- ‘Stop aiming at my face when I’m mad’: Jon Rahm takes out frustrations on camera and microphone as PGA Championship struggles continue CNN
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Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Thought This Particular Behavior From Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Was ‘Quite Mad’ – Yahoo Life
- Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Thought This Particular Behavior From Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Was ‘Quite Mad’ Yahoo Life
- Late Queen Elizabeth reportedly branded the Sussexes behaviour as “quite mad” GBNews
- Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Thought This Particular Behavior From Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Was ‘Quite Mad’ SheKnows
- King Charles ‘stopped taking Prince Harry’s phone calls’ after Megxit, royal author claims Yahoo Canada
- New Bombshell Book Claims Her late Majesty Called Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Behavior “Quite Mad” MarieClaire.com
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Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Thought This Particular Behavior From Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Was ‘Quite Mad’ – Yahoo News
- Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Thought This Particular Behavior From Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Was ‘Quite Mad’ Yahoo News
- Late Queen Elizabeth reportedly branded the Sussexes behaviour as “quite mad” GBNews
- Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Thought This Particular Behavior From Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Was ‘Quite Mad’ SheKnows
- King Charles ‘stopped taking Prince Harry’s phone calls’ after Megxit, royal author claims Yahoo Canada
- New Bombshell Book Claims Her late Majesty Called Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Behavior “Quite Mad” MarieClaire.com
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Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks pays tribute to Dame Vivienne Westwood at memorial – Daily Mail
- Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks pays tribute to Dame Vivienne Westwood at memorial Daily Mail
- Victoria Beckham Wore a Long, Lean Bustle Dress to the Vivienne Westwood Memorial Service InStyle
- Celebrity guests attend memorial for fashion designer Vivienne Westwood The Times and The Sunday Times
- Memorial service for Vivienne Westwood ‘the godmother of punk’ is taking place at Southwark Cathedral today Southwark News
- Victoria Beckham dons a black dress and shades for Vivienne Westwood’s star-studded memorial service Daily Mail
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Toxic Telescope Makes You Mad As A Hatter
[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from back in the 1850s. At the time, scientists were not impressed. But, these days, people are revisiting the idea. The big problem with the early telescope is that it used mercury. Mercury is really bad for people and the environment.
The good thing about a liquid scope is that you can pretty easily make a large mirror. You just need a shallow pool of liquid and a way to spin it. However, there are downsides. You need to isolate the liquid from vibrations and dust. Another downside is that since gravity makes the shape of the mirror, these telescopes only go one way — straight up.
Modern liquid telescopes have high-tech ways to combat all of the problems except the straight-up view. While it can be expensive to safely handle a huge amount of mercury and isolate it from vibrations, it can still be less expensive than polishing mirrors of similar size. The 6-meter Large Zenith Telescope at the University of British Columbia, for example, claims to cost about 2% of what a similar instrument made with glass would cost. In addition to rotating to maintain their parabolic shape, Earth-bound liquid mirrors also rotate around the Earth’s axis, which causes the mirror to point ever so slightly off the point directly overhead, something that precise observations have to take into account.
The first actual practical liquid mirror telescope had a 50cm mirror. Modern examples are mostly in the 3-6 meter range. Gallium is another possible liquid, but that raises the cost significantly. In addition, research is underway to find safer liquids and solve the problems associated with tilting the mirror.
The classic way to make a mirror is to grind it from a glass blank. If you make your own telescope, you can play with the look of it in interesting ways.
Ice Cube still very mad about that movie he lost because he wouldn’t get the COVID vaccine
Ice Cube would like you to know that he’s still very angry about the COVID vaccine (that nobody actually required him to get), venting on a recent podcast interview that his refusal to get “the jab”—that is, a vaccine show to prevent infection from a virus that killed millions of people—cost him $9 million, for which he’s still very, to use not-his-words, miffed.
