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Since his first film in 2000, the mesmerising O Fantasma, Portuguese auteur João Pedro Rodrigues has continually cast his gaze over the ever-changing landscape of Lisbon, its physical transformations and its well of mysteries. Co-directed with his longtime partner and artistic collaborator João Rui Guerra da Mata, this evocative documentary views the city through the lens of both autobiographical and cinematic nostalgia.The film’s starting point is a personal one. Having inherited his grandparents’ flat, Rodrigues is…

Image Source : PIXABAY Meta unveils Voicebox- an AI model for speech generation Meta, the company behind Facebook, has unveiled a groundbreaking generative AI model called 'Voicebox' that has the potential to revolutionize speech generation. In a blog post, Meta announced that Voicebox is the first model capable of generalizing to speech-generation tasks with…

A Portugal-based European consumer protection group has sued short-video app TikTok for allegedly allowing children aged under 13 to sign up for an account without parental consent and failing to implement measures to protect them. The lawsuit came a day after Britain's data watchdog said it had fined TikTok 12.7 million pounds ($15.81 million) for breaching data protection law, including by using the personal data of children without parental consent. Amid growing security concerns that China could use the Beijing-based…

A drive along the ocean on the Palos Verdes Peninsula is Southern California at its finest. Sunlight dances on the water. Coves are pristine, unsullied by development. Catalina Island appears so near you can almost spot the bison.Look a bit closer, though, and you’ll see signs of a disaster waiting to happen.An above-ground sewage pipe snakes along the road. The pavement on Palos Verdes Drive South is rutted and warped, jutting up and down like an asphalt roller coaster. The hills are strewn with houses on makeshift…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 22, 2022 11:17:51 ISTIt seems that the world simply cannot have enough of Koo, India’s multilingual microblogging platform that was developed as a foil to Twitter and its “western interests.” The indigenously developed social media platform was recently launched in Brazil with support for the Portuguese language and has been really well received by the Brazilian people. Within 48 hours of its launch, the app had over 1 million downloads in Brazil. It occupied the Number 1 spot on both, the Android Play…

Hollywood star Chris Evans has been reportedly secretly dating Alba Baptista, 25, for more than a year and the romance is "serious." Revealing the 41-year-old`s relationship status was People, reports aceshowbiz.com. "They are in love and Chris has never been happier," a source told the publication adding: "His family and friends all adore her." The news arrived after Chris was named PEOPLE`s Sexiest Man Alive 2022 earlier this month. In an interview with the outlet, he also got candid about his desire to get married…

EU antitrust regulators have broadened the scope of their investigation into Alphabet unit Google's digital advertising business by taking over the Portuguese competition watchdog's probe into the same issue. While the European Commission kicked off its investigation in June last year, the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC) only opened a probe in May this year following a complaint. The Portuguese watchdog said the EU competition authority took over its case on July 27 in view of the scope and impact of the matter in…

In 2017, a property owner in Pombal, Portugal, spotted some fossilized bones emerging from the dirt in his backyard. Earlier this month, a team of paleontologists studying the remains announced that they could belong to the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe.The bones—vertebrae and some ribs, specifically—belonged to a sauropod that roamed what is now Portugal between 160 million and 100 million years ago. Sauropods are the group of large, herbivorous dinosaurs that include Brontosaurus, Diplodocus, and the massive…