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In an interview on The Party Starters podcast, Bobby Shmurda favorably compared “I’m Not Racist” rapper Joyner Lucas to No Limit founder Master P.“The shit that I hate about the industry, is they don’t talk about Joyner Lucas,” he said around the 12:30 point of the interview. “Why the fuck don’t we talk about him?” He went on to say that Lucas is making considerable bank with his music because he’s an independent artist, but that’s also why he’s not discussed as much or headlining festivals such as Rolling Loud.“But you…

The Honor Society, which premieres on Paramount Plus on July 29, is a savvy rites-of-passage piece which mainlines top tier John Hughes during his prolific Eighties period. With a disarming delivery of straight-to-camera dialogue, Angourie Rice attempts to steal this film as Honor, a prim and proper high school senior with Ferris Bueller-levels of sass, who runs rings around all comers in her attempts to get a Harvard scholarship. Written by David A. Goodman, longtime producer on Family Guy and The Orville, this feels as…

 launched (see our full review) I awarded the ring an 8.3/10 rating with a few things listed in the cons section. With this latest update, three of the four cons have now been resolved, and my rating needs to be updated to well over a 9. Sample image of someone with fair breathing regularity and good blood oxygen levels Image: OuraThis week's update brings blood oxygen sensing to the Oura Ring 3, and I see my evaluation ring has already received the update, so I'll get my first night's sleep with it this evening.In…

Screenshot: ParamountDavid Warner, who sadly passed away earlier this week, is beloved for his villainous turns. From Time After Time to Time Bandits, from Tron to Batman: The Animated Series’ Ra’s Al Ghul, the actor’s legendary career is paved with them. But perhaps his finest hour on television comes from his third and final Star Trek role in The Next Generation.“Chain of Command” sits as a two-parter in the middle of The Next Generation’s sixth season. It’s one of the show’s best, and beloved for a haunting turn by…

Applied Machine LearningA Voice-Enabled Art Generation ToolImage by AuthorI’ve read and applied some of the latest AI research so you don't have to. In this article I talk through the most advanced text-to-image generation models, and I apply them to make a voice-enabled art generation tool.IntroductionThere are some groundbreaking papers that have flourished in the past few years in the field of text-to-image generation. This field is becoming more and more popular with new ways to monetize these artworks online.Art…

Apple announced a rare retail promotion in China on Monday, offering four days of discounts on its top-tier iPhones and related accessories in advance of the launch of its next-generation devices. The company, usually reluctant to alter pricing, will take up to CNY 600 (roughly Rs. 7,100) off the price of its top-line iPhone 13 Pro series between July 29 and Aug. 1, according to a notice on its website. To be eligible, buyers have to use one of a select number of payment platforms, such as Ant Group's Alipay. Certain…

Comic-Con 2022: Star Trek: The Next Generation Stars Patrick Stewart & Gates McFadden Reunite On Stage ( Photo Credit – Twitter ) ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (‘TNG’) cast members Patrick Stewart and Gates McFadden reunited on stage at San Diego Comic-Con, where they promoted the third and final season of series ‘Star Trek: Picard’. Though they were not able to make it to Hall H, Stewart and McFadden will be joined in the new season by ‘TNG’ co-stars Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn,…

Paramount has shared a new trailer for the upcoming third season of Star Trek: Picard. And while we already knew Picard’s final adventure would , it’s still good to see some characters we haven’t seen in a while. The minute-long clip Paramount released during San Diego Comic-Con features voiceovers from nearly all of Picard’s season three cast, including LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden and Michael Dorn. It’s not much more than what Paramount had to offer back in April, but at least this time we get to see the former crew of…

NASA is set to decommission the International Space Station in 2030.Gif: NASA/GizmodoThe International Space Station has been a cornerstone in NASA’s portfolio of spacecrafts since its launch in 1998, but all good things must come to an end, and some of NASA’s safety advisers are getting nervous about what’s next according to a report from SpaceNews.At a meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel yesterday, NASA advisers raised concerns that the commercial space stations that are set to take over the duties of the…

After Flo Milli scored a viral TikTok hit in 2020, the 22-year-old Alabama rapper capitalised on the influencer-era commodification of the self in her debut mixtape Ho, Why Is You Here?, receiving widespread critical acclaim for her playful, boastful take on Southern rap. Her debut album, You Still Here, Ho?, opens with Tiffany Pollard, one of US reality TV’s most-memed personalities, exclaiming “Get in line, peasants!” Clearly, Milli has no intention of abandoning the amped-up vanity that defined her breakout year – and…