Per Variety, Cube addressed the topic on a recent episode of the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast, referencing a rescinded offer to co-star in the Jack Black comedy Oh Hell No that would have paid the $9 million, and which was pulled after he refused to get “the jab.” “Those motherfuckers didn’t give it to me because I wouldn’t get the shot,” Cube asserted. “I didn’t turn it down. They just wouldn’t give it to me.”
Displaying the grasp of herd immunity, epidemiology, and causality that we’ve come to expect from one of the key minds behind the Are We There Yet? duology, Cube pointed out that, because he never ended up getting COVID, nobody should have expected him to get the vaccine in the first place. “The covid shot, the jab…I didn’t need it. I didn’t catch that shit at all. Nothing. Fuck them. I didn’t need that shit.”
Cube’s refusal to get vaccinated led to Oh Hell No’s production apparently stalling out; the film was pulled off Sony’s film schedule in February 2022, and there’s been no movement on it since. Cube’s own filmography has been pretty light during the pandemic period, too; he last appeared in Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson’s The High Note in 2020, and before that, opposite Charlie Day in Fist Fight in 2017. “I don’t know how Hollywood feel about me right now,” he remarked as part of the vaccine conversation.
Modern Warfare 2 Fans Are Mad About Fair Matches
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 drops on October 28, though if you preordered it, you’ve likely already gotten some through some of the campaign. But ahead of the game’s full release, which will give folks full access to the multiplayer component, some are decrying the game’s skill-based matchmaking (SBMM).
Modern Warfare 2 is Infinity Ward’s latest entry in the Call of Duty series. A reboot of 2009’s eponymous title and a direct sequel to 2019’s rebooted Modern Warfare, this new shooter sees you hunting down various high-profile military ops to prevent global catastrophe by…shooting them in the face. It’s a solid game with some impressive visuals that Kotaku staff writer Claire Jackson said gets sluggish after a boring start. But while there are some problematic elements in the game’s campaign, that isn’t what has the community riled up. Nah, it’s the not-even-out multiplayer component.
Read More: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II Is A Precision-Made Boredom Machine
Popular streamer Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar is seemingly at the center of the discourse around Modern Warfare 2 and skill-based matchmaking. In an October 23 video, he said that while he’ll “be here” when the game launches in full this weekend, he’ll only stream the game for “a day.” He’ll still grind it off-stream for the camos but clarified he can’t stream Modern Warfare 2. The reason? Skill-based matchmaking apparently sucks the enjoyment outta the multiplayer experience because he’s playing against highly skilled players that body him, and he isn’t having fun with the established “meta” and the “good guns” folks regularly use. His solution? Create two separate playlists: a Quick Play one not based around SBMM and a Ranked one that is.
“If SBMM wasn’t a thing, I would stream multiplayer,” he said. “SBMM—I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, man—is, I dare say, killing video games.”
Skill-based matchmaking is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a feature usually employed in multiplayer games that pairs you with other players around your skill level. Only level 10 months after a game launched but still wanna check out the multiplayer component? No problem. SBMM should—heavy emphasis on the “should” here—match you with other folks that are also level 10. Getting better at the game and leveling up at a rapid clip? The game’s SBMM should—again, heavy emphasis the word “should”—recognize this, placing you with others that are equally improving their skills. It doesn’t always work out this way, but that’s the general idea behind the methodology.
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However, much like TimTheTatman, folks online aren’t—and haven’t been for a minute now—too happy with the feature’s implementation in competitive games. A cursory glance at Twitter pulls up multiple people decrying skill-based matchmaking. Some have brought up how competitive shooters back in the day, such as Halo 2, apparently didn’t have SBMM and were still great fun. (A former Halo designer was quick to counter that point, though.) Others have said they straight-up hate the feature. A few, like gaming collective FaZe Clan, have questioned whether skill-based matchmaking belongs in Call of Duty games at all. Most seem to agree, however, that SBMM is ruining the game for them in some capacity. But, of course, SBMM has been in games for a long while now.
Read More: Modern Warfare II Makes You Aim Your Gun At Civilians To ‘De-Escalate’
Kotaku reached out to Activision and TimTheTatman comment.
