MrBeast has broken his personal record for the most views a YouTube video has received in its first 24 hours. His latest video, Eat Everything In A Grocery Store, Win $1,000,000, quickly became a huge hit after being uploaded on October 3. The video had more than 70 million views in its first day and…
Comparison of these genomes with those of modern and extinct bovines revealed that the remains represented a previously unrecognized lineage. A handful of unremarkable bone fragments from caves in southern Siberia have turned out to hold an extraordinary evolutionary story. According to an online report by Phys Org, ancient DNA recovered from the remains has…
The recent AI deepfake incident targeting actress Janhvi Kapoor from Jr NTR’s ‘Devera’ song ‘Chuttamalle’, has raised serious concerns across the Telugu film industry. After multiple stars condemned the misuse of AI, MAA president Vishnu Manchu has now called for a permanent system to tackle deepfakes, impersonation and targeted online abuse. Vishnu Manchu speaks out…
Jeffrey Archer speaking at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2019 That Jeffrey Archer would have a way with words would be an understatement. In 2019, the only year that he attended the Jaipur Literature Festival, he shared an anecdote that encapsulated the unique position he occupies among Indian readers of English.Archer recalled that a young…
A seventh grader in Montana compared banana and plantain starch to develop a stronger bioplastic. Rye Lynn Rost, a student at Baker Junior High School in Baker, MT, wanted to create plastics from natural materials that could break down without losing their durability too quickly.For her project, she studied bioplastics made from plantains (Musa paradisiaca)…
File photo: Captain Smit Machchhar and Dr Shota Musaev An Israel-based dentist who was among the passengers on flydubai Flight FZ1073 has recalled the frantic 45-minute effort to save Captain Smit Machchhar after he was attacked in the cockpit during the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight.Dr Shota Musaev to ABC News that he rushed towards the cockpit…
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev addresses the media following the incident in Bulgaria’s Black Sea economic zone (Photo: Reuters). Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev on Tuesday said two commercial vessels were struck by drones inside the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone, marking the first attack on shipping in the exclusive waters of a Nato country.The ships…
It looked like an odd old Nintendo cartridge sitting among boxes of gaming memorabilia. But when video-game collector Rob Walters came across it at a New York garage sale in 2006, he had stumbled upon something that Nintendo had never intended to become a collector’s treasure.The cartridge was made specifically for Nintendo’s 1991 Campus Challenge,…
Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker Photo credit (L-R): Getty Images and Sotheby’s In 2013, tennis star Andy Roddick and his wife, model and actress Brooklyn Decker, paid about $3.7 million for a 15-acre estate in Austin, Texas. The couple spent years renovating the farmhouse-style home, adding their own design touches to create a sprawling, family-friendly…
A nearly century-old English Cotswold-style manor in Los Angeles, once owned by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz and actor Gene Hackman, is on the market. The cobblestone driveway stretching more than 200 feet leads to a manor straight out of the English countryside. Located at 4934 Queen Florence Lane in Woodland Hills, in the San Fernando…