YouTube star Lilly Singh gets her own late-night show, will replace Carson Daly on NBC

YouTube star Lilly Singh only left the platform in November, but she’s already got a new stage.
The Indian-Canadian YouTuber, actress, and author known as IISuperwomanII will take over the late night NBC slot held by Carson Daly, whose show Last Call…

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Greater Technology, Great Humanity: Social Good Summit 2018

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When the Social Good Summit launched in 2010, the way we approached technology and new media was far more optimistic than the world we find ourselves in today.

In 2018, a tweet has the ability to pull us apart. An Instagram post can enrage. And Facebook trolls have the power to divide.

So as we become increasingly reliant on the digital and artificial, “how do we ensure that a world of greater technology is also a world of greater humanity?” asked Henry Timms, Social Good Summit Co-Founder & 92nd Street Y CEO, during this year’s Summit opening. And through a series of dialogues and panels centered on innovation and action at this year’s Social Good Summit, faith in humanity (or at least, its future) was restored. Read more…

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Lilly Singh, Jessica Cohen, Jayathma Wickramanayake talk about the power of youth

Youtube Creator Lilly Singh, Mashable Editor-in-Chief and the United Nations General Secretary’s Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake speak about the importance of listening to youth voices. Read more…More about Social Good, United Nations, Lilly Sin…

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HBO’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ will be your next dystopic distraction

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HBO has released the first teaser for Fahrenheit 451, a film based off the Ray Bradbury novel and starring Michael B. Jordan as a rebel in a dystopia that burns books.

Like other dystopic narratives – did you not watch The Handmaid’s Tale? – Fahrenheit 451 feels uncomfortably close to reality in 2018 (see also: the Trump administration blustering about censorship and “fire and fury”).

HBO debuted the teaser Thursday for the Television Critics Association. It’s full of slow-motion takes and images of fire that make everything else seem much darker in contrast. Read more…

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