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Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Shweta Bachchan visited Sahara Star Mumbai to pay their last respect – IndiaTimes
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan who visited all 43 in-game artworks in real life has been “overwhelmed” by the response – TechRadar
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Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ Charms Cannes With Six-Minute Standing Ovation for Scarlett Johansson as Movie Star Visited by Aliens – Variety
- Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ Charms Cannes With Six-Minute Standing Ovation for Scarlett Johansson as Movie Star Visited by Aliens Variety
- Asteroid City review – Wes Anderson’s 1950s sci-fi is an exhilarating triumph of pure style The Guardian
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How cancer can make you speak in an IRISH accent: American man who had never visited the isle
A cancer-stricken man woke up to find he suddenly had an Irish accent — despite never having been to the country.
The American had been battling an advanced form of prostate cancer for close to two years before seeking advice for his ‘uncontrollable brogue’.
Doctors diagnosed the man in his 50s with the extraordinarily rare foreign accent syndrome (FAS).
It means he is just one of a handful of people to have ever experienced the speech disorder, which usually occurs as a complication of a stroke or head injury.
But medics in North Carolina — who treated him and shared clips of his voice before and after the bizarre change — believe his cancer was to blame. He later died.
The American had been battling an advanced form of prostate cancer for close to two years before seeking advice for his ‘uncontrollable brogue’. Pictured, Classiebawn Castle, Mullaghmore, Sligo
The man in his 50s had been battling an advanced form of prostate cancer for close to two years before seeking advice for his ‘uncontrollable brogue’. Pictured above, MRI scans released by doctors at Duke University Health System of the man’s brain. Scans A are T2 weighted images, while scans B are fluid attenuated inversion recovery images
Presenting his case in the British Medical Journal Case Reports, the team at Duke University Health System said they think the man had developed a paraneoplastic neurological disorder (PND).
These are rare complications of cancer, caused by disease-fighting cells in the immune system mistakenly attacking the nervous system.
Usually this causes muscle movement or coordination problems but it can affect thinking skills and memory, too.
The man, who wasn’t identified, was being treated at ‘an outside institution’ for prostate cancer that had spread through his body.
Over the course of 20 months, he had received androgen deprivation therapy — a hormone therapy to suppress or block the production or action of male hormones, as well as radiotherapy.
Worried about his sudden change, the man revealed that he had never been to Ireland and had never previously spoken in an Irish accent.
He told the medics, however, that he did have Irish family and friends and had briefly lived in England during his 20s.
Doctors said his new accent was ‘uncontrollable, present in all settings and gradually became persistent’.
Prior to his speech change, he also had no known head trauma and had not suffered with any psychiatric conditions.
While he had unintentionally lost weight, he reported no other symptoms.
Results of an MRI scan of the brain also showed no abnormalities, ruling out the usual causes of foreign accent syndrome.
But a CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed his prostate cancer had spread further, with ‘a new cluster of right pelvic lymph nodes above the bladder’.
Because of his progressive prostate cancer, he was referred to the Duke Cancer Institute three months later to undergo further treatment.
By this point, the man was still consistently speaking in the ‘Irish brogue’ accent, medics noted.
But his cancer had developed to neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC), a lethal variant of prostate cancer.
According to the medics, there are many known cases of PNDs presenting as symptoms of patients with NEPC.
In the UK, prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer. One in eight men will be diagnosed with the illness in their lifetime, charities say.
The current outlook for advanced prostate cancer patients is poor, however, with few treatment options available.
Some 12,000 men die each year from the disease in the UK — 33 every day — with almost 35,000 deaths each year in the US.
Medics wrote that the man was shortly moved into home hospice care, due to his ‘rapid clinical deterioration’ as his cancer progressed despite chemotherapy.
He passed away ‘shortly thereafter’ they noted.
‘His Irish brogue-like accent was maintained until his death,’ they wrote in the BMJ publication.
Foreign accent syndrome can also occur after trauma to the brain, bleeding in the brain or a brain tumour.
There have only been around 150 cases documented worldwide since its discovery in 1907.
It differs to foreign language syndrome. The condition occurs when people suddenly forget to speak their native tongue and rely on a second language instead. This can be language they haven’t spoke for years.
Green comet zooming our way, last visited 50,000 years ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years.
The dirty snowball last visited during Neanderthal times, according to NASA. It will come within 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of Earth Wednesday before speeding away again, unlikely to return for millions of years.
So do look up, contrary to the title of the killer-comet movie “Don’t Look Up.”
