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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 […]
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TikTok, 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 […]
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Skype – 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 […]
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The 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 […]
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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 […]
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It has been rumored for some time that “Warner Bros. Discovery” is set to return to Hogwarts and now it has finally been confirmed. “Your letter to Hogwarts is here. Max has ordered the first Harry Potter TV series, a faithful adaptation of the iconic […]
EntertainmentIt has been rumored for some time that “Warner Bros. Discovery” is set to return to Hogwarts and now it has finally been confirmed.
“Your letter to Hogwarts is here. Max has ordered the first Harry Potter TV series, a faithful adaptation of the iconic books,” the production tweeted with a video announcement.
Your Hogwarts letter is here.
At the moment there are no details on what exactly the series will cover or who will play the main characters, but Variety writes that a series with an entirely new cast is planned. Each of the seasons would take the plot from one of the seven books, meaning the series would be filmed for years.
“Each season will be authentic to the original books and bring Harry Potter and his incredible adventures to new audiences around the world, while the original, classic and beloved films will remain at the heart of the franchise and available to “was seen,” it was announced by the production.
Book author J. K. Rowling will executive produce alongside Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts.
“Harry Potter” is a saga created by J. K. Rowling’s book series about the legendary wizard and his struggle to save the wizarding world from Lord Voldemort.
It is well known by now that these books spawned a film franchise starring Daniel Radcliffe, which was a huge success and is still very popular.
As Bloomberg reports, negotiations regarding this new project are in the final stage and J. K. Rowling should also be included in the recording of the series.
The plan is for the “Harry Potter” series to have seven seasons, each based on a book. This series has been talked about for a long time and it seems that soon “the light will appear”.
Many are wondering who will play the main characters in the series, who were embodied in the films by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson who played Hermione and Rupert Green, better known as Ron Weasley.
They are the reigning champions of the Champions League and have the “Golden Ball” in their group. Real Madrid took a clean 2-0 win in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea to go comfortably into the second leg in London. Frenchman […]
SportsThey are the reigning champions of the Champions League and have the “Golden Ball” in their group. Real Madrid took a clean 2-0 win in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea to go comfortably into the second leg in London.
Frenchman Benzema was the author of the first goal for Madrid in the 22nd minute after an assist from Brazilian Vinicius Junior.
For Chelsea, who were led in this match by coach Lampard, it became even more difficult when Chilell left the field of play in the 59th minute after being punished with a red card. Asensio thought about Real’s second goal and again the “assist man” was the Brazilian Vinicius.
With this result, Ancelotti’s team will travel calmly to London, in the meeting that will take place next Tuesday.
A television station in Kuwait claims to have created a virtual news anchor using artificial intelligence. “Fedha” made its debut on a Twitter account of Kuwait News, a media partner of the Kuwait Times. She appeared as a young woman with light hair, wearing a […]
TechnologyA television station in Kuwait claims to have created a virtual news anchor using artificial intelligence.
“Fedha” made its debut on a Twitter account of Kuwait News, a media partner of the Kuwait Times.
She appeared as a young woman with light hair, wearing a black jacket and a white blouse.
“Hello, I’m Fedha, Kuwait’s first news anchor working through artificial intelligence at Kuwait News. What news do you prefer to hear? I am ready to listen to your requests”, says the virtual presenter in Arabic.
According to one of the television editors, Fedha is able to speak with a Kuwaiti accent and read newspaper headlines. He explains that its name comes from an old Arabic word for silver.
The social network Facebook has shown problems for thousands of users around the world this Tuesday. The reports on the “Down Detector” page, which monitors such problems, have started since noon, while they have increased massively in the afternoon. Many users encounter problems searching for […]
TechnologyThe social network Facebook has shown problems for thousands of users around the world this Tuesday. The reports on the “Down Detector” page, which monitors such problems, have started since noon, while they have increased massively in the afternoon.
Many users encounter problems searching for other profiles in the application, others have not been able to access their account.
“My account has been stolen or is it a Facebook problem?”, a user raises the concern in “Down Detector”. “I am not able to see my friends list. Am I the only one with this problem?” Amanda Savory writes on Twitter.
The problems have appeared for users from the United States of America, Australia, China, as well as in a part of Europe.
So far, there has been no official response from the social network for the reasons that have brought these problems.
Manchester City v Bayern Munich – Guardiola v Tuchel again. Guardiola goes back to face his old club for the first time since leaving Bayern Munich for Manchester City in 2016. He was expecting to face a Julian Nagelsmann team again (having beaten his Hoffenheim […]
SportsManchester City v Bayern Munich – Guardiola v Tuchel again.
