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Environment activist, Greta Thunberg. Climate activist Greta Thunberg has pulled out of an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Thunberg says she cannot speak at the event, given that its sponsor, Baillie Gifford, is heavily invested in the fossi fuel industry. British investment firm Baillie Gifford and festival director Nick Barley both defended their ties. For climate change …

Pop culture loves mashing two things together. Usually in memes or on t-shirts. Hey look, it’s the Village People but instead of spelling out YMCA they’re doing Loss.jpg or something. Yo, what if Pikachu was Darth Vader. Here’s Picard ripping a phat bong. Etcetera etcetera. Endless. Mind numbing. The death throes of a civilisation ready to burn. Still, …

(9) As vice-captain of the Matildas, Steph Catley is nothing wanting a nationwide treasure –particularly after scoring two objectives through the group stage of the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup. All eyes have been on her private life this 12 months too, after she revealed again in January that her boyfriend Dean Bouzanis – additionally a soccer participant – had requested …

I’ve been testing a lot of multimodal cleaning bots lately. They’re very expensive and very imposing. They also tend to be very fast and accurate, with long battery life, great software, and huge docking stations, complete with clean and dirty water tanks to wash the mops. I love mopping robots more than I believed possible. If you’re a parent with …

The Biden administration aims for something like a Middle Eastern NATO, a bulwark of friendly states to keep America in, Russia and China out, and Iran down — and anchored by an alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel. To that end, the White House has dispatched numerous officials to bring about normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel while pushing for …

My hair has recently reached that awkward in-between length: It’s no longer the mid-length lob that I visited the hairdressers for last year, but it can’t quite be considered a long hairstyle yet. Instead, it’s sitting rather uninspiringly on my shoulders causing me to seriously consider going for the chop. I’ve experimented with shorter hairstyles over the years but have never taken the plunge into a full-on bob. However, with my …

Baldur’s Gate III has a whole suite of useful Twitch integration features, and players are already enthusiastically taking notice after its August 3 release. Larian Studios’ eagerly anticipated entry in the BioWare-created Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game series seems to have thought of mostly everything a streamer could want built into a game. The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond …

Ben Affleck suited up as Batman in a series of movies within DC’s film universe. However, plans for a solo movie with him as the caped crusader were scrapped. Years after the movie was put on ice, DC storyboard artist Jay Oliva is speaking out about what fans missed. By the sounds of it, Ben‘s project would have been a …

Congress shouldn’t authorize additional funding to prop Kiev up any further, majority of Americans believe, according to survey A majority of Americans believe the US has done enough to support Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia and would argue against allocating more funds for the country, a new survey by pollster Social Science-Research Solutions (SSRS) and commissioned by CNN, …

I’m standing in front of an airlock door, staring at someone through the glass. I – which is to say, Camina Drummer – am on the right side of the door; the someone I’m watching is on the wrong one. I have a decision to make. This someone is begging me for their life. They’re a fool, greedy and bigoted …