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Pearl Jam frontman is in London for all-star Teenage Cancer Trust event on Sunday with Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, and Paul Weller The Who performed with the Heart of England Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday night, and surprise guest Eddie Vedder came out near the end to join them on the Quadrophenia classic “The Punk and the Godfather.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VF2dLWV4I The show was part of a week-long series of events at the Royal Albert Hall…

A developer incensed by Apple’s new EU App Store rules says “many” app developers are “angry and upset” with the company, likening Apple to The Godfather with its application of measures designed to comply with the Digital Markets Act. Colton Adamski told the BBC this week that while Apple “says it's opening up… it still has a tight fist around iPhones.” The report says the 22-year-old “former hacker and businessman” is hoping to launch one of the very first alternative app marketplaces on iPhone in the EU, alongside the…

Artificial intelligence experts and industry executives, including one of the technology's trailblazers Yoshua Bengio, have signed an open letter calling for more regulation around the creation of deepfakes, citing potential risks to society. "Today, deepfakes often involve sexual imagery, fraud, or political disinformation. Since AI is progressing rapidly and making deepfakes much easier to create, safeguards are needed," the group said in the letter, which was put together by Andrew Critch, an AI researcher at UC…

Actor extraordinaire Jack Nicholson, whose best movie performance is almost impossible to determine thanks to so many outstanding ones, turned down a role in The Godfather and now, in a viral video, his explanation is being seen by millions. The viral 1982 video clip documents Nicholson being interviewed by Ian Johnstone for BBC television. Johnstone asks him why he turned down both The Godfather and The Sting, to which Nicholson initially responds by explaining that while he knew that both films were going to be…

Anthony Levandowski, one of the most important figures in self-driving cars, who co-founded Google's self-driving venture, is restarting a church dedicated to AI. Called Way of the Future, the church is dedicated to the worship and understanding AI…

The Godfather Actor Gianni Russo Claimed, “Marilyn Monroe Made Me A Man After Having S*x With Her(Photo Credit –Instagram/wikimedia) Gianni Russo is best known for his role as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 film The Godfather. But he has also made headlines for his claims about his relationship with Marilyn Monroe. In his memoir, Hollywood Godfather: My Life In The Mob And Movies, Russo claims that he lost his virginity to Monroe when he was 15 years old and she was 33. His memoir says that he met Monroe when he was working…

At 4:27 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2002, air traffic controllers lost radar contact with a single-engine Cessna as it made a circling descent through thick clouds northeast of Laramie, Wyo. Search-and-rescue crews, working through the night, found its wreckage at 11 a.m. the next day, along with the body of its pilot and only occupant: 59-year-old Neal Smith II, president of the Denver real estate holding company that his grandfather had founded 75 years before. The tragic crash set in motion a series of events that are still…

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the so-called "godfathers" of artificial intelligence, urged governments on Wednesday to step in and make sure that machines do not take control of society.Hinton made headlines in May when he announced that he was quitting after a decade of work at Google to speak more freely on the dangers of AI, shortly after the release of ChatGPT captured the imagination of the world.The highly respected AI scientist, who is based at the University of Toronto, was speaking to a packed audience at the…

The comments were delivered by Meta’s senior AI researcher during a press conference in Paris Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: Oracle’s Health Unit Shrinks with Job Cuts and Rescinded Offers. Fast-Track Insights: Hong Kong Urges 3 Major Banks to Serve Crypto Exchanges.  AI receives a lot of attention. The public outcry regarding AI taking human jobs has skyrocketed ever since the sensational chatbot ChatGPT was introduced by OpenAI. Unfounded concerns about…

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” and co-winner of the 2018 Turing Award, has recently expressed regret for his AI-related work. Hinton, who spent over a decade at Google, left the company to freely speak out about the risks of AI. His ground-breaking work led to the creation of technologies such as ChatGPT and Google Bard. Hinton in an interview to New York Times expressed regrets for his AI-related work. “I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have,” he said…