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Andy Yen is the founder and CEO of Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service ProtonMail and a suite of other privacy-focused products that are threatening …
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During the early years of the Cold War, an array of underwater microphones monitoring for sounds of Russian submarines captured something otherworldly in the depths of the North Atlantic.
The haunting sounds came not from enemy craft, nor aliens,…
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Fall of the House of Usher.
From the start of the first episode of The Fall of the House of Usher, we know that all of Roderick Usher’s children are dead. It’s the how and the why of their deaths that plays out over the course of Mike Flanagan’s new horror anthology series, now streaming on Netflix. Read more
Nyad tells the story of Diana Nyad, a marathon swimmer who broke records and achieved a number of firsts in the sport. At the age of 60, she decided to complete the feat she wasn’t able to when she was 28—swim the more than 100 miles from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage, powered only by her stubborn will and swimming prowess.
The Cuba to Florida crossing, thro…
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The latest TikTok stitching trend begins with a woman’s video about not liking store-bought pesto.
In September, Susi Vidal, a home-cooking influencer with 3.5 million TikTok followers and over 1.4 million followers on Instagram, shared an unassuming recipe for homemade pesto.
“Call me crazy if you want, but I never liked store-bought pesto,” Vidal says in the video.
Th…
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Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several “Shaft” films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. He was 81.
Roundtree’s longtime manager, Patrick McMinn, said the actor had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993 and underwent a double maste…
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Sohla El-Waylly has already made a name for herself in the food world. Her resumé includes several years’ experience at fine-dining establishments in New York, an on-camera job at Bon Appétit (and a news-making decision to leave the brand in 2020), a YouTube series with the History Channel, a stint as a judge on the HBO Max cooking competition show The Big Brunch Read more
The Ultimatum: Queer Love is far from the first dating show to feature queer people in its cast. But as the only one on Netflix to have a season focused exclusively on queer couples, it marks a first for the streamer. The second season of the Love Is Blind sister show once again brings together a group of couples questioning their futures—and this time, the cast is ma…
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TIME has chosen Taylor Swift as Person of the Year, Lionel Messi as Athlete of the Year, and Sam Altman as CEO of the Year. This reflects the editors’ assessment of the individuals who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.
