Luckily, the price was low for the lesson learned. I have learned that extending help for too long reduces gratitude and raises entitlement in many people because they become accustomed to the generosity.
I will go further to say that, in most cases, extended generosity is a feel-good sin by the giver because it erodes the giftee's agency and enables them to continue in dependency.
The core members of Oasis are the Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam. Their relationship was very unstable and they would often get into fights and arguments, sometimes live on stage.
Some people are already speculating they will break up again even before the shows that are scheduled for the tour
I thought about that but couldn't get any tickets. I think they will come to the U.S so I'll keep my eyes opened. I think the only risk would be breaking even and losing out on some fees from the reseller platform.
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A new launch date for SpaceX's Polaris Dawn Mission is set after crews were delayed several times due to system checks, a helium leak, and most recently, unfavorable weather.
SpaceX filed a new launch schedule with the Federal Aviation Administration, with the first window opening at 3:38 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Why There's No One-Size-Fits-All Theory of Everything
Physicists often try to come up with theories that explain everything, but the universe isn't that simple! Imagine the universe as a patchwork of different worlds, each unique and not always connected. Thinking we can sum up all of reality with one theory or equation misses the point. Truth is all about context, and trying to boil everything down to one idea strips away the richness and variety of our universe. The beauty lies in the complexity, like a mosaic made of countless pieces, each adding something special to the bigger picture. So, let's celebrate the messy, diverse nature of reality instead of looking for a tidy explanation that doesn't really fit.
No matter who powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art.
No matter who powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art.
Chiang is one of the most admired science fiction authors writing today, best known for the novella “Story Of Your Life” (which was adapted into the movie “Arrival”). But he’s also published terrific pieces for The New Yorker looking at the dangers and shortcomings of AI.
You should really read his latest article in its entirety, but briefly: Chiang argues that the potential of large language models remains “largely theoretical” — thus far, generative AI has been most successful at “lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning.”
Even as LLMs improve, Chiang argues that their output will never be art — which he acknowledges is “notoriously hard to define,” but he tries anyway: “Art is something that results from making a lot of choices.” Sure, those choices might not result in a particularly good novel or painting or film, but you’re still “engaged in an act of communication between you and your audience.”
“We are all products of what has come before us, but it’s by living our lives in interaction with others that we bring meaning into the world,” Chiang concludes. “That is something that an auto-complete algorithm can never do, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups.
On August 5, Palantir’s CTO Shyam Sankar stood in front of about 20 nervous new employees at the company’s Washington, D.C. office and gave a speech you’d expect at a new hire meeting: company mission, Palantir’s history, etc. But there was one part that would’ve seemed unfathomable a few years ago: Sankar evangelized the importance of a new wave of defense tech startups, spun up by Palantir, Tesla and SpaceX alums.
The significance was more ideological than financial. Any business Palantir gets from startups is dwarfed by its government contracts, after all. But you can’t put a price on philosophical bedfellows.
Palantir likes to remind the world that it’s not like other publicly traded companies, i.e. buttoned-up and appropriately distanced from its cowboy private days. Sankar ends his orientation by cheekily inviting the new employees to shout “f–k off” at him — a way, he says, to encourage a flat structure. And as he walks out of the event room into the office bullpen, he passes a sign referring to employees as “founders” and “trailblazers.”
The sign is fitting: Sankar, who’s been at the company for over 18 years, is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups, a sector that’s been flooded with over $129.3 billion in venture capital since 2021, according to PitchBook.
“To have this class of new champions who have all cut their teeth in Tesla and SpaceX and see the world in completely different ways, it’s providing a huge amount of energy internally for us as we build for them,” he said, referring to startups like Apex Space and Castelion, whose founders hail from those companies.
That is why, in late 2023, he started a program that provides guidance and tools to defense tech startups called First Breakfast. He referred to it in his writings as Palantir’s “Amazon.com to AWS moment.” Basically, it’s a play for Palantir to get in at the ground level for the next Palantirs. It’s a business strategy, but also a philosophical one for Sankar, who spends hours a week on the phone consulting with defense startups and venture capitalists.
Like his longtime boss Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Sankar likes to wax poetic about protecting Western values and how America’s industrial base stumbled after its WWII glory days (though perhaps prime defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, would disagree that the industry has been resting on its laurels for 80 years). Sitting in a conference room lined with white boards, and a constant stream of commercial planes flying over the Potomac River behind him, he reiterated his darkest fears: that America may not be ready for whatever great conflict comes next.
As businesses experiment with embedding AI everywhere, one area starting to gain more attention is Emotion AI.
As businesses experiment with embedding AI everywhere, one unexpected trend is companies turning to AI to help its many newfound bots better understand human emotion.
It’s an area called “emotion AI,” according to PitchBook’s new Enterprise Saas Emerging Tech Research report that predicts this tech is on the rise.
The reasoning goes something like this: If businesses deploy AI assistants to execs and employees, make AI chatbots be front-line salespeople and customer service reps, how can an AI perform well if it doesn’t understand the difference between an angry “What do you mean by that?” and a confused “What do you mean by that?”
Emotion AI claims to be the more sophisticated sibling of sentiment analysis, the pre-AI tech that attempts to distill human emotion from text-based interactions, particularly on social media. Emotion AI is what you might call multimodal, employing sensors for visual, audio, and other inputs combined with machine learning and psychology to attempt to detect human emotion during an interaction.
Major AI cloud providers offer services that give developers access to emotion AI capabilities such as Microsoft Azure cognitive services’ Emotion API or Amazon Web Services’ Rekognition service. (The latter has had its share of controversy over the years.)
While emotion AI, even offered as a cloud service, isn’t new, the sudden rise of bots in the workforce give it more of a future in the business world than it ever had before, according to PitchBook.
“With the proliferation of AI assistants and fully automated human-machine interactions, emotion AI promises to enable more human-like interpretations and responses,” writes PitchBook’s Derek Hernandez, senior analyst, emerging technology in the report.
“Cameras and microphones are integral parts of the hardware side of emotion AI. These can be on a laptop, phone, or individually located in a physical space. Additionally, wearable hardware will likely provide another avenue to employ emotion AI beyond these devices,” Hernandez tells TechCrunch. (So if that customer service chatbot asks for camera access, this may be why.)
Home robots’ unfulfilled potential is neither because of lack of demand on the part of consumers nor lack of effort from manufacturers.
“The Jetsons” debuted September 23, 1962. The first episode, titled “Rosey the Robot,” was an origin story of sorts for the titular character, describing how an overworked Jane hired the housekeeper. Sixty-two years after her debut, Rosey remains an important pop cultural touchstone for the unfulfilled promise of home robots.
Home robots’ unfulfilled potential isn’t because of a lack of consumer demand or lack of effort from manufacturers. It’s more complicated and nuanced than that, though ultimately it’s a matter of pricing, functionality and efficacy. Outside of the aforementioned use cases, today’s home robots don’t do enough or do what they do well enough, and building a robot that can tick both of those boxes would prove prohibitively expensive for those of us who can’t afford our own islands.
During his long tenure as iRobot CEO, co-founder Colin Angle was fond of saying that he didn’t become a successful roboticist until he became a vacuum salesman. It’s a fun quip that gets to something much deeper about the industry. Before the Roomba came along, the company had experimented with everything from baby dolls to military equipment.
iRobot found success when it focused on a simple task: cleaning floors. The earliest models were primitive by today’s standards, but they got the job done well enough to justify their price point. In addition to marking 62 years since Rosey’s TV debut, next month is also the Roomba’s 22nd anniversary. The robot vacuum is old enough to legally buy a case of Sam Adams.
In the nearly quarter century since the Roomba launched, much of iRobot’s R&D has gone into making the system smarter, adding sensing, mapping, and AI and integrating with smart assistants. The company has invested into other robotics categories as well, including gutter clearing, pool cleaning and a lawnmower that may never see the light of day, but all have failed to recapture the Roomba’s magic.
Customers of WazirX, the Indian cryptocurrency exchange that suffered a $234 million hack in July, are unlikely to recover their funds in full through the Customers of WazirX, the exchange that suffered a $234 million hack in July, are unlikely to recover their funds in full through the ongoing restructuring process.
Customers of WazirX, the Indian cryptocurrency exchange that suffered a $234 million hack in July, are unlikely to recover their funds in full through the ongoing restructuring process, a company legal adviser said on Monday.
George Gwee, a director at restructuring firm Kroll working with WazirX, said that at least 43% of the money any customer had in WazirX is unlikely to be recovered. Last week, WazirX asked a Singapore High Court for six months’ protection while it restructures its liabilities.
The best case scenario is a return of “anywhere between 55% and 57% of the funds,” Gwee told journalists. Under a restructuring, WazirX’s priority will be to distribute remaining token assets to users in a pro-rata manner via crypto, it said. The company is holding discussions to share profit from its revenue-generating products, it added, without giving any concrete details.
The hack, which occurred in July, is the largest cryptocurrency theft in India to date and has sent shockwaves through the country’s crypto industry. The company has been scrambling to find ways to return money to its customers ever since. In July, it proposed that it would socialize the “force majeure” loss.
During the press conference, WazirX representatives avoided many questions about its efforts to shore up capital. The company said it’s holding talks with an unnamed white knight, but said the capital won’t be raised against equity because of an ongoing dispute with Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange — Binance and WazirX have been closely linked at some point.
In late 2019, Binance announced the acquisition of WazirX in a blog post, but later disputed that it had acquired the firm. After a public row, the cryptocurrency exchange terminated its tech offerings to the Indian firm in 2022.
Validus, a Singapore-based digital lending platform for small and medium businesses, has secured $50 million in debt financing from HSBC under the ASEAN
Validus, a Singapore-based digital lending platform for small and medium businesses, has secured $50 million in debt financing from HSBC under the ASEAN Growth Fund strategy.
Validus will use the proceeds to support the financial inclusion of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, addressing the challenges they face in accessing financial resources.
With 64.2 million MSMEs contributing 61% of Indonesia’s GDP, according to Indonesia’s Ministry for Economic Affairs, the potential for growth is immense. These MSMEs employ about 119.6 million people, which is 97% of the total workforce in the country. However, only about 17.5 million MSME players are tapping into the online ecosystem and e-commerce. Indonesian MSMEs face significant challenges in accessing financing, mainly due to commercial banks’ stringent operational, reporting, and collateral requirements, as per a 2017 report by the World Bank. Despite government initiatives, only around 20 percent of bank loans go to MSMEs, the World Bank report said.
Vikas Nahata (Executive Chairman) and Nihkilesh Goel (CEO) co-founded the business in Singapore in 2015. They developed a supply chain-focused lending model that utilized non-traditional data access through partnerships with traditional banks and international institutions. The company has since expanded to include Indonesia (Batumbu), Thailand (Siam Validus), and Vietnam (Validus Vietnam).
“Traditional banks across the SEA region still rely on legacy credit evaluation methods for small businesses, and they are overly reliant on historical financials and real estate-backed collateral,” Goel said. “For a region experiencing GDP growth of 5-6% per annum, small businesses need access to stable and accessible working capital to grow their businesses and contribute to job creation and nation building. This is where Validus plays a major role as the largest digital SME financing provider across ASEAN.”
Its users are MSMEs, who primarily borrow for their short-term working capital needs, Goel told TechCrunch, while lenders include major international institutions (Citi, HSBC, FMO, Credit Saison, OikoCredit) and leading local banks (CIMB Niaga, Bank Mandiri) across Indonesia and Thailand. Goel mentioned that one of its differentiators is over 100 unique partnerships throughout the Southeast Asia region.
“Validus is the largest SME financing marketplace across the South East Asia region by outstanding loan book or monthly loan disbursals where we are currently averaging $150 million of new loan disbursals per month,” Goel said.
The Mac mini will be the next Apple device to say goodbye to USB-A, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
The Mac mini will be the next Apple device to say goodbye to USB-A, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Apple customers have probably gotten used to seeing the familiar, rectangular USB-A ports replaced with their thinner USB-C siblings. And while USB-C has its advantages, the transition can sometimes leave users confused and scrambling for adapters.
The Mac mini, meanwhile, hasn’t been significantly redesigned since 2010, but Gurman says that’s changing this fall. The updated models will include Apple’s new M4 chip, as well as five USB-C ports, plus an Ethernet port, an HDMI connector, and a headphone jack. But the USB-A ports will be gone.
Apple has a “Glowtime” press event scheduled for September 9, where the company is expected to announce the new iPhone 16. The new Mac lineup may not be announced until later in the fall.
In the latest twist in Bolt's aggressive fundraising efforts, the fintech company’s CEO appears to have made a veiled threat of legal action
In the latest twist in Bolt’s aggressive fundraising efforts, the fintech company’s CEO appears to have made a veiled threat of legal action against Silverbear Capital, the investment bank whose involvement in the deal remains in some dispute.
“We believe there was some internal miscommunication at Silverbear Capital, one of our lead investors, which has caused unnecessary confusion,” CEO Justin Grooms wrote in an email reportedly viewed by Forbes. “The fact is, they signed a binding term sheet committing $200 million. Our exceptional legal team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher stands ready to represent the company in seeking to enforce our rights vigorously.”
Bolt, which offers tools for one-click e-commerce checkout, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Silverbear partner Veronica Welch told Forbes that “this never had anything to do with any miscommunications” and that the deal “was never discussed or approved in the company.”
Earlier this month, a leaked term sheet showed that Bolt was aiming to raise $200 million in equity funding and $250 million in “marketing credits” at a $14 billion valuation, with an unusual pay-to-play deal structure that would essentially force existing backers to either invest or lose their stakes in the company.
While Silverbear was initially reported to be leading the equity round, the firm’s partner Brad Pamnani recently told TechCrunch he’s actually putting the deal together through a special purpose vehicle (SPV) managed by a private equity fund based in the United Arab Emirates.
“At the beginning, I used my Silverbear email to respond to some things and that caused some confusion but Silverbear was never actually looking at this deal,” Pamnani said.
