Cannes Film Festival: Red-Carpet Roundup At the premiere of “Kinds of Kindness” at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, Emma Stone, a star of the new film by the “Poor Things” director Yorgos Lanthimos, evoked seaside chic in a shimmery gown ... 05/20/2024 - 12:34 pm | View Link
Diane Kruger: Glamorous with blue Balenciaga costume in Cannes Diane Kruger appeared in Cannes in a special costume. The cut at the shoulders in particular was the eye-catcher of the day. 05/20/2024 - 3:32 am | View Link
Cannes So Far: Filmmakers Go Mega in a Muted Festival There's a trend at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Many of the directors who've showcased their movies in the competition lineup have gone big, gone wild and, to borrow a prefix from Francis Ford ... 05/20/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
It’s Time for Wine and Discussion as German Films Celebrates 70th Anniversary at Cannes: ‘We Have to Be Even More Daring’ “We are offering festivals and film weeks a package of some of the most successful German films of the last 70 years,” explained Baumann. Curated by Alfred Holighaus, “70 Years of German Cinema – A ... 05/20/2024 - 12:15 am | View Link
‘The Kingdom’ Cannes First Look: A Teen Comes of Age in a Crime-Filled Corsica Colonna directs first-time actors including Ghjuvanna Benedetti as Lesia, along with Saveriu Santucci, and Anthony Morganti. “The Kingdom,” or “Le Royaume” in French, is Colonna’s second feature after ... 05/19/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
The friendly rasp of ChatGPT’s ‘Sky’ voice is getting the AI company into hot water.
Last week, OpenAI launched ChatGPT 4o, a new model of its chatbot assistant that converses in almost real time. Users could choose from five voices, including Sky, whose friendly intonation had a slight rasp vaguely reminiscent of Scarlett Johansson—an actor who, not coincidentally, had voiced an AI assistant in Her, a 2013 film that follows a man who falls in love with his computer’s operating system.
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Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Taiwanese national and charged him with running an online market that sold $100 million worth of illicit narcotics, including fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, LSD, and ketamine.
The authorities said that for almost four years, Rui-Siang Lin operated and owned the Incognito Market, an online marketplace on the dark web that users worldwide visited to buy and sell illegal narcotics.
The pages of fine print that skiers and snowboarders must agree to when hitting the slopes in Colorado — waivers of liability — do not protect ski resorts when resorts violate state laws or regulations, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The ruling, handed down in the case of a 16-year-old girl who fell from a ski lift at Crested Butte Mountain Resort and was paralyzed two years ago, likely ends a years-long push by the ski industry to use waivers to shield resorts against almost all lawsuits, even in cases where ski areas violated state law, experts said.
“It’s a sea change, in terms of ski areas’ responsibilities and consumers’ ability to be protected from ski areas’ negligence,” said Evan Banker, a personal injury attorney at Denver firm Chalat Hatten & Banker.