On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Corbin Bolies reports from Las Vegas where he is covering the AI4 conference with a slew of top leaders and true believers. The excitement around generative AI is still as hot as the temperature in Sin City, but the polarizing effect of the technology is evident as…
One of the most entertaining riders in the race was Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz of EF Education-Easypost. He toiled earlier in the race before coming into great form to claim the king of the mountains’ polka dot jersey. He won stage 18 and Saturday’s stage 20 after topping the race’s highest point first and after 5,450km…
In his remarks, Trump was at times cordial and conciliatory, saying “the second time is always better”, joking and praising the media – saying he respects “most of them”. “As I said three months ago, the show must go on,” Trump said. But there were also some pointed insults directed at several journalists, some of…
Before entering Downing Street, Andy Burnham cited the overcentralisation of power as a cause of Britain’s social and economic malaise. In his first week, the new prime minister has signalled his intent to bolster No 10 as an organ of executive power. The apparent contradiction – fortifying the centre to pursue an agenda of decentralisation…
It was ice cubes that tipped Shabaz Ali over the edge. “A woman online spent her entire day making content about ‘designer ice cubes’,” he recalls. “She’d freeze flavoured waters or fruit juices and show the whole process in tedious detail. I was like, ‘There’s no way she’s got a proper job or has ever…
The rocket – named after Vikram Sarabhai, who is called the father of India’s space programme – is small and has the capacity to carry payloads of up to 350kg, Skyroot co-founder and CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana told the BBC before the launch. Chandana says today, access to space remains “a major bottleneck, with satellite…
Off Campus star Stephen Kalyn is starring in a new Verizon ad. The brand released a one minute spot “Simplicity is Sexy” Tuesday morning, marking Kalyn’s first major brand deal since the release of the popular college-set romance series. “It was a little nerve-wracking at first but once I get onto the groove of things,…
In less than 24 hours’ time, the polls will open for the first Real Madrid presidential election in 20 years. Florentino Perez and Enrique Riquelme will go head-to-head for the top job at the Bernabeu, and ahead of the voting opening, the former spoke on Saturday at his closing campaign ceremony. Perez has been very…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: Bringing more transparency to data center construction and the impact those data centers have on nearby communities. Brockovich — who was famously played by Julia Roberts in a film dramatizing her legal case against Pacific Gas & Electric — recently launched a website with a map of…
Over the next month, if you take a ferry from the center of Venice to the island of Giudecca and walk into a former 15th-century convent, you will find yourself figuratively plunging underwater. The haunting songs of humpback whales will flow around you. A fish will sing its evensong from the sea grass meadows of…
