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Jodie Comer: Remember Me star makes Killing Eve admission afer divisive ending

Jodie Comer: Remember Me star makes Killing Eve admission afer divisive ending

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 When Killing Eve ended, many fans expressed their frustration with how the series concluded – and Jodie Comer has now reflected on this, revealing that she instead “reverts to the memory” of making the show. The US drama, in which British actor Comer played Russian assassin Villanelle, received huge acclaim for its debut season. But the final episode received a backlash from dedicated fans, with some calling it “the worst finale since Game of Thrones”. Much of the anger surrounded the fact that Villanelle was killed off in the closing moments, despite a happy romantic ending being teased for her and Sandra Oh’s character, Eve Polastri, throughout the final season. Jodie Comer in ‘Killing Eve’ (BBC America Original) Comer acknowledged the fan outcry in The Independent series Life in Pictures, stating: “I think as an actor you just have to have …

These Windows storage rules make no sense until you remember DOS

These Windows storage rules make no sense until you remember DOS

Published by skeptic

Windows 11 looks every bit like a modern operating system, with rounded corners, Fluent Design, cloud services woven throughout, and plenty of technology that would have seemed ridiculous a few decades ago. Dig underneath all of that, though, and you start running into architectural decisions that have been hanging around for a very long time. Every time you save a file, plug in a drive, or type a path into Command Prompt, you’re bumping into rules shaped by the time when PCs measured memory in kilobytes and storage space was precious enough to count carefully. Modern Windows runs on the Windows NT architecture, which replaced the old MS-DOS foundation with a far more robust operating system. Even then, Microsoft had to preserve conventions that existing DOS and Windows software already expected. Some of those ideas reached even farther back to CP/M, which predates the IBM PC itself, and over time they became embedded in Windows APIs, scripts, installers, and everyday assumptions about how files and paths should behave. Related There’s a 40-year-old bug in every …

The beloved 1980s sitcom that fired a 12-year-old Molly Ringwald long before her classic teen movies – do you remember it?

The beloved 1980s sitcom that fired a 12-year-old Molly Ringwald long before her classic teen movies – do you remember it?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Before Molly Ringwald was a member of the Brat Pack, she was a child actress. And just after landing her first big role, Molly was fired after just one season.  The actress, now 58, went on to have a massively successful career, starring in films like The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink during the 1980s. But what show was she fired from and why? Keep reading to find out… Molly Ringwald’s TV debut was in 1978 When she was just 12 years old, Molly briefly appeared on Diff’rent Strokes and was selected by the show’s creators to star in the spinoff The Facts of Life. The actress portrayed Molly Parker, a student at Eastland Girls School. © NBCUniversal via Getty ImagesMolly starred as Molly Parker on the sitocm But, after the first season, the show underwent a major shakeup. Most of the cast, including a young Molly, was written out of the story. “Then they changed their minds and then fired me, which was kind of hard as a 12 year old girl,” she …

In the lead-up to Rosh Hashanah, I remember the miracle that saved my father’s life

In the lead-up to Rosh Hashanah, I remember the miracle that saved my father’s life

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — In a soul-stirring prelude to the Jewish Days of Awe (or High Holy Days), Ashkenazic Jews — descendants of European forebears — will gather in synagogues late at night on Saturday (Sept. 5) to recite the first Selichot, a collage of Torah verses and Hebrew poetic entreaties to God asking forgiveness for wrongdoings. Sephardic Jews, those whose roots go back to North Africa or the Iberian Peninsula, began the Selichot services this year on the night of Aug. 13. The recitations will continue nightly or in the early morning until Rosh Hashanah (or, for Sephardic Jews, Yom Kippur), the Jewish annual period of divine judgment, which begins at sundown Sept. 11. Each year, at the first Selichot service, I cannot help but imagine the first Selichot night in Govrov, Poland, in 1939. That was where and when my father, as a 14-year-old, found himself. A native of a nearby town, Ruzhan, he had planned to travel to a yeshivah in Bialystok. But the German army invaded Poland before he had the chance, and World …

Music Icons Remember Dolly Parton As 'Pure Light' And An 'Angel' In Beautiful Tributes

Music Icons Remember Dolly Parton As 'Pure Light' And An 'Angel' In Beautiful Tributes

