Month: February 2021

IRL adventure feels like its at an all time low, but wanderlust? Woooo. Searches around escapism are booming. Basically, we all want to get out and since all excursions are #cancelled, we’re getting more creative around how we decamp to another world. It’s one of the reasons searches for “fantasy map making” have tripled on
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The number of cases of South African and Brazilian COVID variants in the UK appears to be falling, the health secretary has told Sky News. Matt Hancock said there was evidence that enhanced contact-tracing and stricter border measures were helping to control the number of people being infected by those new variants first discovered abroad.
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The Google campus in Mountain View includes over 20 dining options that encourage a communal experience with group tables. Brooks Kraft LLC | Corbis | Getty Images In 2017, Lauren Clayton joined the inaugural class of Howard West, Google‘s on-campus immersion program for Black college students. She became a star scholar whose big smile would
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Radio broadcaster Jo Whiley says her younger sister has finally been offered a coronavirus vaccine but it could be too late, as she is already “fighting for her life” after catching the virus in her care home. Whiley’s sister Frances, 53, has diabetes and learning difficulties, which both put her at higher risk from COVID-19.
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With Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page as host, evoking the hugely popular Netflix series on Saturday Night Live was inevitable. After Page channeled his Simon Basset character in the opening monologue while trying to convince viewers that “he’s just a normal guy” and nothing like the Duke, the British-Zimbabwean actor reprised the Bridgerton character in a
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Lee Daniels says the 1972 Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues, for which Diana Ross earned an Oscar nomination, was the beginning of his desire for a film career. The filmmaker says he’d never seen Black people portrayed in that manner before, and it affected him deeply. Still when Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Park’s
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The first trailer for ‘Mortal Kombat,’ inspired by the hit video game franchise, is here! The Simon McQuoid-directed blockbuster stars Lewis Tan (Cole Young), Jessica McNamee (Sonya Blade), Josh Lawson (Kano), Tadanobu Asano (Lord Raiden), Mehcad Brooks (Jackson “Jax” Bridges), Ludi Lin (Liu Kang), Chin Han (Shang Tsung), Joe Taslim (Bi-Han and Sub-Zero) and Hiroyuki
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NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. Mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles
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