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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia De Rossi 2018: False Rumors This Year That Buffeted the Power Couple

Nov 27, 2018 05:29 am UTC| Entertainment

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi are still going strong after being married for 10 years even though the couple has been plagued by divorce rumors through it. Here are a few false claims have been published this...

‘The Blacklist’ Season 6 Air Date, Spoilers, News & Update: Is Red Truly Liz’s Father?

Nov 27, 2018 05:22 am UTC| Entertainment

The Blacklist Season 6 is but a few weeks away and fans cant wait for the crime thriller series to return on television. The last installments finale left audiences hanging as it was revealed that Red (James Spader) is...

‘Grey's Anatomy’ Season 15 Episode 9 Air Date, Spoilers, News & Update: Who Will Owen Choose Between Amelia and Teddy?

Nov 27, 2018 05:11 am UTC| Entertainment

Greys Anatomy Season 15 Episode 9 is heavily awaited by fans as the previous episode ended in major cliffhangers. It also marked the end of the first half of this installment, which means that episode nine will not be...

Rihanna, Chris Brown 2018: Did Hassan Jameel’s Girlfriend Throw Shade at Candice Brook’s Flame?

Nov 27, 2018 05:05 am UTC| Entertainment

Chris Brown recently made quite a stir among social media users when he commented a flushed emoji on the scorching photo of Rihanna. The images were to promote the Umbrella singers Fenty X Savage lingerie line, CNN...

How adults with dyspraxia navigate daily life

Nov 26, 2018 17:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

People with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) also known as dyspraxia have a hidden disability. This neurodevelopmental condition has recently been portrayed by Tosin Cole as Ryan, a time-travelling companion on...

Kathleen Petyarre: a brilliant artist whose life was rudely interrupted by colonisers

Nov 26, 2018 15:50 pm UTC| Life Entertainment

The artist Kwementyaye (Kathleen) Petyarre (c. 1938 24 November 2018) has died in Alice Springs, surrounded by family and loved ones, at about the age of 80. Alhwarrpe. About that age, because Petyarre was born out...

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 9 Episode 9 Air Date: Here are Predictions for Its Return Following the Mid-Season Break

Nov 26, 2018 11:35 am UTC| Entertainment

The Walking Dead season 9 episode 9 will be the episode following the mid-season break. The show will be on hiatus to make way for the holiday season so fans have to wait to watch the continuation of the show. But the...

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Economy

What should you do if you can’t pay your rent or mortgage?

The cost of living crisis is making it difficult for many people to pay their bills, including housing costs. Private sector rents have increased by an average 9% over the year to February 2024, and rising interest rates...

Reducing energy demand and improving efficiency will help prevent the next gas crisis

Gas prices have relaxed, Europe has come out of the winter with record gas storage levels and a surfeit of liquefied natural gas is set to reach the shores of Europe over the coming years. Many commentators are hopeful...

Minimum wage for South African farm workers: study shows 2013 hike helped reduce poverty even though compliance was poor

Minimum wage policies are typically aimed at reducing poverty. Yet there is little direct evidence of this effect, especially in developing countries. And none for South Africa. In a recent paper, we consider the...

Gas is good until 2050 and beyond, under Albanese gas strategy

The Albanese government is talking up the crucial role of gas as a transition fuel through to 2050 and beyond. In a gas strategy to be released on Thursday, the government envisages the fuels uses would change over...

South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed

The South African governments Just Energy Transition Implementation Plan was launched in November 2023. It is a roadmap guiding the country away from reliance on coal-fired power towards renewable energy alternatives by...

Politics

Donald Trump Allegedly Offers Oil Execs a Deal to Scrap EV Incentives for $1B Donation

Former President Donald Trump reportedly proposed a $1 billion deal to oil executives, offering to end electric vehicle (EV) subsidies in return for campaign funding, according to The Washington Post. This move underscores...

US Supreme Court upended decades of precedent in 2022 by allowing voters to vote with gerrymandered maps instead of fixing the congressional districts first

For the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use congressional districts that violated the law and diluted the voting power of Black citizens. A 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court in February...

Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections

Ahead of the European parliament elections in June, Germany has lowered the age limit on participation to 16. This makes it the largest of just a handful of states in the EU to allow people under the age of 18 to vote....

South Africa will be president of the G20 in 2025: two much-needed reforms it should drive

South Africa will play an important international role in 2025 as president of the G20. The G20 is a group of 19 countries as well as the African Union and the European Union. Between them they represent 85% of global...

What early 2024 polls are revealing about voters of color and the GOP

By the end of winter 2024, the return of Donald Trump to the top of the GOP presidential ticket has revealed a surprising trend in the former presidents base of support: his increasing popularity among Black and Latino...

Science

Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead? There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests

One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up. Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newtons law of gravity to their visible matter, despite those...

Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of

Algorithms have become integral to our lives. From social media apps to Netflix, algorithms learn your preferences and prioritise the content you are shown. Google Maps and artificial intelligence are nothing without...

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created during the Big Bang, these relic neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe, but they cant harm you. In fact, only one of them is...

The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this...

Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light

A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and cosmology for decades. Observations suggest that about 85% of all the matter in the universe is mysterious and invisible. These two qualities are...

Technology

Binance Enhances SHIB, USTC, AGIX Trading and Liquidity for Better Market Dynamics

Binance has announced efforts to enhance liquidity and trading for Shiba Inu (SHIB), USTC, and SingularityNET (AGIX), including tick size adjustments aimed at improving market dynamics and trading experience. Binances...

OpenAI Disbands Team Tackling AI Risks Amid Leadership Changes and GPT-4o Launch

OpenAI has dismantled its Superalignment team, initially formed to address AI risks, following the resignations of key leaders Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike. OpenAI Disbands Superalignment Team Days After Leaders Resign,...

$73M Crypto Scam: Two Foreign Nationals Arrested for 'Pig Butchering'

The Justice Department prosecuted two Chinese nationals on Friday in a cryptocurrency scam that laundered at least $73 million from deceived victims. Defendants Allegedly Used Shell Corporations to Launder Funds Through...

Crucial SHIB Warning Goes Out: Fake Airdrop Scams Targeting Community, Here's Reason

The Shiba Inu team has delivered a crucial warning to its community, highlighting the presence of fake SHIB airdrop scams and the importance of safeguarding cryptocurrency assets. Shiba Inu Team Warns Community Against...

Altcoins a ‘Relatively Huge’ Risk as Big Returns Fade, Analysts Warn Investors

Analysts caution that altcoins now represent a relatively huge risk, with the days of massive returns fading. Markus Thielen of 10xResearch suggests the high-reward era is over as crypto market narratives...