Meanwhile, The London Fund’s CEO confirmed in an interview with TechCrunch that the firm is contributing “marketing credits” to the deal. However, The London Fund released a statement Friday saying that it has not seen and cannot “confirm the validity of any part of a document leaked to the press.”
“We can confirm that there have been discussions between The London Fund and Bolt’s management; however, at no point have we stated that a transaction has concluded,” the firm said.
The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is a NASA facility located on Merritt Island, Florida, United States. It is one of the most famous and historic space centers in the world, and it has played a crucial role in the United States' space exploration program since the 1960s.
The Kennedy Space Center was established in 1962 as the launch site for NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs, which aimed to put humans into space and orbit the Earth. The center was named after President John F. Kennedy, who played a key role in the development of the US space program.
Over the years, the Kennedy Space Center has been the launch site for many historic space missions, including:
Mercury-Redstone 3: The first American in space, astronaut Alan Shepard, launched from KSC on May 5, 1961.
Gemini 4: The first American spacewalk was performed by astronaut Ed White during this mission in 1965.
Apollo 7: The first manned Apollo mission, which carried astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele, and Walter Cunningham into space in 1968.
Apollo 11: The first mission to land humans on the moon, which was launched from KSC on July 16, 1969.
Space Shuttle program: KSC was the primary launch site for the Space Shuttle program, which operated from 1981 to 2011.
Today, the Kennedy Space Center is still an active NASA facility, although it has shifted its focus from launch operations to research, development, and testing of new space technologies. The center is also a popular tourist destination, with over 1.5 million visitors each year.
Humanoid robots are robots that are designed to resemble humans in appearance and are capable of performing tasks that are similar to those of humans. They are typically designed to have a human-like body, with a torso, arms, and legs, and are often equipped with advanced sensors and actuators that allow them to move and interact with their environment in a way that is similar to humans.
Humanoid robots can be used for a variety of purposes, including:
Research and development: Humanoid robots can be used to study human behavior, movement, and cognition, and to develop new technologies and techniques for human-robot interaction.
Service and assistance: Humanoid robots can be used to assist people with disabilities, provide companionship and social interaction, and perform tasks that are difficult or impossible for humans to do.
Entertainment: Humanoid robots can be used in theme parks, shows, and other forms of entertainment to create interactive and engaging experiences.
Military and defense: Humanoid robots can be used for search and rescue, surveillance, and other military applications.
Honda's ASIMO: A humanoid robot that is designed to assist people with daily tasks and to interact with humans in a natural way.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas: A humanoid robot that is designed for search and rescue and other applications that require advanced mobility and manipulation capabilities.
SoftBank Robotics' Pepper: A humanoid robot that is designed to provide customer service and assistance in retail and other settings.
NASA's Valkyrie: A humanoid robot that is designed for space exploration and is being used to test new technologies and techniques for human-robot interaction.
What companies are looking to build humanoid robots?
There are several companies around the world that are actively developing and building humanoid robots. Here are some examples:
Honda: Honda's ASIMO is one of the most well-known humanoid robots, and the company is continuing to develop and improve its capabilities.
Boston Dynamics: Boston Dynamics is a robotics company that is owned by Alphabet (Google's parent company). They are developing a humanoid robot called Atlas, which is designed for search and rescue applications.
SoftBank Robotics: SoftBank Robotics is a Japanese company that is developing a humanoid robot called Pepper, which is designed for customer service and assistance.
Sony: Sony is a Japanese Electronics company that is developing a humanoid robot called SDR-4X, which is designed for entertainment and service applications.
UBTECH: UBTECH is a Chinese robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called Walker, which is designed for service and assistance applications.
Hanson Robotics: Hanson Robotics is a Hong Kong-based company that is developing a humanoid robot called Sophia, which is designed for entertainment and service applications.
Robotis: Robotis is a South Korean robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called THOR, which is designed for service and assistance applications.
FANUC: FANUC is a Japanese robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called CR-35iA, which is designed for manufacturing and logistics applications.
KUKA: KUKA is a German robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called LBR iiwa, which is designed for manufacturing and logistics applications.
ABB: ABB is a Swiss robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called YuMi, which is designed for manufacturing and logistics applications.
Festo: Festo is a German robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called Bionic Handling Assistant, which is designed for service and assistance applications.
PAL Robotics: PAL Robotics is a Spanish robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called TIAGo, which is designed for service and assistance applications.
Robotex: Robotex is a Turkish robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called RoboThespian, which is designed for entertainment and service applications.
Geminoid: Geminoid is a Japanese robotics company that is developing a humanoid robot called Geminoid HI-1, which is designed for entertainment and service applications.
HRP-4C: HRP-4C is a Japanese humanoid robot developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial science and technology (AIST) and the University of Tokyo.
These are just a few examples of companies that are developing humanoid robots. There are many other companies and research institutions around the world that are also working on humanoid robotics.
Tesla is working on developing humanoid robots as part of its broader efforts to create a more autonomous and efficient manufacturing process. The company has been testing and refining its humanoid robot technology, known as "Optimus," which is designed to perform a variety of tasks, including assembly, welding, and material handling.
Tesla's humanoid robots are designed to be highly flexible and adaptable, allowing them to perform a wide range of tasks and interact with other machines and humans in a variety of settings. The robots are equipped with advanced sensors and actuators, as well as sophisticated software and algorithms that enable them to learn and adapt to new situations.
Tesla's humanoid robots are being developed to work alongside human workers in its manufacturing facilities, with the goal of improving efficiency, reducing labor costs, and increasing productivity. The robots are also being designed to be able to work in a variety of environments, including clean rooms, warehouses, and construction sites.
Some of the specific tasks that Tesla's humanoid robots are being designed to perform include:
Assembly: Optimus is being designed to perform a variety of assembly tasks, including assembling batteries, motors, and other components.
Welding: The robots are being equipped with welding tools and are being designed to perform welding tasks, such as welding together metal parts.
Material handling: Optimus is being designed to handle and move materials around the manufacturing facility, such as transporting batteries or other components.
Quality control: The robots are being equipped with sensors and cameras that allow them to inspect and test products, ensuring that they meet quality standards.
Maintenance: Optimus is being designed to perform routine maintenance tasks, such as cleaning and lubricating machinery.
Tesla's humanoid robots are still in the testing and development phase, and the company is working to refine the technology and integrate it into its manufacturing processes. However, the potential for humanoid robots to revolutionize manufacturing and improve efficiency is significant, and Tesla is at the forefront of this technology.
Nvidia's New Superchips: Twice the Power, Double the Challenge!
Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chips are game-changers. They're about twice the size of previous models and pack in 2.6 times more transistors, thanks to a clever design that combines two processors with memory components in a complex mesh. But making these chips isn’t easy—they’re so intricate that even a tiny flaw can ruin a $40,000 chip. Nvidia faced huge engineering challenges to get these right, and this article dives into what it took to make these cutting-edge chips a reality. If you’re into tech, this is a must-read!
Joining the ranks of Microsoft and OpenAI, Anthropic is now also facing a lawsuit from authors who claim that the creator of the Claude AI models used the writers’ work to train its LLMs unsolicited and, more importantly, without paying for it.
The trio of writers filed the suit in a court in the U.S. state of California. According to them, Anthropic abuses ‘human creativity and ingenuity’ by feeding the fruits of their labor (and that of others) without permission to the AI models it trains.
“Humans who learn from books buy lawful copies of them, or borrow them from libraries that buy them, providing at least some measure of compensation to authors and creators,” the complaint reads. Anthropic has not responded apart from saying it is ‘aware’ of the suit, Reuters reports.
The authors who sued Anthropic are Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson. All three write about very different things: thriller and mystery stories in Bartz’s case, non-fiction in Graeber’s, and Johnson’s published about the war in Iraq after 9/11 and then turned to a true-crime report about the theft of exotic bird feathers for the purpose of fly fishing(!)
Not only have book writers set their sights on Antropic. Music publishers have also sued the company because its AI models would regurgitate existing song lyrics based on users’ prompts. In other words, these have allegedly also been used for data entry.
Rival to OpenaI
Founded in 2021, Anthropic positions itself as a rival to OpenAI. Its models in the Claude series, including Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku, are said to be able to compete with the various models of its well-known San Francisco neighbour, including GPT-4o, GPT-3.5 Turbo, and -4o mini.
Sam Altman, the much-discussed founder of OpenAI and just about the only one of the original team of founders still left, claims that AI models cannot be properly trained without copyrighted data. That means books, newspaper articles, scientific papers and other data sources containing high-quality information.
Recent progress in AI largely boils down to one thing: Scale.
Around the beginning of this decade, AI labs noticed that making their algorithms—or models—ever bigger and feeding them more data consistently led to enormous improvements in what they could do and how well they did it. The latest crop of AI models have hundreds of billions to over a trillion internal network connections and learn to write or code like we do by consuming a healthy fraction of the internet.
It takes more computing power to train bigger algorithms. So, to get to this point, the computing dedicated to AI training has been quadrupling every year, according to nonprofit AI research organization, Epoch AI.
Should that growth continue through 2030, future AI models would be trained with 10,000 times more compute than today’s state of the art algorithms, like OpenAI’s GPT-4.
“If pursued, we might see by the end of the decade advances in AI as drastic as the difference between the rudimentary text generation of GPT-2 in 2019 and the sophisticated problem-solving abilities of GPT-4 in 2023,” Epoch wrote in a recent research report detailing how likely it is this scenario is possible.
But modern AI already sucks in a significant amount of power, tens of thousands of advanced chips, and trillions of online examples. Meanwhile, the industry has endured chip shortages, and studies suggest it may run out of quality training data. Assuming companies continue to invest in AI scaling: Is growth at this rate even technically possible?
In its report, Epoch looked at four of the biggest constraints to AI scaling: Power, chips, data, and latency. TLDR: Maintaining growth is technically possible, but not certain.
We investigate the scalability of AI training runs. We identify electric power, chip manufacturing, data and latency as constraints. We conclude that 2e29 FLOP training runs will likely be feasible by 2030.
In recent years, the capabilities of AI models have significantly improved. Our research suggests that this growth in computational resources accounts for a significant portion of AI performance improvements.1 The consistent and predictable improvements from scaling have led AI labs to aggressively expand the scale of training, with training compute expanding at a rate of approximately 4x per year.
To put this 4x annual growth in AI training compute into perspective, it outpaces even some of the fastest technological expansions in recent history. It surpasses the peak growth rates of mobile phone adoption (2x/year, 1980-1987), solar energy capacity installation (1.5x/year, 2001-2010), and human genome sequencing (3.3x/year, 2008-2015).
Here, we examine whether it is technically feasible for the current rapid pace of AI training scaling—approximately 4x per year—to continue through 2030. We investigate four key factors that might constrain scaling: power availability, chip manufacturing capacity, data scarcity, and the “latency wall”, a fundamental speed limit imposed by unavoidable delays in AI training computations.
Our analysis incorporates the expansion of production capabilities, investment, and technological advancements. This includes, among other factors, examining planned growth in advanced chip packaging facilities, construction of additional power plants, and the geographic spread of data centers to leverage multiple power networks. To account for these changes, we incorporate projections from various public sources: semiconductor foundries’ planned expansions, electricity providers’ capacity growth forecasts, other relevant industry data, and our own research.
We find that training runs of 2e29 FLOP will likely be feasible by the end of this decade. In other words, by 2030 it will be very likely possible to train models that exceed GPT-4 in scale to the same degree that GPT-4 exceeds GPT-2 in scale.2 If pursued, we might see by the end of the decade advances in AI as drastic as the difference between the rudimentary text generation of GPT-2 in 2019 and the sophisticated problem-solving abilities of GPT-4 in 2023.
Given projected industry growth in production capacity, they think between 20 and 400 million AI chips may be available for AI training in 2030. Some of these will be serving up existing models, and AI labs will only be able to buy a fraction of the whole.
As AI systems continue to grow in complexity and scale, several constraints are expected to emerge, impacting their performance, efficiency, and overall effectiveness. Some of the key constraints expected for AI scaling include:
Data Quality and Quantity: The quality and quantity of training data will become increasingly important. As AI models grow in size, they require more data to learn from, and poor-quality data can lead to biased or inaccurate results.
Computational Resources: AI models require significant computational resources, including processing power, memory, and storage. As models grow in size, they will require more powerful hardware and specialized infrastructure to run efficiently.
Energy Consumption: As AI systems scale, their energy consumption will increase, posing environmental and economic concerns. This will drive the development of more energy-efficient AI algorithms and hardware.
Explainability and Transparency: As AI systems become more complex, it will be increasingly important to understand how they make decisions and why. This will require the development of explainable AI (XAI) techniques to ensure transparency and accountability.
Interpretability and Debugging: As AI models grow in size and complexity, it will become more challenging to interpret and debug their behavior. New techniques will be needed to understand and correct errors in AI systems.
Human-AI Collaboration: As AI systems scale, they will need to collaborate with humans more effectively. This will require the development of new interfaces and workflows that enable seamless human-AI collaboration.
Cybersecurity: As AI systems become more connected and integrated, they will become more vulnerable to cyber threats. This will drive the development of more robust cybersecurity measures to protect AI systems and data.
Regulatory Frameworks: As AI systems scale, regulatory frameworks will need to be developed to ensure their safe and ethical deployment. This will require collaboration between governments, industry, and academia to establish clear guidelines and standards.
Scalability of AI Algorithms: AI algorithms will need to be designed to scale efficiently, handling large datasets and complex computations. This will require the development of new algorithms and techniques that can efficiently process and analyze large amounts of data.
Edge Computing and IoT Integration: As AI systems scale, they will need to be integrated with edge computing and IoT devices to process data in real-time and make decisions at the edge. This will require the development of new architectures and protocols for edge computing and IoT integration.
Distributed Computing and cloud Infrastructure: AI systems will require distributed computing and cloud infrastructure to scale efficiently. This will drive the development of new cloud computing platforms and distributed computing architectures.
