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From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: Your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead | culture

From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: Your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead | culture

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games ๐Ÿ’ก Main takeaway: Exit: cinemaEleanor the GreatOut nowJune Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes, and tells the story of Eleanor, a senior citizen recently moved to New York, who befriends a 19-year-old โ€” and then stumbles her way into pretending to be a Holocaust survivor.LurkingOut nowA hit at Sundance, the story of an unassuming retail employee who happens to befriend a rising pop star becomes a Boswell for Johnson, if Boswell were part of the pop star's…
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Trending Subreddits for 2021-06-13: /r/place, /r/thanosdidnothingwrong, /r/thebutton, /r/joinrobin, /r/reddit.com

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Trending Subreddits ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: trendingsubreddits โœ… Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: Over 6 years ago, when reddit was the equivalent of a toddler we launched trending subreddits on the front page. This was truly one of the very few ways to discover new communities. Now we have many ways for you to find the spaces you love - including a leader board, personalized recommendations, improved onboarding for new users and others on the way. With all of that, and with the site continuing to grow, weโ€™ve decided itโ€™s now time to retire this community…
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Stranger Things to The Lowdown: The Seven Best Shows to Air This Christmas | TV and radio

Stranger Things to The Lowdown: The Seven Best Shows to Air This Christmas | TV and radio

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Television & radio,TV streaming,Emily in Paris,Culture,Stranger Things,Ethan Hawke โœ… Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: Choose the weekStrange thingsThe final episodes of the Duffer brothers' smash-hit sci-fi coming-of-age fest (maybe the secret to the show's success is how many genres it manages to incorporate?) will be dropping around the holiday season โ€” and they're huge. Fans will be up and early on Boxing Day for episodes five through seven (the finale airs on New Year's Day). Will's new powers take over, posing a major threat to Vecna. But why…
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Why We Built Another Object Storage (And Why It’s Different)

Why We Built Another Object Storage (And Why It’s Different)

โœจ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: ๐Ÿ’ก Key idea: A Crowded Market, But An Unsolved Problem Object storage is the backbone of modern data infrastructure. AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, MinIO, Ceph, newer players like Tigris Dataโ€”the market is saturated. So why build another one? Because the fundamental assumptions behind these systems are shifting. High performance is no longer optionalโ€”but having high performance available isnโ€™t the same as being able to afford using it. Beyond โ€œCold Storageโ€: Why Performance Matters Now Traditional object storage had a clear priority order: cost first, performance later. This…
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The Great Christmas Bake Off 2025: The glorious Peep Show cast reunion is the most exciting TV event of the season | TV and radio

The Great Christmas Bake Off 2025: The glorious Peep Show cast reunion is the most exciting TV event of the season | TV and radio

โœจ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Television & radio,Culture,Peep Show,The Great British Bake Off,Television ๐Ÿ“Œ Key idea: peep Show is not actually a TV show. It's more of an identity now, embedded in the collective British DNA. A decade after the show ended, many of us still call each other "clean shirt," notice the logos in the foam or complain that the cracks are "weirder." The single show more emblematic of the UK's national psyche is The Great British Bake Off. So rejoice, because the best holiday collaboration is here! I call…
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โ€œStranger Thingsโ€ ushers in a new era for Netflix

โ€œStranger Thingsโ€ ushers in a new era for Netflix

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Business News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: ๐Ÿ’ก Key idea: Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo star in Season 5 of Stranger Things on Netflix.Courtesy: NetflixThe original concept for what would become "Stranger Things" was rejected by more than 15 studios before it was reached Netflix List of original programming. A decade later, the show created, written and directed by Matt and Ross Duffer has become one of the biggest cultural touchstones of the streaming era, and has cemented Netflix not just as a competitor, but as an industry leader.โ€œPeople always talk about…
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YouTubeโ€™s CEO is latest tech boss limiting his kidsโ€™ social media use

YouTubeโ€™s CEO is latest tech boss limiting his kidsโ€™ social media use

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: ๐Ÿ“Œ Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube speaks during a panel for the Summit for Democracy on March 30, 2023 in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesYouTube's CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children's social media use, as the harms of being online for young people have become more evident. Mohan, who took the helm of YouTube's leadership in 2023, was just named Time's 2025 CEO of the Year. He said in an…
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Christmas unwrapped! Your bumper festive TV guide 2025 | Television

Christmas unwrapped! Your bumper festive TV guide 2025 | Television

โœจ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Drama,Factual TV,Entertainment TV,Documentary ๐Ÿ’ก Main takeaway: DramaStuffedDrama pickAn hour of capers and heartfelt moments โ€ฆ Stuffed. Photograph: Janne-Pekka Manninen/BBC/Baby Cow/When cash-strapped Arslan (Guz Khan) gets an ยฃ8,000 bonus, he treats his wife Hannah (Morgana Robinson), two daughters and brother-in-law Jamie (Theo Barklem-Biggs) to a magical Lapland trip. But the payment was an error. How will he pay it back? Cue an hour of capers and heartfelt family moments. Plus, Sue Johnston completes the cast as the familyโ€™s new holiday friend, Lily. Hollie Richardson Tuesday…
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Google data centers bring nuclear power back to hurricane country

Google data centers bring nuclear power back to hurricane country

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Science,Science / Environment,Storm Surge ๐Ÿ“Œ Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: โ€œThis was one of the most significant safety events in U.S. nuclear history, and yet it did not pose a significant risk to the public,โ€ Stein said. โ€œThis shows the power of these plants.โ€Stein added that the NRC license requires that reactor buildings be built to withstand โ€œhurricane missiles,โ€ or large objects that collide at high speeds. โ€œIt is literally designed to safely withstand this type of event,โ€ he said.However, NextEra plans to increase weather-related safety measures at the reopened…
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String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof

String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: ๐Ÿ’ก Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: In particular, Katzarkov wanted to break the mirror imageโ€™s curve count into pieces, then use the mirror symmetry program to show that there was a corresponding way to break up the four-foldโ€™s Hodge structure. He could then work with these pieces of the Hodge structure, rather than the whole thing, to show that four-folds canโ€™t be parameterized. If any one of the pieces couldnโ€™t be mapped to a simple 4D space, heโ€™d have his proof. But this line of reasoning depended on the assumption…
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