There’s some irony to the complaints here. If one player has hit prestige, frequently ending matches with some insane kill-death ratio, then they should obviously be placed with other equally dominating players. They shouldn’t be given the opportunity to jump into non skill-based lobbies to crush folks still learning the ropes. It’s like a heavyweight boxer packing a ton of muscle taking on a lightweight half their size. Like, that’s a clear unfair advantage. If you wanna be the best, you gotta beat the best, right? Like Twitter user headfallsoff aptly asked in response to the SBMM discourse: “What would Goku think”? Yeah, he’d be disappointed.
Mad at iPhone’s New Search Button in iOS 16? Here’s How to Get Rid of It
You can now download iOS 16, and much like every new major software update to the iPhone, there are features and settings that you’ll absolutely love — and others that you might not be so fond of.
With iOS 16, the addition of the Search button at the bottom of the home screen, right above your dock, has caused an uproar. Many people are unhappy with the new home screen setting.
Although the Search feature on iOS is useful for quickly finding text messages, files, settings, websites and photos, the new button is placed in a location where it’s easy to accidentally tap it, especially when you’re scrolling through your various home screen pages.
And when you do inadvertently hit the new Search button, the Search feature blows up in full screen. Then you have to swipe out of it to go back to your home screen — which is annoying.
Read more: Now That You’ve Installed iOS 16, Do These 3 Things First
Fortunately, there’s an easy fix to get rid of the new Search button on your home screen.
And if you want to learn more about iOS 16, check out how to unsend and edit text messages, view all your saved Wi-Fi passwords and customize your lock screen with widgets.
How to get rid of the new Search button on iOS 16
On your iPhone running iOS 16, launch the Settings application, go to Home Screen and toggle off the Show on Home Screen button underneath “Search.” Instead of the Search button on your home screen, you’ll now see several dots indicating your various home screen pages instead. If you press on it, nothing happens.
Easily remove the Search button in Settings.
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If you want to access the Search feature after removing the home-screen button, you can access it the traditional way: swipe down from anywhere on your screen.
‘The whole world’s gone mad!’ Kate Bush on Running Up That Hill’s success | Kate Bush
Kate Bush has discussed the remarkable resurgent success of her 1985 song Running Up That Hill in her first interview since the song’s return to the charts.
Speaking to Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Bush said the situation was “just extraordinary … quite shocking really, isn’t it? I mean, the whole world’s gone mad.”
Running Up That Hill is at No 1 in the UK charts and could spend a second week at the top on Friday despite high-profile new releases from Drake and Beyoncé. It is at No 5 in the US, down from a peak of No 4 last week, which made it her first US Top 10 hit.
The song is a key plot motif for the character Max Mayfield in the fourth season of hugely popular Netflix drama Stranger Things, which has created a whole generation of new Kate Bush fans.
“It’s such a great series, I thought that the track would get some attention. But I just never imagined that it would be anything like this,” Bush said. “The Duffer brothers created the series and actually we watched it from the first series onwards, so I was already familiar with the series. And I thought what a lovely way for the song to be used in such a positive way. You know, as a kind of talisman almost really for Max. And yeah, I think it’s very touching, actually.”
Earlier this month, series co-creator Matt Duffer said Bush’s music would return for the climactic two episodes of season four, released on 1 July. “There’s an epic Kate Bush moment in the finale that we weren’t expecting, that we kind of discovered as we were editing,” he said. “The sequence was really cool and we were happy with it, but it was missing a little something. And I was like, ‘Well, let’s try Kate. Because when has Kate let us down?’ And it just took it to this new height. It’s arguably the most epic Kate Bush moment. It comes back in a major way.”
A new trailer for the final two episodes of Stranger Things has been released, featuring a pounding rework of Running Up That Hill.
Speaking to Barnett, Bush said she hadn’t listened to Running Up That Hill “for a really long time” before its return to the charts, adding: “I never listen to my old stuff.” She last performed it in 2014 for her theatrical London concert series Before the Dawn.
