Toward the end of Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” its narrator takes a moment to flip through her mother’s record collection. It’s got a lot of ’60s folk-rock, including, she notes, “the four J’s.” Presumably she means artists like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Janis Ian. But maybe one of the J’s is the narrator herself — Jodie Rattler, a moderately famous singer with a knack for writing melancholy love songs. “Lucky” is framed as a rock ’n' roll novel, but it’s a tricky and...
Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s Sergey Brin has said it was Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the cyberpunk classic about hackers and computer viruses set in an Orwellian Los Angeles. Jeff Bezos cites Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, which unreel in an utopian society of humanoids and artificial intelligences,...
William Shatner found himself under social media fire for using what people assumed was AI-generated art on an album cover.
The former leader of the National Enquirer testified Friday he would have published a Trump Tower doorman’s story about Donald Trump having a child out of wedlock if it were true as defense attorneys cast a payoff to the man as an attempt to protect the tabloid’s reputation for scoops and not an election-related scheme.
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The federal government has charged a man who it says moved millions of dollars’ worth of stolen merchandise and memorabilia from Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, home of the Masters Tournament, for more than a dozen years. Richard Brendan Globensky is accused of transporting and transferring goods from 2009 until about 2022, according to federal charging documents. Federal prosecutors say Globensky transported millions of dollars’ worth of Masters golf tournament merchandise and...
General Motors is moving its headquarters deeper into Detroit after spending more than 20 years in its home at the Renaissance Center, Reuters reported.
The world’s leading public broadcaster is investing in pilots to demonstrate AI’s potential as a positive force in the media space
There is still a say for Arsenal in what could yet be the best Premier League title race in years and that it was built upon the ruins of what was supposed to be the new Chelsea, will only sharpen the appetite of Mikel Arteta’s players.]]>
Anti-Israel protesters on the campus of New York University formed a human chain Monday evening as police moved in to break up the demonstration. Video shot by Fox News Digital shows the NYPD telling students: "You have been warned by New York University to leave the area." Those who did not leave soon, would be arrested for trespassing, NYPD said. NYU's Global Campus Safety posted on Instagram that protesters had breached the barriers set up at Gould Plaza, Fountain Walker. "The one...
Kids are exposed to artificial intelligence from birth. This is how they may encounter AI in school at different ages and how they can use it safely and constructively.
"Harvey Weinstein is a 'wonderful human being and a good friend, and just a powerhouse' — Michelle Obama," a post on X said.