PodcastPodcast, The Take Celebrities’ silence on Gaza has triggered a new social media movement. Now trending: the “digital guillotine”. It’s a campaign known as Blockout 2024 to block celebrities on social media. Launched after the Met Gala in New York, it’s meant to hurt celebrities’ ad revenue. Will it have an impact? In this episode:  Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (@ASE), Journalist Marcus Collins (@marctothec), Assistant professor of marketing, University of Michigan Episode credits:

The NBA Eastern Conference postseason begins on Wednesday night with the play-in tournament. The top six teams from the conference have already qualified for the playoffs, while seeds seven through 10 enter the play-in tournament for an opportunity to qualify for the final two playoff spots in each conference. Here are three key Eastern Conference talking points ahead of the NBA playoffs: 1. Are the second-placed New York Knicks playoff contenders or pretenders in the East?

FIRST PHOTO: Julia Camello makes one of Sam Sato’s biggest sellers, a lima bean manju Thursday afternoon. In the background is Yukiko Yasuda. According to Sam Sato’s daughter, Lynne Toma, Sam was the eldest of five siblings whose father died when he was young. Mother and son opened and ran the business, eventually enlisting help through an arranged marriage between Sam and Gladys Sato, who had already learned the baking trade.

Google has opened the doors to more types of apps on Android Auto, and that now includes the very first garage door opener app, which we’ve been able to spend some time with. Android Auto apps were traditionally limited to only a few categories. Navigation and media made up the vast, vast majority of apps until very recently. We’ve since seen apps such as Samsung SmartThings open the door to smart home apps, Weather & Radar bringing the first weather app, and Google announced last month that Zoom and Webex would also gain support.

CNN  —  Betty White, the self-described “lucky old broad” whose sweetly sarcastic senior citizen characters were a beloved fixture on TV shows and movies such as “The Golden Girls,” “Boston Legal” and “Hot in Cleveland,” died Friday, her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told People magazine in a statement. At 99, she was just weeks away from celebrating her 100th birthday on Jan. 17. “Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,” Witjas said.