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Just want to know who won? Here’s our list of winners and all those nominated, or you can relive every minute of the ceremony in our live blog.The winners Oppenheimer wins best picture Oscar as Emma Stone pulls surprise win Christopher Nolan wins his first ever Oscar for directing Oppenheimer Cillian Murphy wins best actor for J Robert Oppenheimer Emma Stone wins best actress for Poor Things Da’Vine Joy Randolph wins best supporting actress Oscar for The Holdovers Robert Downey Jr wins best supporting actor Oscar for…

A representation of cryptocurrency Ethereum is placed on a PC motherboard in this illustration taken on June 16, 2023.Dado Ruvic | ReutersThe price of ether jumped on Wednesday as investors moved into the cryptocurrency ahead of key upside catalysts expected in January.Ether was last higher by 6%, according to Coin Metrics. Solana's SOL token, among the top performers in crypto this year, was up 2%."We believe it's attributed to … a rotation back into the Ethereum ecosystem from other 1s, which so far have outperformed…

The Season of the Wish has dredged up some old Destiny 2 storylines--elements of the game that have been left hanging for nearly five years. Central to those stories is Riven, the last Ahamkara, a creature that we, uh... killed. Back in the Last Wish raid. In the Forsaken campaign. In 2018.So what's the deal with Riven, and the wishing wall, and the Dreaming City, and the Ahamkara in general? There's a lot going on here, that's for sure, and even if you've been through Forsaken's story, you might be a…

It was kind of a strange AWS re:Invent this week in Las Vegas. Once again, there wasn’t a huge amount of news coming out of the massive customer event; the biggest announcements were related to AI, of course. But the real story could be that Amazon has found itself in the uncomfortable position of chasing Microsoft when it comes to AI. And that’s in spite of the drama that played out at OpenAI last week, in which Microsoft was squarely in the middle. The rivalry became clear when Amazon CEO Adam…

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.  Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Has ChatGPT reached peak hype? When a typically cautious automaker jumps into the fray, well it’s one signal that we might be close. I’m talking, of course, about Mercedes…

China's artificial intelligence-powered autonomous-vehicle market is showing serious promise. So, of course, Elon Musk wants a piece of it, especially since he's struggled to get self-driving technology off the ground in the US. That may not pan out as well as the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer's Beijing-backed electric-vehicle bet.Local media say Tesla could be getting ready to test its full self-driving technology in China. Given the firm's FSD track record in the US, that's a scary and unsafe prospect. In May…

Google has made its long-awaited AI chatbot, called Bard, available to the public in the US and UK; an attempt to regain its leadership in the most competitive and high-profile new technology in years.The bot, which is based on tech that has been under development by the company for eight years, can answer questions, write text and have informative conversations on nearly any subject. But in a sign that Google is proceeding more cautiously than its rivals — something that has spurred internal tension among the company’s…

Diablo Immortal will introduce changes to make it far easier for players that are falling behind their server's Paragon level to catch up, developer Blizzard has announced.In a Q&A blog post, Blizzard outlined some of the changes players can expect to see in the free-to-play mobile game in the coming weeks and months. Some of those changes will be to help players catch up who may have taken time away from the game and fallen behind. You need a javascript enabled browser…

U.S. automotive giant Ford’s bringing more driver assistance features to U.S. roads, whether drivers are ready for them or not.This fall, Ford’s electric Mustang Mach-E and Lincoln ActiveGlide 1.2 will both feature hands-free lane changing capabilities, ​​in-lane repositioning, and predictive speed assist, according to a recent press release. The rollout, which Ford touts as a safety improvement, comes despite growing scrutiny around similar advanced driver assistance systems used by competitors (looking at you Tesla)…

Photo: Amanda Matlovich/NetflixDesperate to help his girlfriend, Jackie (Genevieve Kang), remember magic as her 18th birthday approached, Tyler spent a lot of season two trying to track down the Memory Key. That particular key was made two decades prior by Duncan Locke (Aaron Ashford), the kids’ uncle, at the behest of their father, Rendell (Bill Heck as an adult, Nick Dolan as a teen). He and his high-school friends—who dubbed themselves “the Keepers of the Keys”—wanted the power to hold onto their supernatural…