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Fury as Blake Lively repeatedly refers to transgender people as trannies in resurfaced interviews

Blake Lively is yet again under fire after internet sleuths unearthed a series of noughties interviews where she repeatedly used the transphobic slur ‘tranny.’ The It Ends With Us Star has been hit by a barrage of criticism in recent weeks over claims she has insensitively promoted her latest film, rumors of on-set fighting with

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Science

Google unveils four AI-powered smartphones: £799 Pixel 9, £999 Pixel 9 Pro, £1,099 Pixel 9 Pro XL, and £1,749 Pixel 9 Pro Fold can do everything from creating recipes based on what’s in the fridge to adding people into selfies

Google fans’ wait is over at last as four new AI-powered smartphones are revealed – about a month ahead of Apple’s new offerings.  Today, Google has unveiled its next generation of Pixel smartphones with the release of the £799 Pixel 9, £999 Pixel 9 Pro, and £1,099 Pixel 9 Pro XL.  These will be joined by the

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World

Blood-soaked Chicago prepares to host the DNC after 11 people shot over the weekend as local businesses are boarded up

Chicago law enforcement are bracing for a hostile week at the Democratic National Convention as the city still reels from a crime-riddled weekend.  At least 11 people were shot across Chicago over the weekend, including three fatally, as yet another weekend of violence gripped the city.  With police resources already stretched, the anticipation of protests

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Tech

OpenAI Is Worried That People Are Building Bonds With AI Bots: Here’s What The Company Said

Last Updated: August 13, 2024, 08:00 IST OpenAI is worried how the voice mode might get people connected to the AI OpenAI has released the human-like voice mode for its premium ChatGPT users and the company is worried about people might connect with it. OpenAI recently expressed concern that its artificial intelligence (AI) and its

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Science

How California’s weather shapes the state and its people

Book Review The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next By William A. SelbyHeyday Books: 384 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The winter before last, my wife and I were driving back to L.A. from

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Science

I’m a diagnosed psychopath – here’s the conversation trick I use to manipulate people

By Ellyn Lapointe For Dailymail.Com Published: 12:20 EDT, 14 August 2024 | Updated: 12:31 EDT, 14 August 2024 Psychopaths are master manipulators. Because they lack empathy, they’re able to be cold, callous and calculating in any interaction. Diagnosed psychopath Vic ‘Path’ recently shared her go-to tactic for manipulating others – and it’s surprisingly simple. ‘If

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Health

‘There are loads of people that vape at school’

Powers devolved to the Scottish Parliament will be used to implement a ban on disposable vapes. The BBC spoke to a group of young people in Fife who have been making a documentary on the impact of vapes – they say more needs to be done to tackle the issue. Read more: Disposable vapes to

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World

Ferris wheel fire in Germany injures several people

Several people have been injured after a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival in eastern Germany. Video showed two carriages on the wheel alight with smoke billowing into the air near the city of Leipzig. Eighteen people were taken to hospital including one person who was injured in a fall and four with

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Travel

Fancy spreading your wings? EasyJet planning to hire an army of over-50s to join its cabin crew – as research reveals middle-aged people crave a new challenge

 easyJet has launched scheme to recruit army of over-50s to join its cabin crew  Survey of 2,000 over-50s shows middle-aged people crave a new challenge  Three-quarters said they believed their age would prevent them getting a job By Francine Wolfisz Published: 20:39 EDT, 7 August 2024 | Updated: 21:24 EDT, 7 August 2024 If the

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World

The community where people age more slowly than the rest of the world

BBC Martina is one of 16,000 Tsimanes who live in the Amazon rainforest As Martina Canchi Nate walks through the Bolivian jungle, red butterflies fluttering around her, we have to ask her to pause – our team can’t keep up. Her ID card shows she’s 84, but within 10 minutes, she digs up three yucca

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