Published by Sam Flores

Dolly Parton on stage at Glastonbury in 2014 The entertainment world is in mourning following the loss of one of the world’s most beloved stars, Dolly Parton. On Monday night, the country music legend’s family announced that she had died at the age of 80, remembering her as a “global icon and humanitarian” who lived a “rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see”. Following the news, a number of her peers in the music industry and those who knew and worked with Dolly began sharing touching tributes, as well as their own memories of the remarkable superstar. Among the first to pay their respects were her co-stars in the films 9 To 5 and Steel Magnolias. Jane Fonda wrote on Instagram that she was “devastated” to have “just learned that Dolly has moved on”. “I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this – more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful …

Remember This Banger: Pedro Infante’s ‘Cien Años’ is out of this world

Remember This Banger: Pedro Infante’s ‘Cien Años’ is out of this world

Published by Sam Flores

I still remember the moment when I heard “Cien Años” for the first time. I can vividly recall the haunting aftertaste, the glorious specificity of the experience. I had moved from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles, and somehow managed to make a living writing about Latin music. I‘d seen Los Tigres del Norte in concert, shared a lengthy conversation with Vicente Fernández outside the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, and spent months poring through the songbook of José Alfredo Jiménez. But listening to the 1953 recording of “Cien Años” by Mexican legend Pedro Infante was a game changer — an existential milestone that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I was in my home office, researching a story about the golden era of Mexican music. “Cien Años” played on, the elusive contours of its melody floating in the afternoon air. Three minutes and 33 seconds later, when it ended, you could hear a pin drop. I sat still for a few minutes, transfixed. Then I played it again. And again. Ten, 15, …

Your Windows clipboard can remember 25 items — and it changes how you work

Your Windows clipboard can remember 25 items — and it changes how you work

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For a long time, I’ve accepted that Windows only stores your most recently-copied thing, and as soon as you copy something else, that original item is bumped out of memory. Sure, there are third party clipboard managers that can save more, but I didn’t want to bother with them. Then, we finally got native clipboard history in Windows 11, which is off by default (it’s easy to turn on, and I’ll show you how), and now my PC remembers the last 25 things I’ve copied, which makes life so much easier, especially during tasks that require a lot of copy and pasting. You can even set up this feature to act as a “dashboard” of frequently-used content. While Clipboard manager in Windows is not perfect, it’s a powerful tool that does more than you think. How to turn on clipboard history and quickly launch it It’s off by default Clipboard history in Windows is off by default, most likely because Clipboard history saves up to 25 pieces of content (whether text or graphics), which can …

5 things I put NFC tags on so I never have to remember them again

5 things I put NFC tags on so I never have to remember them again

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I was always fascinated by the idea of NFC tags, but never really found a good use for them. They’re cool tech, for sure, but do you really need a sticker to turn on your lights? Turns out, the answer is yes, and not just for lights. Once I started sticking these little chips around my apartment, I realized they solve a very specific problem: the mental load of remembering dumb little tasks. So I put NFC tags on a bunch of things, and now I never have to remember them again. Related Yes, I automated laundry tracking with AI — and it suggests clothes to wear What happens when you mix NFC tags, a local AI model, and a pile of dirty clothes? Surprisingly smart fashion advice. The tag that arms itself so I don’t have to No more walking out the door and forgetting I created a going-away automation for my smart home using Home Assistant that turns off all lights, air conditioners, and arms my Frigate cameras for face detection when I’m …

Disney fans remember beloved film after Hayden Panettiere dies a year on from co-star Michelle Trachtenberg

Disney fans remember beloved film after Hayden Panettiere dies a year on from co-star Michelle Trachtenberg

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 In 2005, Hayden Panettiere and Michelle Trachtenberg glided onto the big screen as two teenage figure skaters in the Disney film Ice Princess. More than two decades later, following news of Panettiere’s death, fans of the much-loved film are mourning the loss of the two stars at its heart. Panettiere has died at the age of 36, her father announced in a statement on Monday (17 August) with a cause of death yet to be announced. Only a year ago, her co-star Trachtenberg died in February 2025 from natural complications of diabetes at the age of 39. “Both Ice Princesses are gone,” wrote one fan on social media, with dozens of others also grieving their deaths. “Neither making it to 40 is nuts. My goodness,” said another. Panettiere and Trachtenberg were 16 and 20 respectively when they starred in the charming …