AI-Driven AI: As AI systems scale, they will need to be able to learn from each other and adapt to new situations. This will require the development of AI-driven AI systems that can learn from each other and improve over time.
By understanding these constraints, AI developers and researchers can design and develop more effective, efficient, and scalable AI systems that can address complex problems and improve people's lives.
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An AI doomer is a term used to describe individuals who have a pessimistic or catastrophic view of the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society. They believe that the development and deployment of AI will have devastating consequences, such as:
Job displacement: AI could replace human workers, leading to widespread unemployment and social unrest.
Economicdisruption: AI could disrupt entire industries, causing economic instability and potentially even collapse.
Loss of human control: AI could become so advanced that it becomes uncontrollable, leading to catastrophic outcomes.
Existential risks: AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, potentially leading to the end of human civilization.
AI doomers often argue that the development of AI is being driven by short-sighted and profit-motivated individuals who are ignoring the potential risks and consequences. They may also believe that governments and corporations are not doing enough to address these concerns and mitigate the potential negative impacts of AI.
The Singularity: The idea that AI could eventually surpass human intelligence and become uncontrollable, leading to catastrophic consequences.
Job displacement: The fear that AI will replace human workers, leading to widespread unemployment and social unrest.
Biases and discrimination: The concern that AI systems may perpetuate and amplify existing biases and discrimination, leading to unfair outcomes.
Lack of accountability: The worry that AI systems may be used to manipulate and deceive people, without being held accountable.
It's worth noting that not all AI doomers are pessimistic about the potential of AI. Some may believe that AI has the potential to solve many of the world's problems, but that it must be developed and deployed responsibly and with caution.
Nick Bostrom, a philosopher and director of the Future of Humanity Institute, who has written extensively on the risks of superintelligent AI.
Elon Musk, who has expressed concerns about the potential risks of AI and has called for greater regulation and oversight.
Yuval Noah Harari, a historian and professor, who has written about the potential risks and consequences of AI in his book "21 Lessons for the 21st Century".
It's important to note that the AI doomer perspective is not universally accepted, and many experts believe that the benefits of AI outweigh the risks. However, it's also important to acknowledge the concerns and uncertainties surrounding AI and to work towards developing and deploying AI in a responsible and ethical manner.
Training large AI models requires correspondingly large datasets. The indexed web contains about 500T words of unique text, and is projected to increase by 50% by 2030. Multimodal learning from image, video and audio data will likely moderately contribute to scaling, plausibly tripling the data available for training. After accounting for uncertainties on data quality, availability, multiple epochs, and multimodal tokenizer efficiency, we estimate the equivalent of 400 trillion to 20 quadrillion tokens available for training by 2030, allowing for 6e28 to 2e32 FLOP training runs. We speculate that synthetic data generation from AI models could increase this substantially.
Scaling up AI training runs requires access to increasingly large datasets. So far, AI labs have relied on web text data to fuel training runs. Since the amount of web data generated year to year grows more slowly than the data used in training, this will not be enough to support indefinite growth. In this section, we summarize our previous work on data scarcity, and expand it by estimating further possible gains in scale enabled by multimodal and synthetic data.
If the recent trend of 4x/year compute scaling continues, we would run into this “data wall” for text data in about five years. However, data from other modalities and synthetic data generation might help mitigate this constraint. We will argue that multimodal data will result in effective data stocks of 450 trillion to 23 quadrillion tokens, allowing for training runs of 6e28 to 2e32 FLOP. Furthermore, synthetic data might enable scaling much beyond this if AI labs spend a significant fraction of their compute budgets on data generation
The average person generates around 1 megabyte (MB) of data per day, which translates to around 365 MB per year. (Source: Cisco)
By 2025, the average person is expected to generate around 2.5 MB of data per day, which is equivalent to around 900 MB per year. (Source: Cisco)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to generate around 73.1 ZB of data by 2025, up from around 13.2 ZB in 2020. (Source: International Data Corporation)
Social media alone generates around 500 terabytes (TB) of data per day. (Source: Hootsuite)
The total amount of data stored on the Internet is estimated to be around 5 zettabytes (ZB). (Source: IBM)
This evidence might manifest as newer models like GPT-5 generating over $20 billion in revenue within their first year of release; significant advancements in AI functionality, allowing models to seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, manipulate browser windows or virtual machines, and operate independently in the background.
$20 billion in revenue the first year? That is a huge chunk. The focus of Leo should be clear.
To understand the scale of this potential investment, consider that global labor compensation is approximately $60T per year. Even without factoring in accelerated economic growth from AI automation, if it becomes feasible to develop AI capable of effectively substituting for human labor, investing trillions of dollars to capture even a fraction of this $60T flow would be economically justified.
Further evidence of AI systems’ potential for sufficiently large economic returns could emerge from scaling beyond GPT-4 to a GPT-6 equivalent model, coupled with substantial algorithmic improvements and post-training improvements. This evidence might manifest as newer models like GPT-5 generating over $20 billion in revenue within their first year of release;
According to various sources, including International Data Corporation (IDC), Cisco, and others, here are some projected data production estimates from 2024 to 2030:
Model collapse is a phenomenon in artificial intelligence (AI) where a neural network or a machine learning model fails to learn or generalize from the training data, often resulting in poor performance or incorrect predictions. This can occur when the model becomes overly confident in its predictions and starts to produce the same output for all inputs, regardless of their differences.
To mitigate model collapse, AI practitioners can use various techniques, such as:
Regularization techniques, such as dropout, L1/L2 regularization, and early stopping
Data augmentation and data generation
Ensemble methods, such as bagging and boosting
Transfer learning and fine-tuning
Model selection and hyperparameter tuning
Monitoring and evaluating model performance using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score
By understanding and addressing model collapse, AI practitioners can develop more robust, accurate, and reliable models that can effectively learn from data and generalize to new situations.
However, the prospects of catastrophic model collapse might be overstated. Most research so far looks at cases where synthetic data replaces human data. In practice, human and AI data are likely to accumulate in parallel, which reduces the likelihood of collapse.
The most likely future scenario will also see an ecosystem of somewhat diverse generative AI platforms being used to create and publish content, rather than one monolithic model. This also increases robustness against collapse.
Standard economic models predict that if AI automation reaches a point where it replaces most or all human labor, economic growth could accelerate by tenfold or more.
What is the danger of too much data being synthetic on future AI models?
The danger of too much synthetic data on future AI models is a topic of ongoing debate and concern in the AI community. Here are some potential risks:
Biased models: Synthetic data can be generated using existing biases in the system, which can perpetuate and amplify existing social, cultural, and economic biases. This can lead to unfair and discriminatory outcomes.
Lack of realism: Synthetic data may not accurately reflect real-world scenarios, which can lead to models that are not robust or generalizable to real-world situations.
Overfitting: With an abundance of synthetic data, models may become overly specialized in the synthetic data and fail to generalize to new, unseen data.
Lack of diversity: Synthetic data may not capture the diversity of real-world data, which can lead to models that are not robust or adaptable to different scenarios.
Dependence on data generation: If AI models rely too heavily on synthetic data, they may become dependent on the quality and accuracy of the generated data, which can be a single point of failure.
Difficulty in debugging: With synthetic data, it can be challenging to identify and debug errors, as the data may not accurately reflect real-world scenarios.
Limited transfer learning: Synthetic data may not be transferable to other domains or tasks, which can limit the applicability of AI models.
Risk of over-optimization: Synthetic data can be optimized for specific tasks or scenarios, which can lead to models that are over-optimized for a particular use case and may not generalize well to other situations.
Lack of human oversight: Synthetic data may not be reviewed or validated by humans, which can lead to errors or inaccuracies in the data.
Potential for misuse: Synthetic data can be used to manipulate or deceive AI models, which can have serious consequences in areas like finance, healthcare, or national security.
To mitigate these risks, it's essential to ensure that synthetic data is:
High-quality and accurate
Representative of real-world scenarios
Diverse and inclusive
Transparent and explainable
Reviewed and validated by humans
Used in conjunction with real-world data
Regularly updated and refined
By being aware of these potential risks and taking steps to mitigate them, we can ensure that AI models are developed and deployed responsibly and effectively.
Algorithms like OpenAI's GPT-4 are like brains frozen in time. A new study shows how future AIs could learn continuously in response to a changing world.
Our brains are constantly learning. That new sandwich deli rocks. That gas station? Better avoid it in the future.
Memories like these physically rewire connections in the brain region that supports new learning. During sleep, the previous day’s memories are shuttled to other parts of the brain for long-term storage, freeing up brain cells for new experiences the next day. In other words, the brain can continuously soak up our everyday lives without losing access to memories of what came before.
AI, not so much. GPT-4 and other large language and multimodal models, which have taken the world by storm, are built using deep learning, a family of algorithms that loosely mimic the brain. The problem? “Deep learning systems with standard algorithms slowly lose the ability to learn,” Dr. Shibhansh Dohare at University of Alberta recently told Nature.
The reason for this is in how they’re set up and trained. Deep learning relies on multiple networks of artificial neurons that are connected to each other. Feeding data into the algorithms—say, reams of online resources like blogs, news articles, and YouTube and Reddit comments—changes the strength of these connections, so that the AI eventually “learns” patterns in the data and uses these patterns to churn out eloquent responses.
But these systems are basically brains frozen in time. Tackling a new task sometimes requires a whole new round of training and learning, which erases what came before and costs millions of dollars. For ChatGPT and other AI tools, this means they become increasingly outdated over time.
This week, Dohare and colleagues found a way to solve the problem. The key is to selectively reset some artificial neurons after a task, but without substantially changing the entire network—a bit like what happens in the brain as we sleep.
When tested with a continual visual learning task—say differentiating cats from houses or telling apart stop signs and school buses—deep learning algorithms equipped with selective resetting easily maintained high accuracy over 5,000 different tasks. Standard algorithms, in contrast, rapidly deteriorated, their success eventually dropping to about a coin-toss.
Called continual back propagation, the strategy is “among the first of a large and fast-growing set of methods” to deal with the continuous learning problem, wrote Drs. Clare Lyle and Razvan Pascanu at Google DeepMind, who were not involved in the study.
Epic Systems, a 45-year-old health-care software company, remains privately held with a sprawling campus that's far from Wall Street or Silicon Valley.
Dorothy Gale was right — the Land of Oz is not in Kansas. Rather, it's nestled within the rolling green fields of Verona, Wisconsin, a town of nearly 16,400 people located about 10 miles southwest of the capital city of Madison.
Verona is home to the whimsical, sprawling 1,670-acre headquarters for Epic Systems, one of the biggest privately held U.S. tech companies. Epic's software is seemingly ubiquitous across hospitals and clinics, storing the medical records of more than 280 million people in the U.S.
While the company's workforce is tasked with the hefty responsibility of building tools to support doctors and nurses as they provide care to patients, Epic employees spend their days milling in and out of offices that look as if they were plucked straight from the pages of a sci-fi novel or children's book.
A yellow brick road inspired by "The Wizard of Oz" winds through the hallways of a gleaming, emerald green building. Giant chocolate chips mark the entryway to the chocolate factory, and a mischievous cat grins through the window of a building guarded by life-sized playing cards.
You will soon be able to have a voice conversation with artificial intelligence on WhatsApp, according to information from WABetaInfo. The publication claims to have found snippets of code indicating that the application will have a floating button in the chat list to start conversations with Meta IA, a type of ChatGPT developed by the owner of WhatsApp.
By touching the button, Meta AI would go into operation in "hands-free" mode, that is, it would remain constantly active, listening to the user and answering their questions without having to touch the cell phone during each interaction.
To deactivate continuous listening, simply tap the Meta AI button again to end the chat with the tool or switch to text conversation mode.
It is not yet clear which voice commands will be available to the user, but considering that it is a conversational generative AI, it is likely that you can use the messenger to answer questions, request improvements to texts, create code and more. What we don't yet know is whether it will be possible to ask Meta IA to compose a text message and send it directly to a specific contact via WhatsApp, for example.
Additionally, the feature should allow users to customize Meta AI's voice in some way, making the assistant more user-friendly. Code snippets indicating the addition of these features were found in Beta version 2.24.18.18 of WhatsApp, available on Google's Play Store. So, voice chat with Meta AI is expected to come to Android first.
There is still no estimate of when these new features will be available in the stable version of WhatsApp, which is the version installed on most smartphones.
Called the X-33, it was based on a concept called SSTO — or “single stage to orbit”. The SSTO eliminates rocket stages in conventional spaceflight—in which rockets containing engines and fuel are jettisoned during ascent to reduce weight—in favor of a single, fully reusable spacecraft.
The X-33 was designed to launch vertically like a rocket but land on a runway like an airplane, with the goal of reducing the cost of sending a pound (about 450 grams) of payload to orbit from $10,000 ( around R$56,000) to just US$1,000 (around R$5,600).
However, the program was canceled in 2001 due to technical difficulties, adding to a list of similar projects that did not come to fruition.
“I was leading the X-33 program, and we gave up on it because our assessment was that it would cost more than we were willing to spend, and we were at the limit of our technological capabilities to actually do it,” says Livingston Holder, an aerospace engineer, former USAF astronaut and X-33 program manager, and now CTO of Radian Aerospace, a Seattle-based company he co-founded in 2016 to revive the SSTO dream.
“Things have changed drastically since the X-33 — we have composite materials that are lighter, stronger and can withstand a greater thermal range than we had back then. And the propulsion is better than anything we had, in terms of how efficiently it burns propellant and how much the systems weigh,” he says.
The product of this updated technology is Radian One, a new space plane that will replace vertical launch with a very unusual system — a rocket-powered sled.
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To escape Earth's gravity and reach orbit, a rocket needs to reach a speed of about 28,000 km/h, according to Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former NASA astronaut who flew on five Space Shuttle missions.
PromptPerfect is an artificial intelligence platform that promises to help users create more complete and accurate commands to use in tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini Google and MidJourney AI, for example. In addition to generating more complete and assertive versions of the prompts, the resource also has an assistant mode, which helps you create new orders, organize ideas and even improve writing.
