The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), a union for session musicians, is suing Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG) for breaching their collective bargaining agreement over use of their music by AI programs. In the lawsuit filed on Friday (June 5), AFM claim that the major labels’ recent licensing training with Suno
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For anyone who wasn’t sure whether China was in it to win the space race and dominate the rapidly growing space economy, its filings in December for 200,000 more satellites should dispel all doubts. Beijing is seeking to position itself as a leader in low Earth orbit satellite constellations, electronic warfare and the space race
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I look forward to playing this game one day, but I also really like its unreleased state, because the experience I get from watching new trailers is always such an insane roller coaster. There Are No Ghosts At The Grand is a renovation game, a la Powerwash Simulator, except there’s also a narrative, a mysterious
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Few franchises inspire as much debate over official canon changes as Star Wars. Whether it’s a new Disney+ series, a novel, a comic book, or a video game, fans will scrutinize every miniscule detail added to the galaxy to figure out how it fits into the larger timeline. While some embrace new worlds, characters, and
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If you’ve read Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, you already know the tonal whiplash that comes with moving from Interview with the Vampire into The Vampire Lestat. If you haven’t, the new season premiere of AMC’s critically acclaimed vampire series, an episode called “Detroit,” will do an admirable job of disorienting you anyway — in
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Staff at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. have started to remove all references to Donald Trump. In December last year, the Trump-appointed board of the arts venue voted to rename the institution to the ‘Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts’, or the ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ in short. In May, however, a US district
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Hugo Ruíz won the Best New Director Award at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival for his breakout, single-take thriller, One Night with Adela. The acclaimed filmmaker is back at the fest’s Midnight Section this year with his latest gonzo spectacle, Dante, and Ruíz more than lives up to his genre credos. Dante is foul, an
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The great Ann Patchett’s 10th novel, Whistler, will surprise you not just once but several times—but Patchett’s surprises are as sad as they are pleasurable. Most of Whistler’s characters, after all, are at an age when the wistful backward glance is a thing. One of the younger characters, and the sometime narrator of the book,
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Note: This article contains references to sexual assault that readers may find disturbing. Duffy, the Welsh singer behind the 2008 smash “Mercy,” will make a surprise return to the stage next month for the first time in nearly 15 years. She revealed on Friday (June 5) via Instagram Stories that she’ll play a “secret intimate
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In recent years, computer chip performance has bumped up against the physical limitations of the space available on integrated circuits. Now researchers think they’ve found a solution: Start building upwards. The innovation could help extend or even exceed the Moore’s Law hypothesis established in the 1960s by Intel chairman Gordon Moore. This states that through
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Sky-high valuations, emerging technologies and eager investors have created a new breed of startups that their financial backers see as central to the next phase of the space economy. A new analysis by SpaceNews counts 30 privately held space companies with unicorn status, meaning they are valued at $1 billion or more. Roughly two-thirds achieved
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Lil’ guy cinema is back courtesy of Mutter: The Diary of a Mother, Alphan Eseli’s stunning, gut-wrenching horror parable premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Honoring the legacy of horror classics such as Rosemary’s Baby and even It’s Alive, Eseli’s Turkish feature is a hellish descent into madness and the never-ending, inexorable limits of
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My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. “The Shadow Of The Dragon” A bright flash pierced the eyes of Conan’s men, then a brief sensation of falling racked their nerves. In seconds their bodies impacted the ground. It was a cold, sandy substance where they lay. No, it was pure ash. Where were they?
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