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The trailer for the film "Back Home" releases in time for its world premiere at El Gouna Film Festival. Back Home by director Sara Shazli will be competing in El Gouna Film Festival's Feature Documentary Competition. https://vimeo.com/609734512 Director Sara Shazli released the trailer for her feature documentary Back Home before competing in the fifth edition of the El Gouna International Film Festival, held from October 14 to 22. The trailer showed clips of Sara's return to Egypt after spending 10 years abroad. It starts with her arrival at the airport and taking a car to reach home. It ends with her knocking on the door, where the film starts with her coming Back Home .  Sara’s father is nearly 80 years old and is full of life. When Sara’s plans turn upside down due to the global pandemic, she finds herself stuck in her childhood home with her parents after living abroad for ten years. As they spend months together in lockdown, Sara feels the need to capture the precious moments spent with her father on film. For the first time, Sara’s return to Egypt feels right. About Sara Graduated from the American University of Paris in Film Studies, she also studied Fine Arts at the Concordia University, Montreal, and in…

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Audio as a form of media has been growing steadily for years. But with the recent rise of social audio platforms and their democratization of social spaces, brands found in audio a gap with exciting opportunities for connecting with audiences. What’s better is that these audiences are some of the most engaged in media, allowing for higher retention and engagement than traditional media.So, why exactly is brand storytelling on social audio important for brands? Let’s look at what makes audio such a growing industry and the potential it holds for business.Why Audio?Content like podcasts, audiobooks, and social audio have a retention rate twice as high as written content. In the age of short attention spans, the conscious listening audio provides is gold. Additionally, audio doesn’t require listeners to stop what they’re doing to consume it. Listeners are often at the gym, in their car, or even grocery shopping. They’re busy with their hands while actively listening, which also means they’re less likely to skip through ads when they encounter them.  » Read More

Photographed by Savanna RuedyI remember a Tumblr post that changed my view of vaginas forever, as Tumblr posts are wont to do when you’re 16 years old and on the family computer late at night. The user was analysing the semantics of how we talk about sex. Why, they wanted to know, is sex always considered to be a penis penetrating a vagina? Why are penises always dominant but vaginas always submissive? What if we flip the narrative? What if the vagina envelops or engulfs the phallus? What if the penis is the submissive one of the pair?This heteronormative example can be easily applied to queer relationships, too. The one who receives is the 'bottom', the one who gives is the 'top'. The language lends itself to the stereotypes that the former is the submissive and the latter is the dominant. Indeed, the labels 'top' and 'bottom' are often used interchangeably with the labels 'dom' and 'sub' – but is this always true? And is it a fair assumption?In 2018 an Autostraddle survey discovered that 47.4% of lesbian bottoms prefer not to be actively 'in control' during intercourse and only 41% of bottoms identified themselves as kinky. Nate, a trans man…

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has now made its helpline for reporting instances of children in distress available on Whatsapp as well. The helpline on the number +919311551393 had been launched in April during the height of the second wave as a means to primarily address the issues of children who had lost their parents to Covid-19, or had parents hospitalised for the same. Now the helpline is available also for other child-related distress calls, queries on scholarships, EWS/DG quota, government school admissions, nutrition supplement distribution at anganwadi centres, immunisation, or for registering online complaints. Now, this helpline number is also available on Whatsapp, and the commission has emphasized that it should be used to report instances of child labour and child labour to enable the rehabilitation of the affected children.

