Apple has accused OpenAI of gaining access to valuable inside information through the hiring of its former employees. In a federal lawsuit filed on Friday, Apple sued the artificial intelligence (AI) company, two of its employees, as well as io Products, claiming it has engaged in “a pattern of theft” of Apple’s confidential product development…
Trying to unlock the secrets of Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, is a slippery task at the best of times. Doing so in a barely there staging, with the orchestra on the platform with the singers, is even trickier. For the opening performance of this summer’s Aldeburgh festival, that was…
As anyone who has procreated this century knows, childrearing involves daily rounds of online searching. The most common parenting-related queries feature in What We Ask Google, a valiant attempt by the search giant’s data editor Simon Rogers to create a “surprisingly hopeful picture of humankind” (that’s the subtitle) from searches performed over the past two…
15. Fey famously never considered writing a sequel to the hit film, a decision she’s gone on record as regretting. “At the time we did want to start the conversation about the sequel, and for whatever reason I was like, ‘No!!! We shouldn’t do that!’” she told EW in 2014. “Now I look back and I’m…
Nearly a year after the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, two deeply sourced books offer competing portraits of the context and maneuvering behind the first U.S.-born pope’s election. Popes, Dollars and Wars, by renowned Italian journalist Massimo Franco, traces how the church in the United States, long treated in Rome as a periphery of the…
7. A turning point for the actors came during the film’s iconic lift scene in the lake, Swayze and Grey bonding over the difficult experience. “It was horrifyingly, hypothermically cold in that lake, and we filmed that scene over and over,” Swayze wrote in his autobiography. “And despite the fact that Jennifer was very light, when you’re…
(RNS) — Nearly a year after the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, two deeply sourced books offer competing portraits of the context and maneuvering behind the first U.S. pope’s election. “Popes, Dollars and Wars,” by renowned Italian journalist Massimo Franco, traces how the church in the United States, long treated in Rome as a…
A mini solar telescope aboard the International Space Station caught the first-ever images, which reveal the subtle and never-seen changes in the outer atmosphere of the Sun. It is known as the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) and has been designed to understand the solar corona, the outer layer of the Sun, in depth. This mini…
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