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“Iggy was in a mental hospital when I first met him.” In 1975, David Bowie introduced a 10-year-old Slash to Iggy Pop in a LA psych ward. He and Dennis Hopper later returned wearing space suits to share a bag of drugs with their friend
Iggy Pop’s attempts to kick his drug addictions in the 1970s weren’t always helped by his famous friends
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Beck announces Ride Lonesome and releases new single In the Night
Beck has announced his 15th studio album, Ride Lonesome, due on 18 September via Capitol Records, and has previewed it with a new single, “In the Night”, plus a cinematic video. The release is significant because it marks his first album of new material since 2019’s Hyperspace and shows him returning with a record shaped…
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Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
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Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media
The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.
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XGIMI Elfin Flip 4K review: An ultra-portable laser projector with sharp video quality
XGIMI’s Eflin Flip 4K is a portable, stylish projector that provides outstanding image quality at a great price.
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The tiniest MMO
At its peak, around 12 million people subscribed to World of Warcraft so that they could explore the realm of Azeroth together. The audience for PointlessQuest is quite a bit smaller. On launch day, the game hit a peak of 15 concurrent players… and no, that sentence isn’t missing a word. Then again, basically everything…
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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced enjoys the best launch of any AC game on Steam, making avast sum of money there
It’s clear by now that Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has been a success for Ubisoft, even though that’s inexplicably resulted in the publisher laying off many of the developers that made it possible. A tally of 2m copies sold on launch day is an impressive number, and new data underlines just how big the…
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Teen hackers targeted celebrities when they crippled Transport for London network in £39m cyber attack
The article reports that two teenage hackers linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime community were behind the 2024 cyber attack on Transport for London, which later led to guilty pleas in court. According to the report, they also targeted celebrity-related information as part of the breach, adding a more intrusive and high-profile dimension to an…
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George Lucas says AI makes filmmaking “easier”: “There’s nothing you can do about it”
“That’s progress, it’s the future.” The post George Lucas says AI makes filmmaking “easier”: “There’s nothing you can do about it” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
George Lucas has argued that opposition to artificial intelligence in film-making is misguided, comparing sceptics to people clinging to horses and carts in the face of newer technology. In an interview, he said AI makes it easier to make films and described its spread as unavoidable progress, adding his voice to a broader industry debate…