Would you rather find yourself alone in the woods with a bear or a man? This is the question currently dividing social media. Based on the responses online, it looks like most women answering the question say they would choose the bear, a decision that is shocking many men.
Actor Jeff Daniels said he hopes the 2024 general election voters will ultimately choose President Biden amid what the called the ongoing “war on democracy.” The "The Newsroom" actor stated that former President Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, “talks down” to Midwestern
Even Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, known as the Oracle of Omaha, can’t actually see into the future. And when it came to the conglomerate’s stake in Paramount Global, that cost Berkshire some money. Read more...
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Politicians are roping in influencers to woo voters like never before. But is this a good thing?
A missile that crashed in Kharkiv shows the surprising scale at which Pyongyang's weapons are used.
Neve Campbell says that Spyglass Media Group upped her pay after she spoke out about a pay disparity during salary negotiations for “Scream 6,” the film that caused the actress to exit the franchise. “I’m really grateful that the studio heard me when I talked about pay
Outgoing president Joko Widodo has paved the way for the Jakarta Agglomeration Area Council to solve the city’s ongoing problems. But addressing its crippling traffic, floods and pollution requires the city to tackle overdevelopment and cooperate with its surrounding suburbs.
Between 2022 and this March, there were at least 32 reports of express bus accidents in Malaysia. The programme Talking Point digs into the safety issues and finds out what travellers should do if they meet with an accident.
Last year, Usurp Synapse reunited for their first shows in 19 years. Yesterday, the Indiana screamo group released Polite Grotesqueries , their first EP in 20 years.
The political tension around the ever-growing pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses will likely be the focus of this week’s Sunday news shows. Two notable instances of violence breaking out at campuses amid the protests occurred Tuesday at Columbia University and the
An unnamed Hamas affliated source says that the Palestinian group will not make an agreement with Israel until a permanent end to the war goes forth.
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In February, Rapsody and Erykah Badu debuted a new collaboration at Badu’s birthday party in Dallas. Yesterday, the pair have released that song, which is titled “3:AM.”
Hi HN, YC w24 company here. We just pivoted from drone delivery to build gpudeploy.com, a website that routes on-demand traffic for GPU instances to idle compute resources. The experience is similar to lambda labs, which we’ve really enjoyed for training our robotics models,
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Student protests against the Israeli military assault on Gaza following the unprecedented October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel have spread to several countries. Here is a round-up of the main campaigns. - United States - Demonstrators have gathered on at least 40 US university
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s rising profile is raising the question of whether he could appear on a debate stage with President Biden and Donald Trump — and what impact that could have on the presidential race. It’s not yet clear if Kennedy, who has seen scattered polling throughout
Cardi B is joining the parade of celebrities starting to talk about the Olympics for NBCUniversal. The rapper appears in a 90-second promo Saturday evening during NBC’s telecast of the Kentucky Derby, meeting up; with sprinter and Olympic hopeful Sha’Carri Richardson that
The boxing world has four title bouts in Nevada on Saturday, May 4 with the headliner match between Mexican boxers Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez (60-2-2) vs. Jaime Munguía (43-0) for the undisputed super middleweight title. Canelo vs. Munguía takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas
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For every billionaire Ivy League grads thoroughly disgusted with what their contributions to Columbia, Penn and Harvard have financed — too many others continue to throw their money at these schools.
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Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best opened up about how the backlash he received for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace kept him from wanting to work for years following the 1999 release. In a conversation with People in honor of the 25th anniversary of the first installment
This fall, Weezer are bringing celebrating the Blue Album by playing it in full on tour . Earlier this week, though, the indie-rock royalty reflected on other moments in their career by performing a bunch of rarities, plus a cover of Hole’s “Celebrity Skin.”
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) became the latest Republican to hit Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over her plan to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). “She needs her time in the spotlight, you know, and it’s been a while, and I think it’s one last ditch effort to get
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Turn into a giant spider and murder people.
As commented before[1], I've been working on the past months to get the Dillo back to life and today I'm happy to release the 3.1.0 version, after almost 9 years since the last one. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847613 During this time: - A new mailing list was