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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAlec Baldwin was involved in an angry encounter with pro-Palestine protesters in New York after being asked if he “condemned Israel”.The actor was also goaded over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, which occurred in 2021.Footage of the moment shared on social media showed the Hollywood star, 65, telling one person to “shut the f*** up” when they…

OpenAI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman's European goodwill tour devolved into a war of words with European Union regulators after he said his company could pull out of the bloc over its proposed AI Act.“The details really matter,” Altman, whose company kicked off the artificial intelligence boom with the release of ChatGPT last year, told reporters in London this week. “We will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating.” His warning comes as EU regulators are considering laws that will hold AI…

It’s the ultimate cosmic face-off: a pair of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), each with a mass of millions of Suns, warily circling each other and spiraling toward a titanic clash. Such mergers are thought to culminate in the universe’s most energetic blasts of gravitational waves, and they must be common to explain how SMBHs, found at the hearts of most galaxies, grow so big. But despite decades of searching, not a single SMBH binary has been conclusively…

Image via Marvel Television The MCU’s Phase Five is still only one project in, but the alarm bells are already ringing thanks to an anxiety-inducing update from Disney Plus which practically outright promises that multiple delays are on the way. In happier, albeit hellish, news, however, Daredevil: Born Again reaches some exciting new developments, even as the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen has to compete with the actual devil himself for the Marvel fandom’s attention. Nothing to see here, just Disney Plus removing all…

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Thousands of employees of the Environmental Protection Agency are lobbying this week for Congress to address staffing issues that they say are limiting their ability to meaningfully carry out the Biden administration’s ambitious climate goals.Leaders of AFGE Council 238, a union representing roughly half of the EPA’s 14,000-member workforce, said in a memo that non competitive salaries and a lack…

New vote to go to the NLRB Last month, it was reported that workers at Activision Blizzard support studio Proletariat had taken steps to forming its own union, working in conjunction with the Communication Workers of America (CWA) to establish the Proletariat Workers Alliance. However, it seems that leadership at both Activision Blizzard and Proletariat itself are refusing to recognize the group on a voluntarily basis. In a blog post signed by “The Proletariat Leadership Team“, management states that rather than…

“There are some configurations of the future that don’t correspond to anything in the past,” Cotler said. “There’s nothing in the past that would evolve into them.”Giddings has proposed a similar principle for ruling out paradoxical states he encountered while studying black holes last year. He calls it “history matters,” and it holds that a given state of the universe is only physically possible if it can evolve backward without generating contradictions. “This has been kind of a lingering puzzle,” he said. Strominger…

FP StaffDec 07, 2022 09:21:08 ISTIn a major setback to Vivo and the Chinese smartphone industry, Indian authorities have stopped Vivo from exporting over 27,000 smartphones for over a week. Vivo makes several of its smartphones at its Indian plants and then exports them to neighbouring markets, and to China. Indian agencies have alleged that they shipment Vivo was trying to export is valued at $15 million, but Vivo, allegedly, grossly misrepresented and underreported the value of the shipment. Image Credit: Vivo The…

Six million people were on Friday under Covid lockdown in a Chinese city home to the world's largest iPhone factory, after clashes between police and workers furious over pay. Authorities have ordered residents of eight districts in Zhengzhou, in the central province of Henan, not to leave the area for the next five days, setting up barriers around "high-risk" apartment buildings and checkpoints to restrict travel. There have been only a handful of coronavirus cases in the city but under China's zero-Covid policy…

Foxconn, Apple's largest manufacturing partner in China, has been having some issues recently. The company's Zhengzhou plant, which houses the biggest iPhone manufacturing facility in the world, has been brought to a halt because of a riot situation involving the employees over wages.Now Apple seems to have stepped up. The company has issued a statement, and it seems to be working with Foxconn to address and solve the employees' issues. Apple steps in to settle payment disputeIn a statement released by Apple, the company…