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Kevin Hart claps back at Katt Williams on ‘NBA Unplugged’ with ‘fun’ Knicks facts – New York Post
- Kevin Hart claps back at Katt Williams on ‘NBA Unplugged’ with ‘fun’ Knicks facts New York Post
- Joe Rogan Addresses Katt Williams’ Claim He Doesn’t Want Him On ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ Yahoo Entertainment
- Friday After Next Had A Troubling Scene Katt Williams Fought To Remove SlashFilm
- Shannon Sharpe reacts to criticism that he didn’t ask Katt Williams enough follow-up questions in his viral interview: ‘I never said I was a journalist’ Yahoo Entertainment
- Katt Williams reveals why he got a sexual assault scene removed from his 2002 movie Friday After Next: ‘Rape i Daily Mail
CAA Claims Julia Ormond Wanted $15M To Keep Agency Out Of Harvey Weinstein Lawsuit; “We Will Expose The Real Facts,” Actress’ Lawyer Says – Deadline
- CAA Claims Julia Ormond Wanted $15M To Keep Agency Out Of Harvey Weinstein Lawsuit; “We Will Expose The Real Facts,” Actress’ Lawyer Says Deadline
- Julia Ormond Sues Harvey Weinstein for Battery, CAA and Disney as Enablers of Sexual Assault (EXCLUSIVE) Variety
- Julia Ormond sues Harvey Weinstein for battery along with Disney, CAA and Miramax for negligence CNN
- Actress Julia Ormond sues Harvey Weinstein for battery The Washington Post
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Former SEC Official Defends Chair Gensler — Urges Crypto Community to Quit Personal Attacks, Focus on Facts – Regulation Bitcoin News – Bitcoin News
- Former SEC Official Defends Chair Gensler — Urges Crypto Community to Quit Personal Attacks, Focus on Facts – Regulation Bitcoin News Bitcoin News
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Manish Sisodia’s CBI Custody Ends, To Be Produced In Court Today: 10 Facts – NDTV
- Manish Sisodia’s CBI Custody Ends, To Be Produced In Court Today: 10 Facts NDTV
- 9 Opposition parties write to PM Modi over ‘blatant misuse’ of Central agencies; slam Sisodia’s arrest The Tribune India
- ‘Both Congress, BJP want all other political parties to cease to exist,’ claims AAP Deccan Herald
- Vandita Mishra writes | Sisodia arrest, targeting of CPR: The state is thin skinned and strong armed The Indian Express
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You Can’t Unsee Twitter’s ‘Useless’ But Amazing Animation Facts
Each day, I walk down the path of blue-lit internet highways, through Instagram rabbit holes to nowhere, across Wikipedia pages I don’t remember why I was scanning, my face painted a clinical white by my favorite Google question, “Do I have a UTI?”
I do not have a UTI, at least not until I Google the question again tonight, but the daily fascination and shame of being an internet explorer is perhaps why a popular Twitter thread asking users to provide their best “useless” animation knowledge was deleted by its creator. But it’s hard to kill the internet bug once you got it, and people keep sharing animation knowledge that would quench even the most insatiable god’s thirst anyway. Drink up, here’s some of the best of it.
“In Toy Story, Woody was originally supposed to look concerned after he removes Buzz Lightyear’s helmet and Buzz starts choking,” one popular tweet said. “But the model of him during the scene looked bored and unamused, which was funnier so they did that instead.” Accidental sociopathy is a good message to send to children, I think.
Similarly, apparently, in “Invader Zim this walk was supposed to be menacing but when the animation team was done with this, the staff thought Peepi was dancing so they added the music.” And in The Proud Family Movie, Oscar Proud was meant to have a slow-mo running scene, but “when the animation came back from overseas, it looked like this. The crew found it funny and kept it that way.”
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22 Creepy And Shocking Facts About The Human Body
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“The front of your tongue is curious, constantly patrolling, and autonomous. It chases the dentist around your mouth and you aren’t even aware of it. So embarrassing and weird/creepy.”
