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OpenAI‘s latest AI video generation model, Sora 2, wowed users with its more realistic images and physics when it debuted with an invite-only release earlier this month — even as it ran into immediate problems with copyright infringement and deepfakes of historical figures including Martin Luther King Jr. and John …

Travis Kelce has entered the theme park business, something the NFL star calls a “full circle” moment. New York-based firm Jana Partners announced on Tuesday that it recruited Kelce and other investors to establish a nine percent stake in Six Flags Entertainment, per a press release. According to The Wall …

This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Dispatch, now available on PlayStation 5 and Windows. It’s been attempted a few different ways, but nobody has really cracked a legitimate hybrid of scripted TV and video games. Netflix tried with the now-unlisted Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, and studios like …

F or a private detective working in Los Angeles, most investigations tend to follow a predictable pattern. You get a divorce case, or a custody case, and from the time the client pays the retainer, you know what the job will entail. You’ll follow a guy around taking pictures from …

When Virginia Giuffre publicly accused well-known millionaire Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting and trafficking her as a teenager, she was thrown into a world of lawsuits, depositions, and public scrutiny. Her first suit, filed in May 2009 with Giuffre listed under the pseudonym of Jane Doe 102, accused Epstein and …

Jane Goodall‘s cause of death has been revealed. According to a death certificate, Goodall’s cause of death is listed as cardiopulmonary arrest. She died on Oct. 1 at the age of 91. The Jane Goodall Institute previously confirmed Goodall’s death in astatement, saying she had died from “natural causes” while …

There’s a special sort of bliss that comes from a dumb action game. It doesn’t matter if the plot works or if the impetus for slicing up bad guys makes sense; the only thing that matters is how good it feels to slip into the hypnotic trance of carnage with …

Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System hit North American shores, singlehandedly resurrecting the video-game market after its infamous post-Atari crash in 1983. To do so, it needed a heavy hitter, a killer must-have title that could put butts in seats and lock audiences into the tube TV until their …

B yron Walker knew he was in trouble. He’d been late for the Riverside Church Hawks team van departing Upper Manhattan for a tournament in Massachusetts one spring morning in 1977. When the Riverside squad — part of the top teenage-basketball travel program in the country — arrived for its …

When Ajike “AJ” Owens went to Susan Lorincz’s door on June 2, 2023, the confrontation was one in a series of years-long disagreements between the two neighbors. Lorincz, 58 at the time, and Owens, 35, lived in a housing complex in Ocala, Florida, a small community of duplexes filled with …