TikTok settles lawsuit with voice actress who says they used her voice without her permission
TikTok has reportedly agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a voice actress who accused the social media platform of using her voice without permission. Bev Standing sued the popular app in May after claiming that TikTok had used her voice for its original text-to-speech feature. In the complaint, she stated that she was "hired by the Institute of Acoustics to perform voice work purportedly for Chinese translations" but wasn't told that her voice would be used for any other purpose. “I was dumbfounded when I first found out,” …
‘When will the colonizer learn to stop disrespecting sacred indigenous sites?’ Video of woman slithering up Mayan pyramid sparks outrage
A video of a woman slithering up a Mayan pyramid has resurfaced and sparked a conversation about white people disrespecting sacred sites. TikToker @themarccanthony posted a video Monday expressing outrage at a Jan. 3 news clip of a woman climbing a sacred Mayan pyramid. The woman, whose race is unclear, was placed in the custody of municipal police, as climbing the pyramid is prohibited, according to Times Now Digital . @themarccanthony's video, which amassed over 1.5 million views and 393,000 likes since being posted, aims to explain …
Growing number of Canadians aware of mistreatment of Indigenous people, blame government: survey
A new survey suggests that there is growing awareness of Canada's mistreatment of Indigenous people, and an increasing number of Canadians say the onus is on the federal government to achieve economic and social equality for Indigenous communities.
Injectable electrically conductive patch could help restore cardiac function after heart failure, study suggests
A minimally invasive and electrically conductive cardiac patch made out of carbon nanotubes, elastin, gelatin, and cardiac cells could one day be a promising solution for patients with heart failure, a new Canadian-led study suggests.
'I will kill her if you tell her': Gloria Estefan says she was 9 when sexually abused by someone her mother trusted
Gloria Estefan has revealed that when she was 9 years old she was sexually abused by someone her mother trusted.
TikTokers are recreating the deadly games from Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’
The Korean Netflix show Squid Game is all over TikTok right now, for reasons that are very easy to understand. Set in contemporary Korea, the show is a cliffhanger-filled survival thriller that combines cool imagery with gory violence and anti-capitalist commentary. It involves a deadly contest where 456 strangers are recruited to play simple children's games. The eventual winner will get a massive cash prize, while everyone else will probably die. Fans on TikTok inevitably started experimenting with their own versions of Squid Game &…
‘It’s better if you die in the house’: Anti-vaxxer convinces COVID patient to leave hospital, patient later dies
An anti-vaxxer successfully convinced a COVID-19 patient to leave a hospital in Ireland, and he later died, according to a video posted to Facebook. The video reportedly has since prompted an investigation, and anti-vaxxers reportedly showed up to the man's funeral without masks. The video was posted by Marko Mitrov; according to his Facebook profile, he lives in the Serbian city of Vrbas. In the video, a noted anti-vaxxer, Antonio Mureddu, who the Irish Times labeled "an Italian restaurant owner with a long history of conspirator…
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