• The Veronicas on making music and mistakes: 'I don’t know why people didn’t take Twitter away from me'

    After 20 years of ups and downs in the industry, the Australian pop duo have a new album out. This time, they’re doing it their wayAs the Veronicas see it, there is a thread connecting every mistake they’ve made in their nearly 20-year career: surrendering control. Across their two decades in music, they say others have pushed them in certain directions, sometimes against their own gut feelings. And it’s rarely gone well.“The only regrets we have are the times that we haven’t listened to that...

  • We Didn’t Go To Counseling And I Regret It

    Maybe it would have saved our marriage?

  • Why didn’t New Zealand impose sanctions on China?

    New Zealand did not follow the US and UK in imposing financial restrictions after accusing Beijing of links to cyber-attacksPoliticians, journalists and critics of Beijing were among those targeted by cyber-attacks run by groups backed by China, western intelligence services said this week.The separate cyber-attacks hit the US, UK and New Zealand – all members of the Five Eyes alliance. The network of five countries, which also includes Canada and Australia, share security related intelligence....

  • ‘But he didn’t hit you, did he?’: inside the coercive control courtroom

    At first, Victor love-bombed Anna. By the end, he’d rigged a doorbell camera to track her. Coercive and controlling behaviour has been a crime since 2015, but few cases get to court. What happens when they do?In a stuffy, overheated courtroom, a jury of 10 women and two men are watching baby monitor footage of an infant happily kicking its feet in a quilt-lined crib. The parents are off-camera, but their voices are audible, and the baby seems to be following their movements with its eyes.The...

  • 5 Things That Didn’t Last As Long As You Think

    Turns out you’d have to tune that time machine pretty precisely

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    The FIFA Series Is The Soccer Competition We Didn’t Know We Needed

    A pilot of mini-tournaments gave often overlooked international teams a rare chance to meet — and to make history.

  • Sixers Notebook: James Harden didn’t appreciate the booing

    Sixers Notebook: P.J. Tucker happy to be back, if only for one night

  • MKBHD reviewed the Vinfast VF8. It didn’t go well.

    After his review of the Fisker Ocean turned into a wild saga (and maybe helped contribute to the company’s recent struggles), the popular YouTuber is turning his critical gaze to another fringe EV: the Vinfast VF8. And wouldn’t you know it, there were a lot of similarities between the two: cheap materials, outdated-looking tech, and inexplicable feature choices. At the start of the video, he says: > It brings back the age old smartphone question: Would you rather buy a brand new cheap piece of...

  • For Kristen Stewart, Happiest Season wasn’t the happiest experience

    Kristen Stewart has had a heck of a time getting her projects through the Hollywood machine without them being torn to bits. Before making the jump back to indies, she tried her hand at Charlie’s Angles, which she thought was “a good idea at the time” but “hated making.” Now, she’s saying Happiest Season, the lesbian rom-com touted as the first of its kind, wasn’t the most cheerful set either. Speaking to Them magazine, Stewart recounts her “fucking annoying” nightmare working on Happiest...

  • Why GR didn’t activate sirens for statewide tornado drill

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan conducted a statewide tornado drill

  • Plogging is the new activity you didn’t know you wanted to try

    The word plogging is a combination of jogging and the Swedish word for pick up, plocka upp.

  • 16 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google Sheets could do

    I’ll admit it: For the majority of my adult life, spreadsheets have remained shrouded in mystery. I’ve used them plenty, of course—to track income, compare statistics, even maintain databases for various types of work-related info—but I’ve always felt like I’ve barely been scratching the surface of what they’re able to do. And that’s a shame. With Google Sheets, in particular, sticking only to spreadsheet basics seems akin to sitting on a mountain of untapped potential. The service has a...