Vincent Van Quickenborne in Antwerp in June 2023. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP) Belgium’s justice minister Vincent Van Quickenborne threw a party where three of his guests urinated on a police van. He was later caught making movements that suggested he was joking about the incident. He was, in fact, probably performing an air guitar solo, he says, and …
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Have you ever flipped to the very last chapter of a mystery novel because you couldn’t wait a second longer to find out whodunit? In Detective Pikachu Returns, impatient mystery-solvers will be able to do exactly that. “There might be someone who watches movies at two or three times the speed. There might be people who just jump to the …
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September 7, 2023 @ 9:00 AM Annette Bening may be swimming toward her fifth Oscar nomination with Netflix’s upcoming “Nyad,” the true-story biopic documenting marathon swimmer and sports journalist Diana Nyad’s 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida — at the age of 64. “I don’t believe in imposed limitations,” she tells coach and best Bonnie Stoll (two-time Oscar winner Jodie …
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Sydney Sweeney idolizes The Rolling Stones in music video “Angry.” The “Euphoria” star is shown dancing and singing while riding on the back of a red convertible, much like a scene out of her “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson’s short-lived “The Idol.” Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood are billboards come to life while a leather-clad Sweeney …
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CNBC: Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on August 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products — – Chinese tech giant Tencent is launching its artificial intelligence model “Hunyuan” for business use at an annual summit on Thursday.
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Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio — Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November …
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The US Air Force has successfully test-fired a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The silo-launched missile was fired early on Wednesday from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch was described as a “routine” test, intended to “validate and verify the safety, security, effectiveness, and readiness of the weapon system,” according to US Air Force Global Strike …
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Last week, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul held a “Breaking Bad” reunion at the SAG-AFTRA strike picket lines in New York City. And during the demonstration, Paul used himself as an example of why they guild is striking when he said he isn’t really getting paid anything from “Breaking Bad” streaming on Netflix. “I don’t get a piece from Netflix …
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The Big Picture Breaking Bad‘s creative marketing team released an interactive game called Walt’s Wisdom in 2008, providing an immersive and exciting teaser for the show without revealing too much plot. A sequel called Walt’s Warning was released the following year, showcasing a shift in Walt’s character and receiving recognition and awards for its innovative use of video and moving …
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Play video content X / @arbyswehavethe2 We’re finally getting a first look at the Delta flight that was covered in crap mid-air — and based on this footage … it looks like a helluva mess. A video surfaced Tuesday on Twitter that purports to show what was left behind after a passenger experienced explosive diarrhea Friday on a plane that …
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