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Now we got bad bots.The CEO of Liberty Media, Live Nation's largest shareholder, defended the event promoter against calls that it should be broken up following a storm of glitches and site failures during Ticketmaster presales this week for Taylor Swift's upcoming tour.Live Nation is sympathetic to fans who couldn't get tickets, Greg Maffei said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Thursday. "It's a function of Taylor Swift. The site was supposed to open up for 1.5 million verified Taylor Swift fans. We had 14 million people…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNick Nolte has reflected on the “absurd” on-set feud he had with Julia Roberts while making the 1994 romcom I Love Trouble.Nolte and Roberts starred in the film as two rival newspaper reporters forced to work together on a story about a train derailment.In an interview with The New York Times that she did during the film’s production in 1993, Roberts said: “From the moment I met him we…

Jack Dorsey says he can “understand” if current and former Twitter employees blame him for the state of the company . The co-founder and of Twitter took to the platform on Saturday to say he was to blame for the situation. “Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment,” Dorsey . “I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that.” Folks at…

Seismogram being recorded by a seismograph at the Weston Observatory in Massachusetts, USA. Credit: Wikipedia An artificial intelligence approach borrowed from natural language processing—much like language translation and autofill for text on your smart phone—can predict future fault friction and the next failure time with high resolution in laboratory earthquakes. The technique, applying AI to the fault's acoustic signals,…

A fault system running nearly 70 miles along the coast of Los Angeles and Orange counties has the potential to trigger a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, according to a new study that is the latest to highlight the seismic threats facing Southern California.Known as the Palos Verdes fault zone, the system runs deep beneath the Palos Verdes Peninsula. It previously was thought to be a segmented network of smaller faults, but a closer look by scientists at Harvard University suggests it’s a system of interconnected, closely spaced…

By Amy Hubbard and Jason SanchezHello, it’s Friday, Sept. 23, and here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:TOP STORIES Scientists say a San Andreas-scale quake is possible along coastal L.A. and O.C.A fault system running nearly 70 miles along the coast of Los Angeles and Orange counties has the potential to trigger a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, according to a new study that is the latest to highlight the seismic threats facing Southern California.An analysis by Harvard scientists determined the fault system, which…

Over the past few weeks, the news has been circulating that Apple is working to bring more ads to the iPhone. Mark Gurman, in his newsletter for Bloomberg, revealed that top dogs at Apple are looking to increase advertising revenue by almost three times the current amount – that means more ads. Later in the newsletter, Gurman dropped the bombshell that Apple has already tested bringing ads to Apple Maps and speculated that they could also make their way to Books, Podcasts, and Apple TV.Let’s make things clear right off…

via StarWars.com Jar Jar Binks gets a lot of criticism. He’s widely considered the worst thing in the prequel trilogy, has been accused of being a racist caricature, and for all but the very youngest viewers, his slapstick antics just aren’t funny. But is Jar Jar Binks really that bad? The answer is a conclusive yes, he’s a flippered nightmare. We recently rewatched The Phantom Menace for the first time in years and Jar Jar was even more detestable than we’d remembered. Sorry, Ahmed Best, you seem like a nice…

Outcrop of carbonate-altered mantle rock in the San Andreas Fault area. A recent study shows that carbon sequestration in mantle rocks may prevent large earthquakes in parts of the San Andreas Fault. Credit: Frieder Klein / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The San Andreas Fault in California is renowned for its large and infrequent earthquakes. However, some segments of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) instead are…