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An emerging technology allows relatives to keep an eye on elderly or vulnerable people living alone by monitoring their electricity usage - but as with all innovations, there is the potential for misuse.
It s the second week of March and I am on Zoom having an argument with my mum about her toaster. I have just informed her that she has used the appliance twice so far that morning - once at 08:03 and again at 09:55 - but she s not having any of it. I had the toaster on earlier than that because I was up at 06:00, she declares. (My mother is not the sort to let an early start go unrecorded.)
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Opinion | Amazon’s superhero satire ‘The Boys’ gets even wilder
Superheroes find their reputations undone in a matter of retweets in ‘The Boys’.Premium
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Homelander is a superhero. He takes down terrorists, poses for movie posters and smiles from hoardings, with a stars-and-stripes cape and a distinctively Superman pose. Played by Antony Starr, he looks like Greg Kinnear if he’d been bred onsteroids, and in the second season of
The Boys a resoundingly entertaining series on Amazon Prime Video America’s most popular hero longs for a woman he had killed in season 1.
Elisabeth Shue plays Madeleine Starr, the aforementioned woman, and she duly shows up to comfort Homelander, to cradle his super head in her lap and let him lick milk off her fingers. This appearance feels oddly indulgent, neither a flashback nor a prolonged fantasy sequence in keeping with the show’s cruelly self-aware tone. Then, without warning, Shue grows a belly and turns