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Photo credit: InstagramFrom Marie ClaireJessie J just turned 33 on March 27, and she decided to celebrate the big day with a naked Instagram selfie, as one does. The post was pretty simple, as far as nude posts go: The singer simply shared an artsy-looking shot of herself standing naked in her bathroom, alongside the caption, "33."People were pretty impressed in the comments. "Omfg 🔥😍," one fan wrote. "my god how beautiful😍😍😍😍," another said.The "Flashlight" songstress followed up her birthday post up with some new workout videos in her Instagram Story. In them, she’s crushing it at the gym doing…just about everything. There’s Jessie doing leg lifts with an exercise band, using the stair climber with her hair blowing everywhere, doing a quad workout with another exercise band, doing pull-ups with TRX bands, working through sit-ups, and more. In one clip, she’s using a rower and singing, "I hate…the rower."The "Bang Bang" singer has made it super clear in the past that she goes hard during her workouts. "When I come out of the gym, I’m blotchy red and sweaty, but I feel good. It’s about the longevity of your life, not how you look in the morning," she told…

When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again.April 2, 2021The AtlanticThe only thing we’d wanted to do was ensure that artists could make some money and have control over their work. Back in May 2014, I was paired up with the artist Kevin McCoy at Seven on Seven, an annual event in New York City designed to spark new ideas by connecting technologists and artists. I wasn’t sure which one I was supposed to be; McCoy and his wife, Jennifer, were already renowned for their collaborative digital art, and he was better at coding than I was.At the time, I was working as a consultant to auction houses and media companies—a role that had me obsessively thinking about the provenance, ownership, distribution, and control of artworks. Seven on Seven was modeled after tech-industry hackathons, in which people stay up all night to create a working prototype that they then show to an audience. This was around the peak of Tumblr culture, when a raucous, wildly inspiring community of millions of artists and fans was sharing images and videos completely devoid of attribution, compensation, or context. As it turned out, some of…

BUDDING artists are being given the opportunity to have their work hung in a Kirkcudbright art gallery over the summer. The Bardennoch exhibition at the Mitchell Gallery invites young and early careers artists aged 17 to 26 from Dumfries and Galloway to submit existing works or create new pieces that address their relationship with the region. Entrants are urged to enter artwork that best reflects their experiences of rurality, community and the geography of the region. The exhibition will showcase works that demonstrate artistic merit at an emerging stage, in the early stage of their career as they gain experience and develop an individual style. The selected works will hang in the Mitchell Gallery from June, with artists having the opportunity to sell their works. Applications should be send to lily.knott@dumgal.gov.uk by Sunday, April 18 and include: Name, address, age School / college / university (if still attending) Details of any previous exhibitions Short paragraph about yourself and your ambitions Work: title, medium, selling price (including 40% commission)/not for sale, preferred display (wall / floor / case) 3 clear images of your work For more info visit www.bardennoch.tumblr.com or follow @bardennoch on Instagram.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 2, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — California IVF Fertility Center, a full-service infertility treatment center based in Northern California announced the second annual infertility awareness campaign. The center will accept video applications from now through April 17, 2021. The 5 selected recipients will receive free fertility services that may include IVF, a tubal ligation reversal surgery, and a donor egg IVF cycle.“As fertility treatments become more common and more acceptable to the 1 in 8 couples affected, there is still a lack of understanding and overall awareness about what causes infertility and what options are available,” said Dr. Ernest Zeringue, founder and medical director, who is determined to change that. “We want to follow the journey of more patients from start to finish and share their experience.”California IVF offered a similar opportunity last year. Several participants have achieved a pregnancy while the journey for others will continue. Their story is being prepared for public viewing. The doctors and staff are excited to continue the awareness campaign and extend the opportunity for more people to share their journey and experiences with fertility treatment through the California IVF Fertility Awareness 2021 campaign. #CIVFAwareness2021More information: https://www.californiaivf.com/awareness2021/About California IVFFounded in 2004, California…

By Alfayo Onyango 19 hours ago   Safaricom Content is king, and Safaricom have gone into the video content market with their new platform, Baze. Digital video streaming in Kenya has been dominated by international sites such as You Tube, Netflix, Vimeo, with local products ViuSasa and Airtel TV steadily gaining ground. Safaricom's music streaming site Songa has not enjoyed much popularity. Safaricom already has 30 million mobile subscribers and is looking to tap into a market that has smartphone usage of up to 18 million users. They hope to provide value for Kenyan content creators and help monetise their content. 

