced as a child star on Nickelodeon‘s The Amanda Show and Drake & Josh. In the second part of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Investigation Discovery’s shocking new docuseries, Bell spoke up for the first time about being sexually assaulted by his dialogue coach turned parental figure, Brian Peck, who would later be convicted of child molestation in 2004. In the harrowing segment, the actor-musician revealed a few previously unknown details about the now-two-decades-old case, in which he was referred to as…
Democratic presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 22, 2020.RONDA CHURCHILLPresident Joe Biden will visit the battleground state of Nevada Tuesday to take aim at corporate landlords, who the White House claims are keeping rents artificially high even as overall inflation has eased. Biden’s attack on what he calls ‘rent gouging’ is part of his broader, election year effort to shift the blame for stubbornly high costs of living away from the president and his economic policies, and onto corporations with outsized pricing powers. As public sentiment about the economy turns more upbeat,…
The window for interest rate cuts may be closing.On the eve of the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting, Wall Street forecaster Jim Bianco believes the central bank will likely stay on hold until next year.”I’m in the camp that the Fed does not change policy in the summer of an election year,” the Bianco Research president told CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Monday. “If they don’t pull the trigger by June, then it’s November [or] December at the earliest — only if the data warrants it. And, right now, the data isn’t warranting it.”For Fed Chair Jerome Powell to cut this…
Patrons enter the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for the public reopening of the museum’s west end galleries on the National Mall in Washington, U.S. October 14, 2022.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersThe National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., agreed to settle a lawsuit by a group of students, parents, and chaperones from a Catholic school in South Carolina who were told by security guards to remove hats bearing an anti-abortion message during a visit there last year, a court filing Monday revealed.The federally funded museum agreed to pay the more than a dozen plaintiffs a total of $50,000…