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Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
TikTok made a last-ditch effort in the Supreme Court aimed at stopping the app’s ban that was set to take effect in a few days – but the platform’s arguments may have ‘failed’. Most justices appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that would ban […]
Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
Culture TravelGreece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
Culture TravelTikTok, Reddit and Imgur are to be investigated by the UK’s data protection watchdog over how they use the personal information of teenage users. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it wants to look into how video-sharing app TikTok uses information from users aged 13 […]
TechnologySkype – once the dominant video calling service – has announced that it will shut down for good. The service boasted more than 300 million users at its peak, but the most recent figures Microsoft shared were in 2023, when it said it had more […]
TechnologyThe UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into tech giant Google. The company is being investigated for whether it has too much power in online search. Google accounts for 90% of online searches in the UK, and the Competition and Markets Authority is looking […]
TechnologyTikTok made a last-ditch effort in the Supreme Court aimed at stopping the app’s ban that was set to take effect in a few days – but the platform’s arguments may have ‘failed’. Most justices appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that would ban […]
Technology USA18 months after the tragic event, where the photographer, Halina Hutchins, was accidentally killed during the shooting in New Mexico, the cast of the western film “Rust” is back on the set. Actor Alec Baldwin is also expected to return to Montana in the coming […]
Entertainment18 months after the tragic event, where the photographer, Halina Hutchins, was accidentally killed during the shooting in New Mexico, the cast of the western film “Rust” is back on the set.
Actor Alec Baldwin is also expected to return to Montana in the coming weeks with his role, just 2 weeks before the New Mexico trial to decide whether he will be sentenced for Hutchins’ death in October 2021. .
7 months ago, Baldwin reached an agreement with Hutchins’ husband, according to which he was given the green light to reshoot the movie “Rust” with the same subject, with the same actors and the same director, Joel Souza, since the events of 2021 was also injured.
Yes, according to the agreement, Hutchins has been appointed executive producer of the film.
Universal Music Group, the music company that represents superstars including Sting, The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande, sent letters to streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music in April asking them to ban AI-generated music from the platforms. “The company has an ethical and […]
EntertainmentUniversal Music Group, the music company that represents superstars including Sting, The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande, sent letters to streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music in April asking them to ban AI-generated music from the platforms.
“The company has an ethical and commercial responsibility to artists to work to prevent unauthorized use of their music and to stop platforms from reproducing content that infringes on artists’ rights,” a Universal Music Group spokesperson told CNN.
UMG’s move, first reported by the Financial Times, aims to stop artificial intelligence from posing an existential threat to the music industry. UMG says it is not opposed to the technology itself, but to artificial intelligence that is so advanced it can recreate melodies and even musicians’ voices in seconds.
The company said that AI using artists’ music violates UMG’s agreements and copyright law. UMG has sent requests to broadcasters asking them to delete AI-generated songs.
Difficult control
“I understand the intent behind this move, but I’m not sure how effective it will be, as AI services will likely still have access to copyrighted material in one way or another,” said Carl Fulks, entertainment and business attorney at The Fowlkes Firm.
There are no regulations dictating what AI can and cannot train, CNN reports. But last month, in response to people wanting to claim copyright for works created with artificial intelligence, the US Copyright Office issued new guidance on how to register literary, musical and artwork created with artificial intelligence.
“In the case of works containing AI-generated material, the Office will consider whether the AI contributions are the result of mechanical reproduction,” the new guidance states.
“AI companies using copyrighted works to train their models to create similar works is precisely the practice that copyright courts should expressly prohibit. Original art should be protected by law, not machine-generated works that use original art to create new works,” Fulks said.
Grammy Award-winning DJ and producer David Guetta showed in February how easy it is to create new music using artificial intelligence. Using ChatGPT for the lyrics and Uberduck for the vocals, Guetta was able to create a new song within an hour.
If you were a Facebook user from May 2007 to December 2022, then you are the beneficiary of a reward that the social networking giant owes you. Yes, it’s true, and it’s about a $725 million settlement that “Meta” agreed to pay in a class […]
BusinessIf you were a Facebook user from May 2007 to December 2022, then you are the beneficiary of a reward that the social networking giant owes you.
Yes, it’s true, and it’s about a $725 million settlement that “Meta” agreed to pay in a class action lawsuit.
According to DailyMail, eligible users are those who had a Facebook account between May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022, and must submit a request to “Meta” by August 25, 2023.
The lawsuit filed, in which Meta has denied any wrongdoing, alleges that the social media platform obtained data of users and their friends without permission, to make it available to third parties.
