It’s alive! It’s at the Venice Film Festival! But it’s not a cautionary tale about artificial intelligence. Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein,” starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, follows a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a monstrous creature to life, only for the experiment to lead to the destruction of them both. Though it’s a timely tale about hubris, corruption …
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‘No one’s afraid of Georgia,’ underdog Marshall openly states it will ‘shock’ Bulldogs
ATHENS — Georgia coach Kirby Smart knows better than anyone his program has to take back its identity this season. No one’s afraid of Georgia football anymore. SEC Network analyst Paul Finebaum said that this offseason, and Marshall defensive lineman KaTron Evans confirmed it this week with an ill-timed display of confidence. RELATED: Does SEC title run through Georgia anymore? …
Read More »‘Nebraska Knows It’s Really Good And Isn’t Afraid To Talk About It’: Volleyball State
Nebraska volleyball is 2-0 through two matches, and there was plenty to react to in their wins over Pitt and Stanford. On Sunday night’s episode of Volleyball State, Jeff Sheldon and Lincoln Arneal unpacked it all, including the defense against Stanford, as well as the confidence the program has at this time. Below is a lightly edited transcript of portions …
Read More »I Hated My Breasts And Was Afraid To Show Them To Dates. Here’s What Happened When I Did.
I had a double mastectomy when I was 40 years old in 1997. I was married and had two children under the age of 11. Cutting off my breasts when I didn’t have cancer seemed radical, but it wasn’t radical to me. I have the BRCA1 gene mutation. That means I have a 60% chance of getting ovarian cancer and …
Read More »Dad Advised Not to Write Again After ‘Beau Is Afraid’
Ari Aster is known for making family dramas turned, well, horrific, but the auteur recently experienced some family drama of his own. After Aster’s third film “Beau Is Afraid” was a box office flop, Aster’s father suggested that he solely direct instead. “When ‘Beau Is Afraid’ flopped, my dad did tell me, ‘Uh, maybe you shouldn’t write the next one,’” …
Read More »Ari Aster, Hollywood’s Master of Dread, Is Afraid of Everything – The New York Times
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Read More »The CEO of Nvidia Admits What Everybody Is Afraid of About AI
This week, Nvidia became the first company in history to be worth $4 trillion. It’s a number so large it’s almost meaningless, more than the entire economy of Germany or the United Kingdom. While Wall Street celebrates, the question for everyone else is simple: So what? The answer, according to Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang, is that this is not just …
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