How to hack someone’s snapchat account?Looking for an easy way to hack snapchat without password or detection ? Click here Social media is an excellent platform to connect with various people all over the world. You can get employment opportunities as well as make productive connections through social media platforms. As good as these platforms are, some criminals use them to carry out illegal activities. Many people have unconsciously fallen victim to cybercrime due to ignorance and sometimes due to the negligence of their guardians. If you sense foul play in your relationship, you might need to spy on your partner’s social media activities to protect your relationship and even maintain your sanity.Snapchat Hack without passwordUsing Spy apps to monitor social media activities especially that of children and teenagers on Snapchat is very important. The use of Snapchat is very common among children and teenagers but this social media platform has its weaknesses. There have been cases of teenagers being bullied and threatened into things they do not want to do on social media. Some teenagers even get body-shamed on social media and could end up developing low self-esteem. These and many more are the reasons you might need to spy…

On Thursday, Snapchat published a post regarding the release of new tools to deter illegal pill dealing.Snapchat is proposing its mechanical instruments to dissuade minor customers from prohibited and deferred drugs through its forum.The firm unveiled the motive behind introducing modern tools, which is to safeguard the customers from the ruinous or fatal consequences of narcotics.As per the statement released by the firm, they are inferred to eliminate prohibited drug dealing through their forum, and for that, they have been financing and acting proactively to investigate and cooperate with rules and laws enforcement agencies to deter prohibited drugs dealings and, set them responsible for the damage inflicting by them in our society.However, they acknowledge that there are still some sectors where they are lacking and have to function, while they claim to have boosted 85 percent gradually of their response time.Taking it as their duty to protect their users on their forum they have brought about crucial advancements over the years to obliterate illicit dealings and still are frequently toiling to rectify.The institution recorded an elevation in the enforcement ratio by one hundred and twelve percent, in the initial half of the proceeding year, and it further raised the ratio…

An anonymous hacker posted 125GB of the video-streaming platform Twitch’s data online, suggesting that there is more data yet to be released. Twitch is conducting an ongoing investigation into the data breach but in an update of the situation it informed users that all stream keys have been reset “out of an abundance of caution.” The platform also wanted to reassure users that full credit card details were not exposed and that at this time there is no indication that login credentials have been exposed, however their investigation continues. Now is as good of a time as any to beef up your security measures on your account if you haven’t already. Changing your Twitch password When creating a new password you will need to remember that it must meet Twitch's password strength requirements. The password must have a minimum of eight characters, and can include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. You can also use spaces to create a more memorable expression as a password with multiple words. But your password should be unique to your Twitch account. Steps for resetting your Twitch password: Log into your Twitch account Click on your profile icon (top right…

Image Source : PIXABAY Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down again for hours; services now restored Facebook on Saturday 'apologised' to its users as social media company experienced a second outage, just days after a massive outage caused in a similar fashion.  Facebook and its applications Instagram and WhatsApp as well as Messenger were down again and its users around the world again had problems accessing services for hours.  Facebook took to Twitter to announce the outage. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” it said. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.” It happened around 12 am (IST), according to downdetector, a portal that detects outages on websites. The company said that a "configuration change" had impacted users globally. ALSO READ: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp coming back online after hours of disruption Around two hours later, the company said that it has fixed the problem. "We're so sorry if you weren't able to access our products during the last couple of hours," the company said it a statement on Friday evening. "We know how much you depend on us to communicate with one another. We…

Cozy Bear campaigns continue.The Russian threat group that successfully exploited vulnerabilities in SolarWinds last year (an SVR unit familiarly known as either Cozy Bear or Berserk Bear) is said, by Mandiant, to again be working against Western targets. CNN quotes Mandiant's Charles Carmakal as saying, "The group has compromised multiple government entities, organizations that focus on political and foreign policy matters, and technology providers that provide direct or indirect access to the ultimate target organizations within North America and Europe."A second, related CNN report, citing new research by Microsoft, suggests that Russian government cyberespionage groups are enjoying satisfying (for them) levels of success against Western targets. Russia, with China running second, is "still comfortable leaning into nation-state attacks."Facebook outages caused by internal error.Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp suffered widespread, lengthy outages on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reports. The incident doesn't appear to have been the result of an attack, but rather, as initial speculation tended to regard it, as the consequence of an internal error. Facebook tweeted its apologies mid-outage, and its engineering team explained the incident as follows: "Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption…