theverge.com – By James Vincent – Xinhua, China’s state-run press agency, has unveiled new “AI anchors” — digital composites created from footage of human hosts that read the news using synthesized voices. It’s not clear exactly what technology has been used to create …
washingtonpost.com – By Carroll Kilpatrick – President Abolishes Prosecutor’s Office; FBI Seals Records – In the most traumatic government upheaval of the Watergate crisis, President Nixon yesterday discharged Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and …
hollywoodreporter.com – by Ashley Cullins – TST claims the Netflix series copied its monument without permission. – Chilling Adventures of Sabrina debuted on Netflix just in time to spook fans before Halloween, but the co-founder of The Satanic Temple isn’t happy with one …
rollingstone.com – By Breena Kerr – Last spring, Emily Meade was getting ready to give a blow job in front of a crew of people on the Bronx set of HBO’s The Deuce, and she wasn’t thrilled about it. The penis wasn’t real …
nytimes.com – By Andrew E. Kramer – MOSCOW — President Trump’s decision to withdraw from a nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia drew sharp criticism Sunday from one of the men who signed it — Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who called the decision reckless and …
time.com – By Ryan Teague Beckwith – President Donald Trump liked a painting of him having drinks with Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon and Teddy Roosevelt so much that he called the artist on the phone and then put a print of it in …
fortune.com – By Glenn Fleishman – A group representing 100,000 congregations and 45 million churchgoers across an array of Christian denominations in the U.S. has called for the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be withdrawn. The National Council of Churches statement said, “Judge …
mirror.co.uk – By Lisa Trainer – St Petersburg, Russia – A musician has shown his love for the environment by creating a rubbish music video. Pavel Andreev was helped by seven men to carry a grand piano into the middle of a huge, …
latimes.com – By Laura J. Nelson – Southern California has seen a series of firsts since motorized rental scooters began flooding streets and sidewalks last year, including the first collision with a driver and the first scooter sent to a watery grave in …
news.com.au – By Sam Clench – MANY people were too busy laughing at Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations overnight to truly register the substance of his words. You can hardly blame them. The US president’s amusingly inflated ego was on full, …