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The bidding war for Tucker Carlson is heating up after Rupert Murdoch fired the star anchor from Fox News. One American News Network (OANN) has already offered Carlson $25 million, a whopping $5 million-per-year raise, to join it. However, as Slay News previously reported, Carlson has not even responded to the OANN offer. Now TMZ is reporting that Newsmax is making an incredible offer to the former top-rated cable TV host. Newsmax wants Carlson to do a primetime show but also wants Tucker to run the whole show and program the entire network’s schedule. According to TMZ: “Sources with direct...

Paper Magazine, made famous for its viral 2014 Kim Kardashian 'break the internet' cover shoot, has let go all of its editorial staff. The employees at the iconic American fashion and pop culture publication founded in 1984 were reportedly laid off on Wednesday due to declining ad revenue. It is the latest in a series of cutbacks across the industry, following a series of dismissals at Vice Media, including the shuttering of Vice News Tonight, and the announcement last week that BuzzFeed News axed its entire newsroom. Vox Media, which includes New York Magazine, Vulture, The Verge and Thrillist announced...

French researchers have built an AI-powered model to help figure out what part of the brain needs removed. Leon Kaufman, UCSF Affecting an estimated 50 million people globally, epilepsy is one of humanity’s most common neurological disorders — and one of its longest chronicled: written records of its unprovoked seizures date back centuries. Fittingly for such an old foe, there are numerous ways to treat epilepsy, from deep brain stimulation to diet and anti-epileptic drugs. For the roughly one-third of epilepsy patients for whom drugs do not work, surgery can be a viable alternative — a “huge game changer,” Aswin...

Wild parrots tend to fly in flocks, but when kept as single pets, they may become lonely and boredWhen humans are feeling lonely, we can call or video chat with friends and family who live far away. But, scientists asked, what about pet parrots? New research suggests that these chatty creatures may also benefit from virtually connecting with their peers. Domesticated parrots that learned to initiate video chats with other pet parrots had a variety of positive experiences, such as learning new skills, researchers from Northeastern University, the University of Glasgow and MIT report this month in Proceedings of the...

This is the disturbing moment Steven Crowder berates his heavily-pregnant wife for not 'performing her wifely duties'. In the video obtained by journalist Yashar Ali and posted to his Substack, the YouTuber, 35, can be seen on shocking new Ring footage laying into Hilary as she struggles to stand while nearly eight months pregnant with twins. He bans her from using their only car to go grocery shopping - because it would mean he could not go to the gym - and tells her to feed their dogs medicine that she feared would be toxic for their unborn children. She...

a colorful scan of a mouse brain...Credit: Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy Duke University researchers have developed a new brain imaging technique that produces images 64 million times sharper than a standard MRI — and they think it could revolutionize our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. The challenge: The human brain is only about as large as two fists, but in that small space are 86 billion neurons, forming 100 trillion connections to one another, making the organ arguably one of the most complex systems in the universe. While that complexity enables us to do extraordinary things, it also makes...

Days after Mattel announced their first ever Barbie with Down syndrome, a self-described pro-life conservative political commentator released a video on Twitter mocking the doll. Social media users quickly reacted with outrage. In the video posted to Twitter, Steven Crowder and his co-hosts can be heard snickering and laughing over an Inside Edition feature promoting the doll. “With r*tard strength!” they can be heard saying over the promo, adding, “Is this real? This is real.” They continued to laugh as model Ellie Goldstein, who has Down syndrome, appeared holding one of the Down syndrome Barbies. “Well, here’s the thing, they...

Windows 10 22H2 will be the final version of the operating system, Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday. Moving forward, all editions of Windows 10 will be supported with monthly security updates until October 14th, 2025, when Microsoft will end support. (Some releases on the Long-Term Servicing Channel, or LTSC, will get updates past that end of support date.) Microsoft is encouraging users to now transition to Windows 11 because Windows 10 won’t be getting any new features. Now that Windows 11 has been out for more than a year and a half, it’s not too surprising that...

The germanium-tin processor was fabricated at the Helmholtz Nano Facility, the Helmholtz Association's central technology platform for the manufacturing of nanostructures and circuits. Credit: Forschungszentrum Juelich Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have fabricated a new type of transistor from a germanium–tin alloy that has several advantages over conventional switching elements. Charge carriers can move faster in the material than in silicon or germanium, which enables lower voltages in operation. The transistor thus appears to be a promising candidate for future low-power, high-performance chips, and possibly also for the development of future of quantum computers. Over the past 70 years, the number...