The objective is to create appropriate instructions, as these guidelines directly influence the quality and relevance of the generated response. PromptPerfect is free and available on the web, allowing you to use ten orders per day. There are also paid versions, which cost U$19.99 (around R$110) and U$99.99 (R$520) per month.
The platform is structured in English, but it is possible to enter the command in your preferred language and receive responses in the same language automatically. It is also possible to use the browser's translator to view the content in Portuguese.
The resource can also be integrated with other tools and platforms through the API, a protocol that allows communication between different software. Check out the step-by-step guide below to use PromptPerfect and improve your commands for AI tools.
SpaceX has developed several rocket models as part of its efforts to advance space exploration and reduce spacetransportationcosts. Here are the main SpaceX rockets:
Falcon 1: This was SpaceX's first orbital rocket, which operated from 2006 to 2009.
Falcon 9: Currently SpaceX's workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed for the reliable and cost-effective transport of satellites and spacecraft. Its first stage is capable of landing and being reused.
Current Status:
As of my last update in April 2024, Starship was still in development and testing phases. SpaceX had conducted several high-altitude tests and was working towards orbital test flights. However, for the most up-to-date information on Starship's progress and achievements, I'd recommend checking SpaceX's official channels or recent news sources.
Starship represents a paradigm shift in spacecraft design and could potentially revolutionize space exploration if it achieves its design goals. However, it's important to note that many challenges remain in fully realizing this ambitious vision.
Tell me all you can about the Starship? What is special about this one and what does the company think it will do for space flight?
Starship is SpaceX's most ambitious project to date, representing a significant leap in spacecraft design and capabilities. Here's an overview of Starship and its potential impact on spaceflight:
Design and Capabilities:
Fully reusable: Both the Starship spacecraft and its Super Heavy booster are designed to be fully reusable, potentially dramatically reducing the cost of space access.
Size: When fully stacked, Starship and Super Heavy stand about 120 meters tall, making it the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
Payload capacity: It's designed to carry over 100 metric tons to low ⇪ orbit× in its fully reusable configuration.
Versatility: Starship is intended for a wide range of missions, from Earth orbit to lunar landings and Mars colonization.
Propulsion: It uses SpaceX's Raptor engines, which run on liquid methane and liquid oxygen, chosen for their efficiency and the potential to produce fuel on Mars.
Cost reduction: By being fully reusable, Starship could dramatically lower the cost of access to space, potentially by orders of magnitude.
Increased access to space: Lower costs could democratize space access, enabling more countries, companies, and even individuals to participate in space activities.
Mars colonization: SpaceX sees Starship as key to establishing a human presence on Mars, with the ability to transport large numbers of people and cargo.
Lunar missions: NASA has selected a version of Starship as a lunar lander for its Artemis program to return humans to the moon.
Point-to-point Earth travel: SpaceX has proposed using Starship for ultra-fast international travel on Earth, potentially reducing long-distance travel times to under an hour.
Large satellite deployment: Starship's large payload capacity could enable the deployment of much larger satellites or constellations of satellites.
Deep space exploration: With its long-range capabilities, Starship could facilitate missions to the outer planets and beyond.
Falcon Heavy: A heavy-lift launch vehicle that consists of three Falcon 9 first stages strapped together, with a second stage on the center core.
Starship: This is SpaceX's next-generation, fully reusable spacecraft and launch system currently under development. It's designed for a variety of missions, including Earthorbit, lunar, and Mars missions.
Dragon: While not a rocket itself, the Dragon spacecraft is often paired with the Falcon 9 for cargo and crew missions to the International Space Station.
Burton memorialized the "Rocky" actor at the posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony for Weathers.
LeVar Burton has fond memories of the late Carl Weathers — and many of them involve sweating it out butt naked.
Burton recalled hitting the steam room with the late Rocky actor during his speech at the ceremony honoring Weathers with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday.
"Carl and I used to meet sometimes at a Korean spa here in Koreatown just east of us, and so we spent a lot of time naked in the sauna," the Star Trek: The Next Generation actor said. "Now, when you're naked with somebody, there's nothing to hide. No, I mean really, there's nothing to hide. But there are two meanings to that, because there is no artifice in the sauna. And Carl had no problem being his authentic self in every single moment."
Burton went on to say that Weathers' authenticity was "probably his greatest gift and greatest talent," adding, "I'm really glad that we have all gathered here today to celebrate such a remarkable human being."
"He was, in fact, the embodiment of a good man," the Reading Rainbow host said of Weathers' exemplary character earlier in his remarks. "Now, I do not use those two words in combination lightly, but Carl deserves it. In Carl's presence, you knew that he was focused 100 percent on you. He wasn't looking around to see who more important came in the room, he was laser-locked on this now-moment with you."
The cast of "Parenthood" just welcomed a new parent.
Parenthood parenthood announcement: Mae Whitman has given birth to her first child, and named him after costar Miles Heizer.
On Wednesday, Whitman introduced baby Miles to the world in an Instagram post, joking, "Not to be a Bieber about it but I too just gave birth to our son, Miles." Whitman continued that "he is the kindest, gentlest, smartest, funniest little beebee and he’s our best friend (pretty much exactly like his namesake Uncle Miles.)"
"We are infinitely grateful he chose us as his parents," Whitman continued in her post. She thanked the obstetrics and midwifery organization Moxie Birth and Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. "for guiding our little family through all the unexpected twists and turns safely and with love and grace," as well as "everyone in our circle who has shown us such radical generosity and support."
Staunton filmed new scenes for Universal Epic Universe's stunning new theme park ride, after previously saying she wouldn't return to the "Harry Potter" series.
After previously expressing doubt that she'd ever return to the Harry Potter franchise, Oscar-nominated actress and The Crown star Imelda Staunton will reprise her role as Dolores Umbridge in Universal Epic Universe's new Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Ministry of Magic attraction inspired by the film series.
Over 14 years following Staunton's final Harry Potter film performance in 2010's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, an official franchise YouTube video confirms that Staunton returned to film new scenes as the villainous character, who takes center stage in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry ride that takes guests through the British Ministry of Magic for Umbridge's trial. Visitors to the Universal Orlando Resort's next theme park (set to open in 2025) enter through the organization's grand atrium (as seen in the Harry Potter movies) ahead of the trial, until things go awry when, naturally, Umbridge attempts to escape and wreak havoc on her captors.
"You'll explore plenty of never before seen locations, like the Ministry of Archives and the Department of Magical Creatures," Hope Glomski, Universal Global Themed Entertainment said in the clip below, also confirming that film series characters like Corban Yaxley, Walden Macnair, the Carrow family, and Kingsley Shacklebolt will return in scenes for the ride alongside a new house elf character named Higgledy.
The 85-year-old also revealed he'll take the rest of the year off after falling during a recent performance that left him "feeling weak physically."
Sir Ian McKellan wants the new Lord of the Rings movies to hurry up and work some magic for his potential return as Gandalf.
The 85-year-old English actor has revealed that he'd like to return to the film series to reprise the role of the beloved wizard, now that LOTR film director Peter Jackson will return to produce two new films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels in the future.
“I’ve just been told there are going to be more films and Gandalf will be involved and they hope that I’ll be playing him,” McKellen told Big Issue in a new interview, one of his first on-record conversations since the esteemed actor fell off stage in June during a Player Kings performance at the Noël Coward Theatre in London.
McKellen admitted that he didn't know much about the new Warner Bros. movie, but that the script is "not written yet," according to what he's heard. "So they better be quick!" McKellen joked.
The actor previously told The Times of London that he'd return as Gandalf on one condition: “If I’m alive."
Swinton, Moore, and Almodóvar dutifully thanked a whooping audience during their standing ovation at Venice Film Festival's Sala Grande Monday night.
Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and Pedro Almodóvar are a force to be reckoned with — if their reception in Venice is anything to go by.
The trio soaked up the raucous applause inside the Venice Film Festival‘s Sala Grande Monday night where the world premiere of Almodóvar’s first-ever English language feature was received with an ardent 17-minute standing ovation.
His poignant film The Room Next Door, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, follows best-selling writer Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) as they rekindle their friendship after losing touch. As they immerse themselves in past memories, anecdotes, art and movies, Martha, battling terminal cervical cancer, wants to die with dignity and asks Ingrid to be in the next room when she takes a euthanasia pill.
At the movie’s press conference earlier in the day, the Spaniard auteur, known for films such as Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and All About My Mother, discussed how the film is pro-euthanasia. “This movie is in favor of euthanasia,” he said.
“It is something we admire about the character of Tilda, she decides that getting rid of cancer can only be done by making the decision she actually makes… ‘If I get there before, cancer will not win over me,’ she says. And so she finds a way to reach her objective with the help of her friend, but they have to behave as if they were criminals.” He added: “There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world.”
Swinton and Moore are admittedly huge fans of the filmmaker and have used their time in Venice to sing his praises. Moore said she doesn’t know a director in the entire world who could have made a better film about female friendship.
“The lens that Pedro puts on this relationship is that not only do we have a mother and daughter story, which we see actually often in literature and in film, but we very rarely see a story about female friendship, and especially female friends who are older,” Moore said.
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Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years, has died. She was 80.
Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history for many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials — Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, among many others — died Sunday. She was 80.
Deutsch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022 and underwent successful treatment, but the cancer returned this summer. She died at her Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, said nurse Narek Petrosian of Olympia Hospice Care.
One of America’s best-known trial reporters when she retired in 2015, Deutsch’s courts career began with the 1969 trial and conviction of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. She went on to cover a who’s who of criminal defendants — Manson, Simpson, Jackson, Patty Hearst, Phil Spector, the Menendez Brothers, “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King.
She was in a Los Angeles courtroom in 1995 for the conclusion of “The Trial of the Century” that saw Simpson, an NFL Hall of Famer, acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend. Thirteen years later, Deutsch was in a Las Vegas courtroom when Simpson was convicted of kidnapping and robbery and sentenced to prison.
“When a big trial loomed, AP’s assignment editors didn’t have to ask who should get the assignment. No, the instant question was, ‘Is Linda available?’” recalled Louis D. Boccardi, who served as AP’s executive editor for a decade and as president and CEO for 18 years. “She mastered the art of celebrity trial coverage and, in the process, became something of a media celebrity herself.”
For decades, Deutsch covered every appeal and parole hearing of each convicted Manson Family member. Other historic moments included witnessing the 1976 conviction of Hearst, the newspaper heiress found guilty on bank robbery and other charges; the 2005 acquittal of Jackson on child molestation charges; and the 2009 murder conviction of Spector, the famed music producer.
“Linda was a fearless reporter who loved being on a big story — and she indeed covered some of the biggest,” said Julie Pace, AP’s executive editor and senior vice president. “She was a true trailblazer whose command of her beat and tireless work ethic made her an inspiration to so many journalists at the AP and across our industry.”
Her work, always written with verve, was not limited to celebrity — other trials involved fraud, conspiracy, environmental disasters and immigration — and eventually earned her the title of special correspondent, the most prestigious byline for an AP reporter.
Defense attorney Thomas Mesereau, who represented Jackson, called Deutsch “the epitome of ethics and professionalism in journalism.”
“I can’t think of anybody who rises to her level,” he said of Deutsch when she retired.
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In a Venice master class, he discussed Richard Linklater, Peter Weir, how "greed runs our universe" and how "embarrassing" it is, for the industry, that he has only worked with a handful of female filmmakers.
The joys, magic and business side of filmmaking, his take on independent and blockbuster movies, including Star Wars and Harry Potter, as well as his collaborations with directors Richard Linklater and Peter Weir, and his lack of work with many female filmmakers, were all part of a Venice Film Festival master class featuring actor-director Ethan Hawke in Venice on Monday.
Early on in the session, which was live-streamed, the star recalled coming to Venice for Dead Poets Society. “It was my first film festival. I was 18 years old. We showed the movie down the street, and it was an incredible experience,” Hawke recalled. “There were a lot of people who made the movie with us there at the premiere, and you could feel the movie cast a spell, and you could feel people’s response to the film.”
He continued that director Weir “was at that time, and still is, one of the very few master craftsmen I’ve ever met, and to work with him as a young person, and to absorb what he had to teach and then to see its effect in action” was impressive. “It was an act of collective imagination…. He was very good at getting a group of artisans to have the same imagination and the same dream, and then to watch that dream be given to others and received. It’s very powerful.”
Hawke then added, to laughs: “It was kind of like how one hears about the joys of doing drugs. You just want to do it again. It’s such a wonderful feeling because you don’t feel alone.” The creative continued: “There’s a strange double-edged sword to being an actor, which is that on the outside, you get celebrated in success, but the true joys of performing are in disappearing…you feel yourself disappear and become part of this dream. And that’s the feeling that’s so wonderful. And you see the dream live in other people, and that’s where the high comes from. And no sooner did I leave Venice at 18 years old that I just wanted to do it again. And as I look out at you, I’m so grateful to be here with you and to get to be a part of this still.” The crowd reacted with a big round of applause.
But the pay-TV giant's top goal remains serving core African audiences, with nine of the 10 most watched shows on streamer Showmax now being local and 'House of the Dragon' the big exception.
“There’s a good chance that Africa’s film industry is about to have its own global moment.” That’s the bullish take shared on Monday about the state of African film and TV programming by Nomsa Philiso, CEO of general entertainment at African pay-TV giant MultiChoice Group, the owner of African streamer Showmax, in her opening speech at MIP Africa. “We’ve already seen that happen with Afrobeats, Amapiano and African music as a whole.”
She also said that more African TV series and movies are being aired globally than ever before, pointing to what the company calls “a string of breakthroughs for African content last year,” according to highlights of her speech, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. Among them are the likes of university drama Wyfie, crime thriller series Reyka, and Shaka iLembe, the epic story of an iconic African king.
Plus, a record number of African films screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2023, and Rise: The Siya Kolisi Story won the audience award at the Tribeca Film Festival last year.
