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As Top Streamers Battle Churn, Emerging AI Start-Up Versus Offers Ways To Hold On To Viewers
Versus, an AI start-up that has been operating in stealth mode, has emerged publicly with technology designed to help streaming platforms combat subscriber churn. The company creates interactive AI overlays that let viewers “play along” with what they are watching or reading, and it has already worked with major players including Disney+, Paramount+, HBO Max,…
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Outrage as cash-strapped emergency department sends helicopter out-of-county to look for retired fire chief’s son… who was relaxing on his COUCH
San Diego’s cash-strapped Fire-Rescue Department (SDFRD) deployed a helicopter on an out-of-county missing-persons search for a man who, it turned out, was simply resting at home. The episode has drawn public anger because the department spent close to $30,000 on the operation shortly after budget cuts eliminated several staff posts, raising questions about how emergency…
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Xbox just laid off a core Bethesda artist who worked on Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4 – 27-year veteran Christiane Meister
This just keeps getting worse
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Salman Rushdie Says AI Has ‘Zero’ Role in Storytelling, Teases New ‘Midnight’s Children’ TV Adaptation, Film of ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Author Salman Rushdie has dismissed artificial intelligence as having “zero” role in literature, film or storytelling, arguing the technology is fundamentally incapable of originality. Speaking to Variety before accepting Liberatum’s 14th Cultural Honor in London on 8 July, he said AI can only absorb vast amounts of information and reproduce versions of it, whereas true…
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MUSE Announces North American Amphitheater Tour Behind The Wow! Signal – Grateful Web
The supplied article contains no usable content — the text captured is only Google’s cookie-consent and sign-in boilerplate, along with a list of language options, rather than the news story itself. As a result, the reported announcement cannot be summarised from the material provided. According to the headline alone, the band Muse has announced a…
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Judge Orders Release Of $5.8 Million To E. Jean Carroll After Supreme Court Declined Donald Trump’s Appeal In Sex Abuse And Defamation Case
A federal judge ordered the release of $5.8 million held in an escrow account to writer E. Jean Carroll after the Supreme Court declined to take Donald Trump’s appeal of a jury’s judgment that he was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued the order on Wednesday, despite efforts…
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Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is ‘nuking the team into the dirt’ and is now the size of a ‘support studio’
“This is what insanity and despicable corporate greed looks like,” said another artist.
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US launches new wave of strikes against Iran after promising to ‘hit them hard’
The United States has carried out a fresh round of strikes on Iran, following President Donald Trump’s warning that he would “hit them hard again tonight”. The attacks, reported by Iranian state media across southern port cities including Bandar Abbas and Sirik on the Strait of Hormuz, mark a sharp escalation in hostilities between the…
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Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game
Football’s three defining stars of the past two decades — Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah — are preparing for life after the game, and their off-pitch strategies are increasingly diverging. As the 2026 World Cup marks Ronaldo’s final tournament and another career milestone for Messi and Salah, Messi and Ronaldo have moved heavily…
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A bank holiday for a World Cup win? Starmer is poised to grant a day off if the Three Lions bring it home
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly considering granting a bank holiday in England if the men’s football team win the World Cup, marking a first triumph in 60 years. The move matters because it would be a rare exception to the government’s usual reluctance to approve extra public holidays, which are estimated to cost…