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The Essential App Pack for Creating Awesome Social Videos

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Rtro This app from Moment—the folks who make excellent snap-on smartphone lenses—comes with prefab filters created by filmmakers (including Shorty Awards finalist Ani Acopian) that give your videos a vintage Hollywood vibe. Swipe to pick a filter, choosing between Noir's moody monochrome, Aria's '60s swank, or the scratchy, desaturated color of Ranger, then shoot your clip. There are no editing tools, but the simplicity is the point. Nonpaying users get the three filters mentioned above, but a $15 per year pro account unlocks 11 others, and new options will be…

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How My Daughters See Me

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ShareTweetPin I recently attended a sophisticated party. Beautifully adorned women, smartly dressed men. I sat and observed the wonder of human interaction. How we dip and pirouette in and out of conversations with sighs, laughs, and head curtsies. Then I observed one elegant woman sit upon the out-of-the-way leather couch, off to herself, pull out her iPhone, and flip through, whatever. Astounding, I thought. We, the sophisticated, turning from the real, to the virtual. Then I thought how most of these beautiful men and women will return home, check their children…

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Elizabeth Warrens oldest brother dies from coronavirus

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Don Reed Herring – who was one Warren’s three older siblings – died in Norman, Oklahoma on Tuesday (Warren campaign). “My oldest brother, Don Reed, died from coronavirus on Tuesday evening. He joined the Air Force at 19 and spent his career in the military, including five and a half years off and on in combat in Vietnam. He was charming and funny, a natural leader,” the senator from Massachusetts tweeted Thursday morning as she linked to a news report from the Boston Globe. Get all the stories you need-to-know…

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Remdesivir trial posted online prematurely was ‘inconclusive,’ Gilead says

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(CNN)Results from a study investigating Gilead Sciences’ antiviral medication remdesivir as a Covid-19 treatment were posted to the World Health Organization’s website “prematurely” on Thursday and showed “inconclusive” results, according to the biotechnology company. A screenshot of the study description posted to WHO’s website was published by STAT on Thursday. The description in the screenshot notes that the study, which involved 237 patients, found “remdesivir use was not associated with a difference in time to clinical improvement” and “in this study of hospitalized adult patients with severe Covid-19 that was…

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How to Increase Ecommerce Sales

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Trying to increase eCommerce sales? Many people start online stores as they believe that it will be an easy business to run because it is a thriving industry. The truth is that it is hard to make sales because it is so competitive, which can make it difficult to get noticed. It is possible to find success in eCommerce, though, but you must know how to increase sales and improve brandHow to Increase Ecommerce Sale awareness so that you can start to build a reputation. It becomes much easier to…

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Germany opens landmark trial of Syrian regime officers accused of crimes against humanity

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(CNN)A landmark trial of a former high-ranking Syrian regime officer accused of overseeing the torture of thousands of prisoners began in the German city of Koblenz on Thursday. Another former junior regime officer, identified by German authorities as Eyad A, is also standing trial for crimes against humanity. Syrian officials have repeatedly denied the allegations, insisting they target terrorists and not peaceful protesters. CNN is trying to reach the lawyers of the two defendants. Raslan has been in Germany since 2014 and Eyad since 2018, according to the court statement.…

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The secrets to stargazing from your backyard

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How to search the sky and what to see, from moon and stars to planets and the International Space Station. Go on a journey of billions of miles from your garden To begin looking for objects in the heavens, youll need to know where north, south, east and west are. Make a note of where the sun rises (east) and sets (west), use Google maps or use the compass on your phone. Now, download a free astronomy app to your phone AND computer. My favourite, for ease of use and…

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Facebook pulls pseudoscience from its list of targeted ad categories

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Even as Mark Zuckerberg touted the “hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to COVID-19” that the site had pulled in recent months, Facebook continued to offer targeted ads classified as “pseudoscience.” It was an odd choice from a social network so publicly declaring its own campaigns to remove junk science amid a global pandemic. Using Ad Manager, advertisers were able to serve ads to some 78 million people “who have expressed an interest in pseudoscience.” Following an investigation by The Markup that found the site buying ads to…

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Is ‘Too Hot To Handle’ Sexist? | Betches

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wannabe influencers normal people f*ck their lives up on TV is a blessing unlike any other. While the production of basically every show in the world has been placed on hold due to The Virus The Must Not Be Named, we’ve still been graced with a few gems to guide us to mindless joy. The most exciting of which is Netflix’s newest dating show, Too Hot To HandleIn case you haven’t been spending all of your free time pantless in front of the TV, allow me to explain. is Netflix’s…

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