—u/AdeleBerncastel
“In dental school, I learned this fact when practicing taking impressions on each other. My buddy’s tongue kept licking my finger. I asked him to quit licking me, and he was like, ‘I can’t help it!’ And then, we switched places. and my tongue wouldn’t leave him alone. And for those of you that don’t think your tongue does this: Some of you are right. But the majority of you just think your tongue is behaving, but it is all over the place without you even knowing.”
—u/recoveringcultmember
Six strange but true facts about the HomePod 2
It’s been a busy week for Apple. On Tuesday, we got new chips, Mac minis, and MacBook Pros, and Wednesday brought the return of the full-sized HomePod, with a similar design and feature set as the original model as well as the same $299 price tag, about two years after it was discontinued.
And when you dig into it, things get even stranger. The new HomePod is actually quite different than the original model, but in subtle and confusing ways that won’t be all that noticeable to anyone buying one. Here are five facts about the new HomePod that have us scratching our heads:
Apple redesigned it to look the same
At first glance (and second and third), the 2nd-gen HomePod seems to be identical to the original model. It has the same circular body, mesh exterior, and screen, but there are slight differences. For one, it’s 4mm shorter and 200 grams lighter. The screen at the top is now slightly recessed, and the display is larger and easier to see. The “seamless mesh fabric” from the original model is now “acoustically transparent mesh fabric,” and stretches a bit more over the top. There’s a new Midnight color that looks a lot like a slightly darker shade of Space Gray. However, none of the changes will make much of a visual difference unless you’re comparing a new one and an old one side by side, so it seems strange that Apple went through the trouble of redesigning the HomePod in such small ways.
You can’t create a stereo pair with a 1st-gen HomePod
One of the HomePod’s best features is its ability to create a stereo pair that “plays each channel in perfect harmony, creating a wider, more immersive soundstage than traditional stereo speakers.” It’s not a new feature, but there’s a catch: You can’t pair a new HomePod with an old one. For a stereo pair to work, you’ll need two of the same HomePods: a 1st gen with a 1st gen; mini with a mini; 2nd gen with a 2nd gen. It makes logical sense since the two have different specs, but it sure would have been nice for Apple to figure out a way to make the two play nicely together.
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It uses an Apple Watch chip instead of an iPhone one
The original HomePod used Apple’s A8 processor, which had debuted in the iPhone 6 a few years earlier, as “the brains behind the advanced audio innovations.” When the HomePod mini arrived a few years later, Apple used an Apple Watch Series 5’s S5 chip to “achieve big sound out of such a compact design.” The 2nd-gen HomePod also uses an Apple Watch chip, the Apple Watch Series 7’s S7 processor, “to offer even more advanced computational audio.” That’s all well and good, but it’s hard not to think an A12 or A13 would provide a bit of future-proofing.
It still has an integrated power cable
One of the original HomePod’s biggest shortcomings was the integrated power cable—mainly because people naturally tried to disconnect it and sometimes ended up ruining their speakers. It’s possible that Apple changed the connector to stop that from happening, but based on photos, the HomePod still has the same permanently attached power cable on the rear of the device. A switch to a magnetic connector like the 24-inch iMac would have been a nice improvement.
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It supports slower Wi-Fi than the iPhone 6
It’s weird enough that the new HomePod still has Bluetooth 5 instead of 5.3 (as found on new Macs and iPhones), but it actually has slower Wi-Fi than the original model. According to the tech specs, the first HomePod supported 802.11ac, better known as Wi-Fi 5 while the newer HomePod uses Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n). Perhaps it’s too much to ask for Wi-Fi 6E when the new iPhones don’t even support it, but we’re surprised to see the new HomePod uses a Wi-Fi standard as old as the iPhone 4.
