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Bestselling author Karin Slaughter’s six favorite books span all the genres
Ever wonder what your favorite celebrities are reading — whether it’s a timeless classic or the buzzy bestseller they can’t put down? Welcome to Page-Turners, where stars reveal the books that keep them hooked, inspired and up all night. Warning: your TBR pile is about to get a lot longer. Karin Slaughter grew up reading…
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Spotify to label ‘AI personas’ and exclude AI music from personal recommendations
In its latest effort to protect human creators from the flood of synthetic music, Spotify will soon require AI-generated identities to carry an “AI Persona” label while barring their tracks from users’ algorithmic mixes. The change will take effect in mid-September. It follows Spotify’s earlier moves to help subscribers understand the difference between genuine and…
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‘Electoral poison’: Trump warned ‘there’s no debate’ his pet project is rankling America
Opposition to AI data centers has become one of the rare issues in American politics that cuts across party, geography and ideology, according to CNN’s Harry Enten — but for some reason President Donald Trump shrugs off those concerns. Voter anxiety has surged over artificial intelligence and the massive data centers that technology requires, and…
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Toronto Film Festival Adds Werner Herzog, Martin McDonagh Movies
Werner Herzog’s “Bucking Fastard,” Martin McDonagh’s “Wild Horse Nine,” Nanni Moretti’s “It Will Happen Tonight” and Guy Nattiv’s “The Liberation” are among the 11 films added to this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers announced on Tuesday. The festival also announced a series of “In Conversation With … ” programs devoted to Korean star…
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AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions
The emissions from powering data centers rightly get a lot of attention. But new research from former Microsoft sustainability workers cautions that the way artificial intelligence enhances productivity in the oil and gas industry could be much more damaging to the planet. Published last week in the journal npj Climate Action, the research finds that…
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The secret ingredients farmers add to their dairy cows’ diets
At Perkins Twin Creek Farm Inc., black-and-white Holsteins line up to munch on piles of a bespoke bran-colored feed. This isn’t the usual cow chow made using commoditized soybeans trucked in from afar. Instead, it’s an upgraded mix including heart-healthy soybeans that were grown in a field right outside the barn, then roasted whole and…
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Sleazy accusations of Katie Miller’s past blow up core GOP lie
Something you can always count on from the Trumpublicans is hypocrisy, because nearly everything they say is just full-on obtuse projection language. There truly isn’t enough space on the internet to break down every example of Trumpocrisy that we’ve witnessed on the daily, but an overwhelming amount of right-wing smokescreening bloviation is centered around sex.…
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Léa Seydoux Confronts a Horrifying Truth in Netflix’s ‘Gentle Monster’ Trailer
Marie Kreutzer’s “Gentle Monster” was one of the breakout titles at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it played in competition. Now the film will be in theaters on Oct. 30 and on Netflix on Nov. 18. Ahead of its special screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Netflix has dropped the first teaser…
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Naked former SoCal swimming champion beat Maui guard to death, police say
A former Orange County collegiate swimmer is facing a murder charge after prosecutors say that, while naked, he brutally beat a 63-year-old security guard to death with a 5-gallon water bottle. Legend Storer, 20, was once a competitive swimmer who was a two-time champion in Hawaii’s Maui Interscholastic League and went on to be a…
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Details spill on secret plan to ‘cover up’ Trump admin’s ‘mountain of crimes’: report
The White House has already accepted a midterm loss for Republicans as if it were “all but written in the stars,” Zeteo reported Tuesday, and according to several Trump administration officials and insiders, has also hatched a plan to obstruct Democratic inquiries into President Donald Trump. “We will epically stonewall them on everything we can,”…