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Nicole Kidman is one of the most beloved and well-recognized actresses in Hollywood today, between her numerous great movies over the years, TV shows and being the face of those AMC Theatres ads. While one might think the Moulin Rouge star just strutted right into her success, the actress recently opened up about how her height actually started as a downside as a Hollywood actress. When Kidman was a guest on The Radio Times Podcast, host Kelly-Anne Taylor shared her own experience dealing with being a tall young woman in…

It's the first day of the last month of 2023, and we might be in for an exciting period in artificial intelligence space as companies continue developing this technology while protest groups keep highlighting its dangers. In the first news, Meta executives said that they found no downside to openly sharing its AI technology. This comes as the tech company keeps releasing open-source versions of its large language models. In other news, a group of visual artists has filed an amended lawsuit against text-to-image…

Meta Platforms Inc. executives, speaking at an event Thursday, said there's been no major drawbacks to openly sharing its AI technology, even as many peers take the opposite approach.Over the past few months, Meta has been releasing open-source versions of its large language models — the technology behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT. The idea is to keep those models free and then gain an advantage by building products and services on top of them, executives said at an event for the company's AI research Lab FAIR.  “There is…

Lizzo Details Her Close Friendship With Adele, Reveals The Only Downside Is They Cannot Remember Anything – Here’s Why ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Popstar Lizzo has opened up about her close friendship with fellow singing superstar Adele and the downside to their relationship. The 35-year-old music sensation also counts former ‘One Direction’ star Harry Styles as a close friend and even tunes in to ‘Love Island’, reports mirror.co.uk. Lizzo said that she is always able to rely on 35-year-old Adele for a fun night…

Photo via Marvel Studios While Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse currently steals the show, due to its enormously critical and financial success, the MCU is somewhat taking a backseat in the superhero cinema conversation right now. At least, it was until some eye-opening revelations are raising questions about the sustainability of the franchise that’s owned Hollywood for the past 15 years. On a lighter note, with Pride Month now here, one Marvel Disney Plus series is apparently destined to be a big…

If you have been waiting for the rumored 15-inch MacBook Air, you should know it won’t take much longer to get your hands on this model. After months of rumors, we have finally come to a full picture of what to expect from this machine. Unfortunately, another report from a trusty leaker shows this Mac will only have one downside – which we all were aware of. According to user yeux1122 on the Korean blog Naver, a Taiwanese supply chain source told them the new 15-inch MacBook Air would be equipped with an M2…

Does success beget success? Not necessarily. In fact, success can hurt a winning team. In our research, we found that success comes with a trap: It can cause teams to rely more on their most influential members or stars—in other words, the hierarchy of the team becomes steeper. This makes the team less adaptable and more likely to get stuck in old ways of doing things. And, ultimately, it increases the chances of failure the next time around. Does success beget success? Not necessarily.…

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, recently invested US$180 million into Retro Biosciences – a company seeking to extend human lifespans by 10 healthy years.One way it plans to achieve this is by "rejuvenating" blood. This idea is based on studies that found old mice showed signs of reversed aging when given the blood of young mice.Altman isn't the only Silicon Valley entrepreneur supporting life extension efforts. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Google co-founder Larry Page have…

Stopping work and enjoying a well-earned retirement and a slower pace of life comes with plenty of benefits – but it may also cause our brains to lose their sharpness a little quicker, according to a new study using data from China.Like many other countries, increasing life expectancy and declining fertility have meant that China's elderly population is rapidly growing. This led to the introduction of a New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in the country.The NRPS offers a stable income if participants retire at 60, and it's…

Credit: Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND The shift to working from home is unlikely to reverse. Data from the HILDA (Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia) Survey released on Monday show the proportion of Australians working "most hours" from home jumped from around 6% before the pandemic to 21% in 2020. Unpublished…