MultiChoice has also been taking African stories to the world through its sales arm MultiChoice Studios, as well as partnerships with such distributors as Abacus, AMC, Fremantle, StudioCanal and The Exchange, which is repping MultiChoice’s MIP Africa’s opening film The Fix.
After Reyka opened the Monte-Carlo Television Festival and earned International Emmy nominations in the best drama and best actress categories in 2022, Fremantle sold the first season to more than 150 territories, including BritBox in North America, Channel 4 in the U.K., and HBO in Latin America, Philiso mentioned.
Philiso also called out other examples of success, such as The Real Housewives of Durban which has screened on the likes of NBCU’s reality streamer Hayu, Peacock and Bravo, The Real Housewives of Nairobi, vigilante killer thriller Devil’s Peak which sold to Tubi for North America, and crime thriller miniseries White Lies, starring Natalie Dormer, which sold to the likes of Sundance Now, Stan in Australia and Channel 4 in the U.K.
MultiChoice says it is Africa’s largest content producer, with a presence in 50 of Africa’s 54 countries and telling stories in 45 languages.
September is here and two of the largest free ad-supported streaming services are adding a ton of content. Here is everything coming to Pluot TV and Tubi in September 2024.
Here are some of the new channels and movies launching throughout September on Pluto TV.
Acapulco Shore
Welcome to Acapulco Shore: where the fights, drama and chaos are non-stop. Tune-in to see the contestants on one of the wildest journeys on television. The party doesn’t stop on Acapulco Shore; join the fun!
Cheers + Frasier
Sometimes you want to go where you know everybody’s name. Whether it’s a barstool in Boston or a shrink’s couch in Seattle, there’s always a place for you on Pluto TV’s Cheers + Frasier channel.
La Familia del Barrio
The very successful adult animation La familia del barrio is on Pluto TV. This Mexican family will mock reality with a high dose of dark humor. Everything can happen in this hilarious series.
ONE Championship TV
Experience all the action from the world’s largest martial arts organization on ONE Championship TV, featuring MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing, and more! Check out the best fighters on the planet, weekly events, and behind-the-scenes originals!
Pluto TV Novelas
We offer you the most complete catalog of novelas for free, to watch whenever and wherever you want. The novelas that accompany you over time: the most
memorable and the ones that move you. Powerful, emotional and current stories.
Queens of Reality
Take a personal look at all your favorite reality stars, as well as their family and friends’ most exciting moments as they enjoy everyday life, navigate family dramas, celebrate their biggest moments and so much more right here on Queens of Reality.
WOW – Women Of Wrestling
Channel dedicated to the premier all-female sports entertainment property features new and previous seasons of your favorite WOW Superheroes in epic high-energy matches.
Under His Influence
The Untouchables
Urban Cowboy
Used Cars (1980)
Wayward
A Wesley Christmas
When The Game Stands Tall
When We Were Kings
Who Gets The Dog?
The Wood
It’s now September and Tubi has free content ready to drop on day one. Read on for all the new shows and movies coming as the month starts and the schedule for Tubi‘s Originals.
Originals
HAZARD – September 6, Action
Noah cherishes his girlfriend, his daughter, and his car, but taking on a risky driving job puts everything he values at stake.
MS. MURDER – September 11, Documentary
Discover three shocking tales of women whose seemingly normal lives are shattered by mysterious and suspicious deaths.
LETHAL LOOKALIKE: THE VIKTORIA NASYROVA STORY – September 14, Drama
Inspired by a shocking true story, a Russian conwoman with a shadowy past flees to New York, where she plots to steal the identity of her Ukrainian stylist.
NO VOLTEES – September 20, Horror
When two siblings return to their hometown, they face a violent, ominous presence lurking in their childhood home—their own father.
THE ASSISTANT 2 – September 7, Thriller
When a young woman infiltrates a family in hopes of uncovering the truth about her estranged twin sister, she slowly transforms from a nanny into a terrifying monster.
TOXIC HARMONY – September 21, Thriller
After leaving her girl group, a singer finds herself thrust into both fame and peril when she catches the eye of a powerful yet enigmatic record label executive.
A GOOD MAN 2 – September 28, Thriller
When Ethan Carter tries to leave the past behind, he finds himself back together with a toxic woman and pays the ultimate price.
Assassin’s Creed
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Empire State
G.I. Jane
Kung Fu Hustle
Last Action Hero
Live Free Or Die Hard
Mortal Kombat
Priest (2011)
The Grey
The Last of the Mohicans
The Marksman
Those Who Wish Me Dead
True Lies
ATL
Baby Boy
Bones
Boyz N’ The Hood
Dead Presidents
How High
Our Family Wedding
Set It Off
Thin Line Between Love And Hate
Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls
When The Bough Breaks
You Got Served
ATL
Baby Boy
Bones
Boyz N’ The Hood
Dead Presidents
How High
Our Family Wedding
Set It Off
Thin Line Between Love And Hate
Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls
When The Bough Breaks
You Got Served
Anne Frank Remembered
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Drama
8 Mile
Empire (2002)
Flamin’ Hot
Gifted (2017)
Honey (’03)
La Bamba
New York Undercover
Pearl Harbor
Ray
Selena
The Devil’s Advocate
The Guardian
The Outsiders
Annabelle Comes Home
Dead Silence
Halloween (’18)
Hide And Seek (2005)
House On Haunted Hill (1999)
Jennifer’s Body
Ma
My Soul To Take
Prom Night
Ready Or Not
Silent Hill
Slither
The Blob
The Frighteners
The Last House On The Left
Underwater
Village Of The Damned
Annie (2014)
Dennis The Menace
Goosebumps (2015)
Invincible
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
The Flintstones
The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas
The Secret Life Of Pets
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Romance
Love Life
Maid In Manhattan
Never Been Kissed
Poetic Justice
Think Like A Man
Think Like A Man Too
Arkansas
Enough
Extraction
Curve
Fear
Half Past Dead
Knock Knock (2015)
Running With The Devil
The Specialist
Vacancy (2007)
Western
3:10 To Yuma
A Fistful Of Dollars
Brothers In Arms
For A Few Dollars More
Guns Of The Magnificent Seven
Oklahoma Crude
Outlaw Posse
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The Shadow Riders
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
'Reagan,' starring Dennis Quaid, is in a close contest with 'Twisters' and 'It Ends With Us' as the topsy-turvey summer season comes to a close.
Labor Day weekend is never a big holiday for moviegoing, as most people mark the end of summer with other activities, and this year is no exception. Deadpool & Wolverine is the biggest headline of the four-day weekend as it stays No. 1 in its sixth outing and crosses $600 million domestically, becoming only the 16th film in history to do so, not adjusted for inflation.
The only newcomer landing in the upper reaches of the chart is the indie biopic Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid and based on Paul Kengor’s book The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. After a better-than-expected Sunday, the film has found itself in a three-way contest with Twisters and It End With Us for either third or four place. The order won’t be determined until final grosses for the four-day holiday weekend are issued Monday.
Distributor SBD is estimating a four-day opening of $10.07 million, which puts it ahead of Twisters‘ estimated holiday gross of $9.56 million and It Ends With Us‘ estimated $9.5 million. Rival studios, however, show Reagan coming in lower.
Receiving blistering reviews — its critics score is 18 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — Reagan fared better with audiences, who gave the biopic an A CinemaScore. Box office analysts knew the film would play older but hoped the attention surrounding the 2024 presidential election would broaden the audience, with no such luck. Roughly 85 percent of ticket buyers are over the age of 35 — including an unheard of 66 percent over the age of 55, setting Reagan up for a promising run on premium VOD, a preferred platform for older consumers.
Clooney said he and Pitt gave a portion of their salaries back after a theatrical deal fell through for Jon Watts' film, which gets its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Sunday.
George Clooney has set right a claim that he and Wolfs co-star Brad Pitt were paid around $35 million each for the film, as reported in a New York Times article.
The duo brought their banter and riffing to the Venice Film Festival for the world premiere of Jon Watt’s action comedy, in which they play competing criminal fixers accidentally assigned to the same job. The two movie stars and real-world pals traded friendly jabs, praise and filmmaking insights in Italy at a press conference for Wolfs.
At one point, Clooney explained that the pair gave portions of their salaries back after a theatrical deal fell through for the film, meaning it gets a limited release in “a couple of hundred theaters,” and brought up a New York Times article published last week by Nicole Sperling that said he and Pitt were paid more than $35 million each.
Obi Ndefo, who played Bodie Wells on Dawson's Creek, has died. The 51-year-old passed away five years after he lost both of his legs in a car accident.
After the accident, he went on to continue his acting and writing work. He co-creating a show titled Juice Bar and appearing on an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles in 2021. At the time of his death, he was working on a series titled Dream Big.
Katie shared a tribute to Obi following news of his passing. "He was wonderful to work with and such a kind man," she wrote on her Instagram Stories. "I sent prayers and grace to his family. Rest in peace."
By contrast, he says, "Richard Linklater’s movies… remind you that it’s a miracle that we walk on Earth and that we breathe at all."
Ethan Hawke is getting candid about his thoughts on some of Hollywood's biggest franchises, including Star Wars and Harry Potter.
During a master class at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, the actor-director compared the films by frequent collaborator Richard Linklater to those of the aforementioned tentpole movies.
“If you go see Harry Potter or Star Wars or something, which I’ve seen a million times, and I love them, but when they are over, I feel slightly disappointed that I’m not a wizard or not a Jedi,” he joked. “And I walk through my life thinking, 'I wish I were a Jedi.' And when you see a Richard Linklater film, you walk out feeling, ‘Well, I’ve done that. I’ve met a person, I’ve connected with another human being, and that was important, and that was magic.’"
"All the great actors always told me that when it stops being amazing, you gotta get out," the actress recalled. "I really took that to heart."
Winona Ryder is opening up about how her experience of being sexually harassed in her late 20s and 30s affected her passion for making movies.
While the actress declined to identify the perpetrators, she explained that the incidents had a profound effect on her personally and professionally. "I had a couple of difficult experiences with a couple of people who were just blatantly sexually harassing me," Ryder recalled in a new Esquire U.K. interview. "It wasn't an assault. But it was incredibly inappropriate. It was wild. I really understand [what the victims of Harvey Weinstein and others went through]."
Ryder said she was "lucky" the incidents "didn't happen as much" to her because she was a recognizable actress, having made a name for herself as a teen in films like Beetlejuice and Heathers. Still, she recalled, "I remember this feeling in your mind: You're negotiating, you're thinking about what's going to happen if you say something. You're working it out while this person is being extremely creepy."
Ryder added that she didn't realize just how jarring those moments were until she recently recounted them to her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice costar Jenna Ortega. "And as I was saying it, I was like, 'Jesus Christ, that's really f‑‑‑ed up,'" she said.
She eventually became accustomed to shutting down unwanted advances. "If someone was being inappropriate or drunkenly hitting on me it was like, 'Ha ha!' You kind of do that. 'Ha ha!'" she recalled. "Inappropriate? I dealt with that. But touching me? It felt very invasive."
The harassment took a serious toll on the actress and her perception of Hollywood. "I think in retrospect, it really soured [her on making movies]," she confessed. "All the great actors always told me that when it stops being amazing, you gotta get out. I really took that to heart."
The former child star lost his last kidney in 1985 while still starring on "Diff'rent Strokes."
If you know Gary Coleman, it's likely due to his iconic performance as the precocious orphan Arnold Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes. You may know that Coleman stayed around 4'8" his whole life due to a kidney condition. Gary, Peacock's new documentary about the troubled life of the late actor, reveals something few fans know — Coleman lived without any kidneys for nearly 25 years.
"The kidney that had been transplanted" into Coleman's body at the age of 5 and allowed him to make it to adulthood, explains lifelong friend Dion Mial in the doc, "was absorbed by the body. So from Dec. 1, 1985, until his death [in 2010], Gary lived without a single kidney in his body."
Gary traces Coleman's life from his humble origins in Zion, Ill., to superstardom on Diff'rent Strokes before he'd even reached teenagedom, to his rocky adult life, which was beset by turbulent relationships, exploitative financial entanglements, and a struggle to maintain his acting career.
Coleman's mother Sue remembers that "at about 2 years old, Gary started to run a temperature, and that's when they found out that he had this congenital kidney defect." Coleman was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a degenerative kidney disease which causes irreversible internal scarring.
"When he was 5 1/2, we got the news that they had a kidney for him," Coleman's mother says. Coleman's body quickly took to the new kidney and he quickly recovered in kind. "Two weeks after he had his surgery he was standing on his head," she recalls. Coleman himself concurred in a segment of archival audio: "Even when I was 5, I was the do or die, never say die, 'I'll be back' kind of person. That was the kind of kid I was."
Feliz inicio de semana comunidad de Inleo, que sea una semana muy buena, productiva y cargada de grandes actividades para así lograr muchas cosas. Éxitos para todos. 😎
August 2024 was a huge month for me in terms of online earnings because I got my Medium web 2.0 blogging account enrolled in the partner program and this boosted all of my online earnings on all online platforms that I am currently working on. So I will segregate my earnings on each platforms in the list below so it can be easier for you all to understand:
I really am struggling on Hive.blog from a long long time since the inception of Hive.blog when steemit decided to divide I have been on the platform but sadly my main account keys got hacked from my email inbox which was really a shocker for me. But even after that incident I never gave up hope and this month I have worked really hard trying to improve my content and writing over 500 words every day blog posts on the platform.
I wrote about my experience mentoring a teenage girl in sewing and fabric design. We made a scrunchie headband, I highlighted the materials used, cutting and sewing techniques, and the final product
On Sunday, the Mets achieved a crucial sweep against the White Sox, aided by the Phillies' extra-innings victory over the Braves.
At the same time, the Diamondbacks and Padres secured wins to maintain their lead in the NL Wild Card race.
As Labor Day approaches, the Mets are just one game behind Atlanta for the last Wild Card spot and trail the two Western teams by four games.