Emma Fyffe from VENN joined 5 Live to talk about the latest in pop culture and video game news. Clubhouse is a voice chat only app that lets you jump in and out of different conversations happening live. It’s like Zoom meetings without video, or live podcasts where you can participate or just listen in. It’s a great tool for networking and is invite only for now, but using the app can give companies access to personal data stored on kid’s phones or even expose them to abusive or hateful language. If your kid is using Clubhouse, it’s time for a talk about online boundaries and online safety. Get little ones reading early with the amazing new Pokemon Primers, the first series aimed at young trainers who may recognize Pikachu and Squirtle, but haven’t learned the ABC’s. Now you can learn together with your favorite Pokemon! Pikachu Press is releasing an ABC book for young trainers to learn the alphabet, and a 123 book for little readers to learn numbers. Plus, parents and kids can both enjoy the adorable illustrations.  » Read More

The Atlanta Falcons announced late Thursday afternoon that they will play in the NFL’s international series over in London at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this October. With the NFL officially adding a 17th game this season, some teams will get an extra home game. That’s not the case for the Falcons, though, and to make it worse, this London matchup with an unnamed opponent will count as a home game for Atlanta, even though it isn’t one. Let’s see how Falcons Twitter reacted to Thursday’s news. Part of the advantage for home games in sports in my opinion is player familiarity and comfortablity (sleeping in their own beds, in their own house with their family) with no travel. Having to travel to another country and sleep in a hotel is dubbed as an away game imo. — Falcons Kingdom (@FalconsKingdom) April 2, 2021 THIS IS THE BEST NEWS THAT COULD HAVE COME OUT TODAY! YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE THERE. CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE THE LADS ON THE FIELD IN LONDON. LETS GET IT! 🔴⚫🔴⚫ https://t.co/l2Oj2RWd40 — 🇬🇧 Atlanta Falcons 🔴⚫ (@ATLFalconsUK) April 1, 2021 With the NFL transitioning to a 17 game and the #Falcons…

Over the past several months, Twitter has been working hard to bring its Clubhouse-like audio chat rooms feature, Spaces, to users on iOS and, as of last month, Android. A logical next place for Spaces to show up would be on the web, and unsurprisingly, Twitter is working on the feature for browsers, the company confirmed to The Verge. We decided to ask Twitter about Spaces on desktop after seeing this tweet from app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, which shows what Spaces preview cards could look like when viewed on the web. And Twitter itself hasn’t been entirely secret about developing the feature, either. A Twitter Spaces developer posted some designs of how a Space’s intro screen might look on the web last Friday. Given that Spaces is only available on mobile right now, bringing it to the web would be a significant expansion. And that broader reach could help Twitter in its race to compete with Clubhouse, which is still only on iOS (though an Android version is on the way). It would also bring Twitter in closer parity to Discord, which just yesterday launched its social audio rooms feature, Stage Channels, on all platforms where Discord is available.…

Over the past several months, Twitter has been working hard to bring its Clubhouse-like audio chat rooms feature, Spaces, to users on iOS and, as of last month, Android. A logical next place for Spaces to show up would be on the web, and unsurprisingly, Twitter is working on the feature for browsers, the company confirmed to The Verge. We decided to ask Twitter about Spaces on desktop after seeing this tweet from app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, which shows what Spaces preview cards could look like when viewed on the web. And Twitter itself hasn’t been entirely secret about developing the feature, either. A Twitter Spaces developer posted some designs of how a Space’s intro screen might look on the web last Friday. Given that Spaces is only available on mobile right now, bringing it to the web would be a significant expansion. And that broader reach could help Twitter in its race to compete with Clubhouse, which is still only on iOS (though an Android version is on the way).  » Read More

YouTube is currently the number one app in terms of consumer spend, according to a report on worldwide app spend in Q1 2021.New data from App Annie reveals that the first few months of 2021 broke records for app spend in general, and nowhere was that more prevalent than within the YouTube app.YouTube has usurped TikTok and Tinder to become the market leader in in-app purchases.Consumer spending on apps is growing at unprecedented speed. As of Q1 2021, app spend is up 40% year over year, which is further evidence of the impact the pandemic continues to have on the app market.Smartphone users spent around $9 billion more on apps and games in Q1 2021 than they did in Q1 2020.Growth of in-app spending is up by the same percentage on iOS and Android, and downloads are up significantly on both platforms as well.App Annie’s latest report has a plethora of data on the state of the app market in 2021. In this post I will focus on data related to YouTube, as the earning potential for video creators is stronger than ever.YouTube App Spend: What Are People Buying?A top question that may come to mind when you hear YouTube…