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Posted By: Social News XYZ October 25, 2020 Musical guest H.E.R. performs "Hold On" on Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://bit.ly/3j1IRUk Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Stream Current Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live WATCH PAST SNL SEASONS Google Play - http://bit.ly/SNLGooglePlay iTunes - http://bit.ly/SNLiTunes SNL ON SOCIAL SNL Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcsnl SNL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/snl SNL Twitter: https://twitter.com/nbcsnl SNL Tumblr: http://nbcsnl.tumblr.com/ SNL Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/nbcsnl/ GET MORE NBC Like NBC: http://Facebook.com/NBC Follow NBC: http://Twitter.com/NBC NBC Tumblr: http://NBCtv.tumblr.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/nbc NBC Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbctv #SNL #Adele #HER #SNL46 About SocialNewsXYZAn Indo-American News website. It covers Gossips, Politics, Movies, Technolgy, and Sports News and Photo Galleries and Live Coverage of Events via Youtube. The website is established in 2015 and is owned by AGK FIRE INC. SummaryTitleH.E.R.: Hold On (Live) - SNL #SNL (Video)DescriptionMusical guest H.E.R. performs "Hold On" on Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://bit.ly/3j1IRUk Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Stream Current Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live WATCH PAST SNL SEASONS Google Play - http://bit.ly/SNLGooglePlay iTunes - http://bit.ly/SNLiTunes SNL ON SOCIAL SNL Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcsnl SNL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/snl SNL Twitter: https://twitter.com/nbcsnl SNL Tumblr: http://nbcsnl.tumblr.com/ SNL Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/nbcsnl/ GET MORE NBC Like NBC: http://Facebook.com/NBC Follow NBC: http://Twitter.com/NBC NBC Tumblr: http://NBCtv.tumblr.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/nbc NBC Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbctv #SNL #Adele #HER #SNL46 Read More

NOTE: We post the newest livestreams in a new post every week. Make sure you're reading the newest edition of our roundup - check the livestream tag HERE for the latest.LAST UPDATED: 10/25 at 12:01 AM ETHERE ARE THIS WEEK'S LIVESTREAMS (Sunday, 10/25 - Saturday, 10/31):Sunday, October 25Afropunk's virtual fest, Afropunk Planet, streams at 10 AM ET on planetafropunk.com, with Bootsy Collins, Tawiah, and more.Move Forward Music streams a DJ set, "Parks & Rec" from Quiana Parks and Niara Sterling at 1 PM ET on Twitch.Richard Dawson streams a performance from The Barbican at 3 PM ET.Loma stream a series of performances, taped in June in Dripping Springs, TX, at 3 PM ET on Instagram and YouTube. Today they perform "I Fix My Gaze."Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is presenting daily Twitter listening parties for classic (and sometimes new) indie and alternative albums, with commentary from the artists who made them. Today they'll discuss Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets' Live At The Roundhouse at 3 PM ET.Jazz for America streams from City Winery Hudson Valley at 6 PM ET on Facebook, featuring Christian McBride, Ravi Coltrane, Jazzmeia Horn, Fred Hersch, Miguel Zenon, Eric Harland, Sean Jones, Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Brandee Younger, John Patitucci, Aaron Goldberg, and Melissa Aldana.David Bazan of Pedro the Lion is playing living room shows on Zoom at 4 PM ET and 8 PM ET. Tickets are on sale now.Mixcloud's streaming series Tickets kicks off at 5 PM ET, 9 PM ET and 12 AM ET with a set from Lawfawndah. Tickets are on sale now.SOS Booking talk with Jacob Bannon of Converge, and stream a performance from Galena, at 7 PM ET on Twitch.The Alternative's "Streaming Sundays" series continues at 7 PM ET on Twitch with Why Khaliq, Baby Got Back Talk,...

AFP via Getty Images And so it begins. WhatsApp, the world’s leading secure messenger has suddenly and without warning confirmed its plans to become a commercial shopping site, a marketing tool for businesses to pitch their wares. This has been the risk from the moment Facebook acquired the platform all those years ago. Well, now all those fears that Facebook will break WhatsApp have become much more real. Does it really matter, you ask, if businesses use WhatsApp to transact with customers in the same way Facebook Messenger and Instagram do? Is it such an issue if Facebook provides business-to-business marketing, cloud hosting and sales services to help it “continue building a business of our own, while we provide and expand free end-to-end encrypted text, video and voice calling” for its more than two billion users? The answer entirely depends on your perspective as to what a secure messenger should be. There is already a deep-seated concern among many in the security community as to what goes on behind the scenes at WhatsApp—mining messaging metadata and collecting contact details,  » Read More

