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Princess Leia arrived to the beach with Darth Vader, a scruffy Ewok and one of Jabba the Hutt’s hefty henchman. Although it sounds like the setup for a joke you’d tell Greedo over drinks at the Mos Eisley Cantina, it happened 40 years ago, when Carrie Fisher showed up to Stinson Beach in Marin for a Rolling Stone photo shoot in the summer of 1983. The magazine had reached out to Los Angeles-based photographer Aaron Rapoport to tackle the assignment. Despite windy conditions, a crowded beach and three costumed subjects lumbering through the sand, the shoot resulted in a classic...

Chinese battery maker CATL says it has cutting-edge technology able to surpass limits that have held back battery development worldwide, ushering in a new era of electrification for passenger aircraft. These are bold claims that, if they come to fruition, will shake up battery technology as we know it. Battery density signifies a key metric in creating a lithium-ion battery that’s both powerful and light enough for versatile applications, such as an aircraft. Current understanding of technology has the densest lithium-ion batteries generally hovering below 300 Watt hours per kilogram (Wh/kg), but CATL says their new battery boasts a 500...

At a recent Shanghai auto expo, the world's largest battery maker unveiled a battery it claimed could power electric aircraft or propel electric vehicles (EVs) beyond 1,000 kilometres on a single charge. Chinese Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), which makes one-third of the world's EV batteries, shared few details about the technology but said it would start mass production later this year. It was the latest in a series of big announcements for the industry, which is booming with the global shift to electrification. Battery design has been likened to a gold rush, as researchers push the boundaries of materials chemistry...

In newly leaked videos from his axed streaming show, Tucker Carlson is shown unloading on Fox Nation and cracking jokes about his 'post-menopausal fans' while joking around with his senior staff. The videos were leaked to Media Matters and published today in light of Tucker's firing last month. Some of the remarks were included in a New York Times report last week which suggested they were among a trove of highly incriminating clips. They show Tucker bantering with producers, assistants and fellow hosts. In one, he makes a reference to someone's girlfriend being 'yummy', and later, he jokes about relying...

Unlike American social media companies, the deep state can’t control TikTok, so they want to annihilate it.Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (yes, even Twitter), YouTube, and Snapchat pose a far greater risk to you than TikTok. I know that’s a hard pill to swallow following the hysterical TikTok fear-mongering that’s permeated the corporate media since 2019. But if you’re an American conservative or free thinker, Big Tech and its sinister partnership with the deep state and powerful corporations is a bigger threat to Americans’ self-government than China. That starts with its election interference through controlling the information Americans can see, a direct...

Hours before stabbing death he visited convicted drug dealer's home with suspect's SISTER Cash App founder Bob Lee died of stab wounds on the operating table and had drugs and alcohol in his system, his autopsy revealed Lee, 43, was murdered in the early hours of April 4 while visiting San Francisco from Miami, where he moved last year with his family He had three stab wounds and underwent emergency treatment but was pronounced dead in the operating room of a San Francisco hospital Cash App founder Bob Lee died of stab wounds on the operating table and had drugs...

'This is Unacceptable!' Father Makes His Son Trans For Tik Tok Fame These fathers belong in prison for doing this to their kids. It's unbelievable that the trans ideology is so strong that it does this to people. warning this video may be upsetting. video is 14 minutes long

May 1, 2023 Share Jack Dorsey and Twitter Alternative Blue Sky (Photo by Marco BELLO / AFP) As influencers and celebrities fret over chaos at Twitter, a new platform called Bluesky is being hyped as a promising alternative. Costa Rica Videos Bluesky was created by Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey and is now the talk of Silicon Valley, leaving those in the know scrambling to secure an invite to join the app that is still at the testing phase. The platform looks and feels like Twitter as its backers want users from the Elon Musk-owned site to feel at home, though...

Trans Activist Who Threatened All Women Now Threatens Conservatives Just when I thought that the police are actually looking into this man it doesn't seem like he is getting the message. He's now threatening certain conservative commentators.

Bud Light is being criticized after pandering to lost customers with a county-themed commercial and preventing viewers from offering feedback by disabling the comments on YouTube. The commercial, which debuted during the Thursday NFL Draft and was later published to YouTube, shows four friends opening cans of Bud Light at a country music festival as the song Chicken Fried by the Zac Brown Band plays. It is one of a number of commercials released by the company since the partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney at the beginning of April caused sales to plummet. The commercial is a clear nod...

Two US organizations – a non-profit and a corporation – are planning to “quietly” give governments around the world the right to seize domain names by means of canceling, redirecting, or transferring control. This is based on the “Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .NET” – recently published by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and Verisign. Verisign is in charge of operating .COM and .NET TLDs (top-level domains, and while what critically-minded observers say the controversial paper now aims to change relates only to the .NET domain names, the fear is that the world is...

A few related questions for our FReeper computer gurus: Has anyone tried upgrading a fairly competent* Windows computer with an older processor from Win 10 Pro to Win 11 Pro? Are significant "tricks involved?** Then were there any subsequent problems with following updates (immediately after installation of Win 11 Pro?) *The 1st computer in question has an i7 6600u processor, 16gb DDR4 RAM, and a 512GB NVME SSD. (Pretty quick machine.) Then my immediate family & I have a few slightly "lesser" Win 10 Pro machines (which run great, and is as my custom I'll likely keep Win 10 Pro...

The buzzy new social media app of the moment looks so much like Twitter it’s almost hard to distinguish the two. The profiles, timelines and colors are nearly identical. Even the creator is the same. But under the hood, Bluesky, developed by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, is vastly different. The app, which launched in a closed beta on iOS in February and on Android this month, runs on a decentralized network which provides users with more control over how the service is run, data is stored, and content is moderated.

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...