Month: August 2023

Public libraries are synonymous with children today, with story times and an inviting children’s section considered essential features. Arguments for increasing or maintaining library funding often reference the library’s role in literacy education for kids as well as the many happy memories even adults who no longer frequent the library still hold for childhoods spent
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Hollywood’s potential misuse of artificial intelligence is a “deadly cocktail” and a “poison” that needs to be strictly regulated, SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in the guild’s latest strike podcast. AI isn’t new. It’s been used on countless films and TV shows when it was known as computer generated imagery (CGI). But Generative Artificial Intelligence
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News Third Family Settles Lawsuit Against Travis Scott, Live Nation Over Astroworld Tragedy: Report The family of John Hilgert, a 14-year-old who died as a result of the crowd crush at the 2021 Houston concert, withdrew their lawsuit in February  By Hattie Lindert August 3, 2023 Facebook Twitter Travis Scott, photo by Stefano Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori
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Greenpeace activists have covered Rishi Sunak’s £2m mansion in oil-black fabric after climbing on to the roof of the property in Yorkshire. Two of the environmental campaign group’s activists also unfurled a banner with the words “Rishi Sunak – Oil Profits or Our Future?” across the grass in front of the manor house. The group
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Tech companies shed more than 386,000 jobs last year and in the first half of this year, according to Layoffs.fyi. That number is climbing. But while layoffs have taxed workers, a booming artificial intelligence market is giving the industry a renewed sense of optimism.  “I have been in San Francisco for almost 12 years now and
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While Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav on this morning’s Q2 earnings call for the conglom is “hopeful that all sides will get back to the negotiating room soon and that these strikes get resolved in a way that the writers and actors feel that they are fairly compensated,” WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels served up
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EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Shapiro (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), Ben Groh (God’s Time, Mutt) and Oliver Cooper (Project X, Mindhunter) are to star in psychedelic indie movie The Lemurian Candidate after it received SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement approval. The film, written and directed by Casey Cooper Johnson, follows three former college buddies who reunite for a backpacking trip
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