The Basic Instinct actress took to Twitter to express her concerns. The dating app soon reached out to her to rectify the situation. Read more…
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The sun didn’t rise on New Year’s Eve. The summer morning in a small beach town on the east coast of Australia looked like a winter’s night.
That black sky soon gave way to a blazing, eery orange as the flames approached. At least 4,000 people were told to jump into the ocean. Gas cylinders could be heard popping like fireworks as they exploded.
The town of Mallacoota looked apocalyptic on Tuesday local time as it became the latest victim of Australia’s out-of-control bushfires.
It was too late to evacuate.
“We are one road in, one road out. That road’s been blocked for hours and hours and hours,” Francesca Winterson from Mallacoota Community Radio told News Breakfast, a national TV broadcast. Read more…
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Happy New Year! Now pay up.
That’s what it feels like with new fees, regulations, and taxes kicking in on Jan. 1 (on Wednesday) for ride-share trips on apps like Uber and Lyft.
In California, there’s a lot to take in. A statewide change to gig job classifications, called AB5, goes into effect as soon as it’s officially 2020.
That means on-demand drivers for apps like Lyft and Uber can argue they should be treated like employees with better pay and benefits, not like independent contractors. Lyft and Uber don’t plan to change anything yet with how it hires, pays, and employs drivers, claiming its drivers are truly independent workers who don’t need to be reclassified. Read more…
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From a pair of fingerless Croc gloves to a backpack designed to carry only a single baguette of bread, Vermont-based designer Matty Benedetto is solving problems that don’t exist. Find out how and why these useless products come to creation. Read more…
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Nearly six months after her very public wedding to controversial YouTuber Jake Paul, Tana Mongeau opened up about how her relationships have affected her mental health.
In a vlog posted on Sunday, Mongeau told her followers that she should have been single after her relationship with Brad Sousa ended poorly in April. Discussing her “really fucked up dating history,” she also acknowledged the correlation between growing up with absent parents and her tendency to jump into relationships. And although her relationship with Jake Paul started out well, she said she was so infatuated, she ignored “any” red flags before their Vegas wedding. Read more…
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Forget a random digital voice telling you to turn left in 800 feet. A new service “clones” real voices so that your mom, sister, or even you can be the one giving you directions.
It’s called “My Car, My Voice,” and it’s built into Cerence, the voice software in many cars from Toyota, GM, Audi, Chrysler, BMW, and other automakers. It’s only available for the voice assistant built into the car, not Google Assistant or Apple’s Siri.
To generate the voice, you need a live person to speak a series of sentences into the Cerence app in your infotainment system, which means you can’t make it sound like your favorite celebrity unless you know them IRL. If you can get Timothée Chalamet into your car to record some phrases for you, by all means, please do. Read more…
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With The Witcher‘s arrival on Netflix, there’s a renewed fervor for the medium-crossing fantasy series.
There are, of course, the original Witcher books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, as well as the video game series created by Polish developer CD Projekt Red. On Sunday, the game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which came out in 2015, set a new record for concurrent players on Steam.
That’s not surprisingThe Witcher 3 is the latest and best-looking game in the series, and it received a ton of acclaim when it first launched. Its sprawling open world filled with colorful characters and cool monsters is pretty enticing. Read more…
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UPDATE: Dec. 30, 2019, 3:57 p.m. EST By around 3:45 p.m. ET, Venmo appeared to be working again. The original story on the outage is below.
Given the need to buy weed so you can get through another few days with your family, it’s a bad time for Venmo to go down but here we are.
The issues first hit Venmo around 11:30 a.m. ET on Monday morning and have continued for more than two hours.
Venmo is down and that’s not great!
Image: DownDetector.com
Users trying to access their funds or pay someone for last night’s pizza were met with the following error screen.
Welp, Venmo pic.twitter.com/LO8bSogTqX
— Marcus Gilmer (@marcusgilmer) December 30, 2019 Read more…
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From Birds of Prey to The Eternals, 2020 is gearing up to be a year for great movies. Read more…
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Barack Obama is releasing his end of year lists, and his favorite songs of 2019 are all absolute bangers.
His round up includes viral songs like the remixed version of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” which includes Billy Ray Cyrus’ iconic twang in the line “spent a lot of money on my brand new guitar.” The former president also included “Burning” by Maggie Rogers, “Not” by Big Thief,” and “Seventeen” by Sharon Von Etten, confirming that Obama is in fact a sad indie kid at heart. He nodded to hip hop’s catchiest bops of this year, like “Suge” by DaBaby and Young Thug’s “The London,” which featured J. Cole and Travis Scott. Read more…
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