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A Leamington man set fire to the kitchen of his shared home by trying to make a bomb using aerosol cans and a microwave oven while his housemate was asleep upstairs.But George Moore then knocked on the other man’s door before calling the emergency services himself to tell them what he had done, a judge at Warwick Crown Court has heard.Moore (24) of Cubbington Road, Lillington, was jailed for three-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to arson being reckless whether life was endangered and possessing a bladed article.Warwick Crown CourtProsecutor Jonathan Barker said that at 10.15pm on May 5, Moore made a 999 call and revealed he had been trying to make a bomb and that there was a fire at his home.He said his housemate was still in the address, and when a fire crew attended they found a fire in the kitchen which they extinguished.There was a microwave oven in the garden, connected to a socket in the kitchen, with burned firelighters in it.But the fire had been started by a second microwave oven in the kitchen, in which Moore had put aerosol cans and a metal colander before switching it on.Moore, who was unsteady on his feet and…

An investigation is underway after a 16-year-old boy was shot dead at a party in Brockton, Massachusetts. Police responded to a home on Sprague Street around 1:40 a.m. on Saturday and found the teen dead from an apparent gunshot wound. Witnesses told police there was a large crowd at the home for a party around the time of the shooting. Lillian Padilla, a neighbor, said that she could hear four gunshots at the residence early Saturday. Local In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area. "I'm still in shock," Padilla said. "I didn't sleep at all because I was like, 'oh my god.'" The toppled tables, empty tequila bottles, cracked cups and decorations are remnants of a party, according to neighbors. They said kids filled the neighborhood and posted the party on Snapchat. "These kids have to stop posting things on Snapchat and Facebook and Instagram if they’re going to have parties," Padilla said. "You never know if you have an enemy out there." Neighbors say the party grew large enough for police to come break it up and believe soon thereafter is when shots broke out, causing some kids to scatter. Authorities have not released the name of the…

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Russian censors are continuing a crackdown on Western social media giants with the latest round of threatened fines. File Photo by Pixelkult/Pixabay Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Western social media giants Telegram, Facebook and Twitter will be called into a Moscow court this month where they will face fines of nearly $1 million for refusing to remove "prohibited content," Russian media reported Saturday. The companies will face a total of nine administrative offenses during a hearing to held in the Tagansky district of Moscow on Sept. 14, the government news agency Tass reported. Facebook is facing five charges with a possible total fine of around $550,000 while Twitter and Telegram face two charges each with fines of more than $400,000. The report didn't detail which content the authorities considered offensive, but the latest charges continue a recent pattern of Russian censors clamping down on Western social media giants in the run-up to legislative elections that begin Sept. 17. Facebook has already been fined nearly $675,000 so far this year by Roskomnadzor,  » Read More

animals and pet care Ellen Chung, Jonathan Gerrish Jonathan Gerrish was a British man married to an Asian-American woman named Ellen Chung. They had one daughter. Gerrish was a Snapchat employee. Here are 13 more things about him: . He was originally from Lancaster, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He is Peter Gerrish‘s son. (a)(b) He and Chung lived in San Francisco, California, United States. They had an Aussie-Akita mix dog named Oski. (c) From 1994 to 1997, he attended Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (a)From August 1997 to December 1999, he worked for Lucent Technologies as a software engineer. (a)From 1999 to 2004, he studied computing for commerce and industry at The Open University in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. (a)From December 1999 to January 2000, he worked Logica UK as a software engineer. (a)From January 2001 to September 2004, he worked for Datalex as a software engineer. (a)From October 2004 to February 2006, he worked for Paperless Chile as a software engineer. (a)In April 2006, he joined Google as a software engineer and worked for its offices in London and in San Francisco. He later joined Snapchat as a software developer. (a)(b)In 2018, he and Chung attended a…

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I've purposefully steered clear of TikTok to avoid its addictive algorithm. But Instagram copied the popular video-sharing app in August 2020, sucking me in instead. My Reels obsession proves that the social media giant copying TikTok worked: I spend more time on the app. Loading Something is loading. I've avoided downloading TikTok because I didn't want another social media app on my phone that I know I would get addicted to.I already absentmindedly spend hours peruse Instagram for palate-cleansing content, and lately, I've specifically taken to scrolling through the Explore tab on the app, where videos appear in an elongated rectangle, much like on TikTok.Without noticing it, an hour had passed as I scrolled through the suggested videos that Instagram's algorithm spat at me. And now, there's an entire button devoted only to Reels at the bottom of the screen.But my obsession with Reels proves that the TikTok copycat — rolled out in August 2020 — has gotten me as addicted as I would have been had I actually downloaded TikTok. And the result? I've spent more time on the app, an average of an hour a day according to Instagram.Instagram is swarming with TikTok videosThe thing about Instagram Reels is that…

Vintage furniture has become a major trend in home decor during the pandemic. It's driven by a combination of factors, including sustainability and ongoing supply chain issues. Plus, "the pandemic has definitely changed the way people shop," AptDeco's CEO says. Loading Something is loading. Most of the clients who come into Mike Kollman's Brooklyn-based vintage store fit a certain mold: Millennial or older, maybe even homeowners, with stable jobs and healthy paychecks. They're in search of vintage credenzas, or they want Kollman to restore their well-loved Eames Lounge Chair. But lately, Kollman has started to see some new customers trickle in — customers who are 20, or 21, who roll up on a skateboard and are in search of a vintage lamp. "It's kind of amazing that they're not just following the easier path over to Ikea where you can get a lamp for $9," Kollman told Insider. Kollman's new customers represent a new wave of millennials and Gen Z who are eschewing mass-market home decor for vintage wares. Those types of goods — from secondhand furniture to pre-owned art, dishes, or decor — are flooding social media sites, driven in part by a shadow economy of resellers who run their businesses on…

The University of Phoenix led the list of universities with the most alumni working at the top 20 ... Fortune 500 companies. getty A new analysis of more than 150,000 LinkedIn pages reveals which universities have the most graduates employed at the 20 leading Fortune 500 companies in the United States. The study - entitled Corporate hiring: The most in-demand colleges and degrees by Fortune 500 companies - was conducted for DegreeChoices, a website that offers advice to students about their college and career decisions. Here’s how the study was done. The authors examined more than 150,000 LinkedIn profiles of current employees in a variety of leadership roles at the top 20 Fortune 500 companies (as of 2021) to identify their educational backgrounds. They then tabulated the universities attended and degrees earned by these individuals. It’s important to remember that not all employees in these companies have a LinkedIn profile so the numbers below are not definitive. They are likely to underestimate the number of alumni from a given institution. Furthermore, different companies have very different percentages of employees who maintain such profiles. For example, while 94% of JPMorgan Chase’s 250,000+ employees had a LinkedIn page, only 23% of…