There are fewer than 2,500 Bengal tigers left roaming the wilds of South Asia. So it was particularly tragic when an American named Terry Thompson of Zanesville, Ohio, made the mad decision on Oct. 18 to set loose 18 captive Bengal tigers — along with dozens of other exotic animals in his private menagerie — before killing himself. Nearly all the animals were eventually put down by police. If the same number of humans had been killed in proportion to their global population, the death toll would have been more than 50 million.
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Movies are back. Finally. After weeks of feverish speculation about whether the combined forces of Barbie and Oppenheimer could revive the movie theater business, Barbie earned $337 million worldwide and Oppenheimer brought in another $174 million. Together, the movies delivered the biggest weekend at the box office since Avengers: Endgame dropped in April of 2019. Barbie, in particular, has skyrocketed beyond analysts' predictions to land the biggest debut of the year so far.
BLOOD ROSES | TIME
2024-08-23
The arguments began when the husband noticed the delivery of a dozen red roses to his wife from an unknown admirer. Days later, the war over the roses ended in carnage. Steven Stumpf, 22, arrived on Jan. 20 at his parents’ home in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to discover his mother Marlene, 47, in a pool of blood in the kitchen. His stepfather Raymond, host of a local cable shopping show, was on the dining-room floor, bleeding from what would be described as self-inflicted wounds.
Books: The Anatomy of an Icon
2024-08-23
Novelists who put real, that is, historical, people in their works seem willfully to be choosing the worst of two worlds. If the fictionalized portrait veers too sharply from what is known about the original model, the author will be rapped for excessive or irresponsible inventiveness. But if the facts of the matter are honored and carefully rehashed, critics and readers will ask why the damn book is called a novel at all.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Insidious: The Red Door
The Lambert family is back in Insidious: The Red Door—and they’re a bit worse for wear. The new film, in theaters now, is the fifth installment in the Insidious series and a direct sequel to 2013’sInsidious: Chapter 2. It’s also the directorial debut of Insidious star and scream king Patrick Wilson, who returns to the franchise after sitting out the subsequent prequel films, 2015’s Insidious: Chapter 3 and 2018’s Insidious: The Last Key.
The movie star took to his Instagram page on Sunday, January 12, 2020, where he shared a video of his newly built mansion. Surprisingly, the house is located on a street named after him. "Caption My God constantly humble me with his Blessings, Favor and now this when God almighty is your pillar," he captioned the video. ADVERTISEMENT
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A group of current and former employees at leading AI companies OpenAI and Google DeepMind published a letter on Tuesday warning against the dangers of advanced AI as they allege companies are prioritizing financial gains while avoiding oversight.
Thirteen employees, eleven of which are current or former employees of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, signed the letter entitled: “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence.” The two other signatories are current and former employees of Google DeepMind.
She wanted to spend the next five years honing her capabilities as a businesswoman. The graduate of Literature in English wasn't exactly inexperienced. She'd spent 2021 managing an NFT project for an artiste, and 2022 running a media platform called Faces of Web3. But she wanted more. The central goal of her manifesto was to start a global business, make meaningful connections and put herself on the line for something that matters.