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Ask ChatGPT to answer a question and you’re likely not expecting it to reply “— and it is” over and over. Nor are you likely to have much patience if it starts apologizing for replying in gibberish, saying “the cogs en la tecla might get a bit whimsical.” Yet both instances have occurred in the last 24 hours, leaving users of the chatbot befuddled and asking what the hell is going on.On X and Reddit, users are scratching their heads as the normally reliable conversation companion has turned a bit weird. “I hope it’s not…

Anyone who’s spent a decent chunk of their time on the internet knows how weird content can get. Memes aren’t just about cats doing silly things, people moaning about work, and parents posting relatable experiences about raising kids.Memes can get beyond bizarre. So much so that even the most seasoned internet veterans can be left confused, not just amused. We’ve collected some of the most ‘cursed’ images, as shared on the @cursed.pic Instagram account, to give you a taste of what that’s like. Ready for some weirdness?…

Cinephiles are likely aware of the fact that movie memorabilia can be incredibly valuable. For instance, someone laid out $96,000 for Prince’s Purple Rain costume, while $160,000 was spent on Star-Lord’s helmet from 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy when it went up for auction. Another famous film that has highly coveted props and outfits is The Wizard of Oz, and something was stolen over a decade ago. The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland’s Dorothy Gale were snatched but eventually recovered. Now, the thief’s motive has…

today, the company is selling a never-before-seen accessory in the form of a $199 Travel CaseThe outside of the case also has a retractable handle, according to Apple's listing page, keeping the dimensions of the whole thing as compact as 11.69 x 8.78 x 6.5 inches.Beyond the Travel Case, Apple today is also selling a new Belkin Battery Holderthat allows users to secure the portable battery pack onto a belt or pants. Considering the Travel Case has enough space to house "additional accessories," I wouldn't be…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGreat actors need great roles: they are the stuff from which icons are forged.Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle. Daniel Day Lewis’s Daniel Plainview. James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano. Cinema is full of stars who have come to embody their best characters in the popular imagination.But what about all the stellar performances that manage to fall through the cracks?This piece is about those…

Actress Brie Larson recently spoke at length about her latest MCU film `The Marvels` after the end of the actor`s strike. Talking about the movie, she said that playing superheroes is a weirdly specific job. Speaking at `The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon`, she said: “Being a superhero is like a weird, specific job,” Larson told Fallon. “Who else is going to be like, ‘And make sure you have extra zippers so you can go to the bathroom.’ … It’s just like very strange…

”Wise guys realise / There’s danger in emotional ties …” Here was one of the most artlessly, chillingly brilliant pop lyrics of the 80s, from Wham!’s Young Guns (Go For It), something to compare with the triumph of Madonna being a material girl in a material world. You can’t help thinking again about its relevance to Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael’s emotional ties to each other as you watch this entertaining but weirdly incurious documentary, composed of existing footage and voiceover commentary, apparently salvaged…

One of my stops in China was Shenzhen, the southern city that’s home to many Chinese tech companies, like Tencent, Huawei, and DJI. I had several reasons to go to Shenzhen, but there was one that made me nervous: I wanted to go to Tencent’s mysterious customer service center to get my 15-year-old social media account back. If you didn’t know, the first software that launched Tencent’s empire was QQ, the go-to instant messaging platform in China during the desktop internet era. From there, Tencent grew into a powerful…

Up early or lie-in? It sounds austere and monastic, but I wake at 4am, no matter what. About 15 years ago, before sobriety, I would stay out until 8am every night. Now I’m old and sober.Hungry? Yes. I’ll make a ridiculously, annoyingly healthy breakfast. It sounds like the biggest vegan cliché, but I’ll blend red chard, broccoli, bananas, oranges, fresh ginger, turmeric and whatever berries I have into a gigantic smoothie that sits in the fridge and sees me through the morning.Then what? I’ll start obsessively going…

“Vanderpump Rules” star Tom Schwartz fumbled through his “Watch What Happens Live” interview Wednesday when pressed for details about the so-called “Scandoval” affair between his business partner and best friend Tom Sandoval and their co-star Raquel Leviss.“Man, he got lost in the sauce,” Schwartz said of Sandoval.And that was probably one of the only coherent answers the Bravo reality star gave Wednesday night.In scattershot responses, Schwartz, who runs L.A.’s Schwartz & Sandy’s Lounge with Sandoval, told host Andy…