Hence the Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2018, which alleged that the company had misused data from tens of millions of Facebook accounts by allowing access to third parties.
“Facebook allegedly knew about Cambridge Analytica’s improper data collection since 2015 and took no action to stop the activity or notify users until March 2018.
This allowed third-party apps to “aggregate and sell access to the private information of Facebook users, including to the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, without the users’ knowledge or consent,” according to the lawsuit filed.
The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by plaintiffs who claimed Facebook shared not only basic data, such as gender and age, but also their photos, videos they took, videos they watched and words from their personal direct messages.
In August 2022, a settlement was reached and brought to court, followed by months of negotiations until December 22, when the plaintiffs filed a motion seeking preliminary approval of the settlement.
The Court held a hearing on preliminary approval of the Settlement on March 2, 2023 and granted preliminary approval of the settlement on March 29, 2023.
Users who think they are entitled to part of the settlement can fill out a form with their name, address and e-mail. The form asks if you have lived in the US for a certain amount of time and have been a Facebook user.
You will also be asked to provide your Facebook usernames and the phone number associated with your account.
“Mission Impossible” has officially begun. Chelsea hosts Real Madrid in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, coming from a 2-0 deficit in the first leg. All the problems of a negative season hinge on this almost impossible match against the reigning European champions, […]
Sports“Mission Impossible” has officially begun. Chelsea hosts Real Madrid in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, coming from a 2-0 deficit in the first leg. All the problems of a negative season hinge on this almost impossible match against the reigning European champions, who triumphed in last week’s clash at the Bernabeu.
Last Wednesday gave the clear impression of Madrid’s superiority. “Our reality is that we are 11th in the Premier League and we start the second leg with a 2-0 deficit,” said Frank Lampard. “However, these are realities against which we are fighting, trying in every possible way to show who we are.”
Who Chelsea really is this year, they still don’t seem to have figured it out in London. He didn’t do it at the beginning of the season with Tuchel, then in 6 months with Potter. Now Lampard tries, who has suffered three defeats in three games, including the first quarter-final.
“I don’t want to blame anyone for the situation we’re in, I’m just saying that’s the situation and we’re working to improve it,” added Lampard. – It is not about dedication, but about concentration at work. A job that would take time, but we are trying to do it quickly, getting results as soon as possible”.
Lampard also has to face the prospect of “bankruptcy”. That idea, barring the near-impossible upset of Real Madrid, means that Chelsea’s season will effectively end on April 18, with the final month and a half of the Premier League to be played without ambition.
“We will do everything to get through, including trying to get the fans involved, who can give us a big hand.” However it ends, every game for Chelsea should be an opportunity to try and win because individually, including me, and collectively, we all want to show that we are Chelsea.”
Chelsea’s impossible mission is called Real Madrid, the “mountain” to climb, which is also the reigning European champion team. What in the Champions League turns into an unreachable “mountain” for almost everyone.
“To have the success they’ve had, first of all you need a great coach,” says Lampard, referring to Carlo Ancelotti. – I know him very well, because I worked with him. Ancelotti deserves all the achievements, he has maximum impact on Real Madrid. We saw last year as well, how crucial it was in the march to the final.
The other thing Real Madrid have is a group of players who have been playing at this level for years, which means they have talent, work ethic, leadership skills. I think it’s a great recipe for success, plus the individual talent of special players who can decide a game at any moment.”
Worries about artificial intelligence are keeping Google’s chief executive awake at night. Sundar Pichai has stated that this technology can be very harmful if developed in the wrong way. He also called for a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence similar to that for nuclear arms […]
TechnologyWorries about artificial intelligence are keeping Google’s chief executive awake at night. Sundar Pichai has stated that this technology can be very harmful if developed in the wrong way.
He also called for a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence similar to that for nuclear arms control.
The head of Google also points out that competition in the technology industry can override concerns about security issues around this issue.
In an interview given to 60 Minutes on CBS, Pichai said that governments will have to find global regulatory frameworks alongside the development of Artificial Intelligence systems.
Last month, thousands of AI experts, researchers and supporters, including Elon Musk, called for a six-month “pause” in the development of powerful AI technology.
Google’s parent company Alphabet owns UK artificial intelligence company DeepMind. Google has already launched an artificial intelligence chatbot, Bard, in an attempt to answer ChatGPT.
Pichai points out that AI can cause problems because of the potential for misinformation. The head of Google has argued that the version of its artificial intelligence technology that is already available to the public, through the Bard chatbot, is safe.
He added that Google is responsible and will not release advanced versions of Bard for public testing.
