The Daily Populous

Sunday March 18th, 2018 morning edition

image for Superhero! SU football legend Jim Brown rescues Stan Lee's dog (report)

Syracuse football legend Jim Brown has played an action hero in movies, but he's also a hero in real life to the man behind some of the biggest superheroes in comics history.

TMZ reports Stan Lee, the co-creator of Marvel characters like Daredevil, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther, X-Men and the Fantastic Four, lost his dog last week.

Sources say the 95-year-old comics legend's mini Pomeranian, Charlotte, got loose in the Los Angeles area and had been missing for several days.

Lee's team posted "Lost Dog" flyers around his Hollywood Hills neighborhood, but hadn't heard anything for several days.

Brown, who lives about a mile away from Lee, and his wife Monique found Charlotte in their yard with no collar.

"They saw the posters, called the number and just like that, Charlotte was reunited with Stan.".

It's unclear if there'll be a reward for Brown, an NFL Hall of Famer who excelled in football, basketball, track and field, and lacrosse while at Syracuse University. »

Martin Freeman has had it with fans wanting Sherlock and Watson to be lovers

Authored by radiotimes.com

Bad news, anyone still shipping Johnlock: Martin Freeman has said categorically that his John Watson and Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes are meant to be partners in crime-solving only.

So, Sherlock and Watson will forever be the closest of detecting friends – and just friends.

Yet although Sherlock’s future remains uncertain, perhaps we could see Freeman and Cumberbatch on screen together in the Marvel Universe. »

Netflix, please stop with the autoplay

Authored by polygon.com

Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson recently tweeted that his favorite console game is trying to scroll through Netflix without starting one of Netflix’s godawful autoplaying trailers.

The decision to add unnecessary, autoplaying trailers and, just as baffling, unnecessary music, actually impedes on your ability to browse and makes for a terrible user experience.

There’s even an entire Twitter account dedicated to talking about how much auto preview trailers suck!. »

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

Authored by theguardian.com

Cambridge Analytica and Facebook are one focus of an inquiry into data and politics by the British Information Commissioner’s Office.

Simon Milner, Facebook’s UK policy director, when asked if Cambridge Analytica had Facebook data, told MPs: “They may have lots of data but it will not be Facebook user data.

Facebook denies that the harvesting of tens of millions of profiles by GSR and Cambridge Analytica was a data breach. »

Trump White House Associate George Nader Was Convicted on Child Porn Charges in Virginia

Authored by newsweek.com

And in 2003 he was convicted on 10 counts of sexually abusing underage boys in the Czech Republic, the AP reported Thursday.

In between those previously reported charges, however, Nader was convicted of bringing child pornography into the United States from Germany, Newsweek learned from federal court records.

Nader was accused of transporting two videotapes in his luggage through Virginia's Dulles International Airport in July 1990. »