Incandescent has literal and figurative meanings. Its literal meanings relate to heat and light; it describes something that is white or glowing because of great heat, and also something (like a light bulb) that produces bright light when heated. In figurative use, incandescent relates to several kinds of brilliance. Something or someone described as incandescent can be very impressive, successful, or intelligent, or simply happy and lively. In British English, incandescent can also describe someone or something feeling or showing great anger.
//The invention of the incandescentbulb in the 19th century ushered in the age of electric lighting.
//However much we were inclined to dislike her, it was hard not to be charmed by her incandescent smile and wit.
Well it provides a clear alternative in my opinion. The challenge is 99.9999% of the people do all they can to keep feeding Big Tech...even those supposedly in Web 3.0.
Mhm, yes, I am a very cautious animal, so I need a lot of encouragement, and so I end up writing here what I would need to hear, because if I need that encouragement, then probably someone else does too..
The tech news site Anandtech is shutting down after 27 years. A few of the old sites are still going. I look at Arstechnica. Blogging is okay, but journalism is different. Maybe Hive could be an alternative eventually.
DOT is in a prime accumulation zone and trading just above the $4 mark. With a 48-hour unlocking period and 16% to 19% APR, it’s a good option, even for speculators. #Polkadot #DOT #Crypto #Investing #Trading
1/🧵 Why Helping Doesn't Always Lead to Gratitude: My Eye-Opening Experience
Have you ever gone out of your way to help someone, only to be met with ingratitude? 🤔
It’s a tough pill to swallow, but it’s something many of us have experienced. Here’s a story from my own life that still stings. 👇
#threadstorm #outreach #septemberinleo
It's in human nature to quickly forget what other people have done to you. Unless you trained yourself to be grateful to people who deserve it.
Indeed, that's human nature.
It's just our upbringing that makes us be grateful and show gratitude for such kindness.
2/ I thought I was doing a good deed for a friend who seemed to really need my help.
But things took a surprising turn, and I ended up questioning everything about our friendship.
He was my college buddy and I did assignments for him but what I didn't expected to happen happened in the worst possible way
3/ Sometimes, the people you think you know best turn out to be the ones who teach you the most difficult lessons.
This experience opened my eyes, and I’m sharing it in hopes it can help others, too.
Read the full story here:
#gosh
https://inleo.io/@idksamad78699/why-helping-doesnt-always-lead-to-gratitude-my-eyeopening-experience-9kg
Luckily, the price was low for the lesson learned. I have learned that extending help for too long reduces gratitude and raises entitlement in many people because they become accustomed to the generosity.
I will go further to say that, in most cases, extended generosity is a feel-good sin by the giver because it erodes the giftee's agency and enables them to continue in dependency.
Yea that's a valid point. Agree with you!
Being appreciative for good deeds towards one is very important but people don't care about it these days.
#septemberinleo #outreach #threadstorm
1/🧵
ungrateful people will never see anything good in what's done for them. But that doesn't mean one should change who one is truly is.
2/🧵
" There are no
secret to success,
it is the result of
preparation, hard
work and learning
from failure.''
An excellent quite that is now on the blockchain. Great job.
Spot on! There is no better way to define failure
!DOOK
If you are looking for a high-risk investment, buy tickets to the Oasis reunion tour 😂
#gmfrens #jokes #music #oasis
Not sure I understand the point.
The core members of Oasis are the Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam. Their relationship was very unstable and they would often get into fights and arguments, sometimes live on stage.
Some people are already speculating they will break up again even before the shows that are scheduled for the tour
Ah I was thinking fights but maybe in the crowds or something. Now I understand.
Are you a fan of Oasis?
The band has some cool songs.
Hey stranger. Where you been hiding out?
I think they are ok and enjoy a few of their songs but wouldn't say I'm a fan
only high risk investment I would take.. lol, better than doing investment in crypto in September.
But why though?
!DOOK
Place your bets lol...
I thought about that but couldn't get any tickets. I think they will come to the U.S so I'll keep my eyes opened. I think the only risk would be breaking even and losing out on some fees from the reseller platform.
Ni hao
#freecompliments #cent #dailydook
Good day to you too
!DOOK
你在学中文吗
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That is why you need to stay away from your comfort zone , you need to think outside the box
#truemotivation
#cent
#life
Someone should help me kill my comfort zone. I think that will put an end to everything, lol
By the way, remember to use the tag #dailydook to earn !DOOK on your threads
#gmfrens! Here is the Motivation, Inspiration, Success #threadcast for 9/2/2024. Drop your memes, quotes and videos below!
#1440minutes #motivationsonleo #inspirationonleo #successonleo #motivation #inspiration #success
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#motivation
Wrote this today on the book The Obstacle is the Way – dealing with challenges, turning adversity to advantage, and Stoicism…
https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-22ubyb9wd
I have just over 40 dollars on two Barnes and Noble gift cards. And several choices for how to use them. Just added another one. Thank you!
The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
—Jimmy Johnson
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🖌 @Quotes 📝 | @Diary 😘
#motivation
I commented with this somewhere and I think we all know what I mean.
https://inleo.io/@chaosmagic23/re-galenkp-321cfkbch
How true!
https://inleo.io/threads/view/jimmy.adames/re-leothreads-2wr3hqmao
https://inleo.io/threads/view/anderssinho/re-leothreads-2nxx2qyfh
https://inleo.io/threads/view/anderssinho/re-anderssinho-jxrgl2y6
https://inleo.io/threads/view/anderssinho/re-anderssinho-2ccqsd9qy
https://inleo.io/threads/view/gituso/re-leothreads-5t2qwzts
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/success-quotes
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/success-quotes
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Arnold H. Glasow
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Success is dependent on effort. Sophocles
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Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. Jon Bon Jovi
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Godfrey Winn
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. Henry Ford
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Edward Everett Hale
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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden
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Thread thread thread.
We are after 125K threads.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/anderssinho/re-anderssinho-2ccqsd9qy
I think I over-smile. Lol
!DOOK
AI-art gallery
Discover the power of AI-generated images! Let's share unique and fascinating artworks created with the help of artificial intelligence.
Join the #threadcast on a visual journey where technology meets creativity.
If you like the art, dont forget to leave a little upvote, comments and re-thread it on the latest feed.
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
King Bradley
#bbh #aiart #aiimages
This is epic!
Bumble Bee
#ai #aiimages #freecompliments #fg
#ai #aiimages #freecompliments #fg
To be honest the results were not as expected.. but not bad to share here..
#ai #aiimages #freecompliments #fg
Bumblebee on flower, front view..
#ai #aiimages #freecompliments #fg
Leo working on threads in the crypto world
#aiart #aiimages #leo #cent #nightcafe
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
please share the prompt
#freecompliments
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
I tried the text writing but I was unsuccessful.
What prompt you used?
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
hello Mr. Robot
#freecompliments
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
Another wonderful neon picture...
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
yes absolutely
#freecompliments
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
what a neon art.
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
please share the prompt.
Will generate the image with some other AI app and will compare the results.
#freecompliments
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
very realistic pic generation
#freecompliments
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
#aiart #aiimages #aiartonleo
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Happy Monday Community!
The start of a new week is your chance to harness the power of fresh beginnings. Embrace every opportunity and let your ambition shine through.
#MondayMotivation #RiseAndGrind
Happy Monday and Happy Labor Day @jimmy.adames
🙏🏼 Likewise @lisamgentile1961
What should some of us who do not love Mondays do for a change?
!DOOK
Get through it and feel accomplished 🤘🏽
Is it me who is the roblem?
https://inleo.io/threads/view/anderssinho/re-anderssinho-2dwtzvjb5
Image is missing "but a beach ain't one" 😂
Yes, you are the problem 🏃♀️
!DOOK
APES has been consolidating at the $0.02 mark for the past 48 hours. It is up 5% today and has a local top at approximately $0.04. Might be a potential trade here... #Trading #cent https://img.inleo.io/DQmRWdyUrS5kCfhSUwUKnbYrkGFpEzVLnmhxihFRPoXUNRh/Purple%20Minimalist%20People%20Profile%20Logo%20(2).jpg
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 9/2/24. We aim to educate people about this crucial area along with providing information of what is taking place.
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA —
A new launch date for SpaceX's Polaris Dawn Mission is set after crews were delayed several times due to system checks, a helium leak, and most recently, unfavorable weather.
SpaceX filed a new launch schedule with the Federal Aviation Administration, with the first window opening at 3:38 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Great to know.
Reuters: Trump 'has a lot on his plate', misunderstands Taiwan's chip role, minister says
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-has-lot-his-plate-misunderstands-taiwans-chip-role-minister-says-2024-09-02/
Reuters: Safran buys AI firm Preligens for 220 million euros
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/safran-buys-ai-firm-preligens-220-million-euros-2024-09-02/
Reuters: China warns Japan of retaliation over potential new chip curbs, Bloomberg reports
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-warns-japan-retaliation-over-potential-new-chip-curbs-bloomberg-reports-2024-09-02/
Reuters: China to pitch green tech exports to African leaders as Western curbs loom
https://www.reuters.com/markets/china-pitch-green-tech-exports-african-leaders-western-curbs-loom-2024-09-01/
Reuters: South Korea police launch probe into whether Telegram abets online sex crimes, Yonhap reports
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-police-launch-probe-into-telegram-over-online-sex-crimes-yonhap-2024-09-02/
Reuters: Russia says Telegram boss Durov is a victim of his own independence
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-telegram-boss-durov-is-victim-his-own-independence-2024-09-02/
Reuters: Apple set for music, TV streaming fight in India after Airtel deal
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/apple-set-music-tv-streaming-fight-india-after-airtel-deal-2024-09-02/
Reuters: Exclusive: Intel CEO to pitch board on plans to shed assets, cut costs, source says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-ceo-pitch-board-plans-shed-assets-cut-costs-source-says-2024-09-01/
BBC: Planes, trains and monster diggers: The vehicles pushing the limits of electric power
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240829-the-search-for-the-worlds-biggest-electric-vehicles
BBC: 'It stains your brain': How social media algorithms show violence to boys
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdqzxypdzo
CNBC: A journey inside Epic Systems’ mythical and sprawling campus, a world away from Wall Street
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/01/inside-epic-systems-mythical-campus-a-world-away-from-wall-street-.html
Why There's No One-Size-Fits-All Theory of Everything
Physicists often try to come up with theories that explain everything, but the universe isn't that simple! Imagine the universe as a patchwork of different worlds, each unique and not always connected. Thinking we can sum up all of reality with one theory or equation misses the point. Truth is all about context, and trying to boil everything down to one idea strips away the richness and variety of our universe. The beauty lies in the complexity, like a mosaic made of countless pieces, each adding something special to the bigger picture. So, let's celebrate the messy, diverse nature of reality instead of looking for a tidy explanation that doesn't really fit.
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Could this be grandpa @bradleyarroww?
The guy in the gif is far too young to be Bradley.
No, he's not.
Sure it is. Bradley is very old. He was born over 90 years ago. I admit he does look good for his age.
Grandpa is still young, not up to that age. It's the mom that is up to that
#technology
https://inleo.io/threads/view/luchyl/re-taskmaster4450le-2qfdqzms2
That's not @bradleyarrow, I think is @chaosmagic23 😂😂😂😂.
I don't own a DELL 😜
Who does? LOL
Probably Adell? Adellheid?
I thought that was your older self 🤣🤣🤣..
😂 nah
I'm pretty sure Bradley is older than me.
Bradley is older than even your uncles oldest shoe.
I think so, but who knows about @taskmaster4450le 🤔🤔🤔
As far as I know and seeing all his wisdom and knowledge I would say he is from the last century. 😂
I am old too..but not as old (and a lot more handsome) than @bradleyarrow.
Lol
!DOOK
lmao
I just that wasn't your older self neither @taskmaster4450le. So @luchyl needs to get another GIF so we can examine it... Lol
@luchyl is a rebel rouser.
That is part of her being a vixen.
I'm nothing close to what you call me. 😂
You love what I call you...it excites you.
No I see 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈 when I close my eyes, I see more... Lol
You are psycho...I mean psychic.
lol, agreed
Oh yeah 😂😂😂.
Get one for me.
!DOOK 🤣
You started this war, not me
THis threadcast is above 100 comments now, just waiting for @coyotelation to set up his threadcast so that we can pull it as planned...
I guess he is on holiday.
I messaged him a few minutes ago and I saw his threads...
Did you call him all kind of mean names?
No no, I just messaged him from the wormholes 😂.
Do they charge data rates from there?
https://inleo.io/threads/view/moretea/re-leothreads-mfifcxo3
The case against AI art
No matter who powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art.
No matter who powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art.
Chiang is one of the most admired science fiction authors writing today, best known for the novella “Story Of Your Life” (which was adapted into the movie “Arrival”). But he’s also published terrific pieces for The New Yorker looking at the dangers and shortcomings of AI.
#technology #ai #art
You should really read his latest article in its entirety, but briefly: Chiang argues that the potential of large language models remains “largely theoretical” — thus far, generative AI has been most successful at “lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning.”
Even as LLMs improve, Chiang argues that their output will never be art — which he acknowledges is “notoriously hard to define,” but he tries anyway: “Art is something that results from making a lot of choices.” Sure, those choices might not result in a particularly good novel or painting or film, but you’re still “engaged in an act of communication between you and your audience.”
“We are all products of what has come before us, but it’s by living our lives in interaction with others that we bring meaning into the world,” Chiang concludes. “That is something that an auto-complete algorithm can never do, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”
Good morning!
Starlink & X.COM in Trouble with Brazil?
Poor Elon is catching some serious flak!
#gmfrens #technology #dailydook #pepe @elonmusk
Palantir’s CTO, and 13th employee, has become a secret weapon for Valley defense tech startups
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups.
On August 5, Palantir’s CTO Shyam Sankar stood in front of about 20 nervous new employees at the company’s Washington, D.C. office and gave a speech you’d expect at a new hire meeting: company mission, Palantir’s history, etc. But there was one part that would’ve seemed unfathomable a few years ago: Sankar evangelized the importance of a new wave of defense tech startups, spun up by Palantir, Tesla and SpaceX alums.
