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Hard Boiled review – John Woo’s explosive 1992 cop thriller is pure action mayhem | film

Hard Boiled review – John Woo’s explosive 1992 cop thriller is pure action mayhem | film

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Crime films,Hong Kong,Asia Pacific,Culture,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: COhn Woo's Hong Kong cop thriller from 1992 has now been re-released; It's pure obscene chaos in which Woo shows himself to be the leading maestro of PAE - an explosion of aimless action - as well as the Mexican standoff scene, in which a pair of sweaty hit men steadily point guns in each other's faces, mutually hypnotized by sudden immobility, a kind of Zen duality/opposition between killer and victim.Hard Boiled irresistibly brings together two of Hong…
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Roblox launches real-time AI chat rework to filter out banned language

Roblox launches real-time AI chat rework to filter out banned language

🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Gaming,Social,ai chat,moderation,Roblox ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Roblox is introducing an AI-powered real-time chat paraphrase feature that automatically replaces banned words with more respectful language, the company announced Thursday. The new feature goes beyond Roblox's current text filter, which simply replaces banned words and phrases with the "#" symbol. But Roblox says that when users encounter strings of “####,” conversations can get stuck and difficult to follow. Now, instead of just displaying hashtags, the filtered text will be rephrased into language that is more respectful and close to the user's original…
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Tony Pulis’ column: “Howard Webb, Where Are You?” – How can we stop VAR technology that is destroying football

Tony Pulis’ column: “Howard Webb, Where Are You?” – How can we stop VAR technology that is destroying football

🔥 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Speaking of Stockley Park, I can honestly say that this place has had the biggest impact on professional football in my life - and not in a positive way, I might add.Every week, I watch the matches with my mouth open, wondering how the so-called refereeing experts can get so many decisions wrong.The nature of football means that personal decision-making will always be contested – handballs, penalty kicks, what is a caution or not. It is impossible to agree on everything, and we have…
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System76 on Age Verification Laws

System76 on Age Verification Laws

💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Access is everythingThere were two things I yearned for in 1990. As a ten year old kid in the backseat, road trips from Colorado to Illinois meant hour after hour of staring at row after row of corn stalks. The boredom was palpable and the corn possibly responsible for a slight obsession with orderliness. If only there was a little TV that could help pass the time.Oh, and how Encyclopedia Britannica must contain the answers to so many questions about the curious world out there.…
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Football Daily – Additional Premier League debrief: Tottenham’s nightmare continues

Football Daily – Additional Premier League debrief: Tottenham’s nightmare continues

🚀 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Available for 29 daysReaction after Tottenham Hotspur lost at home to Crystal Palace. Glenn Murray and Jonathan Pearce join Eleanor Oldroyd to reflect on a dreary night in north London for Tottenham. Hear their thoughts on why everything changed after Micky van de Ven's first-half red card, and how this leaves Tottenham with nine games remaining of the season. Tottenham fan Chris Cullen joins to provide his immediate thoughts, plus hear from both managers: Igor Tudor, and the triumphant Oliver Glasner. Time codes: 00:27 -…
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TV TONIGHT: Get ready for a very exciting Winter Paralympics! | television

TV TONIGHT: Get ready for a very exciting Winter Paralympics! | television

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Winter Paralympics 2026,Winter Paralympics,Steve Backshall,The Thin Red Line,Terrence Malick 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Winter Paralympics6.30pm on Channel 4The high drama of snow sports is not over yet! It's now the turn of the Winter Paralympics, with their opening ceremony at the Arena di Verona. Look out for British curler Joe Butterfield, who is hoping to become the first British athlete to win both the Summer and Winter Games. This year, hosts Ade Adeptan, Billy Munger and Ed Jackson are joined by the UK's most decorated…
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X is revamping creator subscriptions with new features, like exclusive topics and shareable cards

X is revamping creator subscriptions with new features, like exclusive topics and shareable cards

🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Commerce,Social,social media,X,Creators ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Elon Musk-owned company The company believes these updates will allow creators to attract more fans and deliver better experiences, as it pushes to become a bigger part of the creator economy alongside Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook. X also highlighted the recent launch of the “paid partnership” tag, which is applied to posts where content is paid or incentivized by a third party. One of the major new features arriving Thursday is the launch of “Exclusive Topics,” which allows creators to monetize their…
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Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton vs. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight – and artificial intelligence

Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton vs. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight – and artificial intelligence

🔥 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Wolves coach Rob Edwards may have thought his side, bottom of the Premier League, had a chance of a "great escape" after beating Liverpool on Tuesday.So, to see two of the three teams immediately above them, West Ham and Nottingham Forest, pick up points on Wednesday was a shame for Wolves, at a time when they had given themselves so little hope.However, their recent results and performance have improved a lot. Edwards has given Wolves fans something to smile about, and he will want…
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Acquiring TeX Live – TeX Users Group

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Acquiring TeX Live - TeX Users Group TeX Live availability TeX Live is available for download now. You can acquire TeX Live in many ways. If you have a reasonable Internet connection, we recommend the first: Future releases The last general update of packages and programs for the DVD was made around 1 March 2026. However, we continuously update packages in TL as they are released to CTAN; Post-installation updates are done with the tlmgr program. tlmgr also provides many other TeX installation options and features, explained…
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Adrian Newey says Fernando Alonso is in a “difficult mental place” due to Aston Martin’s problems

Adrian Newey says Fernando Alonso is in a “difficult mental place” due to Aston Martin’s problems

🔥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Newey's Red Bull cars prevented Alonso from winning at least two more titles, when he was at Ferrari in 2010 and 2012, and the two have long wanted to work together.Aston Martin signed on to become Honda's business partner in May 2023, while the Japanese company was on its way to winning four consecutive drivers' titles and two constructors' championships with Red Bull.Newey, a design legend who is considered the best aerodynamics engineer in Formula One history, said Honda's problems go back to its decision…
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