As Tech CEOs Are Grilled Over CSAM, AI Is Complicating the Issue

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1867 words  |  Patria Henriques

The CEOs of five social media companies including Meta, TikTok and X (formerly Twitter) were grilled by Senators on Wednesday about how they are preventing online child sexual exploitation. The Senate Judiciary Committee called the meeting to hold the CEOs to account for what they said was a failure to prevent the abuse of minors, and ask whether they would support the laws that members of the Committee had proposed to address the problem. [Read More]

Barbra Streisand (Singer-Songwriter and Actress)

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1166 words  |  Billy Koelling

Full Name: Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand Profession: Singer-Songwriter and Actress Biography: American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and director Barbra Streisand has sold over 145 million albums worldwide. She is one of the few people to have won an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and a Grammy award. Streisand began her career as a night club singer before becoming a star on Broadway. She released her first studio album "The Barbra Streisand Album" [Read More]

Bjrk (Singer) - On This Day

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  153 words  |  Tandra Barner

Full Name: Björk Guðmundsdóttir Profession: Singer Biography: Famous initially as the lead singer of the alternative rock band "The Sugarcubes", she has developed an eclectic and avant-garde musical style over her three-decade solo career that incorporates a range of musical styles. Critics have praised her innovative approach to singing and song composition, and some believe she is the most important musician of her generation. Born: November 21, 1965 Birthplace: Reykjavik, Iceland Age: 58 years old Generation: Generation X [Read More]

Bye, Bye, Barbie: 2015 Is the Year We Abandon Unrealistic Beauty Ideals

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1719 words  |  Tandra Barner

It may be time for Mattel to roll out Retirement Barbie. Friday morning, the toymaker announced that the doll’s sales dropped 16% in 2014, marking Barbie’s third consecutive year of falling earnings. “The reality is, we just didn’t sell enough Barbie dolls,” CEO Bryan Stockton explained to investors last January, following Mattel’s disappointing 13% drop for 2013. The decline of the company’s premier product led in part to Stockton’s resignation on Monday. [Read More]

Cambodia Allows Police to Keep 70% of All Traffic Fines Collected

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  296 words  |  Tandra Barner

Drivers in Cambodia have a lot to contend with: cavernous potholes, weaving motorcycles kicking up clouds of choking dust and noodle hawkers trundling down the “fast” lane. Now motorists may find their pockets as ravaged as their nerves, after officials announced a fivefold bump in traffic fines and gave permission for issuing officers to keep 70% of all cash collected. The new rules, coming into force in January, are an attempt to curb corruption, reports the Phnom Penh Post. [Read More]

Crime: The Phantom Strangler | TIME

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  634 words  |  Kelle Repass

Bessie Goldberg, 62, wife of a real estate man, lay on the living-room floor of her Dutch-colonial home in Belmont, a well-to-do Boston suburb. Around her neck was a nylon stocking that had been stripped from her left leg. She was dead. Headlined the Boston Herald: HOUSEWIFE TENTH STRANGLE VICTIM. The ten women, all from the Boston area, have been strangled in the past nine months, throwing the city into panic. [Read More]

Eco-Friendly Resorts: Into the Woods

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1351 words  |  Martina Birk

Snacking on green ants is not everyone’s idea of the most delicious holiday indulgence. But on a recent walk through the Daintree rain forest in Far North Queensland, Australia, Aboriginal guide Keely Naden assured a group of uncertain guests that the traditional food source of her Kuku Yalanji tribe was worth a try. “Lemon, tangy and full of vitamin C,” she promised, picking a squirming insect from the trunk of a tree fern. [Read More]

Emoji Tees for Bitmoji | TIME

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  103 words  |  Patria Henriques

March 30, 2016 4:35 PM EDT Bitmoji, the app that lets users create and share emoji-type figures that look just like them, has unveiled a new line of “clothes” that the characters can wear: t-shirts with emojis on them. Now these “mini-mes” can sport tees with the poop emoji, the emoji with hearts in the eyes, and the laughing emoji, to name a few. The full collection can be seen below, and more are on the way. [Read More]

From sheep penis to chicken testicles, here are 7 weird foods eaten in China

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  45 words  |  Billy Koelling

The Chinese have one of the strangest and most extensive food palates.

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