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Women’s Super League 2 predictions: can Newcastle reach promotion and will Watford stay up?
The Women’s Super League 2 season kicks off on Friday with Watford hosting Burnley, and this preview runs through each of the 12 clubs’ prospects under a revised promotion format. This year only the WSL2 champions gain automatic promotion, while the sides finishing second and third face a new pre-qualifying match to decide who meets…
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Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’
As companies increasingly rely on AI tools to generate marketing copy, images and video, they are turning to freelance creatives not to produce original work but to fix the flawed output – a trend now dubbed cleaning up “AI slop”. Freelancers such as Spain-based graphic designer Lisa describe the work as lucrative but exhausting and…
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‘Prison Break’ Meets ‘Mindhunter’ in the 6-Part Apple TV Miniseries Taking Over Streaming
Apple TV’s 2022 limited series Black Bird has returned to the top 10 in several countries more than four years after its release, showing renewed demand for older prison-set crime dramas. The show pairs a Prison Break-style premise with a Mindhunter-esque psychological angle, following an inmate who agrees to get an earlier release by befriending…
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Hanway Boards Luca Guadagnino’s Bernardo Bertolucci Doc ‘Joie De Vivre’
Hanway Films has come on board to handle sales for Luca Guadagnino’s documentary about Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, titled “Joie De Vivre”, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The seven-hour director’s cut will screen across two parts, on 8 and 9 September, with Guadagnino also set to receive the festival’s Cartier Glory to…
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Kaskade, Electronic Music Icon, Signs With Pacific Music Group in Asia Partnership (EXCLUSIVE)
Electronic music artist Kaskade has signed with Pacific Music Group (PMG), a Hong Kong-based entertainment company, in a partnership aimed at growing his presence across Asian markets. The deal sees PMG take on strategic duties including brand partnerships, media relations and long-term market development for the Grammy-nominated DJ, whose career highlights include being the first…
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United trials gate delivery of food and travel essentials
United Airlines is trialling a new service that lets passengers order food, over-the-counter medicine and travel essentials through its app for delivery straight to their departure gate. The pilot, running at nine gates in Terminal C of Newark Liberty International Airport, aims to make waiting for flights more convenient and could point to a wider…
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Tesla tests camera-only Cybercab robotaxis in Austin
Tesla has begun public rides for its Cybercab robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the steering-wheel-free vehicle. The launch is a major test of Musk’s long-held, contrarian bet that self-driving cars can rely solely on cameras and AI, rejecting the lidar and radar sensors used by rivals such…
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Éimi Quinn’s lift comedy opens at Glasgow’s Òran Mór
A new play by Éimi Quinn, Ready tae Drap, opened at Òran Mór in Glasgow, trapping three contrasting neighbours in a lift as a comic device to explore whether people who might otherwise clash can find common ground under pressure. The Guardian’s review praises its slapstick humour and strong comic chemistry between the cast but…
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10 Essential Batman Comics for Beginners
Collider has put together a beginner’s guide to Batman comics, recommending key issues and graphic novels for readers new to the character’s near-century-long history. The list highlights foundational stories that shaped Batman’s mythology and introduced now-iconic elements of the Dark Knight universe. – Detective Comics #27 (1939) — Bill Finger and Bob Kane’s original tale…