Stephen Thaler petitioned the high court to review an appeals court’s decision that patents can only be issued to human inventors and that his AI system cannot be the legal creator of inventions it generated. Thaler said in his brief that AI is being used to innovate in fields ranging from medicine to energy, and that rejecting AI-generated patents “curtails our patent system’s ability — and thwarts Congress’s intent — to optimally stimulate innovation and technological progress.” SCOTUS declined to take up his case. The justices turned away Thaler’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that patents can be issued...

The beam of light coming from the telescope is then shown in deep blue entering the instrument through the pick-off mirror located at the top of the instrument and acting like a periscope. Then, a series of mirrors redirect the light toward the bottom of the instruments where a set of 4 spectroscopic modules are located. Once there, the beam of light is divided by optical elements called dichroics in 4 beams corresponding to different parts of the mid-infrared region. Each beam enters its own integral field unit; these components split and reformat the light from the whole field of...

Researchers from FAU, the University of Rostock, and the University of Konstanz have precisely controlled electron emission from metals by superimposing two laser fields of different strengths and frequencies. This groundbreaking discovery could lead to new quantum mechanical insights and enable electronic circuits that are a million times faster than current technology.Physicists measure and control electron release from metals in the attosecond range.By superimposing two laser fields of different strengths and frequency, the electron emission of metals can be measured and controlled precisely to a few attoseconds. Physicists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the University of Rostock and the University of...

If Bud Light executives thought the right and Instagram superstar Bri Teresi would forget about the Dylan Mulvaney protest, they’ve got another thing comin’. Teresi, who is a Donald Trump superfan, uploaded a video Tuesday afternoon showing her going Kid Rock on what looks like a couple of cases of Bud Light and a row of bras. “GO WOKE GO BROKE,” Teresi commented (caps are her emphasis) on her patriotic video showing the full force of biological women who are pissed off. Bri Teresi is fed up with Bud Light and its latest nonsense where it used biological male Dylan...

Four in ten Brits claim they have no idea that electrical appliances still cost money when simply left on standby, or switched on at the mainsCoffee machines, electric cookers, and washing machines are the top electrical appliances that cost Brits the most money – whilst not even in use, a study has found. Two in five adults claim they have no idea that their home appliances continue to draw energy from the mains simply from being plugged in, with the plug switch left turned on. This is costing the nation's homes an extra £513,766,000 a year in energy costs –...

What are you doing? You have been ignoring me all day.I'm just have some stuff I need to... So, am I not a priority to you? Is that what you're saying?She's a little naggy-er than I probably expected.So, I guess you don't want to hear about my day?What? Why do I need to hear about your day? You don't do anything. Did you hear what happened with Jennifer and Ben?Babe, I just don't want to hear about Jennifer and Ben right now if that's okay. Oh? Well, I guess I'll kill myself since you don't care. I'll just go die....

Don Lemon has tweeted that he's been fired by CNN after 17 years. In a statement posted to Twitter, he wrote: 'I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN I would have thought someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly. 'At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network. 'It is clear that there are some larger issues at play. With that...

Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, after reigning over the network for nearly a decade. In a shock announcement Monday, the network announced his departure, saying his final show was on April 21st. 'FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. 'We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,' the network statement read. Host Harris Faulkner also announced his departure on air, saying: 'We have some news from within our Fox family. Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have mutually agreed to part ways. Tucker's...

My Funniest TikTok Bud Light Memes 😳🤣🍺 My Funniest TikTok Bud Light Memes 😳🤣🍺 These are some of the most popular "fake" Bud Commercial parodies making the rounds. They have gone medieval, literally. "Sir Woke A Lot" Someone please tell me what "Dilly Dilly" means. video is 4:42 minutes long

BuzzFeed News is no more, but its former editor, Ben Smith, spearheading the new Semafor media venture, decided to reflect on the moment he gave the green light to post the infamous Steele Dossier. The document was unverifiable and has now been dismissed as anything but legitimate. This tranche of papers is what set off the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Donald Trump, the investigation that formed the core of the Russian collusion hoax that later evolved into the Mueller investigation. The media circus destroyed the last vestiges of credibility with many reporters in the legacy media. No bombshell development ever...

A Beach Boys fan released a version of the band’s abandoned album Smile, using artificial intelligence software to complete the tracks. You can hear the full album below. Creator Mike LeRoy fabricated a backstory for his work before detailing how he brought it to fruition. “In the summer of 2018 I traveled to Japan,” he wrote in the video description, claiming he found the album in a secondhand store. “I slid a pink record sleeve out of a neatly packed shelf of vinyl records. Looking down at my prize, I was presented with a Native American glancing at the bicycle...