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‘The Kids in the Hall’ review: Sketch comedy is a young person’s game — yet here are older guys just ripping into the form as if they never left

The TV landscape tends to feel pretty dismal when “Saturday Night Live” is the only sketch comedy game in town. And often that’s the case. Over its four-plus decade run, it certainly has outlasted so many others — from “SCTV” to “In Living Color” to “MADtv” to “Key & Peele”…

Chicago Tribune

Remote working is making the UK a more equal place – however much Jacob Rees-Mogg may sneer

Technology is helping people resist the gravitational pull of big cities. Surely this is a key part of ‘levelling up’ the country, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

‘Unstoppable until they aren’t’: are tech market losses signs of a bust?

Apple is no longer the most valuable company, Meta took a $230bn hit, Amazon reported its first loss since 2015, but a slump ‘is a big question mark’

The Guardian - US

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Libel Lawsuit Over Investigation of Alleged Slur at Polo Match Dismissed

The U.S. Polo Association investigation exonerated the plaintiff, but the plaintiff still sued the USPA for libel.

Reason

Two brave female journalists in Ukraine show us the value of a free press

Last week I spent an hour on Zoom in conversation with two remarkable, brave women. The editor of the Kyiv Independent, Olga Rudenko, is on the front of Time magazine this week as one of their “next generation leaders”. Her passionate chief executive Daryna Shevchenko, whose phone was constantly blasting…

Evening Standard

Marvel and the multiverse of Zoom

"Doctor Strange" director Sam Raimi used Zoom for editing.

Axios

Academic Freedom, Native American Remains, and Tribal Sovereign Immunity

From Judge Beth Labson Freeman (N.D. Cal.) in Weiss v. Perez, decided Tuesday: In this case, Elizabeth Weiss, a tenured professor of physical anthropology at San Jose State University, alleges that the University enacted Interim Presidential Directive PD 2021-03, which restricted access to and use of Native American remains housed…

Reason

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Privacy Activists Caution Against Zoom's Latest Tool

Activists have warned against Zoom Video Communications, Inc's (NASDAQ:ZM) analyzing emotion and engagement feature of triggering bias and violating personal privacy, Bloomberg reports. Zoom introduced Zoom IQ, a post-call analysis of speaker sentiment powered by artificial intelligence for salespeople. Zoom IQ offered metrics like engagement or patience to improve future communication and deal-making.…

Benzinga

Premier League and IMG seal new broadcast deal days after staff were told of job losses

A three-year extension has been confirmed with emphasis on timeless, digital content instead of in-studio programmes with high-profile presenters facing the axe

Daily Mirror

Zoom Urged by Rights Groups to Rule Out ‘Creepy’ AI Emotion Tech

Human rights groups have urged video-conferencing company Zoom to scrap research on integrating emotion recognition tools into its products, saying the technology can infringe users' privacy and perpetuate discrimination. Technology publication Protocol reported last month that California-based Zoom was looking into building such tools, which could use artificial intelligence (AI)…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gaspar Noé: ‘As soon as people see a penis in the UK, they think they’ve seen the devil’

The enfant terrible of French cinema has teamed up with horror great Dario Argento for a surprisingly compassionate film about mortality. The pair discuss directing a director, and ‘impressively uptight’ British viewers

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner to resign if fined over Beergate claims – UK politics as it happened

Latest updates: Labour leader promises to resign if Durham police fine him; deputy Labour leader also says she will quit if issued with FPN

The Guardian - UK

Mariupol steel plant’s ‘dead men’ defenders call for rescue plan

If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin hoped to mark Victory Day on Monday by celebrating the capture or surrender of Mariupol’s last Ukrainian defenders, a Zoom appearance by their commanders suggests he’ll have to wait.

Tribune News Service

Horrified woman watched boyfriend have stroke live on Zoom call - and couldn't call 999

Jon Hill and Stefanie Harbeson met online and he popped the question over video - but one Zoom call between the lovebirds took a horrifying turn

Daily Mirror

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Literature discussion gives voice to the formerly incarcerated

In Reading Between the Lines group sessions, participants read and dissect great literature — poems, essays, speeches, and short stories — and share their reflections and ideas.

Benzinga

That Short NEGG 'ing Feeling

Most would not attribute July as a time to be surrounded by techy goodness. Why would you when the air is so nice, the birds are chirping and the smell of cookouts permeates the air? But, in 2021 the pandemic created favor in Zoom meetings as opposed to face-to-face gatherings.…

The Conversation

Friday essay: writing poems across oceans, cultures and emails – John Kinsella on creative collaboration

My maternal grandfather was an artist who was a sign-writer. On commission, and under the eye of the public, he painted the giant Queen Elizabeth for the 1954 ‘Royal Visit’ and the giant Captain Cook (with map of ‘New Holland’) for the 200th ‘celebrations’. These lines, read on their own,…

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Zoom Video vs. DocuSign: Which Tech Stock Is a Better Buy the Dip Candidate?

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Commentary: Are you playing the ‘who gave me COVID’ blame game? It’s not healthy

Twenty-five months into the pandemic, I finally caught COVID. It turned out that two-plus years of masking and distancing, Zoom dinner parties and FaceTime holidays, canceled plans and postponed vacations only delayed the inevitable. I’m sick too.

The Times of India

Global giants rediscover Chennai: MNCs setting up mega technology centres

Quality technology talent, sound infrastructure and relatively lower cost of living keep Chennai on the radar of MNCs that want to set up “back offices” or “offshore” units. But the city lost out to Bengaluru and Hyderabad in the early 2000s when Google, Intel, Qualcomm, Amazon, Facebook, and many others…

Edinburgh Live

Sick Edinburgh Fringe comic made grim jokes about kids while hiding dark secret

Northern Irishman Goodfellow, who has since deleted his Twitter and TikTok accounts, appeared with other comedians at a Zoom comedy show as they joked about paedophilia.

Inverse

The most annoying part of Zoom also damages your mental health — especially for one gender

Research suggests that experiencing self-objectification is cognitively taxing for women. Here's why you should turn your camera off on Zoom.

StockNews.com

4 Cathie Wood Stocks That Remain Sells Even After Falling by More Than 50%

Institutional investor Cathie Wood’s funds have been declining sharply over the past year amid a broad selloff in stocks due to macro headwinds, including skyrocketing inflation, the Fed’s hawkish monetary stance, climbing U.S. Treasury yields, and the consequences of intense economic sanctions imposed on Russia. Owing to their poor earnings…

Los Angeles Times

'Zoom-bombers' drop lewd video, racist comments at Sacramento candidate forum

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A virtual community forum for two candidates running for Sacramento City Council was disrupted Wednesday night in a "Zoom-bombing" incident when participants made racist, sexist and lewd comments, and displayed sexually explicit imagery.

Daily Mirror

Premier League Productions axe presenters from TV coverage over Zoom in "brutal" shake-up

Premier League productions are set to axe a number of staff ahead of the 2022/23 season as they plan a major shake-up in leading broadcast company

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