When journalist and author Talia Lavin first searched online for her new book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, she expected to find the normal things that accompany a book the week of its release: a preorder link, the odd list, and maybe a review or …
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Ann-Marie Delsol squints against the humid Caribbean sun as she points down at the rutted dirt track where the bodies were found in December of 2023. Her employers had been shot and left in their car, which someone set ablaze and pushed into the underbrush. The vehicle could have been …
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Elon Musk is a fan of movies, or pretends to be. He claims that we’re living in a simulation like the one depicted in The Matrix, and that he is one of the chosen few who perceives its structure. He says that Tesla‘s Cybertruck is “what Bladerunner would have driven,” …
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It’s October in the 2020s which means there’s no shortage of true-crime retellings available to stream. Ryan Murphy’s brought Ed Gein back as a uncomfortably sexy, chainsaw wielding killer, Aileen Wuornos’ crimes are being reconsidered in a doc featuring a pre-execution interview, and over on Peacock, John Wayne Gacy is …
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In August, a California family filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that the company’s ChatGPT product had “coached” their 16-year-old son into committing suicide in April of this year. According to the complaint, Adam Raine began using the AI bot in the …
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D riving north on state Route 56 as you enter Jackson County, Tennessee, the road winds through lush, green hills, past a few homes, an abandoned auto shop, and the Country Cabin Quik Market before reaching a large billboard. Pull forward into the parking lot of Fatboy’s Barbie-Q, where sweet, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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