Inside the Gaza Strip nearly a year after Israeli bombardment began – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News gets an up-close look at the aftermath of nearly a year of bombardment in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces continue to pursue their goal of bringing home the hostages and wiping out Hamas. Elizabeth Palmer … Read more
Five years past Game of Thrones, Westeros’ current hot topic is George R.R. Martin’s beef with House of the Dragon season two—and Thrones has become a show that most people remember fondly with one big black mark: basically all of season eight, capped by that disappointing series finale. While Peter Dinklage, the show’s most-awarded star … Read more
Marvel Studios has released multiple colorful posters today promoting its witchy new WandaVision spinoff series, Agatha All Along. Let’s unpack them together. © Marvel Studios First up is Kathryn Hahn returning as Agatha. In a previous Entertainment Weekly piece, showrunner Jac Schaeffer stated the series would be getting “a little squirrelly” with the definition of … Read more
Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have accused one another of being weak on China, which is widely viewed as the greatest geopolitical threat and economic rival to the U.S. The Trump campaign has suggested, without citing any evidence, that Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, could be working … Read more
Fei Fei Li, the Stanford professor many deem the “Godmother of AI,” has raised $230 million for her new startup, World Labs, from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Radical Ventures. World Labs is valued at over $1 billion, and the capital was raised over two rounds spaced a couple of months apart, TechCrunch reported … Read more
Best Buy is running a three-day long sale across its categories of products like TVs, projectors, laptops, and more. As evident in the name “3-Day Sale“, these deals all end of Sunday. So if you’re looking to upgrade your kitchen appliances or treat yourself to a bigger, fancier smart TV for this NFL season, then … Read more
The longer the Joker: Folie à Deux press tour goes on, the more we learn about the behind-the-scenes work ethic and psychology of the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning actor behind Arthur Fleck, Joaquin Phoenix. Now joining the pile of what has become a media blitz of Phoenix facts is a tidbit about how he … Read more
In its nature as a prequel, Rings of Power has to do a lot to set up the Lord of the Rings story we’re already familiar with—establishing certain landscapes and events, and setting up characters we know to be shaped into the people they’ll be by the time of the Third Age. Sometimes those connections are more … Read more
Meta has confirmed that it’s restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase. The company claims it has “incorporated regulatory feedback” into a revised “opt-out” approach to ensure that it’s “even more transparent,” as its blog post spins it. It is also seeking to paint the move as … Read more
A military court in Congo handed down death sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of taking part in a coup attempt. The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including a Briton, Belgian and Canadian, have five days to appeal the verdict on charges that included attempted coup, … Read more