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(video still from Vouge Talk) Cinematographer and Buffalo-native Joshua Caleb partners with Squeaky Wheel Film/Media Art Center and Vogue Buffalo Dance Group to create nostalgic themed “Vogue Talk” visual. The video celebrates voguing, a dance move predominantly performed by queer and transgender people of color in 1960’s Harlem.  Written and filmed by Joshua Caleb , the video features dancers in a downtown studio while an emotional VoiceOver  narrated by Ashton Prodigy and Luis Perez  recites lines such as “Vogue music makes me feel sexy it brings out my inner feminine side” and “We needed a safe place to just be ourselves, not to feel judged and….be free.”  The video showcases the fluid model-esque movements of vogue; while promoting a message of self-acceptance.   In honor of Pride month “Vogue Talk” pays homage to Buffalo’s underground vogue dance culture while representing local members of Western New York’s Black and Latino LGBTQ community.   Other dancers featured in the video include Anthony Garcon, Ashton Prodigy, Elzon Ebony, Jojo Escada, Niyalah Thomas, Luis Perez, Davey Santana, Damarian Miller, Jah Carter, Joseph Donohue III, and Alexander Fears.  “I wanted to create something that made people feel beautiful and excited about life.”  Joshua has plans to…

LinkedIn on Friday signed up to the European Union's voluntary code of conduct to combat illegal hate speech online, joining its parent Microsoft, Facebook and Google's YouTube.The move comes as social media and online platforms face a raft of legislative proposals on both sides of the Atlantic that would require them to do more to counter online hate speech and disinformation, blamed for helping to fuel a wave of racist attacks in some countries. Set up by the European Commission five years ago, the EU code also has the support of Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Dailymotion, Jeuxvideo.com and Tiktok.Companies signed up to the code must have rules and community standards prohibiting hate speech on their platforms as well as systems and teams to review such content flagged to them. They are also required to take quick action to remove the content. "I invite more businesses to join, so that the online world is free from hate," European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said in a statement.LinkedIn is one of the more popular platforms for professionals. "As more people come to LinkedIn, we will continue to invest in our content review teams and our platform to help stop and prevent abuse, taking action…

It's rare to see a female CEO ring the Nasdaq stock opening market bell. It's rarer still when she is of Indian origin and does it minutes after cradling a 2.5 year old baby in her arms. So it wasn't surprising when Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud's picture with her son, moments before she took the video software & marketing platform public, went viral last month.Anjali Sud, born to Punjabi parents who emigrated to the US, gave Vimeo a new lease of life by transforming it from an alternative of YouTube to a software platform that offers companies tools with which they can create, manage and share high-quality videos across platforms. The pandemic year gave Vimeo a shot in the arm, as video consumption went up, as the firm now has over 200 million users globally, with 1.6 million paying subscribers, as of March 2021. Vimeo listed on Nasdaq last month and currently has a market cap of over $7.2 Billion. It was Sud, who took charge as  in 2017, spoke to Moneycontrol via Zoom from New York, on how her Indian roots influenced her leadership, if Vimeo will ever look at audio solutions, her plans to expand in India and…

Visual search getty For over a decade, Google search has been the first place we go whenever we need to find information on virtually anything. It’s used countless times a day on our computers, our smartphones, in our cars and even in our homes. Whether it’s to make a dinner reservation or to look up flight information, saying “Hey Google” or “Alexa” has become second nature. Most recently, our interactions with Google have typically revolved around screens and voice, but if you ask experts what the next advancement for interaction is heading, they’ll say it’s visual. Being able to make buying decisions instantly and simply, it’s not surprising that Google, Amazon and other tech companies are making a massive effort to make their services accessible via your camera. The human brain processes visuals 60,000 faster than text and 90 percent of the information transmitted to the brain is visual, it only makes sense visual search will resonate with consumers. Leveraging AR navigation on our mobile phones has become increasingly popular, so much that Google Lens has trained its system so you can scan your environment and it will instantly use its visual search capabilities to identify virtually anything. For instance,…

businessIt's rare to see a female CEO ring the Nasdaq stock opening market bell. It's rarer still when she is of Indian origin and does it minutes after cradling a 2.5 year old baby in her arms. So it wasn't surprising when Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud's picture with her son, moments before she took the video software & marketing platform public, went viral last month. Sud, who took charge as CEO in 2017, spoke to Moneycontrol via Zoom from New York, on how her Indian roots influenced her leadership, if Vimeo will ever look at audio solutions, her plans to expand in India and how she strikes a fine balance as CEO and mom.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Zainullah Stanekzai hasn’t seen his family since he was forced to leave his home in southern Afghanistan last year in November, after his name appeared on a “kill list” of alleged Taliban targets that was being widely circulated on WhatsApp and Telegram groups.Stanekzai, who has been a journalist for 14 years covering the fall and resurgence of the Taliban is one of hundreds of Afghan journalists, artists, activists and politicians whose names have been featured in widely circulated “kill lists.”  The lists, commonly found on social media platforms and forwarded on WhatsApp groups, have been all too frequent in the last year in Afghanistan which has witnessed a spike in violence since the US signed a peace deal with the Taliban.The Afghan security official VICE World News reached out to confirmed the list, and said he was aware of them but did not comment on their origins or veracity. “Based on our intelligence, the Taliban, working with the Haqqani Network, has been conducting targeted  killings on Afghan civil society, journalists and government officials. Even those killings claimed by Daesh are conducted by Taliban,” he shared on condition of anonymity, referring to ISIS by its Arabic name. The Taliban have…

Actress and ex-Bigg Boss contestant Payal Rohatgi has been arrested by Ahmedabad police for using abusive slurs and derogatory statements on social media and a WhatsApp group.The complaint has been filed by a doctor named Parag Shah who stated that Payal hurled abuses at the society’s chairperson and also texted derogatory messages on their WhatsApp group.Shah further alleged that Rohatgi threated to physically harm anyone who argues with her over a common play area.Upon her arrest she was also tested for COVID-19 as per police norm.Payal isn't new when it comes to courting controversies.In 2019, Payal was arrested in a case relating to alleged objectionable content against the Nehru-Gandhi family on social media.The Rajasthan Police had detained her from her Ahmedabad residence for interrogation in a case. She was sent to judicial custody by ACJM court.Upon her release she had said, "They first put me in a filthy cell in the police station, then took me to jail where I was locked up with five hardcore criminals. It was a nightmare. We had to sleep on the cold floor. That’s where one sleeps in jail. I wouldn’t have been able to survive one more night in that jail.”

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Some of the first users of Elon Musk’s new satellite internet service are rural North Carolina children and the family of pro wrestler Matt Hardy.Paul Woolverton  |  USA TODAY NETWORKFormer professional wrestler Reby Hardy and other people who live or have businesses in remote or rural parts of North Carolina have had a problem for years: Limited or no access to high-speed internet connections in a 21st-century society and business world that demands it.That is starting to change.New technologies in development promise to bring broadband speeds to remote and sparsely populated communities. Traditional internet service providers, such as cable and telecommunications companies, have long eschewed these potential customers due to the cost of extending their infrastructure to them.Further, North Carolina law has prevented city and county governments from trying to fill the gap the private sector refused to address.“If nothing else, the COVID pandemic has showed us that broadband is not merely a service. It should be viewed as infrastructure,” said Republican state Rep. John Szoka of Cumberland County. When the schools closed and shifted to remote learning online in spring 2020 because of the crisis, many children were left without any way to attend school, he said.Szoka sees high-speed internet as much a societal necessity as public streets, electrical service,…