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Facebook introduces Portal TV, a video chat camera accessory for your television
Facebook is bringing its connected device strategy to the television. The company today announced Portal TV, an accessory that brings the company’s wide-angle video chats to the biggest screen in the house. Portal TV is begins shipping November 5th for $149 — or you can also bundle two Portal devices together and take $50 off. …
‘They don’t know where to connect’: Amid mental health crisis, this Utah youth inpatient program says it’s at only half its capacity
SOUTH SALT LAKE — Krista Kotsay didn’t know where to turn for help for her 14-year-old daughter each time the teen ran away, stoking her family’s anxiety. “We even had to put out flyers one time because she was gone for 24 hours,” Kotsay recalled. The mom says she spent a year looking for resources …
Untouchable: the Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein review – films like this change the world | Television & radio
Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein (BBC Two), directed by Ursula MacFarlane, is a film of halting testimonies, long pauses, lips pressed tightly together and eyes filling with tears. Of women struggling to articulate what they have left unsaid sometimes for decades, and what has gone unsaid by our sex – en masse …
Neighbours’ first trans character might not change the world, but she could change lives | Allison Gallagher | Television & radio
On Friday evening, the Australian soap opera Neighbours will introduce the show’s first trans character in its near-35-year run. The story of Mackenzie Hargraves – played by the Australian trans activist Georgie Stone – centres on the character befriending Yashvi Rebecchi, a fellow student at her school; revealing that she is trans; being accepted by …
TV segment focuses on health in Hmong community
Published Aug. 24, 2019 at 11:01 a.m. Editor’s note: This story is part of an occasional Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service series that highlights groups and people worth knowing in Milwaukee. To nominate a person or a group, email [email protected] and put “Spotlight” in the subject line. Three students from the Medical College of Wisconsin …
Utah lawmakers recommend e-cigarette tax bill to reduce vaping ‘epidemic’ in youth
SALT LAKE CITY — State legislators are hoping to add to recent local and national efforts to curb the use of vape pens and e-cigarettes, particularly among youth. The Health and Human Services Interim Committee, chaired by Sen. Allen M. Christensen, R-North Ogden, and Rep. Brad M. Daw, R-Orem, unanimously agreed Wednesday to recommend a …
More women should be assessed for BRCA mutations, new recommendations say
ATLANTA (CNN) — More women should be assessed for harmful mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that can increase risk of certain cancers, according to new recommendations. Previously, it was recommended for women who have a family history of breast, ovarian, tubal or peritoneal cancer to be assessed for harmful BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. …
Orem couple sets out to break world record traveling the world
OREM — When a job offer in Europe fell through, a couple with roots in Orem decided to do something epic to make up for that dream that came unraveled. They saved their money, sold everything they owned – even went door to door for sponsors, and started on a journey to break a world …
Game of Thrones Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Sign Major Deal With Netflix
This year alone, Disney had already remade The Lion King, Aladdin, and Dumbo as live-action releases, and remakes of Mulan, The Little Mermaid, and Lady and the Tramp are on the horizon. In March, Disney closed a $71 billion deal and acquired 20th Century Fox’s assets, too. They’ll be putting those assets to good use …
Police identify man shot, killed by officer after allegedly breaking into Utah medical clinic
OGDEN — Ogden City police released the name of a man fatally shot by police Wednesday after they say he broke into a Roy medical clinic and then attacked officers with a knife. About 1:50 a.m., Donald Lee Joseph, 37, allegedly broke into the Tanner Clinic, 3443 W. 5600 South, through a window he’d broken …
