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When Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss teamed up with with Alexander Woo for Netflix's 3 Body Problem, they didn't just bring their genre novel adaptation expertise. They also brought a few familiar faces.

Making the leap to 3 Body Problem are a number of Thrones actors, including Jonathan Pryce, Liam Cunningham, Conleth Hill, and — in a key role as one of the core friendship



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The Oversight Board is urging Meta to change the way it moderates the word “shaheed,” an Arabic term that has led to more takedowns than any other word or phrase on the company’s platforms. Meta asked the group for help crafting new rules last year after attempts to revamp it internally stalled.

The Arabic word “shaheed” is often translated as “martyr,” though the board notes that this isn’t an



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Social Isolation due to AI Devices

I made a lot of questionable purchases as a teenage gadget geek in the 1990s, but the one that made my parents most regret giving me a credit card was the Sony Glasstron. The flimsy head-mounted display (which offered the "stunning" clarity of 800 x 600 pixels), the attached earbuds, and the video cable tether were all mine for the low, low price of $2,599 in 1999 dollars — or



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  • The average American has way more "free" time than you might think.
  • But most of us spend the majority of our leisure time staring at screens. 
  • Picking up a new hobby can be a good way to reset — but that's easier said than done.

It's another Tuesday night, and work is winding down. I send my last Slack messages for the evening, fire off a



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Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary.
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary.
  • Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said Boeing has quality control issues.
  • O'Leary said the company found leftover tools and missing seat handles in new Boeing planes.
  • Ryanair said it welcomes "much-needed management changes" at the aircraft maker.

The boss of Europe's largest airline told CNN last week that it would regularly find leftover tools



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If you’re a movie fan or enjoy nothing more than binge-watching box sets, chances are you've heard of Kodi. Kodi is a free, open-source software media player app formerly known as XBMB that acts as a hub for all your music, movies, and TV content, which can be shared across all of your devices.

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A plane carrying the second black box of the crashed China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport on March 27, 2022 in Beijing, China.
A plane carrying the second black box of the crashed China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport on March 27, 2022 in Beijing, China.
  • A new report by Chinese authorities found nothing amiss before Flight MU5735's deadly crash in 2022.
  • The Boeing 737 was carrying 132 people before it nose-dived from high altitude into a



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Boeing's Stephanie Pope
  • Boeing named Stephanie Pope the new CEO of its commercial airlines division on Monday. 
  • The promotion is part of a gendered pattern researchers identified years ago: the "glass cliff."
  • When male leaders have led a company into a crisis, they're often replaced by women.

Stephanie Pope knows Boeing well: a third-generation employee, she joined the company in