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This Android app brought me more peace of mind than I expected

This $4 Android app brought me more peace of mind than I expected

Published by skeptic

I’ve had enough of the constant stream of notifications lighting up my phone. When I’m deep into work, the last thing I need is my phone buzzing every few minutes. And if I’m being honest, I don’t entirely trust myself to ignore it either. There have been times when my notifications were so flooded that I couldn’t find an important work email buried under a barrage of social media alerts. Thankfully, Buzzkill fixes exactly that. This is probably the best $4 I’ve spent in a while, and for that amount, it lets me set granular rules for which notifications get through, when, and how — so I can focus by cutting out distractions. Related I made my phone dumb and finally broke my screen-time habit Switching to a dumb phone wasn’t practical, so I did the next best thing. Silence the noise and keep the important bits The rest can wait their turn Getting through a productive workday takes a bit of discipline and a little help. I’ve set up a few notification rules that …

Calls for Met Gala boycott after Bezos foots the bill: ‘Brought to you by worker exploitation’

Calls for Met Gala boycott after Bezos foots the bill: ‘Brought to you by worker exploitation’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more A group of guerrilla activists are urging people to boycott this year’s Met Gala over the involvement of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. At various locations near the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, posters have popped up with the words: “Bezos Met Gala: Brought to you by the firm that powers ICE” and “Boycott the Bezos Met Gala.” In November, the Met announced that this year’s biggest night in fashion would be “made possible” by the world’s third-richest man and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, who were named as lead sponsors, alongside secondary donors, Condé Nast and Saint Laurent. The role is understood to give the couple influence over everything from invites to the overall presentation of the event. The sponsorship by the tech …

How Sam Levinson Brought Back Zendaya’s Rue

How Sam Levinson Brought Back Zendaya’s Rue

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This article contains spoilers from the Euphoria season three premiere.] Originally, Rue was going to cross the border by river. Following the four-year gap from his season two finale, writer-director Sam Levinson knew Euphoria would return with his oft-addled protagonist (portrayed by Zendaya) in Mexico, having made the jump from teenager to adult, still working off the debts incurred during the recklessness of high school. The story had her going back and forth on dangerous drug runs for the unlikely kingpin Laurie (Martha Kelly). But when Levinson started doing research for how he’d introduce this new world, he changed course. “We went to the DEA headquarters in Los Angeles and they’ve got a bunch of photos of drug busts that they’ve done — kilos of cocaine, money, all this — and suddenly I see this one photo of a Jeep stuck on top of a border wall,” Levinson says. “I said to the head, ‘Well, what happened here?’ And he said, ‘Some idiot tried to drive a car over the border loaded with drugs, and …

The Moon Astronauts Brought Along USB Stick-Sized Living Samples of Their Own Tissue

The Moon Astronauts Brought Along USB Stick-Sized Living Samples of Their Own Tissue

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Beyond their snazzy flight suits and mango peach smoothies, the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission is packing something unusual: living mini-organs grown from their own bones. That bizarre cargo is traveling alongside astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, whose 10-day journey will take them around the back side of the Moon and then home again, in the process traveling farther from the Earth than any previous humans. According to space publication Supercluster, the astronauts are carrying “completely functional” organ chips: organelles composed of bone marrow made from each astronauts’ cells. In a highly complicated space mission, the justification for taking these organ chips is actually pretty straightforward. In leaving the protection of the Earth’s atmosphere, the four travelers expose themselves to heaps of solar and cosmic radiation. That radiation environment will present a unique window into the kind of dangers future astronauts will face in the dark reaches of space, so researchers are …

The books that created the César Chávez myth — and those that brought him down

The books that created the César Chávez myth — and those that brought him down

Published by Sam Flores

Covered marquees. Downed statues. Painted-over murals. A canceled holiday. California has effectively exorcised César Chávez from the public sphere just weeks after a New York Times investigation found two women who said the legendary labor leader sexually assaulted them when they were teenage girls in the 1970s. Just as explosive was the revelation by his longtime lieutenant, Dolores Huerta, that he raped her in the 1960s. My prediction for the next place we’ll see a Chávez purge: books about him, which number into the dozens and span from academic treatises to children’s tales. But before critics relegate those texts to the banned section, folks should read some of them to see how writers helped establish the Chávez myth and propagated it for decades. The books that created the Chávez legend The tendency to elevate him above other activists was there from the start. In 1967, John Gregory Dunne published “Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike,” which saw the author (and husband to Joan Didion) capture the essence of el movimiento in its earliest …