Darkwing Duck, causing problems. Just like old times. Image: Disney XDThe terror that flaps in the night is a perfect companion for Halloween viewing. Even if he’s not really that scary. As you might know, DuckTales recently aired, as part of its latest season, a forty-five minute Darkwing Duck special that spends a lot of time in the purple superhero’s world. It introduces a lot of important elements of the character and maybe inches us closer to the standalone series he clearly deserves. Most importantly, it introduces Gosalyn Mallard, the hero’s erstwhile sidekick/conscience and, let’s be real, the real hero of Darkwing Duck’s ensemble. Now the whole special is available for free on YouTube. It’s a good special, too, drawing everyone into a multi-dimensional supervillain conspiracy. Which is, honestly, pretty ambitious for a cameo episode. Definitely check it out, and don’t forget to admire that wide-brimmed hat Darkwing is wearing. That hat is iconic, folks. Don’t you forget. DuckTales airs on Disney XD. For more, make sure you’re following us on our Instagram @io9dotcom.G/O Media may get a commission Read More

UFC By Mike Bohn October 24, 2020 4:24 pm By Mike Bohn | October 24, 2020 4:24 pm Former champ Robert Whittaker put himself back in position to fight for gold once more on Saturday when he beat Jared Cannonier in the UFC 254 co-main event. Whittaker (22-5 MMA, 13-3 UFC) pulled off one of the most significant wins of his career when he beat Cannonier (13-5 MMA, 6-5 UFC) by unanimous decision in the pay-per-view matchup at Flash Forum at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, putting himself back in position for a middleweight title shot. Check below for the top Twitter reactions to Whittaker’s victory over Cannonier at UFC 254. Andreas Hall Cannonier is KILLING Bobby Knucks legs. — Andreas Hale (@AndreasHale) October 24, 2020 Ben Askren Man Whittaker has to start checking these kicks — “Young Superstar” (@Benaskren) October 24, 2020 Brian Kelleher Love me that same side kick Whittaker is going to — Baldy Ed (@brianboom135) October 24, 2020 Belal Muhammad I wonder if they’re gonna let Jared touch his rocks in between rounds — Belal Muhammad (@bullyb170) October 24, 2020 Dan Tom Some more nice hard leg kicks from Cannonier to close the round, but lean toward the overall work of Whittaker who did better at taking initiative as the round went on — Dan Tom (@DanTomMMA) October 24, 2020 James Vick Whittaker looks good right now — James Vick (@JamesVickMMA) October 24, 2020 Lando Vannata Retweet if you think title eliminators should be 5 rounds. Whittaker vs Cannonier deserves a full 25. @ufc — Lando Vannata (@GroovyLando) October 24, 2020 Kenny Florian Cannonier doesn’t have a response for the blitz of Whitaker. Landed some nice leg kicks early tho. Whitaker fighting an excellent fight so far. #UFC254 — Kenny Florian (@kennyflorian) October 24, 2020 Phil...

The two and a half week-long #EndSARS protests in Nigeria against police brutality has garnered attention and raised awareness far beyond the country’s borders thanks to a savvy, well-planned out campaign boosted by Nigerian and global celebrities. But none of this would have been possible without the sheer reach and immediacy of major social media platforms.The peaceful protest started online using the #EndSars hashtag before spreading quickly to thousands of people joining protests on the streets of Nigeria’s big cities and then London, Toronto, Houston, and elsewhere, again thanks to social media.But all social media is not created equal.The campaign to shut down the controversial and brutal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) thrived on Twitter in particular and a series of significant #EndSARS hashtags trended globally with millions of retweets. Even Twitter’s enigmatic founder Jack Dorsey joined young Nigerians in encouraging the global Twitter community to donate to the protest organizers using bitcoin.Twitter gave the EndSARS hashtag an official emoji and verified the Twitter accounts of several users at the forefront of the protest.  » Read More

The two and a half week-long #EndSARS protests in Nigeria against police brutality has garnered attention and raised awareness far beyond the country’s borders thanks to a savvy, well-planned out campaign boosted by Nigerian and global celebrities. But none of this would have been possible without the sheer reach and immediacy of major social media platforms.The peaceful protest started online using the #EndSars hashtag before spreading quickly to thousands of people joining protests on the streets of Nigeria’s big cities and then London, Toronto, Houston, and elsewhere, again thanks to social media.But all social media is not created equal.The campaign to shut down the controversial and brutal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) thrived on Twitter in particular and a series of significant #EndSARS hashtags trended globally with millions of retweets. Even Twitter’s enigmatic founder Jack Dorsey joined young Nigerians in encouraging the global Twitter community to donate to the protest organizers using bitcoin.Twitter gave the EndSARS hashtag an official emoji and verified the Twitter accounts of several users at the forefront of the protest. This act of support contributed to the global credibility of the protest and boosted the movement both online and offline.But even as the hashtag picked up steam and was shared by the likes of Kanye West and Rihanna, over on Facebook and Instagram some of the posts with the #EndSARS hashtag were being incorrectly labeled as “fake news.”To make things worse, these “fake news” labels by Facebook and Instagram inadvertently helped to promote a self-serving, anti-fake news campaign by the Nigerian Army, which had come under intense scrutiny after men in military uniforms opened fire on unarmed, peaceful protestors at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos on Tuesday (Oct. 20). The Nigerian Army has claimed its soldiers were not involved in what some have labeled a “massacre”...