The audio specs appear to be inferior
Here’s the strangest thing—based on the audio specs, the new HomePod isn’t as good as the original model. While it surely “delivers next-level acoustics” as Apple claims, a quick comparison of the tech specs shows two fewer horn-loaded tweeters (five vs. seven) and microphones (four vs. six). Of course, all speakers and microphones are not made the same and audio processing counts for a lot. It’s quite possible that Apple will get equal or better audio out of fewer speakers and microphones—but it’s strange that after two years the old HomePod is superior to the new one on paper.
Martin Luther King: Lesser-known facts about the civil rights icon
He wasn’t actually named Martin
Martin Luther King Jr. was named Michael when he was born in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929. His father, Martin Luther King Sr., a pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was also named Michael. However, in 1934, he took an eye-opening trip to Germany — where in 1517, a monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg castle church, igniting the Protestant Reformation. King Sr., who was an early figure in the American civil rights movement, traveled back to the United States and swiftly changed his and his son’s names, when young Martin was at about 5.
When he was 28, King Jr. officially revised his birth certificate. In 1957, he crossed out the name Michael and replaced it with “Martin Luther, Jr.” in black ink.
He skipped grades in school and went to college at 15
A prodigy, King skipped at least two grades, graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta before he was admitted to nearby Morehouse College, a historically Black men’s school also attended by his father and grandfather.
“My days in college were very exciting ones. There was a free atmosphere at Morehouse, and it was there I had my first frank discussion on race,” he later wrote in his autobiography.
When King was 19, in 1948, he finished college and enrolled at the Crozer Theological Seminary, where he was ordained as a Baptist minister. He went on to study systematic theology and earn a PhD from Boston University. King was later awarded many honorary degrees from academic institutions across the world.
“Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction,” he wrote in a student newspaper in 1947.
He got a C in public speaking
Later known as a great orator, King once struggled with giving speeches and received a C in public speaking when he was training to become a minister.
Martin Luther King, Jr. received two Cs in public speaking. Actually went from a C+ to a C the next term. Here’s the transcript. Live your dream. pic.twitter.com/mAoFIwaICw
— Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (@sarahelizalewis) January 12, 2020
He was a prankster as a child
In his youth, King had a mischievous streak. He tried to scare passersby on the street by putting his mother’s fox furs on a stick and rustling the bushes. He also tried to drive away his piano teacher by getting the stool to collapse and would sometimes destroy his older sister’s doll heads to use as baseballs.
King may have improvised the ‘I have a dream’ line in his speech
One of history’s most consequential speeches was delivered in less than 18 minutes during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
But when King was drafting the speech — which drew on the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the words of William Shakespeare — he did not include the famous refrain: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”
According to reports, the American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out during the speech: “Tell them about the dream, Martin,” prompting King to deploy the now historic phrase, which he had used in previous public addresses.
His family paid the medical bills for the birth of actress Julia Roberts
When the Hollywood actress was born 55 years ago in Smyrna, Ga., King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, paid the hospital bills for her parents, Walter and Betty. The story came to light only last year, when Roberts confirmed the fact in an interview with television personality Gayle King (no relation).
“The day you were born, who paid for the hospital bill?” King asked Roberts during HistoryTalks, a September event in D.C. hosted by the History Channel and A&E Networks. “The King family paid for my hospital bill,” Roberts replied. “My parents couldn’t pay for the hospital bill.”
Roberts explained that her parents owned a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers Workshop, which they welcomed the King children to attend at a time when racial tensions remained high.
“One day, Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school, because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids,” Roberts said. “My mom was like, ‘Sure, come on over.’ And so they just all became friends, and they helped us out of a jam.”
Her revelation sparked surprise on the internet and drew praise, including from King’s youngest child, Bernice King.
Another assassination attempt came a decade before his killing
In 1958, King was autographing books at the Blumstein’s Department Store in Harlem when a well-dressed woman wearing glasses stepped out of the line and shouted: “Is this Martin Luther King?”
King, then 29, looked up from signing copies of his memoir about the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott and answered: “Yes, it is.”