#technology #defense #government
The significance was more ideological than financial. Any business Palantir gets from startups is dwarfed by its government contracts, after all. But you can’t put a price on philosophical bedfellows.
Palantir likes to remind the world that it’s not like other publicly traded companies, i.e. buttoned-up and appropriately distanced from its cowboy private days. Sankar ends his orientation by cheekily inviting the new employees to shout “f–k off” at him — a way, he says, to encourage a flat structure. And as he walks out of the event room into the office bullpen, he passes a sign referring to employees as “founders” and “trailblazers.”
The sign is fitting: Sankar, who’s been at the company for over 18 years, is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups, a sector that’s been flooded with over $129.3 billion in venture capital since 2021, according to PitchBook.
“To have this class of new champions who have all cut their teeth in Tesla and SpaceX and see the world in completely different ways, it’s providing a huge amount of energy internally for us as we build for them,” he said, referring to startups like Apex Space and Castelion, whose founders hail from those companies.
That is why, in late 2023, he started a program that provides guidance and tools to defense tech startups called First Breakfast. He referred to it in his writings as Palantir’s “Amazon.com to AWS moment.” Basically, it’s a play for Palantir to get in at the ground level for the next Palantirs. It’s a business strategy, but also a philosophical one for Sankar, who spends hours a week on the phone consulting with defense startups and venture capitalists.
Like his longtime boss Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Sankar likes to wax poetic about protecting Western values and how America’s industrial base stumbled after its WWII glory days (though perhaps prime defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, would disagree that the industry has been resting on its laurels for 80 years). Sitting in a conference room lined with white boards, and a constant stream of commercial planes flying over the Potomac River behind him, he reiterated his darkest fears: that America may not be ready for whatever great conflict comes next.
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'Emotion AI' may be the next trend for business software, and that could be problematic
As businesses experiment with embedding AI everywhere, one area starting to gain more attention is Emotion AI.
As businesses experiment with embedding AI everywhere, one unexpected trend is companies turning to AI to help its many newfound bots better understand human emotion.
It’s an area called “emotion AI,” according to PitchBook’s new Enterprise Saas Emerging Tech Research report that predicts this tech is on the rise.
#ai #technology
The reasoning goes something like this: If businesses deploy AI assistants to execs and employees, make AI chatbots be front-line salespeople and customer service reps, how can an AI perform well if it doesn’t understand the difference between an angry “What do you mean by that?” and a confused “What do you mean by that?”
Emotion AI claims to be the more sophisticated sibling of sentiment analysis, the pre-AI tech that attempts to distill human emotion from text-based interactions, particularly on social media. Emotion AI is what you might call multimodal, employing sensors for visual, audio, and other inputs combined with machine learning and psychology to attempt to detect human emotion during an interaction.
Major AI cloud providers offer services that give developers access to emotion AI capabilities such as Microsoft Azure cognitive services’ Emotion API or Amazon Web Services’ Rekognition service. (The latter has had its share of controversy over the years.)
While emotion AI, even offered as a cloud service, isn’t new, the sudden rise of bots in the workforce give it more of a future in the business world than it ever had before, according to PitchBook.
“With the proliferation of AI assistants and fully automated human-machine interactions, emotion AI promises to enable more human-like interpretations and responses,” writes PitchBook’s Derek Hernandez, senior analyst, emerging technology in the report.
“Cameras and microphones are integral parts of the hardware side of emotion AI. These can be on a laptop, phone, or individually located in a physical space. Additionally, wearable hardware will likely provide another avenue to employ emotion AI beyond these devices,” Hernandez tells TechCrunch. (So if that customer service chatbot asks for camera access, this may be why.)
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Why do so many home robots still suck?
Home robots’ unfulfilled potential is neither because of lack of demand on the part of consumers nor lack of effort from manufacturers.
“The Jetsons” debuted September 23, 1962. The first episode, titled “Rosey the Robot,” was an origin story of sorts for the titular character, describing how an overworked Jane hired the housekeeper. Sixty-two years after her debut, Rosey remains an important pop cultural touchstone for the unfulfilled promise of home robots.
#technology #Robots #home
Home robots’ unfulfilled potential isn’t because of a lack of consumer demand or lack of effort from manufacturers. It’s more complicated and nuanced than that, though ultimately it’s a matter of pricing, functionality and efficacy. Outside of the aforementioned use cases, today’s home robots don’t do enough or do what they do well enough, and building a robot that can tick both of those boxes would prove prohibitively expensive for those of us who can’t afford our own islands.
Vacuums make for good home robots
During his long tenure as iRobot CEO, co-founder Colin Angle was fond of saying that he didn’t become a successful roboticist until he became a vacuum salesman. It’s a fun quip that gets to something much deeper about the industry. Before the Roomba came along, the company had experimented with everything from baby dolls to military equipment.
iRobot found success when it focused on a simple task: cleaning floors. The earliest models were primitive by today’s standards, but they got the job done well enough to justify their price point. In addition to marking 62 years since Rosey’s TV debut, next month is also the Roomba’s 22nd anniversary. The robot vacuum is old enough to legally buy a case of Sam Adams.
In the nearly quarter century since the Roomba launched, much of iRobot’s R&D has gone into making the system smarter, adding sensing, mapping, and AI and integrating with smart assistants. The company has invested into other robotics categories as well, including gutter clearing, pool cleaning and a lawnmower that may never see the light of day, but all have failed to recapture the Roomba’s magic.
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WazirX customers unlikely to recover full funds after $230M heist
Customers of WazirX, the Indian cryptocurrency exchange that suffered a $234 million hack in July, are unlikely to recover their funds in full through the Customers of WazirX, the exchange that suffered a $234 million hack in July, are unlikely to recover their funds in full through the ongoing restructuring process.
Customers of WazirX, the Indian cryptocurrency exchange that suffered a $234 million hack in July, are unlikely to recover their funds in full through the ongoing restructuring process, a company legal adviser said on Monday.
#technology #wazirx #india
George Gwee, a director at restructuring firm Kroll working with WazirX, said that at least 43% of the money any customer had in WazirX is unlikely to be recovered. Last week, WazirX asked a Singapore High Court for six months’ protection while it restructures its liabilities.
The best case scenario is a return of “anywhere between 55% and 57% of the funds,” Gwee told journalists. Under a restructuring, WazirX’s priority will be to distribute remaining token assets to users in a pro-rata manner via crypto, it said. The company is holding discussions to share profit from its revenue-generating products, it added, without giving any concrete details.
The hack, which occurred in July, is the largest cryptocurrency theft in India to date and has sent shockwaves through the country’s crypto industry. The company has been scrambling to find ways to return money to its customers ever since. In July, it proposed that it would socialize the “force majeure” loss.
During the press conference, WazirX representatives avoided many questions about its efforts to shore up capital. The company said it’s holding talks with an unnamed white knight, but said the capital won’t be raised against equity because of an ongoing dispute with Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange — Binance and WazirX have been closely linked at some point.
In late 2019, Binance announced the acquisition of WazirX in a blog post, but later disputed that it had acquired the firm. After a public row, the cryptocurrency exchange terminated its tech offerings to the Indian firm in 2022.
Validus, a Singapore-based digital SME lending platform, secures $50M debt financing to help enterprises in Indonesia
Validus, a Singapore-based digital lending platform for small and medium businesses, has secured $50 million in debt financing from HSBC under the ASEAN
Validus, a Singapore-based digital lending platform for small and medium businesses, has secured $50 million in debt financing from HSBC under the ASEAN Growth Fund strategy.
Validus will use the proceeds to support the financial inclusion of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, addressing the challenges they face in accessing financial resources.
With 64.2 million MSMEs contributing 61% of Indonesia’s GDP, according to Indonesia’s Ministry for Economic Affairs, the potential for growth is immense. These MSMEs employ about 119.6 million people, which is 97% of the total workforce in the country. However, only about 17.5 million MSME players are tapping into the online ecosystem and e-commerce. Indonesian MSMEs face significant challenges in accessing financing, mainly due to commercial banks’ stringent operational, reporting, and collateral requirements, as per a 2017 report by the World Bank. Despite government initiatives, only around 20 percent of bank loans go to MSMEs, the World Bank report said.
Vikas Nahata (Executive Chairman) and Nihkilesh Goel (CEO) co-founded the business in Singapore in 2015. They developed a supply chain-focused lending model that utilized non-traditional data access through partnerships with traditional banks and international institutions. The company has since expanded to include Indonesia (Batumbu), Thailand (Siam Validus), and Vietnam (Validus Vietnam).
“Traditional banks across the SEA region still rely on legacy credit evaluation methods for small businesses, and they are overly reliant on historical financials and real estate-backed collateral,” Goel said. “For a region experiencing GDP growth of 5-6% per annum, small businesses need access to stable and accessible working capital to grow their businesses and contribute to job creation and nation building. This is where Validus plays a major role as the largest digital SME financing provider across ASEAN.”
Its users are MSMEs, who primarily borrow for their short-term working capital needs, Goel told TechCrunch, while lenders include major international institutions (Citi, HSBC, FMO, Credit Saison, OikoCredit) and leading local banks (CIMB Niaga, Bank Mandiri) across Indonesia and Thailand. Goel mentioned that one of its differentiators is over 100 unique partnerships throughout the Southeast Asia region.
“Validus is the largest SME financing marketplace across the South East Asia region by outstanding loan book or monthly loan disbursals where we are currently averaging $150 million of new loan disbursals per month,” Goel said.
Example of an exponential curve:
Apple may ditch those old familiar USB-A ports in the new Mac mini
The Mac mini will be the next Apple device to say goodbye to USB-A, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
The Mac mini will be the next Apple device to say goodbye to USB-A, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Apple customers have probably gotten used to seeing the familiar, rectangular USB-A ports replaced with their thinner USB-C siblings. And while USB-C has its advantages, the transition can sometimes leave users confused and scrambling for adapters.
#apple #mac #usb #tecnhology
The Mac mini, meanwhile, hasn’t been significantly redesigned since 2010, but Gurman says that’s changing this fall. The updated models will include Apple’s new M4 chip, as well as five USB-C ports, plus an Ethernet port, an HDMI connector, and a headphone jack. But the USB-A ports will be gone.
Apple has a “Glowtime” press event scheduled for September 9, where the company is expected to announce the new iPhone 16. The new Mac lineup may not be announced until later in the fall.
Bolt reportedly threatens legal action against Silverbear Capital
In the latest twist in Bolt's aggressive fundraising efforts, the fintech company’s CEO appears to have made a veiled threat of legal action
In the latest twist in Bolt’s aggressive fundraising efforts, the fintech company’s CEO appears to have made a veiled threat of legal action against Silverbear Capital, the investment bank whose involvement in the deal remains in some dispute.
“We believe there was some internal miscommunication at Silverbear Capital, one of our lead investors, which has caused unnecessary confusion,” CEO Justin Grooms wrote in an email reportedly viewed by Forbes. “The fact is, they signed a binding term sheet committing $200 million. Our exceptional legal team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher stands ready to represent the company in seeking to enforce our rights vigorously.”
Bolt, which offers tools for one-click e-commerce checkout, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Silverbear partner Veronica Welch told Forbes that “this never had anything to do with any miscommunications” and that the deal “was never discussed or approved in the company.”
Earlier this month, a leaked term sheet showed that Bolt was aiming to raise $200 million in equity funding and $250 million in “marketing credits” at a $14 billion valuation, with an unusual pay-to-play deal structure that would essentially force existing backers to either invest or lose their stakes in the company.
While Silverbear was initially reported to be leading the equity round, the firm’s partner Brad Pamnani recently told TechCrunch he’s actually putting the deal together through a special purpose vehicle (SPV) managed by a private equity fund based in the United Arab Emirates.
“At the beginning, I used my Silverbear email to respond to some things and that caused some confusion but Silverbear was never actually looking at this deal,” Pamnani said.
Meanwhile, The London Fund’s CEO confirmed in an interview with TechCrunch that the firm is contributing “marketing credits” to the deal. However, The London Fund released a statement Friday saying that it has not seen and cannot “confirm the validity of any part of a document leaked to the press.”
“We can confirm that there have been discussions between The London Fund and Bolt’s management; however, at no point have we stated that a transaction has concluded,” the firm said.
From Groq:
What is Kennedy Space Center?
The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is a NASA facility located on Merritt Island, Florida, United States. It is one of the most famous and historic space centers in the world, and it has played a crucial role in the United States' space exploration program since the 1960s.
The Kennedy Space Center was established in 1962 as the launch site for NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs, which aimed to put humans into space and orbit the Earth. The center was named after President John F. Kennedy, who played a key role in the development of the US space program.
Over the years, the Kennedy Space Center has been the launch site for many historic space missions, including:
Today, the Kennedy Space Center is still an active NASA facility, although it has shifted its focus from launch operations to research, development, and testing of new space technologies. The center is also a popular tourist destination, with over 1.5 million visitors each year.
Some of the attractions and activities at the Kennedy Space Center include:
Overall, the Kennedy Space Center is a must-visit destination for anyone interested in space exploration, science, and technology.
What are humanoid robots?
Humanoid robots are robots that are designed to resemble humans in appearance and are capable of performing tasks that are similar to those of humans. They are typically designed to have a human-like body, with a torso, arms, and legs, and are often equipped with advanced sensors and actuators that allow them to move and interact with their environment in a way that is similar to humans.
Humanoid robots can be used for a variety of purposes, including:
Some examples of humanoid robots include:
Humanoid robots are typically characterized by their ability to:
However, humanoid robots also have some limitations, such as:
Overall, humanoid robots are an exciting and rapidly evolving field that has the potential to revolutionize the way we live and work.
What companies are looking to build humanoid robots?
There are several companies around the world that are actively developing and building humanoid robots. Here are some examples:
These are just a few examples of companies that are developing humanoid robots. There are many other companies and research institutions around the world that are also working on humanoid robotics.
