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Even the most die-hard of cinephiles will tell you that truly great films are few and far between, but it seems directors are also feeling the pang of mediocre movies these days. Between Madame Web, the 1,100th installment of The Fast and the Furious, and whatever it was that Jennifer Lopez was going for with This Is Me… Now, the state of film might seem pretty dire, and Dune director Denis Villeneuve would tend to agree. In a recent interview with The Times of London, Villeneuve said that “movies have been corrupted by…

Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree, you told a tale for all to see! A woman’s £650,000 ($824,850) injury claim following a car accident was rejected in an Irish court after she was seen winning a Christmas tree-throwing competition, leading the judge to conclude her declarations were exaggerated.36-year-old Kamila Grabska reportedly sued an insurance company called RSA Insurance and said injuries to her back and neck meant she was unable to work for more than five years or play with her children.Kamila reportedly…

The French actor Gérard Depardieu, who is under investigation for alleged rape, is facing another accusation of sexual assault.A set designer has filed a legal complaint against the actor claiming he sexually harassed and assaulted her on a film set in 2021.French media reported it was the second allegation of sexual misconduct by Depardieu, 75, during shooting of the 2022 film Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters), which also stars Anouk Grinberg and Fanny Ardant in Paris.Carine Durrieu Diebolt, the lawyer for the…

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A US judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing the Aerosmith frontman, Steven Tyler, of sexually assaulting a former teenage model twice in one day in Manhattan nearly 50 years ago.US district judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said Jeanne Bellino had waited too long to sue the 75-year-old Tyler, who has “vehemently” denied her allegations, under a New York City law protecting victims of gender-motivated violence.The judge said Bellino did not qualify for a two-year window to pursue claims that would otherwise extend…

Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, the tool that uses generative AI to create images from text prompts, revealed Stable Diffusion 3, a next-generation model, on Thursday. Stability AI claimed that the new model, which isn’t widely available yet, improves image quality, works better with prompts containing multiple subjects, and can more accurate text as part of the generated image, something that previous Stable Diffusion models weren’t great at.Stability AI CEO Emad Mosque posted some examples of this on…

On Feb. 7, Nex Benedict was involved in a fight at Owasso Public High School in Oklahoma. The 16-year-old, who identified as nonbinary, was rushed to a hospital a day later and died. Relatives of the 10th-grader, who used they/them pronouns, said Benedict had been bullied over their gender identity, per the Washington Post. Amid outrage involving the death of the Oklahoma teen, police claimed that an autopsy “indicated that the decedent did not die as a result of trauma.” According to the Owasso Police…

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The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a safety communication warning people to stay way from smartwatches and smart rings that claim to measure blood sugar levels without pricking the skin. “The FDA has not authorized, cleared, or approved any smartwatch or smart ring that is intended to measure or estimate blood glucose values on its own,” the agency wrote in the communication, and asked consumers, patients, and caregivers to stay away from such devices.Non invasive blood sugar monitoring isn’t currently…

Smartwatches and rings that claim to measure blood sugar levels for medical purposes without piercing the skin could be dangerous and should be avoided, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday. The caution applies to any watch or ring, regardless of brand, that claims to measure blood glucose levels in a noninvasive way, the agency said. The FDA said it has not authorized any such device. The agency’s notice doesn’t apply to smartwatch apps linked to sensors, such as continuous glucose monitoring systems…