Asked by the CBS reporter why Google launched Bard when it didn’t fully understand how it works, Pichai replied: “Let me put it this way. I don’t think we fully understand how the human mind works.”
Pichai acknowledged that society today does not seem ready for rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
Montana lawmakers have passed a bill banning the use of TikTok, a move that is expected to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for a “TikTok-free America” that many national lawmakers have envisioned. The measure against the popular app now awaits […]
TechnologyMontana lawmakers have passed a bill banning the use of TikTok, a move that is expected to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for a “TikTok-free America” that many national lawmakers have envisioned.
The measure against the popular app now awaits Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte’s signature, but is expected to face hurdles.
TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, is under intense scrutiny over concerns that it may hack user data or promote pro-Beijing propaganda and disinformation on the platform.
The heads of the FBI, the CIA and many lawmakers from both parties have expressed these concerns, but have presented no evidence that this has happened.
Miami has been engulfed by major floods as a result of the heavy rains that have recently fallen in this state. This could hinder the normal development of Formula 1, where the US Grand Prix is expected to be held on May 7. The bad […]
SportsMiami has been engulfed by major floods as a result of the heavy rains that have recently fallen in this state. This could hinder the normal development of Formula 1, where the US Grand Prix is expected to be held on May 7. The bad weather in recent days in Florida has flooded many areas, including those of Miami, exactly where the competition will take place in a month.
Circulation in this area has become impossible, as many roads have been closed to avoid problems. Some of the closed roads in the area of the famous stadium are the ones where the race cars will pass or next to the track, so the situation does not look good at all.
According to local media, the situation seems problematic as it has been raining heavily for several days in a row. This has prevented engineers and workers from starting the anticipated preparations to make the civil runway ready. An emergency that comes less than a month before the race, while there is still a lot of work to be done.
1. Saint Omer This tough-minded, heart-breaking drama about race, class and motherhood was France’s entry to last year’s Oscar race, and I’m still mystified as to why it wasn’t nominated. Alice Diop puts her experience making documentaries to good use, as she bases her story […]
Entertainment1. Saint Omer
This tough-minded, heart-breaking drama about race, class and motherhood was France’s entry to last year’s Oscar race, and I’m still mystified as to why it wasn’t nominated. Alice Diop puts her experience making documentaries to good use, as she bases her story on the real-life case of a young Senegalese woman in France charged with abandoning her baby on a beach to die. Diop invents Rama, a pregnant novelist who goes to the town of Saint Omer to witness the trial, which plays into her own doubts and fears. As Laurence, the mother on trial, Guslagie Malanda is unnaturally calm, almost frozen in resignation. Kayije Kagame as Rama lets you see her mind racing and her heart pounding as she watches, even though her face is impassive. Diop based her dialogue on court transcripts, but the results go far beyond dry facts on the page to create an enthralling film with two profound and vivid women on screen
2. Close
Lucas Dhont follows his award-winning debut, Girl, with another delicate yet emotionally shattering coming-of-age drama that is so naturalistic you could mistake it for a fly-on-the-wall documentary. Its heroes are Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav de Waele), two 13-year-old boys who enjoy an intimate friendship in bucolic Belgium. But when they enrol in a new school, peer pressure stretches their relationship to breaking point. Superhumanly sensitive to the pains of being a teenager, Dhont understands that it doesn’t take overt bullying to make young people feel as if they are under unbearable attack. The boys’ classmates’ casual questions are enough to change them forever.
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
The latest instalment of the artful action-filled franchise with Keanu Reeves as the assassin we root for has no competition for the year’s best mainstream, commercial film so far. With a multi-million-dollar price on his head, Wick channels his inner James Bond, globe-trotting through Paris, Berlin and Osaka, trying to avoid being killed. This entry is bigger and splashier than the previous Wick entries, and director Chad Stahelski makes it every bit as visually stunning and entertaining, with action full of martial arts, guns and swords. Reeves’ likeable persona helps attach us to a character who long ago lost count of the bodies he has sent on their way. Ian McShane is ever a delight as Wick’s urbane colleague, Winston, and the film gives us one more chance to see Lance Reddick, who died recently, as the concierge, Charon.
4. Holy Spider
Ali Abbasi’s grisly Holy Spider is based on the true story of a married builder (Mehdi Bajestani) who murdered 16 sex workers in Iran’s holy city of Mashhad in 2000 and 2001. Starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi (winner of the best actress award at Cannes) as the determined journalist investigating the crimes, it seems at first to be an atmospheric companion piece to Silence of the Lambs and other big-screen serial-killer dramas. The provocative twist is that some citizens and politicians see the murderer as a local hero on a moral crusade. Behind the generic thrills, Holy Spider is an examination of society-wide misogyny that seems all the more astute in the wake of the Mahsa Amini protests.
