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Holding a conversation with a five-year-old can be an adventure. One second you're sharing opinions on favorite breakfast cereals, the next they've jumped ship to something vague about a cartoon octopus.  What seems like a limited vocabulary or difficulty in keeping focused could actually be an inability to reconcile inferences with another person's perspective.Researchers are discovering these two critical cognitive skills make it all but impossible for kids around five years old or younger to read between the lines of…

Warner Bros has responded after Tom Felton was blocked from asking a JK Rowling question at a Harry Potter event.The Draco Malfoy actor was promoting a new attraction at the Warner Bros Studo Tour, when Sky News asked a question about Rowling, the author who created the wizarding world. She also produced the film series.In a video shared by the outlet, the studio can be heard preventing journalist Claire Gregory’s question from being answered, which has led to controversy over censorship.At the time, The Telegraph noted…

Credit: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images Warner Bros. got J.K. Rowling’s back after a PR rep censored a question about the Harry Potter creator and issued a fallacious statement. While covering the launch of the Mandrakes and Magical Creatures attraction at London’s Warner Bros. Studio Tour, Sky News interviewed Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the film series. “J.K. obviously has sort of more of a back seat now,” the journalist said to him. “Is it strange for her not being around at things like this?”…

A publicist intervened when Draco Malfoy star Tom Felton was asked a question about JK Rowling at a recent Harry Potter event.Rowling, the famed author of the Harry Potter book series, has been mired in controversy during recent years over her views on trans people.Sky News shared a video of its reporter being shut down during the interview, which took place to promote a new attraction at the Warner Bros Studio Tour. Sky’s Claire Gregory asked: “You and the other stars of the film are very much still the face of the…

The past month has seen a frenzy of articles, interviews, and other types of media coverage about Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who told The Washington Post that LaMDA, a large language model created for conversations with users, is “sentient.” After reading a dozen different takes on the topic, I have to say that the media has become (a bit) disillusioned with the hype surrounding current AI technology. A lot of the articles discussed why deep neural networks are not “sentient” or…

Source: Bryan M. Wolfe / iMore As the United States celebrates Juneteenth with a public holiday, Apple TV+ has released a new video on YouTube that asks and answers an important question — what is Juneteenth? In the video, which runs for almost eight minutes, we hear from two of the people behind a couple of Apple TV+ shows — Lincoln's Dilemma Co-Director + Executive Producer Jacqueline Olive and Swagger Creator + Executive Producer Reggie Rock Bythewood. The pair talk about how "the past flows through their work"…

via Warner Bros. Warner Bros. and DC Films have a massive library of comic book characters at their respective disposals, and yet you could make a very strong argument that neither party has come anywhere close to maximizing the raft of superheroes, villains, cult heroes, and fan favorites as part of the interconnected DCEU. Cohesion has always been an area in which the franchise has suffered, which is admittedly to be expected when there’s been so many creative and boardroom shuffles in the nine years since…

As the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has now gone into jury deliberations, the end is in sight for this leg of the timeline of the ill-fated marriage between Depp and Heard. It’s now up to those chosen few to evaluate what’s been shown over the past couple of months in Fairfax, Virginia, with the decision ultimately being theirs. Important questions will need to be answered as part of that resolution, and the jury has come back in need of an important distinction connected to Heard’s Washington…

A three step solution to an SQL question asked during an interview at the ride-hailing companyImage created by the author on CanvaNearly 20 million people use Lyft to move around their cities. The company’s main product is a user-friendly mobile application that allows users to seamlessly move from point A to point B.Behind the user friendliness of the smartphone app, Lyft puts a lot of effort into collecting and analyzing data about its users and drivers. This helps them plan and optimize their resources to provide the…

Kim Nguyen felt a sense of pride last fall when her bosses at Alloy committed to pay travel expenses for workers in Texas if they needed to access abortion services, after the state passed new restrictions."These types of things, especially around equity, diversity, inclusion, access to reproductive rights, front and center for me personally. And it's so amazing that the company sees that as well," said Nguyen, vice president of people at Alloy.  The founders of the New York-based fintech start-up have pledged to expand…