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Cuong Tran, a man who was aboard the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a door mid-flight, has recently recounted his terrifying experience on the Boeing aircraft.On January 5, 2024, an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, had to do an emergency landing due to an uncontrolled decompression 16,000 ft above Portland. Highlights Passenger Cuong Tran recounted his "terrifying" experience aboard the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a door mid-flight. The incident was caused by missing…

On Petri Alanko’s website, where the ​​Bafta-nominated Finnish musician offers his services as a composer for video games and film, the artist and performer makes a bold claim: “No deadlines missed since 1990”. If you’re a creative of any flavour, you’re likely to read that with a mixture of awe, suspicion and incredulity. Deadlines are flexible, right? Right?“It’s not a boast, it’s a service promise, more or less,” laughs Alanko. “I’m really good at scheduling my own work, but I am very careful when dealing with someone…

You can turn a commercial drone into an AI attack drone in just a few hours, an engineer has revealed. Entrepreneur and engineer Luis Wenus, recently posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he and another engineer named Robert Lukoszko had created a drone capable of hunting down specific targets by itself.According to Wenus, the process was entirely too simple, and they were even able to build facial recognition into the drone, allowing it to target specific people at a range of 33 feet (10 meters). That might not…

The songwriter behind hits for Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue has described the acceleration in use of artificial intelligence in the music industry as “terrifying” because of its potential to replace songwriters.Guy Chambers, who has collaborated with Williams over more than two decades, said: “I think we may get to a stage in the future where an album will need to have a badge saying ‘this is an all-human record’.“From what I’ve seen of AI, the acceleration is pretty terrifying, in terms of what it can do and how it…

Over the past two decades you might have seen Italian-born bassist Ruth Goller playing with dozens of line-ups at the punkier end of London’s jazz and improv scene. She’s performed with Acoustic Ladyland, Melt Yourself Down, Sons of Kemet and Let Spin, and featured with artists as diverse as Alabaster DePlume, Marc Ribot, Rokia Traoré and Damon Albarn, usually playing intricate, wiry basslines on her short-scale Mustang bass guitar, using a plectrum.This solo project, however, sees her creating a very different sonic…

Parents, children, and now disgruntled actors are in an uproar over a catastrophic Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland that went viral over the weekend. The “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” ended with police sirens when families enticed by fantastical AI-generated images arrived to find a filthy, barely decorated warehouse. Now, actors who joined in on the fiasco are speaking out. The deeper you go into this world of imagination, the worse it gets. Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox ControllerPaul Connell, who said he was one of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDune: Part Two star Stellan Skarsgård has shared his unexpected reaction to Austin Butler playing the “terrifying” villain Feyd-Rautha. The Swedish actor returned to act as the ruthless antagonist Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dennis Villeneuve’s new sequel to Dune.When asked about his first response to the Elvis actor’s performance as his cruel heir and younger nephew Feyd-Rautha, which…

In 2008, when Nam Le was 29, his debut garnered international attention. The Boat, a collection of stories unusual in its scope and global eye, brought prizes, headlines and lavish praise – and contractual commitments for a novel. Sixteen years later, Le has released his second book. Not the novel (it’s “getting there”, he says), but a brief, hardcover volume titled 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem: a collection of poems, or perhaps one book-length one.While working on the novel, Melbourne-based Le, who did a stint as…

OpenAI introduced Sora, its premier text-to-video generator, on Thursday with beautiful, shockingly realistic videos showcasing the AI model’s capabilities. Sora is now available to a small number of researchers and creatives who will test the model before a broader public release, which could spell disaster for the film industry and our collective deepfake problem.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“Sora is able to generate complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate…

As we continue deeper into Solar Cycle 25, more solar flares are expected to erupt from the sun’s surface. One of the most recent, an X3.3 solar flare, was actually captured in an image thanks to NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.These powerful blasts of energy can bring about a ton of beauty and destruction on our planet. Not only do they fuel the aurora borealis that we see showcased in so many photos, but they can also disrupt navigation and radio signals.This most recent image is just one of several solar…