One of the things Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung Chiu-wai likes about acting is the novelty — “you will never repeat the same role”. When it comes to the changes wrought on his beloved cinema by technology like AI, though, there are some things it seems he would rather keep constant. The 63-year-old is president of […]
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AI museum brings sights, sounds and smells of the rainforest
The squawks of macaws, the smell of wet earth after rain and a swirl of colors will transport visitors from a Los Angeles museum to the heart of the Amazon rainforest — or rather, an AI version of it. Data collected from those visitors — their movements, their heartbeats and even the temperature of their […]
O’Brien’s royal century reward for sacrificing all for racing
Aidan O’Brien has said some people might think him “weird” as he finds holidays “stressful” but for his wife Anne-Marie he is the most successful racing trainer in the world because “he puts everything he has into what he does”. The 56-year-old Irishman’s efforts have been rewarded with a whole host of landmarks including a […]
O’Brien’s historic 100th Royal Ascot winner has golden glow
Aidan O’Brien became the first trainer to have 100 Royal Ascot winners and appropriately he achieved the landmark in the meeting’s most historic race the Gold Cup, Scandinavia winning a thriller on Thursday. The 56-year-old Irishman also claimed a record-extending 10th Gold Cup as his winner just got the better of last year’s champion Trawlerman in […]
Joyful New York celebrates Knicks with ticker-tape parade
Tens of thousands of New York Knicks fans flooded Manhattan on Thursday for a heavily guarded victory parade, turning the city into a sea of blue and orange to mark their basketball team’s NBA Finals victory. Chants of “Let’s go Knicks” rippled through the dense crowd, made up of some who paid hundreds of dollars […]
Grand Theft Auto VI presales to begin next week
Pre-sales of Grand Theft Auto VI, the feverishly anticipated video game release, will begin on June 25, Rockstar Games said on Thursday. GTA VI, due to be released on November 19 after two delays, is the latest entry in the blockbuster franchise and is set to arrive more than 13 years after GTA V, the […]
Novelist Kundera and wife buried in Czech home city
The remains of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera and his wife Vera were buried in the writer’s native city of Brno on Thursday, the city hall said. Kundera, known for “The Joke” and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, died in his Paris flat in July 2023, aged 94. His wife Vera kept an urn with his […]
Comedian Jordan Klepper wishes satire was harder in age of Trump
Skewering the oddities of president Donald Trump’s administration and his devoted American supporters has made comedian Jordan Klepper a household name in the United States, as a host of late-night satire “The Daily Show.”He just wishes that the president and his followers wouldn’t make it so easy.”There’s never a shortage of things to talk about, […]
BBC eyes compulsory redundancies in cost-cutting drive
The BBC will axe some programming and may impose compulsory redundancies to deliver hundreds of millions of pounds of previously announced savings, its new Director-General Matt Brittin told staff Wednesday. The former Google executive, who took the helm at the British Broadcasting Corporation a month ago, said the scale of the planned savings “requires tough […]