Six people have been injured, two critically, in the explosion of a corner store in Leicester in the UK. Authorities have confirmed that it is not a terrorist act. Upper right, Sridevi, Bollywood’s leading lady of the 1980s and 90s has died prematurely at the age of 54 of a heart attack. She redefined stardom for actresses in India and became known as the first female superstar in India’s male-dominated film industry. Below that, scurrilous material on the Internet has Ottawa worrying about a possible Russian-style meddling in Canadian elections. Who knows. At the bottom, the logos of companies which are responding to a #BoycottNRA campaign over the gun lobby’s continuing opposition to control of any kind. Two videos (below) are a look at the remarkable new Samsung phone and then an NBC report on how the big four tech companies, Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, are dividing societies by feeding users just the stuff they want to hear. Name your poison.