Guardiola goes back to face his old club for the first time since leaving Bayern Munich for Manchester City in 2016.
He was expecting to face a Julian Nagelsmann team again (having beaten his Hoffenheim twice in 2018-19), but the German side recently sacked him and appointed Thomas Tuchel – a name Guardiola is even more familiar with.
The managers have met 10 times before during a decade-long rivalry with Guardiola winning six and Tuchel three – those successes all coming in a six-week spell between 17 April and 29 May 2021.
That run – which included Chelsea’s FA Cup semi-final and Champions League final wins over City – led to a feeling that Tuchel had the edge on Guardiola. In that final Guardiola famously did not play a defensive midfielder in a tactical gamble that failed.
But City beat Tuchel’s Chelsea twice in the Premier League last season, and with four wins and a draw in Germany, including the 2016 DFB-Pokal final, Guardiola actually has the much better record.
Guardiola has had a mixed time against his old clubs. He has faced Barcelona four times since leaving – twice with City and twice with Bayern. He won two of those, but the other matches were 3-0 and 4-0 defeats.
Real Madrid v Chelsea – can Lampard do a Tuchel?
In 2020-21, Chelsea started the season with Frank Lampard in charge and ended it with Tuchel leading them to Champions League glory.
In 2022-23 Chelsea started the season with Tuchel in charge and will end it with Lampard hoping to lead them to Champions League glory.
Lampard is the fourth man to manage Chelsea this season after the sacked Tuchel, the sacked Graham Potter and brief interim boss Bruno Saltor.
He is hoping to keep up an unusual club tradition, winning a European trophy in the first season of his reign – although unlike the others this is his second spell in charge.
Remarkably (even allowing for their love of chopping and changing bosses) Chelsea’s last five European trophies have all come with managers who had taken over that season.
Four of those five took during the season, three of them after Christmas.
Potter may have hoped to join that club but he was sacked last week, with Bruno briefly having that opportunity too – he had initially been expected to be in charge until the end of the season.
In 2022 it was Potter’s predecessor Tuchel and the Champions League. The German had taken over in January.
Italian Maurizio Sarri won the 2019 Europa League in his only season as Chelsea boss.
Former Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez led Chelsea to the 2013 Europa League, having been interim manager from November.
The season before, Roberto di Matteo had been interim boss for less than three months when he took them to 2012 Champions League glory.
And in February 2008 the late Gianluca Vialli was made Chelsea player-manager and guided them to a European Cup Winners’ Cup victory that summer.
Dave Sexton is the only Chelsea manager to win a European trophy more than a year into his reign, the 1971 Cup Winners’ Cup.
So can Lampard, who won the 2011-12 Champions League as a Chelsea player, add his name to that list?
In their way in the quarter-finals are European royalty Real Madrid, although Chelsea have a good record against them – losing only once in seven meetings.
That is the lowest percentage of losses against Real (14%) of any side to have played them at least five times in Europe.
AC Milan v Napoli – can Kvaratskhelia keep amazing season going?
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is a remarkable throwback and something which seemed impossible in modern football.
Nine months ago the average football fan would never have even heard his name, with all Kvaratskhelia’s football being played in the Georgian and Russian leagues plus two Europa Conference League appearances.
And now the Georgian winger is genuinely a superstar and one of the form players in one of the best teams in European football, Serie A’s runaway leaders Napoli.
In Serie A, Kvaratskhelia has 12 goals – only behind four players – and 10 assists – more than anybody else.
Paris St-Germain duo Lionel Messi and Neymar, Eintracht Frankfurt’s Randal Kolo Muani and Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka are the only other players to have double figures for both goals and assists in Europe’s top five leagues.
In the Champions League nobody has more than Kvaratskhelia’s four assists.
Kvaratskhelia and Napoli will be hopeful that story can continue with a relatively kind quarter-final draw – against AC Milan, who sit 22 points below them in the table. However Milan did beat them 4-0 earlier this month.
Inter Milan v Benfica – can anyone stop Schmidt’s side?
You would not know this was a Benfica team who sold over £200m worth of talent this season.
First it was star striker Darwin Nunez to Liverpool for a fee of between £64m and £85m – and then midfielder Enzo Fernandez to Chelsea for £107m. More than 30 other players have left the club this season.
And yet under German journeyman manager Roger Schmidt, they look almost unbeatable.
In 46 games in all competitions since appointing the former PSV boss in the summer they have only lost twice – however one of them was on Friday at home to Porto.
They finished top of a Champions League group involving PSG and Juventus, picking up 13 points more than the Italians – and then blew away Club Bruges in the last 16, costing Scott Parker his job.