Spitting Image is back! The mercilessly vicious puppet show from 1980s British television has been revived for the 21st Century, specifically the Trump era, the Brexit era, the Big Tech era, and the Social Media era. And it's on YouTube! Yes, that's right… YouTube!"Spitting Image" key art, BritboxAvailable only on the Britbox streaming service, the new episodes are now available a few days after the broadcast to stream on the official Spitting Image YouTube Channel. As of this writing, all four episodes to date are available. The 4th episode feels like the show is comfortably settling in its stride.Just like in the 80s, the Fluck & Law show has no sacred cows. Spitting Image creates grotesque puppets of public figures and absolutely refuses to pander or flatter any of them. Unlike American Comedy, it has no desire to be loved. It wants you to hate these public figures for their hubris, ego, and outright evil. Those of us who grew up in Britain in the 1980s remember how it managed to permanently tar the public images of certain politicians. As Alan Moore said previously, satire is a kind of magical spell that can destroy a man's image forever. The show is an act of cultural assassination. It fires its bullets indiscriminately in all directions in that fine old British tradition of satirical contempt.Spitting Image 2020 has new puppets of real-life figures to skewer: Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and their respective hairpieces, Mike Pence is grey-skinned and forgettable, British Home Secretary Priti Patel is a vampire, Jared Kushner is a literal lifeless stiff, Melania Trump sleeps in a coffin, the Coronavirus is a recurring character who has affairs with both Trump and Boris. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden is a steely, hippy Mary Poppins. Boris Johnson's adviser-cum-guru Dominic Cummings, hilariously described...

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now spending three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a combined $544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile focus. Quibi dies…and no one was surprised There was so much wrong with Quibi’s premise that it’s sometimes hard to even know where to start. But at the core, its problem was that it fundamentally misunderstood how, when and why users would watch video on their phones. The company’s thinking was that you could fund high-production value content ($100K/minute, yikes) then chop it up into smaller “bites,” add a technology layer, then call this a reinvention of cinema. The reality is there was little demand for this sort of content, and it didn’t fit with how people want to be entertained on their phones. When people want to appreciate high-quality filmmaking (or even TV production), they tend to want a bigger screen — they’ve spent money for their fancy high-def or 4K TV, after all. Pre-COVID, they might even pay to go a movie theater. On mobile, the production value of content is far less of a concern, if it even registers. Quibi also misunderstood what users want to watch in terms of video on their phones when they have a few minutes to kill. By positioning its app in this space, it had to compete with numerous and powerful sources for “short-form” content — existing apps like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook (e.g....

According to LinkedIn and its workforce confidence index — which is based on workers’ job security, financial situation and career outlook — Provo was ranked as the second-most confident city in the country.George Anders, senior editor at large for LinkedIn, said, at the beginning of April, the company introduced its workforce confidence index during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal was to get a sense of how people felt about their immediate situation, their finances and their long-term career.The polls occurred every two weeks as time progressed through the COVID-19 pandemic. During that time, LinkedIn built a large sample, about 4,000 to 5,000 respondents each time, that allowed for precise data that could be divided by industry, age range and parts of the country.The data was originally split into the big six regions of the United States, but it was soon realized that several surveys could be combined to make for a massive number of respondents, allowing researchers to look into 62 different metropolitan areas.“The latest survey looks at the summer results, July through September, for these 62 metro areas and, boom, there you see Provo really high on the list,” Anders said.According to LinkedIn, areas in the top 10 of its workforce confidence index tended to benefit from population growth and logistics hubs, things that can be easily noticed in and around Utah County.Additionally, tech companies continue to move into Utah County, and those companies are becoming increasingly more comfortable with their remote working experiences.They are realizing that it is productive for their employees to telecommute, and if the workforce is OK, those companies could continue in that format indefinitely, according to LinkedIn.This all adds to that workforce confidence index, as well.“Provo is catching the rising wave in a lot of different ways,” Anders said. “We focused...