People watch Saturday Night Live to laugh, of course, but there are laughs and then there are sketches that last forever. This past weekend, Ryan Gosling hosted SNL and the episode may have featured one of those all-time sketches. What starts as a discussion of AI then turns into one of the most absurd and…
Thousands of people demonstrated in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Monday demanding the withdrawal of a controversial “foreign influence” bill they say is inspired by authoritarian laws neighbouring Russia uses to crush dissent. “No to the Russian law,” chanted thousands of protesters outside parliament, many waving EU and Georgian flags. A previous attempt by the…
New York, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 16th Apr, 2024) More than 50 prospective jurors were excused from the landmark trial of former president Donald Trump on Monday after they said they would not be able to try him fairly and impartially. Ninety-six potential panelists were assembled in a New York court…
Stone X Group’s chief strategist, Kathryn Vera, gave a presentation at the Miami conference, stating that bitcoin won’t be a reserve currency – economics jargon for a currency like the dollar, euro or yuan held by central banks to support global trade and finance – “in her lifetime.” A key reason why the largest conventional…
Ravikant said most of the funding for Airchat has come from his own fund, as well as from Jeff Fagnan, a founding partner at Accomplice Ventures. “[OpenAI CEO] Sam Altman threw in a check, kind of blindly,” Ravikant said. He communicated all of this to me in a public response on Airchat, after politely declining…
A New Mexico state judge cited Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s apparent lack of remorse in her decision to impose the sentence. The weapons supervisor for the film Rust has been sentenced in the United States to 18 months in prison for her role in the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armourer on…
Both a harsh critic at times, and a staunch defender of diversity and creative choices in filmmaking, Roger Ebert is arguably the most esteemed and well-known film critic of all time. Though he sadly passed away in 2013 after a long battle with cancer, his film reviews live on in the public memory as a…
Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday said he planned this week to advance a long-stalled national security spending package to aid Israel, Ukraine and other American allies, along with a separate bill aimed at mollifying conservatives who have been vehemently opposed to backing Kyiv. Mr. Johnson’s announcement, coming after he has agonized for weeks over whether…
If you’re a gamer with a design bug, IKEA thinks you’ll love it’s new collection of “gaming furniture,” due in stores in September 2024. The furniture giant says that its 20-piece Brännboll collection “challenges traditional gaming design” and should more peacefully co-exist in aesthetic harmony within your home than, say, a Secretlab gaming chair. SEE…
The presumptive Republican nominee for president will juggle a six-week trial in New York with campaigning. #Trump039s #hushmoney #trial
