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This was the year -- ask your stockbroker, or the disgraced management of Sports Illustrated -- that artificial intelligence went from a dreamy projection to an ambient menace and perpetual sales pitch. Does it feel like the future to you, or has AI already taken on the staleness and scamminess of the now-worthless non-fungible token?Artists have been deploying AI technologies for a while, after all: Ed Atkins, Martine Syms, Ian Cheng and Agnieszka Kurant have made use of neural networks and large language models for…

In a world where movie streaming seems to be the new future, Christopher Nolan has always been a big advocate of the movie-going experience. This year, it looks like he got his wish as Oppenheimer’s box office dominance has brought mass audiences to theaters. With the British filmmaker making such a theater-going impact this year, Nolan shares “the crazy thing” about Oppenheimer’s success and how he feels about people still traveling to theaters. The historical biopic that told the story of “the father of the atomic…

Jessie Ware deliberately wanted the opening track of That! Feels Good! to sound like a group of people at an orgy. Featuring the likes of Kylie Minogue, actor Jamie Demetriou, Radio 1 host Clara Amfo, producer Benny Blanco and Ware’s mother (and co-host of the hit podcast Table Manners) Lennie all whispering the album’s title, it has the same brain-scratching satisfaction as an ASMR video, albeit one tempting you into the velveted opulence of Ware’s exceptional fifth album. It’s a record that delights in its author’s…

It’s not always easy giving gifts. Some people have a natural talent for it, others have to put in more work and thought. And some don’t even bother – a random candle will do. But what if a person tells you exactly what they want? All that’s left then are just a few clicks to order the present online, right?As evident from this story, it’s not always as simple as this. One Redditor went to the r/TwoHotTakes subreddit to share her story about a Christmas gift from her boyfriend. She wanted to know whether her reaction to…

Fifteen years ago, Carrie Brownstein, one half of feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney, was getting her hair cut when rowdy guitars started blaring through the salon’s speakers. What is this song, she thought, and who is this woman screaming? It took her a further 15 seconds to realise that the roars belonged to her bandmate, Corin Tucker. Their sound was scrappier than Brownstein remembered. The song she’d struggled to recognise? Dig Me Out: a galloping three-minute track that catapulted the band to international acclaim in…

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Actor-filmmaker Bradley Cooper says he is a "bit of a control freak." The 48-year-old actor said he felt "freedom" in knowing that if anything was wrong about his latest movie `Maestro`, which he wrote and directed, as well as portraying late musical legend Leonard Bernstein, it was all down to him, even though it was also a "huge burden". Speaking to Emma Stone for Variety`s Actors on Actors series, after the `Poor Things` star noted it was "scary" to spend so much time preparing for a role, he replied: "I have felt…

It’s really hard not to have some degree of reverence for E3. For those who grew up with games being streamed and broadcast, it was the big show. It was the place where the biggest reveals of the year happened. And now, it is dead. That’s dramatic, I know. But in all seriousness, the ESA has officially declared E3 done. After more than two decades, the show will cease to exist, following several canceled or online-only years, and a broken partnership with PAX organizer ReedPop. (Disclosure: I used to work under ReedPop,…

Doctor Who executive producer Russell T. Davies warned everyone that the 60th anniversary special episodes were going to introduce some interesting new twists to the mythology of the series meant to set the stage for actor Ncuti Gatwa’s debut as the Time Lord. Some of those changes — especially those specific to the Doctor’s companions and nemeses — have been easy to understand as Davies updating Doctor Who lore to better reflect modern sensibilities. But when it came to the arrival of the newest Doctor — the first…

Whether or not you’ve ever held a newborn baby in your arms, most of us know how fragile they are. They cannot hold their head up properly, so you have to make sure to support it. They also have a self-destruct button on the top of their heads, also known as a soft spot or fontanelle. In other words, one has to be extra careful when dealing with them. But can one not be too careful?In the following story, the mother of a newborn girl is very protective of her child. Maybe a little too much so as it’s starting to worry…