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1 month agoCurrent Event zritic
Terence Davies, filmmaker of the lyrical 'Distant Voices, Still Lives,' dies at the age of 77
British filmmaker Terence Davies has died at the age of 77. He was best known for a pair of powerful, lyrical movies inspired by his childhood in postwar Liverpool — “Distant Voices, Still Lives” and “The Long Day Closes.”
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2 months agoCurrent Event zritic
Leah Remini claims Church of Scientology targeting her business, friends
Remini says the controversial church has been stepping up harassment against her since she filed a lawsuit in August, according to newly filed court documents.
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3 months agoCurrent Event zritic
Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists
"A totally unreasonable proposal."
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3 months agoExpression zritic
AI revolution in video games has industry players treading warily
From generating story lines to coding entire games to turning ideas into animation, artificial intelligence is front and centre at Gamescom, one of the video game industry's biggest fairs.
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3 months agoExpression zritic
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
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4 months agoCurrent Event zritic
AI can identify passwords by sound of keys being pressed, study suggests
Researchers create system using sound recordings that can work out what is being typed with more than 90% accuracy
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4 months agoCurrent Event zritic
Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors.
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4 months agoCurrent Event zritic
95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles.
Tesla deaths from fires and Autopilot make up 24% of the fatalities in crashes. Learn about the death rates per million miles and vs other cars.
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4 months agoCurrent Event zritic
Pixel Fold review: The first foldable that actually feels like a tablet
Google takes foldable software to the next level, and it makes a big difference.
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4 months agoCurrent Event zritic
Apple opens store on China's WeChat platform
Tencent's WeChat said on Tuesday that iPhone maker Apple had opened a store on its social media platform, marking an expansion of the U.S. firm's retail channels in the world's second largest economy.
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5 months agoCurrent Event zritic
In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist
AI-infused hiring programs have drawn scrutiny, most notably over whether they end up exhibiting biases based on the data they’re trained on.
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5 months agoCurrent Event zritic
Tesla reported 466,140 deliveries for the second quarter, and production of 479,700 vehicles
Tesla just posted its second-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report for 2023.
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5 months agoCurrent Event zritic
The Failure of California Electricity Policy in One Image
In a few weeks it will be one year since the article “California just hit 95% renewable energy. Will other states come along for the ride?” appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Its author, reporter Sammy Roth, had learned that California briefly generated 95% of the electricity consumers were using from renewable sources a few days earlier, and he was elated.
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5 months agoCurrent Event zritic
VIDEO : Iceland temporarily bans whaling in the name of animal welfare as support for industry wanes
Iceland has suspended whaling until the end of August in the name of animal welfare, while also alluding to the possibility that the practice will eventually face a full ban.