They are seven points clear of Porto at the top of the Portuguese league as they close in on a first trophy since 2019.
Only Italian teams stand between them and a first European Cup final since 1990, with the winner of their tie against Inter playing AC Milan or Napoli in the semi-finals.
In recent times, science has evolved at an incredible pace, but ChatGPT took this development to another level. However, scientists seem to have no intention of stopping, and are even claiming to make humans immortal, at least virtually. Dr Pratik Desai, a scientist who has […]
LifeStyleIn recent times, science has evolved at an incredible pace, but ChatGPT took this development to another level. However, scientists seem to have no intention of stopping, and are even claiming to make humans immortal, at least virtually.
Dr Pratik Desai, a scientist who has worked on founding many Silicon Valley AI startups, said that if people have videos of their loved ones, the chance that “they will live with you forever is at the maximum level, 100 percent”. Desai, who has created his own ChatGPT-like system, tweeted: “This should be possible by the end of the year.”
Many scientists believe that the rapid advances in artificial intelligence, which ChatGPT is spearheading, are poised to usher in a new golden age for technology.
However, the world’s most influential people are divided over technology. Elon Musk and hundreds of other important people in technology have called for a “vacation”, warning that it could destroy humanity. On the other hand, Bill Gates is one of those who think that artificial intelligence will improve our lives.
Desai thinks like Bill Gates and believes that we can recreate our loved ones as “avatars” living in a computer!
This process, which would have been unimaginable to tech-addicts a few years ago, will involve digitizing the person’s videos, audio recordings, documents and photos, which will then be fed into an artificial intelligence system. , which learns everything about the person. Users can then design a specific avatar that looks and acts just like their relative.
The new Super Mario Bros. movie has broken box office records, marking the most successful global opening of all time for an animated film. The family film – the second Hollywood version of the hit Nintendo game – took in $377 million worldwide in its […]
EntertainmentThe new Super Mario Bros. movie has broken box office records, marking the most successful global opening of all time for an animated film.
The family film – the second Hollywood version of the hit Nintendo game – took in $377 million worldwide in its first five days of release.
This surpassed the previous record of $358 million held by Frozen 2.
“The numbers are sensational,” noted analyst David A Gross, who said it “would easily be the No. 1 movie of 2023.”
In the movie “Super Mario Bros”, the Italian plumber with a mustache is the voice of Chris Pratt, while Jack Black plays the role of Bowser.
Although there was a lot of criticism from experts and “The Guardian”, which it described as boring, many fans seem to disagree, with the 56% score of critics on Rotten Tomatoes eclipsed by the 96% score of the audience. Even Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that “critics are so disconnected from reality!”
“The crowds didn’t seem to care about so many comments,” wrote Pamela McClintock of the Hollywood Reporter.
The film broke other records, including the best opening ever for a movie based on a video game and the best opening of 2023 so far, she said.
Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian told the paper: “This is one of the biggest box office performances in recent memory and is absolutely shattering all pre-release predictions.”
The Twitter platform has accused the international media, the BBC, of being a ‘government-funded organisation’. The BBC has hit back by saying: Britain’s national broadcaster is funded mainly by British households through a license fee, which is also required to watch non-BBC channels or live […]
PoliticsThe Twitter platform has accused the international media, the BBC, of being a ‘government-funded organisation’.
The BBC has hit back by saying: Britain’s national broadcaster is funded mainly by British households through a license fee, which is also required to watch non-BBC channels or live services. This is supplemented by income from trading operations.
The @BBC account – which has 2.2 million followers – is currently branded as government-funded. The tag has not been given to other BBC accounts, including BBC News (World) and BBC Breaking News.
“We are talking to Twitter to resolve this issue as soon as possible. The BBC is and always has been independent. We are funded by the British public through the license fee,” the BBC said in an interview with CNN.
Twitter initially designated the US broadcaster as “state-linked media”, putting it on par with Russian propaganda network RT and China’s Xinhua News Agency.
“Shrek” recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, with the franchise comprising multiple canonical movies, a couple of big-screen spinoffs, and multiple TV specials and streaming series since 2001. The journey isn’t “ogre” yet. Fans might have more fairytale adventures to look forward to featuring the titular green […]
Entertainment“Shrek” recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, with the franchise comprising multiple canonical movies, a couple of big-screen spinoffs, and multiple TV specials and streaming series since 2001.