5. The Worst Ones
Sometimes non-professional actors can seem extremely unnatural on screen, but the opposite is true in this sharp, serious yet light-handed fiction about children and adolescents in a run-down neighbourhood in northern France. The conceit of the meta-drama is that real students are being recruited to play fictional variations of their own stories on screen. That is exactly the process the directors Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, former casting directors, employed in making The Worst Ones, whose ironic title refers to the bad reputation of the kids who are cast. The two children and two adolescents who star here are captivating, with built-in screen presence, as they deal with and laugh at the callous, middle-aged man directing them. Winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes last year, The Worst Ones has an unpretentious ease yet becomes a thoughtful look at the exploitation and voyeurism of filming real lives.
6. EO
When a Polish circus is shut down, one of its performers, a donkey, is sent to live in an equestrian centre. But he doesn’t stay there for long. Instead, our long-eared hero trots across Europe, through a series of different episodes in different genres, as if he is guest-starring in a variety of other films. What unites his picaresque adventures, which were inspired by Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar, is their anguish at man’s inhumanity to man (and man’s inhumanity to donkey), and their startlingly psychedelic camerawork, editing and music. Jerzy Skolimowski, the director of EO, might be 84, but he has never been more engaged or energetic. We won’t see another film this year that is so extravagantly bizarre, yet so sweet, loving, and mischievous.
7. Return to Seoul
Davy Chou’s small-scale film is deceptively ordinary in its premise. Freddie, a Korean woman in her mid-20s who was adopted as an infant and raised in France, travels to Seoul and reluctantly looks for her birth parents. But as it goes on, the story leaps ahead two years, then five, and depicts Freddie’s morphing sense of identity in unexpected, thoroughly convincing turns. Is she French or Korean; is her look that of a grunge student or a glam businesswoman; does she want to find her mother or not? Park Ji-Min is vibrant and keeps us off-guard as Freddie, and Chou offers a fresh and bracing style. He sets the story in ordinary spaces – narrow streets, offices, restaurants – with a polished look and intimate feel. The original English title better captures the film’s exciting swirl of identity: All the People I’ll Never Be.
8. Infinity Pool
The latest entry in the burgeoning “rich people have a bad time on an island” sub-genre, Infinity Pool shimmers with reflections of Triangle of Sadness, Menu and Glass Onion, although it’s murkier and more toxic than any of them. Alexander Skarsgård stars as a struggling author who visits an exclusive beach resort with his wealthy wife. He discovers too late that the country has a policy of immediate execution for certain crimes, and his holiday from hell gets bloodier, and more jaw-droppingly strange, from then on. It’s true that both the character and the film lose their way, but this whirlpool of extreme cinema proves that its co-star, Mia Goth (who is just as impressive in Pearl), is one of the most extraordinary actresses of her generation, and that its writer-director, Brandon Cronenberg, is talented enough in his own right that we should probably stop comparing him to his dad, David Cronenberg.
A foreign blogger in Bali was arrested and will soon be deported to her country after she took several nude photos of a tree sacred to the locals, believed to be 700 years old. Activist Ni Luh Djelantik shared photos on social media showing a […]
LifeStyleA foreign blogger in Bali was arrested and will soon be deported to her country after she took several nude photos of a tree sacred to the locals, believed to be 700 years old.
Activist Ni Luh Djelantik shared photos on social media showing a girl posing next to the Kayu Putih tree located at the back of Taban Temple, 23 km north of Denpasar.
The images went viral and prompted the authorities to arrest the blogger, whose identity has not been disclosed.
“Do you think it’s cool to go naked in our holy places? Go back to your country if you don’t respect our tradition and culture”, the activist went along with the photos.
A similar event was recorded a year ago when the Russian influencer, Alina Fazleeva, was deported by the authorities to Bali after she also posed nude near the sacred tree.
The FBI is warning users about public charging stations and what to avoid. As he notes, scammers have managed to “hijack” public chargers and thus have the ability to infect devices with malware that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer. This […]
TechnologyThe FBI is warning users about public charging stations and what to avoid.
As he notes, scammers have managed to “hijack” public chargers and thus have the ability to infect devices with malware that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer.
This practice is known as “juice jacking” and allows criminals to use USB cables to “plant” viruses or steal data within minutes.
“Avoid using free charging stations at airports, hotels or shopping malls. Criminals have found ways to use public USB ports to inject malware and tracking software into devices. Take your charger and USB cable and use an outlet instead,” the FBI says.