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How Disneyland’s Cast Members Work Behind the Scenes to Create Magic for the Holidays: ‘Storytelling Is a Centerpiece to Everything We Do at the Company’
At a 400,000 square-foot Disney warehouse in Cerritos, California, cast members craft and maintain the decor that transforms Disneyland for each season, from Halloween pumpkin displays to winter holiday-scapes. The facility brings together machine shops, fabrication and sewing teams, and paint specialists whose work is guided by storytelling, with staff describing every design choice as…
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US government lab is probing Chinese lidar for security vulnerabilities
A US Department of Energy facility, the Idaho National Laboratory, is quietly investigating whether Chinese-made lidar sensors pose a security risk if they become widely used in American vehicles, according to sources familiar with the effort. The review, reportedly funded by one or more companies in the electric and autonomous vehicle sector, comes as pressure…
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Steve Way Wanted To Throw the Script Out the Window for ‘Furious’
Actor Steve Way has spoken about starring in Hulu’s crime thriller Furious, revealing that his role of Alden was written specifically for him after he met creator Elizabeth Meriwether on a panel discussion about caregiving in the media. In a Collider interview following the broadcast of Episode 6, “They Make a Noise Like Feathers,” Way…
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“Friendslop” Sounds Like An Insult. What Do Developers Think?
There’s an ongoing divide about the word “friendslop.” The genre descriptor, born of games like Lethal Company, Peak, and many others in recent years, can be used in both positive and negative contexts, which can make it confusing. Personally, I was trying to reserve the “-slop” suffix for things made by generative AI, but the…
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Massie, Greene slam Trump’s move to lower beef prices
Two Republicans pushed back on the Trump administration’s Friday decision to temporarily lift certain tariffs on imported ground beef in an effort to bring down prices for American consumers ahead of the midterm elections. President Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Friday morning that he had finalized “a deal to substantially lower the…
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Spotify’s Stock Up 5.5% on Fresh $1.5B Stock Buyback Program
Spotify’s share price jumped nearly 5.5% on Friday 21 August after the company disclosed that its board had approved a further $1.5 billion (£1.18 billion) in stock buybacks. Combined with $723 million (£569 million) still available from an earlier repurchase plan, the streaming giant’s total buyback firepower now stands at roughly $2.223 billion (£1.75 billion).…
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David Harbour has blown Tony Stark’s cover in Avengers: Doomsday. It might just be what Marvel needs
David Harbour, who plays Red Guardian in Avengers: Doomsday, appears to have let slip a major spoiler about Robert Downey Jr’s role in the upcoming Marvel film. Asked by Variety to deliver a line from the movie “out of context”, Harbour adopted his character’s Russian accent and said “You… are Tony Stark” – seemingly contradicting…
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Take-Two subpoenas Microsoft and Discord over GTA 6 leaks
Take-Two, the publisher behind Rockstar Games, issued legal subpoenas to Microsoft and Discord as part of an effort to unmask whoever has been leaking gameplay footage from the unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 under the alias “Cyberleek”. The move underlined how seriously the company took the breach, coming just days before Rockstar was due to…