Discovered less than a year ago, this harmless green comet already is visible in the northern night sky with binoculars and small telescopes, and possibly the naked eye in the darkest corners of the Northern Hemisphere. It’s expected to brighten as it draws closer and rises higher over the horizon through the end of January, best seen in the predawn hours. By Feb. 10, it will be near Mars, a good landmark.
Skygazers in the Southern Hemisphere will have to wait until next month for a glimpse.
While plenty of comets have graced the sky over the past year, “this one seems probably a little bit bigger and therefore a little bit brighter and it’s coming a little bit closer to the Earth’s orbit,” said NASA’s comet and asteroid-tracking guru, Paul Chodas.
Green from all the carbon in the gas cloud, or coma, surrounding the nucleus, this long-period comet was discovered last March by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility, a wide field camera at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. That explains its official, cumbersome name: comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF).
On Wednesday, it will hurtle between the orbits of Earth and Mars at a relative speed of 128,500 mph (207,000 kilometers). Its nucleus is thought to be about a mile (1.6 kilometers) across, with its tails extending millions of miles (kilometers).
The comet isn’t expected to be nearly as bright as Neowise in 2020, or Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s.
But “it will be bright by virtue of its close Earth passage … which allows scientists to do more experiments and the public to be able to see a beautiful comet,” University of Hawaii astronomer Karen Meech said in an email.
Scientists are confident in their orbital calculations putting the comet’s last swing through the solar system’s planetary neighborhood at 50,000 years ago. But they don’t know how close it came to Earth or whether it was even visible to the Neanderthals, said Chodas, director of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
When it returns, though, is tougher to judge.
Every time the comet skirts the sun and planets, their gravitational tugs alter the iceball’s path ever so slightly, leading to major course changes over time. Another wild card: jets of dust and gas streaming off the comet as it heats up near the sun.
“We don’t really know exactly how much they are pushing this comet around,” Chodas said.
The comet — a time capsule from the emerging solar system 4.5 billion years ago — came from what’s known as the Oort Cloud well beyond Pluto. This deep-freeze haven for comets is believed to stretch more than one-quarter of the way to the next star.
While comet ZTF originated in our solar system, we can’t be sure it will stay there, Chodas said. If it gets booted out of the solar system, it will never return, he added.
Don’t fret if you miss it.
“In the comet business, you just wait for the next one because there are dozens of these,” Chodas said. “And the next one might be bigger, might be brighter, might be closer.”
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Head of Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk says visited Soledar
(Reuters) – The top Moscow-installed official in the occupied parts of the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine said late on Sunday that he had visited the town of Soledar that Russia claimed to had captured earlier this month.
Denis Pushilin, the administrator, published a short video on the Telegram messaging app that showed him driving and walking amidst uninhabited areas and destroyed buildings.
“I visited Soledar today,” Pushilin said in an accompanying statement.
Reuters was not able to independently verify when and where the video was taken.
On Jan. 11, the private Russian military group Wagner said it had captured Soledar and Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region said last week they were in control of the salt-mining town.
Ukraine has never publicly said that the town was taken by Russian forces. On Sunday, the general staff of its armed forces said in a daily update that Russian forces had fired on Ukrainian positions in the area.
In his statement, Pushilin said the Soledar mines were damaged and “difficult” to descend into.
The town, together with the city of Bakhmut just to its northeast, has been the focus of intense fighting for months, with Russian proxy forces claiming last week that they had also captured Klishchiivka, a small village near Bakhmut.
The so-called Donetsk People’s Republic is one of the four regions in Ukraine that Moscow proclaimed as its own in September in an exercise Ukraine and its allies called a “sham,” coercive referendum.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
Bryan Kohberger visited eatery where two alleged victims worked
Accused University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger dined at a Greek restaurant where two of the slain students worked as waitresses, a former employee revealed.
Kohberger, 28, visited Mad Greek on South Main Street in downtown Moscow at least twice, the former worker, who wasn’t identified, told People.
Madison Mogen, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, two of the four students killed on Nov. 13, were servers at the eatery, though it was unclear if either of them had any interactions with Kohberger.
The criminology Ph.D student, who adheres to an extremely strict vegan diet, ordered vegan pizza, the staffer said.
The former worker admitted the order stood out in their memory because the accused killer wanted to make sure no animal products came in contact with his food.
A former aunt of Kohberger previously told The Post that his dietary restrictions were “very, very weird.”
