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Actor André Braugher, who became famous with the roles in "Homicide: Life on the Street" or as Captain Holt in "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", died at age 61.

The first episode of British scifi cult classic show "Doctor Who" was aired on 23/11/1963, so it is by now 60 years old. The show was targeted at children at the time, but should also teach them something. And its premiere episode didn't go well, because at the day before Kennedy was murdered...

Jane Birkin, British-born singer, actress and French chanteuse, died at age 76 in Paris after a long time battling cancer. This is maybe her most famous and also most controversial song.

Gordon Lightfoot died due old age this weeks' monday at age 84 in a hospital in Toronto.

Gina Lollobrigida, one of the most legendary and iconic Italian actresses ever, died at age 95. About four years ago she was awarded a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. This is her in one of her most famous roles as Esmeralda in the 1956 movie "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". She also had a...

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Aaron Carter, the younger brother of BSB's Nick Carter, died at age 34. He was found dead in his bathtub. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/aaron-carter-dead-aged-34-28418679

60 years ago the first single ever of an then unknown newcomer band called The Beatles was released. The rest is history.

Since Google started the race, there's now a good variety of different text to image AIs around, which basically do work all after the same principle: describe the image you want in a few words, generate the image and be surprised about the result. So in other words it's discovering the electric...

The 53-year-od US actor, who starred in films including Donnie Brasco, Catfight and the remake of Psycho, did not regain consciousness after a car crash on 5 August https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/12/anne-heche-death-actor-dies-week-after-car-crash-aged-53

Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the world famous Yu-Gi-Oh manga, died at age 60. He was snorkeling alone, and the Japanese coast guard found his corpse. At the moment they are investigating the reason of death. https://kotaku.com/yu-gi-oh-creator-kazuki-takahashi-manga-konami-died-60-1849151231

Nvidia and Siemens are working together on an industrial metaverse. Siemens, a leader in industrial automation and software, infrastructure, building technology and transportation and NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated graphics and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced an expansion of...

Bo Hopkins, the actor well known for his roles in movies as The Wild Bunch, American Graffiti, Midnight Express and White Lightning died this Saturday at age 84.

Since I cannot find it anywhere here yet: a ransomware gang named Lapsus$ from South America has infiltrated Nvidia a short while ago, it's known since beginning of Feb 2022. They were able to drag out a lot of Nvidia's internal files. As with such criminals, they have demands they want to get...

I've subscribed a bunch of topics by email. Since some while the font size of these notifications is absurdely large, doesn't matter if looking at them in Firefox or an email client like K9 under Android. Problem is the same on all platforms, so I presume the cause lies somewhere in the forum...

Famous funk singer Betty Davis died at age 77 today. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/betty-davis-dead-obit-1297372/

Meat Loaf, the rock singer well known for "Bat out of hell 1&2", died at age 74. https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/meat-loaf-bat-hell-rock-superstar-dies-74-82392167

Hell has just frozen over: CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced Self Service Repair, which will allow customers who are comfortable with completing their own repairs access to Apple genuine parts and tools. Available first for...

The new kid on the block deserves its own thread - New World! It's the first game developed by Amazon Games which really got traction. At its core it's a sandbox MMORPG, which though as an afterthought got a quest line as well. Contrary to many other MMORPGs there are no classes. Instead you...

At the moment it's a really bad time to be in Texas. Due to the onset of winter, which was never experienced before, the whole state is utterly unprepared for what's happening right now. What we're witnessing at the moment is a chain of self-energising effects, which ultimately leads to the...