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More than 100,000 households have signed up for a city program that offers public housing residents free internet and basic cable, Mayor Eric Adams' office is set to announce Monday.City Hall is taking a victory lap since more than 220,500 New York City Housing Authority residents equating to over 100,000 households across 202 developments have enrolled in the program, known as Big Apple Connect, since it was launched last fall.

Authenticating apps is an annoying but seemingly necessary feature of modern life.Lots of apps now require it and various apps are trying to get us to use their authenticator services.All except Facebook (sorry, Meta), who recently told us that users can no longer authenticate via its own app (which didn't work anyway) and that we'll need a third-party authenticator.

Each season of the great British series Happy Valley begins the same way, with the rock-solid cop Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) facing the everyday bizarrerie of policing in a tired, depressed, grimly beautiful pocket of West Yorkshire: teenage sheep rustlers, a jilted boyfriend threatening to set himself on fire, unseen agitators heaving kitchen appliances out of upper-story windows onto patrol cars.

She who wields the knife, never wears the crown, to tweak Michael Heseltine's often-quoted Shakespearean phrase.And while Penny Mordaunt wielded not one but two swords at the coronation, it was King Charles and Queen Camilla who wore the crown.But Mordaunt, as the Lord President of the Council, was one of the most memorable figures from the events at Westminster Abbey.

Wet Leg seemed to come out of nowhere.Silly name.Lyrical double (and single) entendres.A Domino record deal off the back of a couple of tracks on SoundCloud.Within weeks, their June 2021 debut single Chaise Longue had flung the Isle of Wight duo from unknowns into the buzziest band around on just the basis of a few minutes of stupidly catchy guitar-pop.

A company harvested your personal data, but failed to take basic steps to secure it.So thieves stole it.Now you've lost control of your data, and you're at greater risk of identity theft.But when you sue the negligent company, they say you haven't really been injured, so you don't belong in court - not unless you can prove a specific economic harm on top of the obvious privacy harm.

Selling a nationalised energy supplier, even one with 1.5 muillion customers, ought to be a simple process.First, you invite bids.Second, you assess the proposals, weighing them against criteria such as deliverability, value for money for taxpayers and likelihood of increasing competition.Third  and this is the critical bit  you explain your decision.

There is a scene, early in the second season of ABC's Abbott Elementary, that neatly captures some most contemporary questions about the power and ubiquity of video.Teachers at Abbott, a public elementary school, are in their lounge, watching something alarming.A charter-school company has been running what's essentially an attack ad against them, featuring unflattering video clips of them on the job.

Woolwich named as one of the best places to live in Greater London by The Sunday Times (Image: Credit TfL/Crossrail Project) Woolwich has been named one of the best places to live in Greater London by The Sunday Times here's why.In this year's The Sunday Times Best Places to Live list, two south east London boroughs were named to be the best places to live in Greater London.

Anyone who has sat and tried to painstakingly complete a 1,000 piece jigsaw will likely look upon Ai Weiwei's latest Lego work with awe.Made of 650,000 Lego bricks in 22 colours, the staggering 15m-long work is a recreation of Claude Monet's triptych (1914-26) from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Who'd have thought anyone would use Bing in 2023?By choice!Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users a month after the launch of its chatbot AI, according to Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's VP for Modern Life, Search and Devices.He said the company is fully aware it's still just "a small, low, single-digit share player," but hey, there was a time when Bing wasn't even a part of the conversation.

A one-bedroom in a notable Brooklyn Heights Queen Anne townhouse is not huge, but it has a serene feel and plenty of original historic details as well as modern conveniences.It's on the fourth floor of 87 Remsen Street, a zippy concoction of fine brickwork and decorative terra-cotta designed by architect William H. Beers in 1899 for a socially prominent family whose fortune came from straw hats.

The Preserve Sporting Club & Residences announced today its latest partnership, a 15-year agreement with internationally acclaimed chef and restaurateur, David Burke.Chef Burke will oversee all culinary operations at The Preserve through restaurant operating and consultant company, David Burke Hospitality Management (DBHM).

An self-portrait of Deena Mohamed, author of the graphic novel Shubeik Lubeik a fantasy story of making wishes in modern-day Egypt.Deena Mohamed If Egyptian comics artist and writer Deena Mohamed ever encountered a genie, she knows what she'd wish for.She'd wish for everyone she loved to live to age 120.

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Earlier this year, at the virtual Sundance Film Festival, where "Living" premiered and scored U.S. distribution with Sony Pictures Classics, Nighy sat down to discuss his philosophy of acting, a lifelong affinity for great writers, and his hardest days on set.Throughout "Living," Mr. Williams reflects on what he's achieved, and he tells Margaret in one crucial scene that what he wanted out of life was to be a gentleman.

Social movements, businesses, and your own household depend on technology to succeed.That's become a fact of modern life and it's why EFF has defended your online privacy, security, and free speech for over 30 years.Will you donate so EFF can keep on fighting?Every Supporter Counts!Support EFF by December 31 and you'll help unlock bonus grants!

Critic Justin Chang's picks for the best movies of 2022 include (clockwise, from top left): The Eternal Daughter, Crimes of the Future, EO, Tar, Decision to Leave and No Bears.A24, Neon, Festival de Cannes, Focus Features, MUBI, TIFF It was a terrific year for movies but also, in some ways, a dispiriting one.

The donkey's eyes seem to take the measure of modern life in Jerzy Skolimowski's film, EO.Festival de Cannes We all have things we don't like in movies.For some it's horror, for others bloodshed, for still others, nudity and sex.For my part, I've always found it excruciating to watch a film in which animals are shown being abused.

What is Swiss German  and what is Hochdeutsch?If you live in a Swiss German speaking canton you may, or may not,  be aware that you are part of a complicated language system that's called diglossia.Diglossia is a fancy linguistic term that means within a society there are distinct formal and informal languages that are utilised in different social contexts.

People in German-speaking Switzerland use Hochdeutsch (standard German) - but there is also a huge variety of Swiss German dialects.We spoke to experts to explore the differences between the languages.Published: 6 December 2022 11:03 CET The Swiss flag flying in Napf, Trub.Photo by Nadine Marfurt on Unsplash What is Swiss German  and what is Hochdeutsch?

A Girlhood (nonfiction/memoir - hardbound) by Carolyn Hays
This is a parent's love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on the Hays family's door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the
upbringing of their transgender child.

In 1968, the Conservative MP Enoch Powell delivered probably the most inflammatory address ever given by a senior British politician.As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding, he declared.Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood'.The bloodletting, he anticipated, would be taking place because of a race war.

A rare masterpiece from Andy Warhol's celebrated Death And Disaster series is expected to fetch more than 80 million dollars (69 million) at auction.The titan of pop art, who was said to be fixated on themes of death and mortality, printed 19 images of a fatal car crash in black and white tones to match the newspapers from which he drew inspiration creating White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times).