This November 18th marks the 40th anniversary of what is now known as the Jonestown Massacre, when more than 900 Americans — members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple — died after drinking a cyanide-laced drink at the urging of their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, …
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Instagram’s algorithms are designed to constantly learn more about their users’ interests based on the accounts they follow, the hashtags they use and click on, and the posts they ‘like,’ so that every refresh of the app generates similar fresh content that will keep them scrolling. Simply double-tapping on a …
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In her first-ever in-depth interview, Soon-Yi Previn defended her husband of 20 years, director Woody Allen, against the allegation he molested his adopted daughter, Dylan and accused her adoptive mother — and Allen’s ex — Mia Farrow, of being abusive. Allen and Farrow’s 12-year partnership came to an end in …
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On Tuesday, an American Airlines cleaning crew at LaGuardia Airport in New York City made what was undoubtedly an unpleasant discovery while cleaning a passenger jet that had flown in the night before from Charlotte, North Carolina: a “wrapped up” “dead fetus” in the toilet of one of the aircraft’s …
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Bassist Matt Dresdner still remembers the first time he heard Mia Zapata sing, a few months before they started their band the Gits. It was in the spring of 1986 at an open mic event on the campus of Ohio’s Antioch College, where he and Zapata were going to school. …
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled the first artificial intelligence algorithm trained to be a psychopath. TheAI was fittingly dubbed “Norman” after Norman Bates, the notorious killer in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. MIT scientists Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan trained Norman to perform image captioning, “a deep …
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Attention Potterheads: Harry Potter is alive and well on, of all places, Broadway. Let me explain. As the world knows by now, author J.K. Rowling didn’t sneak out an eighth Potter book or a ninth movie while you weren’t looking. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play (not …
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The Bill Cosby re-trial began on Monday in a courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, 10 months after his first trial ended in a hung jury. Opening day proved dramatic, with a topless protester, accusations of bias among jurors and revealing statements from both the prosecution and defense. The climate toward sexual …
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The seven adult Turpin siblings are turning to music therapy to heal nearly a month-and-a-half after they were first discovered living in a California house where they’d allegedly been abused and held captive by their parents, David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin. Corona Regional Medical Center CEO Mark Uffer …
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