These retro-style speakers brought new life to my audio library – and they look great

These retro-style speakers brought new life to my audio library – and they look great

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KLH Model 3 bookshelf speakers ZDNET’s key takeaways The KLH Model 3 speakers are available on Amazon for just under $1,500. They’re some of the best bookshelf speakers I’ve ever heard, with high-quality audio across genres. They’re a little pricey. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I never thought I’d be so happy to hear a pair of speakers that look like they were transported from “That ’70s Show”. The KLH Model 3 loudspeakers have a distinct vintage/mid-century modern design and are much more substantial than your typical bookshelf speaker, and they look great.  I recently replaced my KEF LS50 Meta speakers with the KLH Model 3s, and the sound they produce could easily convince you that you’re listening to a much larger floor-standing pair. Also: The best sound systems you can buy: Expert tested The Model 3 speakers use the acoustic suspension principle, first introduced in 1954, which is long thought to produce the most accurate sound of all loudspeaker designs. There’s a reason why. Let’s take a look.   Best bluetooth speaker deals of the week …

I was reviewing Daniel Radcliffe’s new Broadway play — then he brought me on stage

I was reviewing Daniel Radcliffe’s new Broadway play — then he brought me on stage

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I’m at New York City’s Hudson Theatre, where patrons are eagerly taking their seats, awaiting the start of Every Brilliant Thing. Duncan Macmillan’s one-man show is about someone who makes a list of all the best things about life in order to make their mother believe life is worth living, and the play’s star, Daniel Radcliffe, is making his way through the audience, talking to patrons, handing out notecards. And then… he pauses for a brief second to plot his next move. “Hi, I’m Dan.” I look up, and there he is. The Boy Who Lived! Standing right in front of me! We shake hands and he gives my starstruck sister-in-law a notecard, explaining that when he says “Three!” onstage during the show, she needs to yell out what it says: “Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch …

Meet the woman whose magical music brought Bagpuss to life

Meet the woman whose magical music brought Bagpuss to life

Published by Daniella Wilson

A condensed version of this article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. The golden age of children’s television, and a happy place for many young viewers, are evoked in an instant by a moving new audio drama called Patchwuff, thanks in part to Sandra Kerr. So Radio Times spoke to the folk star whose music woke up Bagpuss, and is making magic happen again… “I was delighted,” says Kerr about her involvement in the new short story written by Andrew T Smith for Mulgrave Audio. “Especially after I’d read the script, which I thought was delightful and enchanting, but also poignant and relevant.” Patchwuff tells the tale of Peter, a boy whose best friend is a cloth dog made by his grandmother. Patchwuff is a “mopey mess of a mutt” with “a patchwork body stuffed with fluff and warm feelings”. One day an important visitor to Grandma’s house decides that Patchwuff’s stories should be brought to TV. The idea was sparked by the likes of Emily and Bagpuss, Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh, and …

Man Accused of Tricking Hundreds of Teens Into Sending Him Pornographic Images Is Brought to US

Man Accused of Tricking Hundreds of Teens Into Sending Him Pornographic Images Is Brought to US

Published by Sam Flores

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Bangladeshi man accused of using social media to trick teenage girls into sending him sexually explicit images — and then threatening to share them with their friends and family if they didn’t send more — has been transported to Alaska to face federal charges of child sexual exploitation. Zobaidul Amin, 28, pleaded not guilty during an initial court appearance in Anchorage on Thursday after the FBI took custody of him in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he had been studying medicine and facing related charges, U.S. prosecutors wrote in a detention memorandum. “Amin delighted in sexually abusing hundreds of minor victims over social media,” the document said. “He bragged about causing victims to become suicidal and engage in self-harm. He shared hundreds of nude images and videos of minor victims all over the internet and encouraged other perpetrators to do the same.” A federal grand jury indicted Amin in 2022 on charges including child pornography, cyberstalking and wire fraud. He adopted false identities, often posing as a teenager, to trick victims …