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Outcry after the discovery of mass graves in two Gaza hospitals. Hundreds of bodies have been found in mass graves in Gaza after Israeli forces withdrew from the Nasser and al-Shifa medical compounds they had besieged for weeks, according to Palestinian authorities. The Palestinian Civil Defence says there is evidence the Israeli army committed crimes against humanity by carrying out …

(Bloomberg) — Wall Street was rattled by data that showed exactly what traders did not want to hear: a sharp slowdown in the world’s largest economy and stubborn inflation. Most Read from Bloomberg Treasuries sold off, with yields hitting fresh 2024 highs as the economic figures fueled “stagflation” jitters — bringing more uncertainty to the path of Federal Reserve policy. …

Until now, AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make them pretty easy to differentiate from reality. For the past several years, AI video startup Synthesia has produced these kinds of AI-generated avatars. But today it launches a new generation, its first to take advantage of the latest advancements in generative …

So, here are some bad, bad, baaaaaddddd encounters “normal” folks have had with famous people: Note: Some stories were pulled from this Reddit thread by user u/egg_fisting. Disclaimer: We can’t confirm the accuracy of these stories, but some of these people are supposedly speaking from their own experiences meeting celebrities.

Almost exactly five years ago, Enrico La Rocca was hailed by MPs as a hero, a whistleblower whose tenacity had helped expose profound failures at the heart of the government’s vast benefits agency, resulting in tens of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers being unfairly fined and prosecuted. Without La Rocca – who was not named at the time – serious …

In 2017, Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to the phenomenon that was The Handmaid’s Tale. While Netflix has largely cornered the streaming market on original movies—and even managed to persuade A-listers like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Martin Scorsese to come aboard—Hulu is starting to find its footing in features …

Study highlights the divide between AI leaders and AI laggards illustrating value of unified data approach SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 25 April 2024 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today released its second annual Cloud Complexity Report. The report analyzes the experiences of global technology decision makers deploying AI at scale and shows a stark …

Spike Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, are two halves of one of the most enduring relationships in Hollywood. The Do the Right Thing screenwriter and former lawyer first crossed paths at an event in Washington, D.C., in 1992 and within a year, they were married. Throughout their decades-long union, Spike and Tonya have welcomed two children — daughter …

BNP Paribas SA (OTCQX:BNPQF) Q1 2024 Results Conference Call April 25, 2024 7:00 AM ET Company Participants Jean-Laurent Bonnafe – Chief Executive OfficerLars Machenil – Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Tarik El Mejjad – Bank of AmericaAzzurra Guelfi – CitiChris Hallam – Goldman SachsStefan Stalmann – Autonomous ResearchAnke Reingen – RBCGiulia Miotto – Morgan StanleyDelphine Lee – JPMorganSamuel Moran-Smyth …

Finally, long-overdue feature comes to Google Meet. On Wednesday, Google announced a new update for its video conferencing and calling platform Google Meet, which lets users switch devices while connected to a call without dropping the stream. Essentially, this allows users to seamlessly swap between their desktop and mobile devices without other users in the Google Meet knowing about it. …

In a lengthy and crucial exchange between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the Justice Department’s Michael Dreeben, the Supreme Court heard how Trump’s case could see a path to trial this year. Barrett sketched out that the case could go to trial, and how, if the Supreme Court sends it back to the trial level, it could be heard by …

A stool will remain empty at Moe’s Tavern from now on.  After all, The Simpsons character Larry the Barfly, voiced by Harry Shearer, was killed off after 35 seasons on the longest-running animated series. In the April 21 episode, “Cremains of the Day,” Homer Simpson and friends Lenny Leonard (also voiced by Harry), Carl Carlson and Moe Szyslak feel bad …

Divorce is a gut-wrenching experience. Whether you have been blindsided by infidelity or had to give an “I still love you, but I’m not in love with you anymore” speech to the person who you thought would be your partner for life, the grief can be profound. And you’re somehow supposed to pull it together through paralyzing pain and heart-pounding …

A coalition of Democrats called on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to quickly remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), signaling impatience over the agency’s ongoing review of cannabis’s designation. The lawmakers were led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and John Fetterman (Pa.) and Reps. Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) in a letter addressed …

The Federal Communications Commission made its official vote Thursday to reinstate net neutrality, passing an order titled Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet. This restores, with some changes and protections, the rules passed back in 2015 allowing the FCC to enforce basic rules of connectivity and fairness in broadband. Since the FCC announced in September that it would be pursuing …

The fourth episode of the new PBS series A Brief History of the Future, a documentary series about reimagining a better future for the Earth and its inhabitants, aired last night (April 24). The episode focuses on how artificial intelligence factors into that vision. During one segment, Grimes is interviewed as a figure at “the forefront of this work” in …

SNY earnings call for the period ending March 31, 2024. Image source: The Motley Fool. Sanofi (SNY 5.91%)Q1 2024 Earnings CallApr 25, 2024, 8:30 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Paul Hudson Welcome to the Q1 2024 conference call. You can find the slides of this call on the sanofi.com Investors page. I’d like …

Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, then a commissioner, rallies against repeal of net neutrality rules in December 2017. Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president. The rules prohibit Internet service …

(Bloomberg) — Four months into office, Argentine President Javier Milei has pulled off a critical feat in a country long ravaged by runaway inflation: He stabilized the currency. Most Read from Bloomberg The peso has, in fact, not only stopped plunging day after day but in one key foreign-exchange market — there are many of them here, a byproduct of …

The FADER: The People’s Joker first came about as a response to the 2019 Joker. How did you feel when you first saw that movie? Honestly, I was so excited to see Joker ahead of the release just because of how people were talking about it [as if] the bombs were going to start dropping or something. There was a …