Author: Trendici
I don’t have my tree up yet. There, I said it. A couple weeks ago, driving home from Thanksgiving weekend, I couldn’t believe how many windows were already lit with the glow of huge Christmas trees. Was I the only one who’d spent the day driving up I-95 with a car full of leftovers and my slightly cranky family? I thought I had at least another week to shift into Merry Mode. I felt the first pangs of my annual Decoration Guilt — and quickly took a breath. Not this year, I remembered. We’re skipping that tradition. Decorating is not…
A popular South African radio and club DJ has been shot dead in the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, sending shockwaves across the nation grappling with entrenched crime. Warrick Stock, popularly known as DJ Warras, was gunned down in the city centre on Tuesday afternoon. Police said the 40-year-old media personality was approached by three suspects, one of whom opened fire on him before fleeing on foot. The motive of the shooting is unknown and no arrests have been made, police said.Stock was a well-known radio and TV presenter and a podcaster in South Africa. Fred Kekana, a local police chief,…
According to reports, Manchester United would be willing to ‘fast-track’ a move to sign Antoine Semenyo from AFC Bournemouth on two conditions. Semenyo has been one of the standout performers in the Premier League this season as he has shone for Andoni Iraola’s side. The 25-year-old has taken his game to another level this season, grabbing seven goals and three assists in 15 Premier League appearances. This could help to secure him a move elsewhere in January. I has been revealed that he has a £65m release clause in his contract that can be activated next month. If he stays…
NASA has a leader again. On Wednesday, the US Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman as the agency’s administrator, with a 67-30 vote. The billionaire entrepreneur (and Elon Musk ally) will have his hands full navigating political waters while managing a severely downsized workforce.You might recall that this wasn’t Isaacman’s first shot at the job. He was nominated to the post earlier this year. But days before he was scheduled for a confirmation vote, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination.The reversal reportedly came after the president was told that Isaacman had donated to prominent Democrats. (Trump’s description of his decision, as based…
Saeed KHAN / AFP via Getty ImagesNaveed Akram, the surviving suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act, the New South Wales police say.Akram, 24, was critically injured during the incident. His father Sajid Akram, 50, was killed in an exchange of fire with police at the scene.Fifteen people were killed and dozens of others were injured in the attack, which targeted Australia’s Jewish community at an event celebrating the first night of Hanukkah. It was the country’s deadliest shooting…
The mood at Manchester United has definitely shifted over the last couple of months, but – as with the team itself – we’d stop some way short of calling it a good mood. Indeed, that is the very crux of the current problem for Ruben Amorim and Manchester United. They are no longer utterly, humiliatingly mortifying. That deep sense of embarrassment at being just so profoundly sh*t that United felt throughout last season and into the start of this one has now dissipated. The stain of finishing where they finished last season and bottling a cup final against a Tottenham…
Creators and publishers have long worried about Meta’s ability to throttle links to outside content. Now, the company is testing out a new scheme that effectively puts link-sharing behind a paywall for creators on Facebook.Under the test, a Meta Verified subscription will determine how many links a creator can share another profile per month. According to a screenshot shared by social meda consultant Matt Navarra, creators in the test recently received a notification from Meta informing them that “certain Facebook profiles without Meta Verified, including yours, will be limited to sharing links in 2 organic posts per month.”Meta is making…
Surveillance footage shows a man, appearing to be Nick Reiner, wandering in a convenience store before being arrested in Los Angeles on Sunday. Nick, son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his producer wife Michele Reiner, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after the deaths of his parents.
Newcastle United couldn’t get knocked out of the Carabao Cup just days after an embarrassing display against Sunderland. They just couldn’t. Ultimately, it was a positive result as they overcame Fulham 2-1 on Wednesday night to continue the defence of their Carabao crown, but their performance doesn’t exactly lift expectations for the second half of the season. Reaching the semi-final of the competition was more important than a wonderful performance, but the latter still felt necessary after such a pathetic showing in Sunday’s Wear-Tyne derby. Newcastle players vowed to ‘make things right’ after being bullied and beaten by their greatest…
Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy. “I remember after we got the data down, our collective reaction was ‘What the heck is this?’ It’s extremely different from what we expected,” said Peter Gao of the Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory in Washington, a co-author on the study.The researchers found an exoplanet dubbed PSR J2322-2650b that orbits a small, dense star emitting electromagnetic radiation known as a pulsar. They are an example of a black widow system, where a rapidly spinning pulsar is paired with a…