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Despite combining for 32 nominations, Netflix and Apple TV+ were nearly shut out of of the 2024 Oscars, with Netflix winning a single award for Wes Anderson's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Best Live Action Short Film). The big surprise was Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+) not gaining a single statue, notably Lily Gladstone losing the Best Actress prize to Poor Things'



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TL;DR: A five-year subscription to AdGuard VPN is on sale for £31.17, saving you 89% on list price.


Unless you're living completely off the grid, we all have an online presence. And with that presence, there comes risk and vulnerability. If you don't already have a virtual private network (VPN), it should shoot to the top of your list. Using a VPN helps keep you safer online and less vulnerable to



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TL;DR: Find a wide range of free online courses from MIT on edX.


Lovers of learning should direct their attention to edX, because you can find a wide range of free online courses from some of the most famous educational institutions in the world. And that includes MIT.

To help you find the best free courses for you, we have checked out everything on offer from MIT and highlighted a selection of



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Cozy crime is a subgenre in which intriguing tales of murder boast a jaunty aesthetic that's irreverently twee. Think Only Murders in the Building, with its foolhardy amateur sleuths alternately investigating homicide and bickering over their podcast's production. Think Pushing Daisies, a candy-colored mystery series about a lovelorn pie-maker who can literally raise the dead to solve their



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"A really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years — Disjointed, boring, and very unfair," former President Donald Trump said of this year's Academy Awards ceremony.
  • Donald Trump has had a history of dunking on the Oscars.
  • He couldn't resist posting about the show on Sunday, too.
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TikTok leaders are surprised that a bill that would ban TikTok in the US has gotten as far as it has.
  • US legislators are again trying to ban TikTok with a bill in the House.
  • TikTok leaders were not expecting the new bill to progress so quickly, per The Wall Street Journal.
  • Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has shown interest in acquiring the social media



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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
  • Nvidia's chips primed the company to leverage the latest artificial-intelligence boom.
  • But the GPU-maker is targeting other areas where AI could apply.
  • Nvidia has invested in dozens of startups in 2023, including a company focused on pharmaceuticals.

The California chip maker Nvidia is the latest tech company to so far have a blockbuster year as it surp



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"Winning an Oscar now just means you won the woke contest," Elon Musk wrote on X on Sunday.
  • Elon Musk isn't a fan of the Academy Awards.
  • "Winning an Oscar now just means you won the woke contest," Musk said on Sunday.
  • Musk said the awards have been "diluted" and "no longer commands respect."

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Like many of the movies up for Oscars, this year’s Academy Awards ran longer than most viewers probably considered reasonable. But lengthy as the ceremony was, it was marked by enough surprises to make it one one hell of a watch.

Though host Jimmy Kimmel made sure to get a few good jabs in at most of the filmmakers up for Oscars, few of



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Police said a car crashed into the Buckingham Palace gates on Saturday.
  • London police said a car crashed into the gates of Buckingham Palace on Saturday morning.
  • A man was subsequently arrested and sectioned under the UK's Mental Health Act.
  • Footage on social media shows a damaged blue hatchback stopped at the royal property's gates.

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The name on everybody's lips at the 96th Academy Awards was Oppenheimer.

Christopher Nolan's historical drama took home the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as six other awards: Best Director (Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography.

The Oscar win marks the end of a dominant awards season for Oppen