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As polling day approaches, political posts are popping up across social media.Some accurate, others false and misleading. How can you decode what’s being pushed to your feeds this general election?The BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media correspondent Marianna Spring has some top tips and talks through the tactics she’s spotted on the social media feeds of Undercover Voter accounts she created. Source link

Getty ImagesCritics have given a mixed response to the fourth outing of Beverly Hills Cop, which sees Eddie Murphy and other cast members from the original 1984 film reunite.Many reviews agreed Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F inspired feelings of nostalgia, with Murphy back in the iconic role of Detective Axel Foley 40 years after the first film smashed box office records.In a three-star review, USA Today called the film “a true comfort-food throwback”.But The Guardian gave it just two stars, arguing there was “little energy to enliven their formulaic reunion”.The original Beverley Hills Cop made Murphy a superstar and led…

2 hours agoBy Ian Youngs, Culture reporterGetty ImagesRobert Towne, who wrote films including Chinatown and Mission: Impossible, has been remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest screenwriters following his death at the age of 89.Towne won an Oscar for his 1974 crime and corruption thriller Chinatown, which starred Jack Nicholson as a private detective.He was nominated for four Oscars during his career in total, including for co-writing 1975’s Shampoo with the film’s star Warren Beatty.Lee Grant, who won best supporting actress for her role in that film, paid tribute to Towne on X. “His life, like the characters he created, was incisive, iconoclastic…

Greece has introduced a six-day working week for certain industries in a bid to boost economic growth.New legislation, which came into effect at the start of July, allows employees to work up to 48 hours in a week as opposed to 40. It only applies to businesses which operate on a 24-hour basis and is optional for workers, who get paid an extra 40% for the overtime they do. However, the move by the Greek government is at odds with workplace culture elsewhere in Europe and the US, where four-day working patterns are becoming more common. Firms adopting these policies…

Music legend Peter Gabriel talks about A.I. technology and communicating with animals. Source link

7 minutes agoBy Steven McIntosh, Entertainment reporterNetflixJonathan Jacob Meijer declined to take part in the docuseriesA Dutch sperm donor who fathered hundreds of children has described a new documentary about him as “misleading”.A Netflix docuseries, released on Wednesday, focuses on the women who have had children using the sperm of Jonathan Jacob Meijer. One woman has said she felt “betrayed, sad and angry” after finding out how many other children Meijer had fathered.But Meijer told the BBC the documentary is deceptive because it gives prominence to those who are unhappy rather than the many families he says are grateful to him. Responding…

Jeremie Tronet tells the BBC how Hurricane Beryl has impacted his life on Union Island, where he has lived for 15 years.”I lost my house, my businesses, everything,” he says, describing it as “one of the worst hurricanes” the island has ever seen. Mr Tronet said the storm has “destroyed the whole island” so he set up a go-fund-me to help residents.Read more here: ‘Almost whole island homeless’ in Hurricane Beryl’s wake Source link

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 were 48% higher than in 2019, according to its latest environmental report.The tech giant puts it down to the increasing amounts of energy needed by its data centres, exacerbated by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI).AI-powered services involve considerably more computer power – and so electricity – than standard online activity, prompting a series of warnings about the technology’s environmental impact.Google’s target is to reach net zero emissions by 2030 but it admits that “as we further integrate AI into our products, reducing emissions may be challenging.”In its 2024 Environmental Report, Google says…

4 hours agoBy Sophie Law, Charlotte Andrews & Marcus White, BBC NewsPA MediaHamish had neuroblastoma and was given three months to live A mother has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old son a large dose of morphine to stop his suffering and “quietly end his life”.Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her son Hamish had stage 4 cancer and was in “a lot of pain” before his death in 1981.Now facing a terminal diagnosis herself, she made the admission to BBC Radio Oxford as part of an effort to change the law on assisted dying.Assisted suicide – intentionally helping another person to…

14 hours agoBy Sarah Turnnidge & PA Media, BBC News, West of England CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2024A painting described as a masterpiece which was found in a plastic bag after being stolen has sold for £17.6m at auction.Rest On The Flight Into Egypt, painted by Venetian master Titian when he was aged just 20 in 1510, was sold by London auction house Christie’s. The work was stolen from the drawing room of stately home Longleat in Wiltshire in 1995, but was found seven years later without its frame in a plastic carrier bag in London. Its sale sets a new world auction…