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As Hollywood grapples with the fallout from the astonishing mega-deal for Warner Bros., Netflix wants its subscribers to know that everything will be OK. The streaming giant sent an email to subscribers early Saturday morning, “Welcoming Warner Bros. To Netflix.” The email explained the deal (in simple terms, appropriate for a consumer-facing communication) and linked to an FAQ with details of the transaction. But there was a clear overarching theme to the message: Nothing will change. At least not for a while. “Nothing is changing today. Both streaming services will continue to operate separately,” the email stated. “We have more…

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Conference championship Saturday has arrived for college football, and with elite matchups such as No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 9 Alabama in the SEC Championship Game at 4 p.m. ET, followed by No. 1 Ohio State vs. No. 2 Indiana in the Big Ten Championship Game at 8 p.m. ET, Saturday is the ideal time to use the latest DraftKings promo code, which gives new users $200 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins. Between its Projection Model and a team of proven experts, SportsLine has you covered for who to wager on in one of the biggest…

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A jaguar that snuck up on a photographer trying to spot an armadillo, a polar bear sitting on a sperm whale, and more take center stage in this year’s Pictures of the Year from National Geographic.  “Pictures of the Year is a project that is always inspiring and thought-provoking,” said Nathan Lump, editor-in-chief of National Geographic. “Each year, our photographers and editors sift through thousands of images, searching for those rare moments that stop us in our tracks. Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and…

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It’s less than five years since David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, negotiated what looked like the deal of his career. Now as Netflix plans a landscape-changing takeover of Warner Bros, he’s in the middle of an even bigger one.Zaslav, or Zaz, is a hard-charging, well-connected executive who cut his teeth inside NBC, and ascended into New York’s media elite as he transformed Discovery Inc from a nature- and science-focused cable broadcaster into a reality TV giant.But he elevated himself to moguldom in 2021, crafting a mega merger between Discovery, home to hit shows including 90 Day Fiancé​ and…

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The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and their components and changed its recommendations on one crucial prevention.Several of the vaccine advisers are longtime anti-vaccine activists, and they were all chosen by Donald Trump’s controversial health secretary Robert F. Kennedy after he fired the previous advisers in an unprecedented move to enact dramatic changes to US vaccination policy. Kennedy has been a frequent critic of vaccines.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations to the director of the…

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Sabrina Carpenter, Benson Boone, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims and Billie Eilish have one thing in common: they each had the same songs appear on Variety‘s Hitmakers 2024 and 2025 lists. From “Espresso” to “Beautiful Things,” these tracks maintained momentum far past their release dates to dominate the airwaves and playlists throughout this year. Variety takes a look back on the repeat offenders from 2024 and how those hits were assembled. Teddy Swims, “Lose Control” (No. 6) In April, Teddy Swims made history when his single “Lose Control” broke the record for longest-running song in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot…

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Russell looked at times as if he might become an interloper in the title fight – and he may yet be if he gets a good start – but after a messy session with a few mistakes on his laps, the Briton ended up 0.438secs off the pace in fourth.Leclerc dragged the Ferrari into fifth after another difficult session for the team.His lap in second qualifying was lurid, and he said over the radio that he was “surprised” to make it through because he was “driving like rallying”.Team-mate Hamilton suffered his third consecutive knockout in the first session and said…

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For most people around the world, 16 August 1977 was memorable because it was the day Elvis Presley died.“We turned the radio on when we got back in the car and that was the headline. Elvis was dead,” remembers Dr Mark Harvey.But that day was pivotal for the then 18-year-old Harvey for a different reason.It was the first time he had collected a pseudoscorpion – a tiny and ancient relative of the spider he had found under a rock in western Victoria and popped into a jar of ethanol for preservation.This year Harvey has become one of the few people…

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Watch: Animal welfare campaigners secretly film one worker urinating in a pen filled with turkeysA turkey farm that breeds premium birds which are then sold at Christmas in high-end stores and butchers has been suspended from a food standards assurance scheme amid allegations of poor biosecurity and animal welfare standards.Hockenhull Turkeys in Lincolnshire is being investigated by Red Tractor after welfare campaigners secretly filmed workers not following biosecurity measures, throwing birds and, in one case, a staff member urinating in a pen of birds.The Spilsby facility supplies young birds – known as poults – to farms, including one that supplies…

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