Advertisement Artificial intelligence has been used to upscale the oldest film in existence, recorded in a garden in Leeds 132 years ago. Roundhay Garden Scene is a short film shot on October 14, 1888, showing four people strolling around the garden of Oakwood Grange in the Leeds suburb of Roundhay. …...Read More
'Oldest film in existence' remastered with AI
Amazon halts sales of shirts that used a derogatory term to refer to Kamala Harris.
Amazon this week removed shirts from its online marketplace that used a derogatory word to refer to Senator Kamala Harris of California, the Democratic nominee for vice president, the company said on Wednesday. The shirts featured a fictitious campaign logo for Ms. Harris and Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic …...Read More
Slade Gorton, Who Was Voted Out of Senate and Then Back In, Dies at 92
Slade Gorton, a Washington Republican who in three nonconsecutive terms in the Senate championed his state’s logging, aviation and technology industries and feuded with Native American tribes over fishing rights and sovereignty in the casino age, died on Wednesday at his daughter Sarah’s home in the Seattle area. He was …...Read More
Ice age dog ate woolly rhino and died in landslide 14k years ago
Researchers have uncovered what they believe was the unusual last meal of a prehistoric pup that lived 14,000 years ago. Following a reanalysis of the mummified canine, the team found preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros hiding in its stomach - complete with the animal's yellow fur. The ancient canine, …...Read More
Durham University offers bursaries to students who defer entry
One of the UK's top universities is offering bursaries to students who are willing to defer their entry until next year, as up to 55,000 school leavers scramble to get places at their first choice universities. Durham University, recently rated the 11th best university in the country by one guide, …...Read More
Women pose TOPLESS on public hiking trails in growing trend
Advertisement The year 2020 has given rise to some truly unexpected trends: Zoom happy hours. Fashionable face masks. And now, topless hiking. Well, not strictly hiking, but certainly posing for topless photos at the top of mountain summits, an 'empowering' craze that's been growing in several places across the country, …...Read More
Man wraps car in CELLOPHANE after woman blocks driveway
A frustrated homeowner wrapped his neighbour's car in black cellophane after she blocked his driveway for more than a day. Tobe Bailey, 49, from Margate, Kent, decided to take matters into his own hands after his neighbour's blue Vauxhall Corsa stopped his daughter from being able to get her car …...Read More
Biden’s ‘most cops are good’ comment rankles some progressives.
During their convention, Democrats have presented a unified front on racial justice, declaring that the status quo is not acceptable. But beneath the surface lies broad disagreement over policing, with the reform-oriented proposals of Joseph R. Biden Jr. falling well short of progressive activists’ demands. The gap was evident in …...Read More
Trump urges Goodyear boycott after report that his campaign gear was banned at a plant.
A photo that an employee told WIBW-TV was taken during a recent diversity-training presentation that included guidance on acceptable clothing appears to show a slide projected on a screen listing “Black Lives Matter” and L.G.B.T. pride as “acceptable,” while listing “Blue Lives Matter,” “All Lives Matter,” “MAGA Attire” and “Political …...Read More
She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’
That same year, she led about 8,000 women up Pennsylvania Avenue during the first major suffrage parade. Astride a white horse and garbed in an elegant cape and crown, she was compared by the press to a modern-day Joan of Arc and called the “most beautiful suffragist.” The moniker stuck. …...Read More
