Visa's CIO Don Hobson shares his vision for how generative AI will revolutionize the global payments landscape, from enhanced fraud detection to greater financial inclusion.
For the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gabriel García Marquez’s seminal 1967 novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude is coming to the screen. The Netflix adaptation doesn’t yet have a release date (it’s set to premiere sometime in 2024), but a teaser released on Wednesday previews the story of the Buendía dynasty. Directed by Alex García López and Laura Mora, the series was filmed entirely in Spanish and largely in the writer’s native Colombia, with the blessing and involvement of his...
We already knew the entertainment industry has more or less become a technocracy, but hearing about it still feels surreal. Sadly, all the human entertainment execs can do these days is lay down mere mortal ideas on the altar of the almighty algorithm, enslaved to the whims of whatever ones and zeroes say will be successful. That is to say, according to A Knight’s Tale director Brian Helgeland, Netflix shot down his pitch for a sequel because its algorithm said so. “Paul Bettany called me after...
‘You’re only as beautiful as you treat other people,’ Phillippe says
It was rare, Travis Kelce's coach was there. In fact, Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy shared that he has been around the NFL tight end enough to understand why his relationship
When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the US, decided to get married in Costa Rica, they had no idea that they’d end up relocating there a few years later. But a series of devastating events led the couple and daughter Aaralyn, now 15, to a new life in the Central American country’s very own “blue zone,” one of the regions of the world where people live longest and are the healthiest. Ward-Hopper, a health and life coach, was diagnosed with breast cancer a few...
Yulia Navalnaya reveals the personal struggles and unwavering resolve that fuels her to continue Alexei Navalny's fight for democracy in Russia.
THE GREAT British Bake Off is one of the most joyful and wholesome shows currently on TV – but even they’ve had some hairy moments that have drawn the wrath of fans in its time. In fact
Conor McGregor’s coach thinks he’ll make quick work of his comeback opponent. The former dual-weight champion hasn’t fought since breaking his leg during a trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier in July
Norma Neill and Judith A Daniels respond to a Guardian leader on the long path to enlightenmentRe your editorial (The Guardian view on pilgrimage: a 21st-century spiritual exercise, 14 April), my sister has just completed her third pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.On this trip she met a young man who was walking the 500 miles with his probation officer. He had had the choice of walking the Camino or going to prison; for what offence she did not discover, but over the six weeks of...
Fifty years ago today, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution began as soldiers overthrew the dictatorship. Although the revolution was ultimately contained, it changed the face of European politics and hastened the shift to democracy in Spain and Greece.