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Addison Rae has teased followers that new music is coming as songs that were previously leaked from a "lost album," are set to be officially released. The 22-year-old who rose to fame on TikTok, amassing 88.4m followers on the platform has also explored other entertainment endeavours. In 2021, she starred in her first film, Netflix's He's All That, a gender-swapped version of the 90's rom-com classic She's All That (1999). Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Rae is set to appear in Ryan Reynolds' new movie, "Animal Friends," alongside Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn and Aubrey Plaza. The social media star has also delved into music too, she released her debut single Obsessed back in 2021 but hasn't released any new music since. But a recent announcement on Rae's Instagram suggests new music is dropping soon, where she posted an image of herself blowing bubble gum. "Dug up a few of the leaks from the lost album AR 8.18," she wrote in a recent Instagram, teasing some kind of announcement for this Friday (August 18). What Rae is referring to is when 10 of her unreleased songs were leaked on SoundCloud last year. On her official website, there is a chewing gum bubble where users can click to burst it and reveal a countdown that appears to end on August 18 too. Some phrases on the website background also include phrases such as: “2 Die 4,” “It could’ve been you,” and “I could just cry," two of which are the names of leaked songs. Meanwhile, fans are convinced that one of the songs Rae is putting out will feature a collaboration with Charli XCX after the British singer shared Rae's post to her Instagram Stories. "@addisonrae is a cult classic and that's facts," she wrote, and in another story wrote: "Gonna be 2 die 4, wow I can’t wait," hinting her feature will be on the song "2 Die 4." Fans of Rae have been sharing their excitement about this long-awaited announcement. Safe to say, Rae's fans are eagerly waiting for August 18 to come around. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Andrew Tate has welcomed former UKIP and Brexit Party politician Nigel Farage to 'the club' after the GB News host claimed that he was being forced out of the UK by banks. Farage shared a six-minute monologue on Thursday claiming that he is facing "serious political persecution" after his unnamed bank closed his accounts two months ago for an apparant "commercial decision." The 59-year-old added that similar things had happened to his family and his political colleagues and he was now contemplating leaving the country and is planning his "next steps." Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter He added: "I won’t really be able to exist or function in a modern 21st century Britain,” Farage said. “‘I’m beginning to think that perhaps life in the United Kingdom is now becoming completely unliveable because of the levels of prejudice against me.” In response, Tate, the outspoken British-American influencer currently facing charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania said: "Welcome to the club." Tate was arrested in late December 2022 and has been under house arrest with his brother Tristan and two other associates ever since. Earlier this month, Tate and the three other men were officially charged by the Romanian authorities for the aforementioned offenses as well as organised crime for the specific exploitation of women. Tate has strongly denied all the charges against him. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

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A new technique is a dramatic breakthrough in the search for alien life, astronomers say. Researchers at the Breakthrough Listen project based at the University of California, Berkeley say they have developed a new way to be sure that any potential signal is really coming from space – and not from something more boring. Astronomers spend vast amounts of time looking for radio signals that might have come from alien civilisations as part of work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. But they have in the past been fooled by very human technology, such as cellphones, microwaves and car engines, that can produce a blast of radio signals that look as if they have come from distant worlds. One way to check whether signals are really alien is to point the telescope elsewhere and then repeatedly return to the same spot, with the hope of seeing the signal again and ensuring that it is not a false alarm. But that is not foolproof – and only works if the signal sticks around. Some of the most promising radio signals might only be detectable once. The so-called “Wow!” signal, for instance – a radio signal detected in 1977 that was so shocking the astronomer who found it wrote the exclamation on a printout – has not been detected since, and astronomers still do not know whether it was an alien message or just a mistake. Now scientists have devised a new test that can be used to see whether a signal has really passed through interstellar space, which should help show that it is not from elsewhere on Earth. It works by looking for “scintillation” – the changes in amplitude of a signal as it is affected by the cold plasma of space. “The first ET detection may very well be a one-off, where we only see one signal. And if a signal doesn’t repeat, there’s not a lot that we can say about that. And obviously, the most likely explanation for it is radio frequency interference, as is the most likely explanation for the Wow! signal,” said Andrew Siemion, principal investigator for Breakthrough Listen and director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center, which operates the world’s longest running SETI program. “Having this new technique and the instrumentation capable of recording data at sufficient fidelity such that you could see the effect of the interstellar medium, or ISM, is incredibly powerful.” Dr Siemion called the breakthrough “one of the biggest advances in radio SETI in a long time” and said that it would be the first time researchers would be able to differentiate a real signal from a false alarm, even if it was only detected once. The technique can only be used for signals that have travelled 10,000 light years or more to Earth, researchers note. If it was closer to us, the scintillation effect cannot be seen because they are not travelling through enough of the interstellar medium, or ISM. The research is described in a new paper, ‘On Detecting Interstellar Scintillation in Narrowband Radio SETI’, published in The Astrophysical Journal. Read More Battery breakthroughs are about to trigger a transport revolution Huge asteroid nearly crashes into Earth – and is only spotted days later ChatGPT rival with ‘no ethical boundaries’ sold on dark web