Bush said its original title was A Deal With God, but “I think they were just worried, the record company, that it wouldn’t get played on the radio. That people would feel it was a sensitive title.”
On the meaning of the song, she said: “I really like people to hear a song and take from it what they want. But originally it was written as the idea of a man and a woman swapping with each other. Just to feel what it was like, from the other side.”
In a previous interview in 1986, she elaborated on the song’s meaning, saying it was “about the fundamental differences between men and women, I suppose trying to remove those obstacles, being in someone else’s place; understanding how they see it, and hoping that would remove problems in the relationship.”
In her Radio 4 interview, Bush described 2022 as “an incredibly exciting time … OK, so it’s an awful time on a lot of levels for people. Very difficult. But it’s also a time when incredible things are happening. Technology is progressing at this incredible rate. That’s pretty overwhelming, really. But, you know, there’s so many advances in medicine and there are positive things – you just have to look a bit harder to find them at the moment, I think.”
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer Expects Bitcoin to Fall to $12,000 – Bitcoin News
The host of Mad Money, Jim Cramer, has predicted that bitcoin’s price will fall to $12,000. Nonetheless, he has recommended bitcoin and ether for people wanting to invest in crypto.
Jim Cramer’s Bitcoin Price Prediction
Jim Cramer, the host of Mad Money, talked about the future outlook for bitcoin on CNBC Friday. Cramer is a former hedge fund manager who co-founded Thestreet.com, a financial news and literacy website.
He was asked whether he thinks bitcoin is going to bounce from the current level, or whether BTC will go down another 50% or more.
Sharing his bitcoin price prediction, he replied:
I think it goes to $12,000, where it was before this whole fiasco began.
“I think the people involved with bitcoin have to take another stand,” the Mad Money host stressed. “We need some guys to just say, ‘Look this is the level.’ That’s typical of what happens when it’s about to really drop big.” He emphasized, “They can’t let it go down anymore.”
Cramer on Margin Calls and Microstrategy
Cramer proceeded to talk about Microstrategy, the Nasdaq-listed software company that has amassed 129,218 BTC on its balance sheet. Its CEO, Michael Saylor, is a bitcoin bull. He was recently on CNBC talking about bitcoin being the best investment for his company and it is a good time to buy BTC at the current level.
Microstrategy recently debunked the rumor that it is facing a margin call for a bitcoin-backed loan from Silvergate Bank and will need to liquidate some BTC. Saylor explained that the company has more bitcoin to pledge and other collateral to post for the loan.
However, Cramer said if the lender changed the margin rates on crypto, Saylor “would be out in a second.”
Bitcoin plummeted early Saturday morning, falling below $20K for the first time since 2020. At the time of writing, BTC is trading at $17,983, down 13% over the past 24 hours and almost 40% over the last seven days.
The Mad Money host tweeted Saturday:
Ten percent down for bitcoin and you get some nasty margin calls over the weekend … Amazing that there are no big institutions propping this up.
He added in a follow-up tweet: “I wonder what rabbit Michael Saylor can pull out of a hat with his Microstrategy gameplan. I wonder when he first raised money if he had this in mind.”
Earlier this month, Cramer gave some advice on cryptocurrency investing. He admitted that he owns ethereum, adding: “I would never discourage you from buying crypto.” However, he said: “I would prefer that you would do it in ethereum or bitcoin, which have the largest followings.”
In October last year, he said: “The whole investment case for crypto rests on the Greater Fool Theory.” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates made a similar comment this week that crypto is 100% based on the Greater Fool Theory, emphasizing that he is not involved in it.
Cramer is not the only one predicting a massive fall in the price of bitcoin. Billionaire fund manager Jeff Gundlach said this week that he wouldn’t be surprised at all if BTC falls to $10K. Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki indicated that BTC could bottom out at $9K. Guggenheim Chief Investment Officer Scott Minerd said last month that BTC could fall to $8K.
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