Microsoft’s multi-year, multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI likely came out of a fear of Google dominating the AI race, an email shows. Read more...
Amazonia is the home of the largest variety of birds in the world. In such a unique environment, craft cultures have flourished by translating the beauty and creativity of environmental materials like feathers into stunning pieces of art.
A parasite that not only feeds off its host, but also makes the host change its own metabolism and thus biology: NIOZ microbiologists Su Ding and Joshua Hamm, Nicole Bale, Jaap Damsté and Anja Spang have shown this for the very first time in a specific group of parasitic
Film, out this fall, depicts the story of photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller
A film adaptation of author Colleen Hoover’s bestselling romantic thriller “Verity” is in development at Amazon MGM Studios. Hillary Seitz (“The Unforgivable,” “Insomnia”) is currently writing the script. Eat the Cat’s Nick Antosca and Alex Hedlund will produce. “Verity”
Report published Tuesday shows sector’s shift from climate denial to strategy of ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’ The fossil fuel industry spent decades sowing doubt about the dangers of burning oil and gas, experts and Democratic lawmakers testified on Capitol Hill
Electric Light Orchestra’s Richard Tandy has passed away at 76. ELO leader Jeff Lynne announced the news on social media, writing: “He was a remarkable musician & friend and I’ll cherish the lifetime of memories we had together.”
Tesla’s sudden move to lay off most of its Supercharger division shocked the electric vehicle industry, halted construction plans, and left pretty much anyone paying attention baffled . Read more...
There’s been a flurry of successful tech IPOs at the start of the year: Reddit , AI startup Astera Labs , consumer rewards app Ibotta , Microsoft-backed Rubrik . But the biggest IPO on the books for 2024 so far is not in Silicon Valley — in fact it’s not even on dry land. Read
These bubblegum sculptures created and photographed by artist Suzanne Saroff are delightfully disgusting . I found this via Grace Ebert at Colossal , who writes: Conjuring memories of childhood competitions and absent-minded chomping, the photos zoom in on chewed wads of
Why wait? | Image: Netflix Want to try the nine games that Netflix now streams from cloud servers directly to your laptop, desktop, or TV? Officially , you’re supposed to wait until the beta rolls out more broadly , but for now, there may be an easier way. If you fire up a
What if a game show took one of its games and made it into a video game? Is that confusing? Well, it happened. On May 1, Dropout TV ’s Sam Reich, host of the internet game show /social experiment Game Changer , announced the release of a new video game based on a specific game
Benzino thinks that it is unfair for R. Kelly to be locked away in prison for three decades despite the singer's sex-trafficking and racketeering charges.
Gold House co-founder and CEO Bing Chen has a vision “to build the Gold Bridge.” It’s a symbolic bridge that is already being constructed and heralds the next phase of the not-for-profit he launched six years ago with Jeremy Tran, who also serves as the company’s COO. The Gold
Former President Trump on Wednesday praised New York law enforcement for forcibly clearing protesters from a Columbia University building amid intense protests over the war in Gaza. The former president praised police for entering Hamilton Hall and arresting dozens of people
A study published in Opto-Electronic Science discusses high-intensity spatial-mode steerable frequency up-converter toward on-chip integration.
“'Words are the only victors,' Rushdie wrote in his last novel, 'Victory City.'"
Paul Auster, the acclaimed novelist who also wrote and directed films, died at his home in New York City on April 30. He was 77. Auster’s novels centered around questions of identity, language and personal meaning. His wife, writer Siri Hustvedt, told the New York Times he died
Billy Dee Williams’ Lando Calrissian is one of the coolest characters in Star Wars and now, finally, this cape-wearing, smooth-talking scoundrel will soon be available in Fortnite along with a lot of other Star Wars -related content, too. Read more...
Colleges are taking more definitive action to end the pro-Palestinian student protests that have sprung up nationwide, either through police force or peaceful agreement between demonstrators and campus leaders. Multiple universities this week have sent in law enforcement to
Dan Schneider has filed a defamation lawsuit against the producers of the Investigation Discovery docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” which uncovered alleged abuse and misconduct at Nickelodeon and became Max’s biggest streaming title ever. The lawsuit,
More than one in 10 LGBTQ youth said that they have attempted suicide in the last year, according to a new survey. The survey from The Trevor Project found that 12 percent of LGBTQ youth aged 13 to 24 said they had attempted suicide within the last year. Thirty-nine percent of
Critics call the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which has some Democratic support, an effort to silence criticism of Israel and an affront to the First Amendment.
Beijing’s propaganda engine is pulling data from Chinese tech firms, including popular shopping and gaming apps with hundreds of millions of U.S. users, researchers say.
Since 2000, Variety has been naming its annual 10 Comics to Watch — and watching them go on to impressive careers. We decided to invite a few notable alumni who happen to be performing at the Netflix Is Joke Festival this year for a conversation over Zoom. We were joined by
Google fired around 200 employees and relocated some of the jobs overseas -- the latest sign of a long-running effort by the company to cut costs and restructure itself.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Wednesday said he’s ready for the “chaos” that has plagued the House for much of 2023 and 2024 to end next week, when a bipartisan group of lawmakers is expected to vote to quash a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
Former President Trump on Wednesday confirmed he told Secret Service agents he wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while he mocked the claim that he lunged at officers in his vehicle when they refused. Trump, speaking to supporters in Wisconsin, complained at length
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member was known for instrumental rave-ups like 'Rebel Rouser' and 'Peter Gunn'
The 33 employees were let go across various teams, and as part of Belka's larger business adjustment.
The Senate on Wednesday took the first step toward passing a five-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the final must-pass piece of legislation until the fall. Senators voted 89 to 10 to overcome the first procedural hurdle and move toward