Dracula Review – Cynthia Erivo’s brilliant modern vampire gets her fangs removed in a one-woman show | platform

Dracula Review – Cynthia Erivo’s brilliant modern vampire gets her fangs removed in a one-woman show | platform

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Cynthia Erivo,Bram Stoker ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AAre people born evil? asks Glinda, the โ€œgood witchโ€ played by Ariana Grande in Wicked, the musical that stars Cynthia Erivo as the green-skinned intruder, Elphaba. Bram Stoker's classic story about the evil element knows the answer to this question. Dracula, the vampire of Ur and the ultimate outsider to the literary canon, is played by Erivo, along with every other character in this deliciously sinister tale of the blood-sucking count.Except he's not deliciously sinister in director Kip Williams' theater…
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Research says Intellexa’s Predator spyware was used to hack journalist’s iPhone in Angola

Research says Intellexa’s Predator spyware was used to hack journalist’s iPhone in Angola

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,privacy,Spyware,surveillance,Predator,cybersecurity,Amnesty International,Intellexa,Angola ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A government agent of sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa has hacked into the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, according to Amnesty International, in the latest case of someone in civil society being targeted with powerful phone-hacking software. The human rights organization published a new report on Tuesday analyzing several hacking attempts against local journalist and press freedom activist Teixeira Candido, in which a series of malicious links were sent via WhatsApp during 2024. Amnesty International found that Candido eventually clicked on one of…
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2026 Winter Olympics: Ami Nakai, 17, tops women’s figure skating short program as Japan dominates

2026 Winter Olympics: Ami Nakai, 17, tops women’s figure skating short program as Japan dominates

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Japan dominated the short program in women's figure skating at Milan-Cortina 2026, with its athletes taking three of the top four positions after the short program.Ami Nakai, 17, stormed to the top of the leaderboard with a score of 78.71, the best score of the season.She is followed by three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto, while compatriot Mune Chiba - who won bronze at last year's world championships - is fourth.They capitalized on mistakes by the impressive Americans, with world champion Alyssa Liu in third and…
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Arsenal manager Mike Arteta ‘happy’ to interact with fans but felt ‘exposed’

Arsenal manager Mike Arteta ‘happy’ to interact with fans but felt ‘exposed’

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta says he is โ€œhappyโ€ to interact with fans but there were times when he felt โ€œexposedโ€ and โ€œvery uncomfortableโ€.A video recorded after Arsenal's FA Cup win over Wigan on Sunday showed a man repeatedly asking for Arteta's autograph as he and his wife waited in traffic outside the Emirates Stadium.Arteta refused to open his window and a larger number of people gathered around the car. They then backed away as the man followed the car as it crawled forward, saying…
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GitHub – ramanujammv1988/edge-veda

GitHub – ramanujammv1988/edge-veda

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A managed on-device AI runtime for Flutter โ€” text, vision, speech, and RAG running sustainably on real phones under real constraints. Private by default. ~22,700 LOC | 50 C API functions | 32 Dart SDK files | 0 cloud dependencies Modern on-device AI demos break instantly in real usage: Thermal throttling collapses throughput Memory spikes cause silent crashes Sessions longer than ~60 seconds become unstable Developers have no visibility into runtime behavior Debugging failures is nearly impossible Edge-Veda exists to make on-device AI predictable, observable,…
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The Trump administration supports Calcci and BulliMarket as states move to ban prediction markets

The Trump administration supports Calcci and BulliMarket as states move to ban prediction markets

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: polymarket,prediction markets ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: NEW YORK (AP) โ€” The Trump administration is offering its support to prediction market operators Kalshi and Polymarket in a crucial legal battle between the growing prediction market industry and states that want to ban these platforms. The move by Michael Selig, the recently appointed chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, could have huge implications for how sports betting is regulated in the country, and if Calcci and PollyMarket prevail, it could erode states' ability to effectively regulate gambling. Read…
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Night King review โ€“ Hong Kong hostess bar comedy is a love letter to old-fashioned Kowloon nightlife | film

Night King review โ€“ Hong Kong hostess bar comedy is a love letter to old-fashioned Kowloon nightlife | film

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Comedy films,Hong Kong,Drama films,Asia Pacific,World news,Culture,Comedy ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TIts glossy, gauzy homage to old-fashioned Cantonese nightlife sometimes feels like a Wong Kar-Wai film โ€” but it's actually closer to something like Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Hong Kong comedy star Dayu Wong plays Foon, the manager of EJ Entertainment, the last nightclub standing in the fading East Tsim Sha Tsui district. The company's takeover suddenly means that his ex-wife Dame V (Cantopop singer Sammi Cheng) is in charge and intends to replace the regular flight…
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SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center tie-ins

SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center tie-ins

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Fundraising,Startups,Mesh Optical Technologies,SpaceX,Thrive Capital ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos, and Serena Graun-Hyberle began collaborating at SpaceX, developing the optical communications links that keep thousands of Starlink Internet satellites always connected. Now, the three engineers are co-founders of Mesh Optical Technologies, a Los Angeles startup that announced a $50 million Series A led by Thrive Capital on Tuesday. Mesh aims to mass produce optical transceivers, devices that convert optical signals from fiber or lasers into electrical signals for computers. CEO Brashears, President Ramos, and VP of Product…
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Football Gossip: Toney, Rashford, Murillo, Dewsbury Hall, Szoboszlai, Waltmad, Rudiger

Football Gossip: Toney, Rashford, Murillo, Dewsbury Hall, Szoboszlai, Waltmad, Rudiger

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Ivan Toney leaves the door open to return to the English Premier League, Liverpool They have no plans to sell Dominik Szoboszlai, but Nick Voltimad is keen to return to the Bundesliga.Al-Ahly 29-year-old England striker Ivan Toney has left the door open for a return to the Premier League. (Sky Sports), externalLiverpool They have no plans to sell Dominik Szoboszlai despite speculation linking the Hungarian midfielder with him real madridas talks progress over a new contract for the 25-year-old. (group talk), externalGerman striker Nick Voltimadi…
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John McCreevy: Love, moving forward, and hope in seeking justice for Michaela

John McCreevy: Love, moving forward, and hope in seeking justice for Michaela

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: After meeting as students in Belfast, Michaela and John married on 30 December 2010. However, tragedy struck just 12 days later when she visited the couple's room at a luxury resort in Mauritius alone after lunch, and was discovered by John, who raised the alarm.In the aftermath, June, now 41, said there was shock, but there was also "outrage" at the way the authorities handled her death, and the lack of convictions afterwards. "I never asked the question 'why did this happen to me?'…
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