Traditionally, science fiction has imagined existential war between humankind and artificially intelligent machines. But what if, instead of directly attacking, the bots just made up nasty gossip about us? That’s the flavor of dystopia we’re dealing with these days —and the situation has now produced its first lawsuit. Florida radio …
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We almost got a very different version of Barbie than Greta Gerwig‘s sugar-sweet spectacle of Margot Robbie’s Barbie and Ryan Gosling’s Ken that will hit theaters on July 21. For one, Amy Schumer was almost the actress who would have brought the doll to life on-screen, and Hilary Winston was …
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The British singer and producer Nia Archives already has fans in Beyoncé and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, as well as scores of young people drawn to the 23-year-old musician’s emotive dance tunes — a sound she describes as “crying in the club” music. In the past few years, she’s toured …
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The devolution of Tom Sandoval from heel to arch-villain is one of the more compelling arcs in the history of reality television. When he wasn’t flat-ironing his hair, getting dog-walked by Kristen Doute, or slinging drinks at SUR, the emo man-child served as the meek foil to alpha dog — …
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Pat Robertson, the televangelist who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, died on Thursday at age 93. The Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded in 1960, announced the news Thursday morning. Robertson is widely credited with ushering Christian-conservatism into mainstream politics in the 1980s and 1990s, and laying …
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In Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel TV series that put Miley Cyrus on the map, the actress portrays a trio of characters: Miley Stewart, a “normal” Tennessee schoolgirl; Hannah Montana, Miley’s globe-trolling pop-star alter ego; and Luann Stewart, Miley’s mischievous, pigtailed cousin. Like any savvy pop star with staying power, …
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Ariana Madix is laughing her way to the bank after cashing in on Tom Sandoval‘s “sick” comment from the Vanderpump Rules reunion. During Wednesday night’s third and final part of the drama-filled reunion, Sandoval shaded his ex-girlfriend for keeping herself covered when they got intimate. When asked whether he had …
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When TV critics are given screeners of upcoming series, the episodes are often accompanied by a letter from the showrunner asking us to not reveal certain plot points. Sometimes, these requests are eminently reasonable: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong didn’t want us telling our readers about the big thing that happened …
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Before August 2021, Emily Clasen had never heard of Ozempic. The 31-year-old from Fort Wayne, Indiana tells Rolling Stone that after her best friend at work mentioned the drug, she brought it up with her doctor. She had tried other weight loss drugs, like phentermine, but the side effects made …
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After a decade of steadily chipping away at the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court actually upheld a piece of the landmark civil rights legislation on Thursday, ruling that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters in the state. The case concerned Alabama’s new congressional district map, which was …
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