The woman then pulled a letter opener with an ivory handle from her purse and attacked King, plunging a seven-inch blade into the left side of his chest, according to the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.
King was rushed to a hospital for surgery. Doctors later told him that if he had sneezed, the blade, which was lodged near his aorta, could have killed him. The attacker was Izola Ware Curry, the Black daughter of sharecroppers, and King later referred to her as a “demented woman.”
He was shot dead 10 years later on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968.
His mother was also assassinated
Just six years later, his mother, Alberta Williams King, was also assassinated. She was killed in 1974 while playing the organ at a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, shot by Marcus Wayne Chenault, a young man from Ohio who claimed he had been aiming for Martin Luther King Sr., who was also at the church.
King often spoke of the positive influence his mother had on his development, calling her “the best mother in the world.”
In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, he won a Grammy
King won a Grammy music award posthumously in 1971. He won best spoken word recording for a speech entitled “Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam,” which he made in New York to condemn the war one year before he was killed.
King was nominated for a Grammy on two previous occasions, in 1969, for his “I Have a Dream” speech, and in 1964, for his “We Shall Overcome” address.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface – NASA Mars Exploration
Perseverance Deposits Its First Sample on the Martian Surface: Once the Perseverance team confirmed the first sample tube was on the surface, they positioned the WATSON camera located at the end of the rover’s robotic arm to peer beneath the rover, checking to be sure that the tube hadn’t rolled into the path of the wheels. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image ›
Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be considered for a journey to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign.
A titanium tube containing a rock sample is resting on the Red Planet’s surface after being placed there on Dec. 21 by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Over the next two months, the rover will deposit a total of 10 tubes at the location, called “Three Forks,” building humanity’s first sample depot on another planet. The depot marks a historic early step in the Mars Sample Return campaign.
Perseverance has been taking duplicate samples from rock targets the mission selects. The rover currently has the other 17 samples (including one atmospheric sample) taken so far in its belly. Based on the architecture of the Mars Sample Return campaign, the rover would deliver samples to a future robotic lander. The lander would, in turn, use a robotic arm to place the samples in a containment capsule aboard a small rocket that would blast off to Mars orbit, where another spacecraft would capture the sample container and return it safely to Earth.
The depot will serve as a backup if Perseverance can’t deliver its samples. In that case, a pair of Sample Recovery Helicopters would be called upon to finish the job.
The first sample to drop was a chalk-size core of igneous rock informally named “Malay,” which was collected on Jan. 31, 2022, in a region of Mars’ Jezero Crater called “South Séítah.” Perseverance’s complex Sampling and Caching System took almost an hour to retrieve the metal tube from inside the rover’s belly, view it one last time with its internal CacheCam, and drop the sample roughly 3 feet (89 centimeters) onto a carefully selected patch of Martian surface.
But the job wasn’t done for engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which built Perseverance and leads the mission. Once they confirmed the tube had dropped, the team positioned the WATSON camera located at the end of Perseverance’s 7-foot-long (2-meter-long) robotic arm to peer beneath the rover, checking to be sure that the tube hadn’t rolled into the path of the rover’s wheels.
They also wanted to ensure the tube hadn’t landed in such a way that it was standing on its end (each tube has a flat end piece called a “glove” to make it easier to be picked up by future missions). That occurred less than 5% of the time during testing with Perseverance’s Earthly twin in JPL’s Mars Yard. In case it does happen on Mars, the mission has written a series of commands for Perseverance to carefully knock the tube over with part of the turret at the end of its robotic arm.
In coming weeks, they’ll have other opportunities to see whether Perseverance needs to use the technique as the rover deposits more samples at the Three Forks cache.
“Seeing our first sample on the ground is a great capstone to our prime mission period, which ends on Jan. 6,” said Rick Welch, Perseverance’s deputy project manager at JPL. “It’s a nice alignment that, just as we’re starting our cache, we’re also closing this first chapter of the mission.”
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A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
For more about Perseverance:
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