The Rock as an Oscar nominee? It’s time to get used to the idea. When Dwayne Johnson broke down in uncontrollable sobs during a 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival, it became more than an emotional premiere moment for the wrestler-turned-actor. It signaled the potential birth of one of the unlikeliest Oscar contenders in recent memory, as …
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Jon Jones is widely regarded as arguably the greatest MMA fighter of all-time but perhaps the biggest argument against that particular accolade comes down to his history with performance-enhancing drugs. The entire fight industry learned about the word picograms thanks to a positive drug test returned by Jones that showed traces of Turinabol — an anabolic steroid — in his …
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The ongoing war in Gaza was the main topic of conversation at this year’s Venice Film Festival jury press conference, although director Alexander Payne diplomatically chose to not offer his viewpoint on the matter. “Quite frankly, I feel a little bit unprepared for that question,” said Payne, the competition jury president, when asked about his personal stance on the humanitarian …
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It isn’t just preseason chatter. Recent reports stated the Commanders are actively shopping last year’s starting running back Brian Robinson Jr., and the joint decision to not play him in Monday’s preseason game seemed to confirm it. Coach Dan Quinn said he spoke to Robinson on Sunday afternoon, and there are “a lot of moving parts.” “News like that’s always …
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By ERIC BLUM, US SPORTS REPORTER Published: 15:52, 18 August 2025 | Updated: 17:33, 18 August 2025 Samantha Busch definitively sparked a conversation true to the name of her new podcast, ‘Certified Oversharer’, stunning her fans with a orgasm conversation that would not fly in most workplaces. The stunning WAG of NASCAR dynamo Kyle Busch had Dr. Marley Quinn, a …
Read More »The C.E.O. of Duolingo Wants to Have a Conversation About A.I. The New York Times Source link
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Sitting in the lobby of the auto body shop waiting for a repair estimate, I realized I’d forgotten my earbuds. Normally, that’s not a major issue, but I was talking to my phone. And I wasn’t talking to another person. I was talking to ChatGPT. It felt as embarrassing as asking Siri a question from across the room or joining …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump claims, without a shred of evidence, that the government’s premiere economic data operation nefariously engineered negative statistics “for political purposes.” His top economic advisers don’t share that view, even as they continue to defend his stunning – and largely impulsive – decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after …
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Warning, San Francisco: That cute necklace your coworker is wearing might be recording you. A crop of startups is selling stealthy AI-powered recording devices and software that’s becoming increasingly popular across Silicon Valley. Regardless of whether you’re in a contentious work meeting, having coffee on a first date, or enjoying the wild abandon of a house party, there’s a growing …
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In case you missed it, OpenAI has responded to a recent “leak” of thousands of ChatGPT conversations by removing a sharing feature that led to its users unknowingly unleashing their private exchanges onto the world wide web. We enclose the term in quotation marks because the “leak” wasn’t the doing of some nefarious hackers, but a consequence of poor user …
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