The journey isn’t “ogre” yet. Fans might have more fairytale adventures to look forward to featuring the titular green monster, his waffles-loving best friend Donkey, and their fairy tale friends. In fact, the wait for another “Shrek” movie has been so long that “Shrek 5” will undoubtedly be met with some excitement across the board. It’s been over 10 years since the last sequel, “Shrek Forever After,” made us think that DreamWorks’ hit franchise had completed its run, but the appetite to make more “Shrek” movies never went away. A fifth installment was announced in 2016, though it hasn’t enjoyed the smoothest and swiftest journey to the screen thus far.
Filmmakers appear to still be amidst the very early stages of production, so that film will be coming along… eventually. Here’s all the news and developments for the still untitled fifth “Shrek” movie.
Given that it’s been 13 years since “Shrek Ever After,” the trajectory of “Shrek” releases has been disrupted. At the height of the franchise’s popularity, new “Shrek” movies came along every three years, having been released in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010, respectively.
Originally slated for a 2019 release, it’s been all quiet on the Shrek front for a few years. According to Cinema Blend, Eddie Murphy (the voice of Donkey) previously publicly stated that “Shrek 5” could hit theaters in 2020, but that was more of an estimation than a concrete confirmation. According to Fandom, “Shrek 5” was reportedly and tentatively schedule for a September 30, 2022 release, indicated by a home media debut planned for the holiday 2022 season. The coronavirus pandemic undoubtedly stalled the film’s progress, so it’s currently unknown to the public just how far into production “Shrek 5” actually is. The positive news is that the project hasn’t been cancelled and remains a work in progress.
Despite the title proposing that the next movie will be a continuation of what came before, “Shrek 5” is a reboot that promises to reinvent the wheel. The filmmakers aren’t interested in exploring familiar ground. But how they’ll go about revamping things remains to be seen.
“The challenge for us has been to find something that really does feel like it’s not simply yet another film in a series of sequels,” Chris Meledandri said in an interview with Variety. At the same time, the super producer isn’t looking to forgot about what came before either, noting how he’s still “nostalgic” for the old characterizations and the vocal performers who brought them to life. Similar comments were echoed by Mike McCullers, who described the reinvention as “pretty big.” The screenwriter also revealed that the story is very “personal” to him, though he didn’t spill the beans on what to expect from it.
It seems that the creators are keeping the details of the story close to the vest for now. The vague summary indicates that viewers can expect something completely different, but with the spirit of “Shrek” remaining intact to some degree. The Variety report also highlights plans for the long-awaited “Puss In Boots” sequel, suggesting that NBCUniversal sees a big future for this particular fairy tale universe on the screen.
Eddie Murphy’s comments about the upcoming (but however indefinitely delayed) fifth “Shrek” essentially confirm that he’ll reprise the role of Donkey in “Shrek 5.” According to Radio Times, Mike Myers and Murphy are game to return to the franchise when and if they’re asked. “If I had to do ‘Shrek’ a year, I’d be thrilled,” Myers told GQ, while Murphy told Etalk (via EW) that he’d sign up for another installment “in two seconds.” DreamWorks animation consultant Chris Meledandri told Variety in April 2023 that the company was in the midst of working out deals with core cast members. “Talks are starting now, and every indication that we’ve gotten is there’s tremendous enthusiasm on behalf of the actors to return,” Meledandri revealed.
The “Shrek” movies are a rogues gallery of characters from the world of fairytales, so it’s highly probable that some fresh mythical beings will join the established players in “Shrek 5.” Viewers can also bet money on Dragon making an appearance due to her relationship with Donkey, and it wouldn’t be a “Shrek” movie without the Gingerbread Man stealing a scene or two.
Italy’s data protection watchdog on Friday issued an immediate ban on access to OpenAI’s popular artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. As a reason, this authority cited alleged privacy violations. In a statement, the Italian National Authority for the Protection of Personal Data said that ChatGPT had […]
TechnologyItaly’s data protection watchdog on Friday issued an immediate ban on access to OpenAI’s popular artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. As a reason, this authority cited alleged privacy violations.
In a statement, the Italian National Authority for the Protection of Personal Data said that ChatGPT had “committed a data breach on March 20 regarding user conversations and payment information of subscribers to the paid service”.
The decision, which comes into force immediately, is expected to result in the temporary restriction of data processing of Italian users vis-à-vis the creator of ChatGPT OpenAI”.
ChatGPT was launched in November 2022 and has since become extremely popular, impressing users with its ability to explain complex issues clearly and concisely. ChatGPT writes in different styles and languages with a “human tone.” Also, he can create poetry and pass exams.
ChatGPT can also be used to write computer code, without having any technical knowledge.
The Italian data regulator, however, criticized ChatGPT for not providing an information notice to users whose data is collected by OpenAI.
It also objected to the “lack of a legal basis justifying the massive collection and storage of personal data for the purpose of training the algorithms that run the platform”.