“It was above and beyond being vegan,” said the aunt, who declined to be identified but said she was previously married into the family.
“His aunt and uncle had to buy new pots and pans because he would not eat from anything that had ever had meat cooked in them. He seemed very OCD [obsessive-compulsive disorder].”
The revelations about Kohberger’s visits to Mad Greek could be more evidence that he had been stalking Mogen, Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20, before they were brutally stabbed to death at their off-campus home.
Investigators have interviewed employees and owners of the Greek restaurant and have obtained surveillance video from the eatery, People confirmed.
Earlier this week, it emerged that Kohberger slid into one victim’s direct messages on Instagram in October — just weeks before the massacre.
“He slid into one of the girls’ DMs several times but she didn’t respond,” an anonymous source told People. “Basically, it was just him saying, ‘Hey, how are you?’ But he did it again and again.”
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The source did not reveal which of the students Kohberger messaged, though he followed accounts for all three women on the social media platform.
The messages from his account were sent around the same time that investigators claim he was stalking the victims. His cellphone data also pinged in the same location as the students in the run-up to the murders.
Kohberger’s efforts to reach his alleged victim on Instagram could be a symptom of the “incel complex” from which an ex-FBI investigator believes he suffers.
“The murders may have been … an effort to assert some type of dominance,” security expert Pete Yachmetz has told The Post.
According to a search warrant unsealed Wednesday, Washington State University Police recovered a possibly blood-stained mattress cover, human hairs, a glove and a computer from Kohberger’s apartment.
Police also seized two cuttings from an uncased pillow with a “reddish/brown stain,” one “nitrite type black glove,” eight possible hair strands and a possible animal hair strand.
The evidence was sent to a lab for testing, which could all potenitally link Kohberger to the crime scene.
The suspect, who faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary, is scheduled for a preliminary status hearing on June 26.
Meta injecting code into websites visited by its users to track them, research says | Meta
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has been rewriting websites its users visit, letting the company follow them across the web after they click links in its apps, according to new research from an ex-Google engineer.
The two apps have been taking advantage of the fact that users who click on links are taken to webpages in an “in-app browser”, controlled by Facebook or Instagram, rather than sent to the user’s web browser of choice, such as Safari or Firefox.
“The Instagram app injects their tracking code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads, enabling them [to] monitor all user interactions, like every button and link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses and credit card numbers,” says Felix Krause, a privacy researcher who founded an app development tool acquired by Google in 2017.
In a statement, Meta said that injecting a tracking code obeyed users’ preferences on whether or not they allowed apps to follow them, and that it was only used to aggregate data before being applied for targeted advertising or measurement purposes for those users who opted out of such tracking.
“We intentionally developed this code to honour people’s [Ask to track] choices on our platforms,” a spokesperson said. “The code allows us to aggregate user data before using it for targeted advertising or measurement purposes. We do not add any pixels. Code is injected so that we can aggregate conversion events from pixels.”
They added: “For purchases made through the in-app browser, we seek user consent to save payment information for the purposes of autofill.”
Krause discovered the code injection by building a tool that could list all the extra commands added to a website by the browser. For normal browsers, and most apps, the tool detects no changes, but for Facebook and Instagram it finds up to 18 lines of code added by the app. Those lines of code appear to scan for a particular cross-platform tracking kit and, if not installed, instead call the Meta Pixel, a tracking tool that allows the company to follow a user around the web and build an accurate profile of their interests.
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The company does not disclose to the user that it is rewriting webpages in this way. No such code is added to the in-app browser of WhatsApp, according to Krause’s research.
“Javascript injection” – the practice of adding extra code to a webpage before it is displayed to a user – is frequently classified as a type of malicious attack. Cybersecurity company Feroot, for instance, describes it as an attack that “allows the threat actor to manipulate the website or web application and collect sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII) or payment information.”
There is no suggestion that Meta has used its Javascript injection to collect such sensitive data. In the company’s description of the Meta Pixel, which is usually voluntarily added to websites to help companies advertise to users on Instagram and Facebook, it says the tool “allows you to track visitor activity on your website” and that it can collect associated data.
It is unclear when Facebook began injecting code to track users after clicking links. In recent years, the company has had a noisy public standoff with Apple, after the latter introduced a requirement for app developers to ask permission to track users across apps. After the prompt was launched, many Facebook advertisers found themselves unable to target users on the social network, ultimately leading to $10bn of lost revenue and a 26% fall in the company’s share price earlier this year, according to Meta.