It’s easy to forget, given the current glut of robot-uprising doom flicks, that Hollywood has been doing the artificial intelligence thing for decades – long before anything resembling true AI existed in the real world. And now we live in an…
Category: 5. Entertainment
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Up Close With Robert De Niro And Chef Nobu At Their New Rome Hotel
Robert De Niro, Chef Nobu Matsuhisa and Meir Teper celebrate the opening of a new hotel.
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There is no mistaking the star power behind Nobu Hotels. When the founders enter a room, conversations pause almost instinctively. These…
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Watch 22 holiday TV specials, movies and cultural events this season
Christmas, they say, comes once a year, but “once” now lasts for days and weeks and months, as Friday’s inflatable Frankenstein’s monster becomes Monday’s inflatable snowman. The yuletide is now upon us, even before…
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Merry Ex-mas? Megan Nolan on the curse of the festive break-up
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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
In the popular imagination, the single person’s Christmas season is a blip of temporary insanity, a whirlwind where…
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Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander navigates her country’s complex past—a new monograph tells her story – The Art Newspaper
Art in Pakistan, like its culture and language, has never quite fit the nation state that now contains it. Instead, it arises from the visual traditions of the Indian subcontinent and the Islamic world, passed through the refining fire of global…
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The Strad – ‘There will be blood’: the Danish Quartet at Santa Fe Pro Musica
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This past weekend, straight off the plane from Copenhagen, The Danish String Quartet was whisked over to the Simms Center for the Performing Arts where they played…
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Beta Film & Film School Team To Shape Future Of AI Production
EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film and German film school Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (FABW) are joining forces on a “lab to market” AI initiative that they hope will help shape the future of film and TV production. The alliance pairs one…
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U.K. School Bans ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Sing-Alongs
A Christian school in England has barred its students from singing along to KPop Demon Hunters amid concerns over references to demons.
Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Dorset sent a note to parents and carers for the pupils,…
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Why Our Feeds are Filled with AI Slop—and What to Do about It – Terms of Service with Clare Duffy
If you’ve spent any time on the internet recently, you have almost certainly seen an uptick in video content generated by AI. Whether it’s an AI video of a cat riding a…
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BBC Puts 84 Jobs At Risk Across Teams Behind Iplayer & Other Services
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has put more than 80 employees at risk of redundancy across the product teams that help power online services, including iPlayer.
The British broadcaster is planning to make delivery managers redundant in its…
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