What is Tesla doing with humanoid robots?
Tesla is working on developing humanoid robots as part of its broader efforts to create a more autonomous and efficient manufacturing process. The company has been testing and refining its humanoid robot technology, known as "Optimus," which is designed to perform a variety of tasks, including assembly, welding, and material handling.
Tesla's humanoid robots are designed to be highly flexible and adaptable, allowing them to perform a wide range of tasks and interact with other machines and humans in a variety of settings. The robots are equipped with advanced sensors and actuators, as well as sophisticated software and algorithms that enable them to learn and adapt to new situations.
Tesla's humanoid robots are being developed to work alongside human workers in its manufacturing facilities, with the goal of improving efficiency, reducing labor costs, and increasing productivity. The robots are also being designed to be able to work in a variety of environments, including clean rooms, warehouses, and construction sites.
Some of the specific tasks that Tesla's humanoid robots are being designed to perform include:
Tesla's humanoid robots are still in the testing and development phase, and the company is working to refine the technology and integrate it into its manufacturing processes. However, the potential for humanoid robots to revolutionize manufacturing and improve efficiency is significant, and Tesla is at the forefront of this technology.
Why Tesla is in good position for Humanoid Robots.
Nvidia's New Superchips: Twice the Power, Double the Challenge!
Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chips are game-changers. They're about twice the size of previous models and pack in 2.6 times more transistors, thanks to a clever design that combines two processors with memory components in a complex mesh. But making these chips isn’t easy—they’re so intricate that even a tiny flaw can ruin a $40,000 chip. Nvidia faced huge engineering challenges to get these right, and this article dives into what it took to make these cutting-edge chips a reality. If you’re into tech, this is a must-read!
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Writers sue Anthropic for ‘stealing’ their work for AI training
Joining the ranks of Microsoft and OpenAI, Anthropic is now also facing a lawsuit from authors who claim that the creator of the Claude AI models used the writers’ work to train its LLMs unsolicited and, more importantly, without paying for it.
The trio of writers filed the suit in a court in the U.S. state of California. According to them, Anthropic abuses ‘human creativity and ingenuity’ by feeding the fruits of their labor (and that of others) without permission to the AI models it trains.
#ai #technology #data #openai #anthropic
“Humans who learn from books buy lawful copies of them, or borrow them from libraries that buy them, providing at least some measure of compensation to authors and creators,” the complaint reads. Anthropic has not responded apart from saying it is ‘aware’ of the suit, Reuters reports.
Motley crew of plaintiffs
The authors who sued Anthropic are Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson. All three write about very different things: thriller and mystery stories in Bartz’s case, non-fiction in Graeber’s, and Johnson’s published about the war in Iraq after 9/11 and then turned to a true-crime report about the theft of exotic bird feathers for the purpose of fly fishing(!)
Not only have book writers set their sights on Antropic. Music publishers have also sued the company because its AI models would regurgitate existing song lyrics based on users’ prompts. In other words, these have allegedly also been used for data entry.
Rival to OpenaI
Founded in 2021, Anthropic positions itself as a rival to OpenAI. Its models in the Claude series, including Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku, are said to be able to compete with the various models of its well-known San Francisco neighbour, including GPT-4o, GPT-3.5 Turbo, and -4o mini.
Sam Altman, the much-discussed founder of OpenAI and just about the only one of the original team of founders still left, claims that AI models cannot be properly trained without copyrighted data. That means books, newspaper articles, scientific papers and other data sources containing high-quality information.
When you use one of the major chatbots, even the results are feeding Big Tech as they have more data (synthetic in this case) to utilize.
At a minimum, take the results and post to threads. This gets the data onto the Hive blockchain, opening it up for anyone to use.
AI Models Scaled Up 10,000x Are Possible by 2030, Report Says
Recent progress in AI largely boils down to one thing: Scale.
Around the beginning of this decade, AI labs noticed that making their algorithms—or models—ever bigger and feeding them more data consistently led to enormous improvements in what they could do and how well they did it. The latest crop of AI models have hundreds of billions to over a trillion internal network connections and learn to write or code like we do by consuming a healthy fraction of the internet.
#ai #technology #scaling
It takes more computing power to train bigger algorithms. So, to get to this point, the computing dedicated to AI training has been quadrupling every year, according to nonprofit AI research organization, Epoch AI.
Should that growth continue through 2030, future AI models would be trained with 10,000 times more compute than today’s state of the art algorithms, like OpenAI’s GPT-4.
“If pursued, we might see by the end of the decade advances in AI as drastic as the difference between the rudimentary text generation of GPT-2 in 2019 and the sophisticated problem-solving abilities of GPT-4 in 2023,” Epoch wrote in a recent research report detailing how likely it is this scenario is possible.
But modern AI already sucks in a significant amount of power, tens of thousands of advanced chips, and trillions of online examples. Meanwhile, the industry has endured chip shortages, and studies suggest it may run out of quality training data. Assuming companies continue to invest in AI scaling: Is growth at this rate even technically possible?
In its report, Epoch looked at four of the biggest constraints to AI scaling: Power, chips, data, and latency. TLDR: Maintaining growth is technically possible, but not certain.
Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?
We investigate the scalability of AI training runs. We identify electric power, chip manufacturing, data and latency as constraints. We conclude that 2e29 FLOP training runs will likely be feasible by 2030.
In recent years, the capabilities of AI models have significantly improved. Our research suggests that this growth in computational resources accounts for a significant portion of AI performance improvements.1 The consistent and predictable improvements from scaling have led AI labs to aggressively expand the scale of training, with training compute expanding at a rate of approximately 4x per year.
#ai #training #compute #technology
To put this 4x annual growth in AI training compute into perspective, it outpaces even some of the fastest technological expansions in recent history. It surpasses the peak growth rates of mobile phone adoption (2x/year, 1980-1987), solar energy capacity installation (1.5x/year, 2001-2010), and human genome sequencing (3.3x/year, 2008-2015).
Here, we examine whether it is technically feasible for the current rapid pace of AI training scaling—approximately 4x per year—to continue through 2030. We investigate four key factors that might constrain scaling: power availability, chip manufacturing capacity, data scarcity, and the “latency wall”, a fundamental speed limit imposed by unavoidable delays in AI training computations.
Our analysis incorporates the expansion of production capabilities, investment, and technological advancements. This includes, among other factors, examining planned growth in advanced chip packaging facilities, construction of additional power plants, and the geographic spread of data centers to leverage multiple power networks. To account for these changes, we incorporate projections from various public sources: semiconductor foundries’ planned expansions, electricity providers’ capacity growth forecasts, other relevant industry data, and our own research.
We find that training runs of 2e29 FLOP will likely be feasible by the end of this decade. In other words, by 2030 it will be very likely possible to train models that exceed GPT-4 in scale to the same degree that GPT-4 exceeds GPT-2 in scale.2 If pursued, we might see by the end of the decade advances in AI as drastic as the difference between the rudimentary text generation of GPT-2 in 2019 and the sophisticated problem-solving abilities of GPT-4 in 2023.
From Epochai:
https://inleo.io/threads/view/taskmaster4450le/re-leothreads-6kqdayhd
From Groq
What constraints are expected for AI scaling?
As AI systems continue to grow in complexity and scale, several constraints are expected to emerge, impacting their performance, efficiency, and overall effectiveness. Some of the key constraints expected for AI scaling include:
Computational Resources: AI models require significant computational resources, including processing power, memory, and storage. As models grow in size, they will require more powerful hardware and specialized infrastructure to run efficiently.
Energy Consumption: As AI systems scale, their energy consumption will increase, posing environmental and economic concerns. This will drive the development of more energy-efficient AI algorithms and hardware.
Explainability and Transparency: As AI systems become more complex, it will be increasingly important to understand how they make decisions and why. This will require the development of explainable AI (XAI) techniques to ensure transparency and accountability.
Interpretability and Debugging: As AI models grow in size and complexity, it will become more challenging to interpret and debug their behavior. New techniques will be needed to understand and correct errors in AI systems.
Human-AI Collaboration: As AI systems scale, they will need to collaborate with humans more effectively. This will require the development of new interfaces and workflows that enable seamless human-AI collaboration.
Cybersecurity: As AI systems become more connected and integrated, they will become more vulnerable to cyber threats. This will drive the development of more robust cybersecurity measures to protect AI systems and data.
Regulatory Frameworks: As AI systems scale, regulatory frameworks will need to be developed to ensure their safe and ethical deployment. This will require collaboration between governments, industry, and academia to establish clear guidelines and standards.
Scalability of AI Algorithms: AI algorithms will need to be designed to scale efficiently, handling large datasets and complex computations. This will require the development of new algorithms and techniques that can efficiently process and analyze large amounts of data.
Edge Computing and IoT Integration: As AI systems scale, they will need to be integrated with edge computing and IoT devices to process data in real-time and make decisions at the edge. This will require the development of new architectures and protocols for edge computing and IoT integration.
Distributed Computing and cloud Infrastructure: AI systems will require distributed computing and cloud infrastructure to scale efficiently. This will drive the development of new cloud computing platforms and distributed computing architectures.
By understanding these constraints, AI developers and researchers can design and develop more effective, efficient, and scalable AI systems that can address complex problems and improve people's lives.
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Do you know more about AI than the average person?
awaTo some extent
What is an AI doomer?
An AI doomer is a term used to describe individuals who have a pessimistic or catastrophic view of the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society. They believe that the development and deployment of AI will have devastating consequences, such as:
AI doomers often argue that the development of AI is being driven by short-sighted and profit-motivated individuals who are ignoring the potential risks and consequences. They may also believe that governments and corporations are not doing enough to address these concerns and mitigate the potential negative impacts of AI.
Some common arguments made by AI doomers include:
It's worth noting that not all AI doomers are pessimistic about the potential of AI. Some may believe that AI has the potential to solve many of the world's problems, but that it must be developed and deployed responsibly and with caution.
Examples of AI doomers include:
It's important to note that the AI doomer perspective is not universally accepted, and many experts believe that the benefits of AI outweigh the risks. However, it's also important to acknowledge the concerns and uncertainties surrounding AI and to work towards developing and deploying AI in a responsible and ethical manner.
Are you an AI Doomer?
#ai #technology
Nah, not what we have now. AI isnt that smart, its just very good at small perticular tasks atm.
Dont think terminator is near
Yeah. Well the mindset of people is indoctrinated by Hollywood.
People do not even realize who programmed them.
#technology
This is why filling the database is so important:
Training large AI models requires correspondingly large datasets. The indexed web contains about 500T words of unique text, and is projected to increase by 50% by 2030. Multimodal learning from image, video and audio data will likely moderately contribute to scaling, plausibly tripling the data available for training. After accounting for uncertainties on data quality, availability, multiple epochs, and multimodal tokenizer efficiency, we estimate the equivalent of 400 trillion to 20 quadrillion tokens available for training by 2030, allowing for 6e28 to 2e32 FLOP training runs. We speculate that synthetic data generation from AI models could increase this substantially.
Another by epoch.ai
According to Groq:
How much data do we produce each day?
The amount of data produced each year is staggering and continues to grow exponentially. Here are some mind-boggling statistics:
To put these numbers into perspective, 1 zettabyte is equivalent to:
These statistics illustrate the incredible amount of data being generated every year, and it's expected to continue growing at an exponential rate.
Here is a chart of the estimated data production from 2000 to 2020, based on various sources:
This is why it is important to get moving on #ai:
$20 billion in revenue the first year? That is a huge chunk. The focus of Leo should be clear.
To understand the scale of this potential investment, consider that global labor compensation is approximately $60T per year. Even without factoring in accelerated economic growth from AI automation, if it becomes feasible to develop AI capable of effectively substituting for human labor, investing trillions of dollars to capture even a fraction of this $60T flow would be economically justified.
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According to various sources, including International Data Corporation (IDC), Cisco, and others, here are some projected data production estimates from 2024 to 2030:
This is likely understated.
From Groq:
What is model collapse when it comes to AI?
Model collapse is a phenomenon in artificial intelligence (AI) where a neural network or a machine learning model fails to learn or generalize from the training data, often resulting in poor performance or incorrect predictions. This can occur when the model becomes overly confident in its predictions and starts to produce the same output for all inputs, regardless of their differences.
Model collapse can manifest in various ways, such as:
Model collapse can be caused by various factors, including:
Model collapse can have significant consequences, such as:
To mitigate model collapse, AI practitioners can use various techniques, such as:
By understanding and addressing model collapse, AI practitioners can develop more robust, accurate, and reliable models that can effectively learn from data and generalize to new situations.
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However, the prospects of catastrophic model collapse might be overstated. Most research so far looks at cases where synthetic data replaces human data. In practice, human and AI data are likely to accumulate in parallel, which reduces the likelihood of collapse.
The most likely future scenario will also see an ecosystem of somewhat diverse generative AI platforms being used to create and publish content, rather than one monolithic model. This also increases robustness against collapse.
Standard economic models predict that if AI automation reaches a point where it replaces most or all human labor, economic growth could accelerate by tenfold or more.
#ai #technology
Groq again:
What is the danger of too much data being synthetic on future AI models?
The danger of too much synthetic data on future AI models is a topic of ongoing debate and concern in the AI community. Here are some potential risks:
To mitigate these risks, it's essential to ensure that synthetic data is:
By being aware of these potential risks and taking steps to mitigate them, we can ensure that AI models are developed and deployed responsibly and effectively.
This AI Learns Continuously From New Experiences—Without Forgetting Its Past
Algorithms like OpenAI's GPT-4 are like brains frozen in time. A new study shows how future AIs could learn continuously in response to a changing world.
Our brains are constantly learning. That new sandwich deli rocks. That gas station? Better avoid it in the future.
Memories like these physically rewire connections in the brain region that supports new learning. During sleep, the previous day’s memories are shuttled to other parts of the brain for long-term storage, freeing up brain cells for new experiences the next day. In other words, the brain can continuously soak up our everyday lives without losing access to memories of what came before.
#ai #technology #openai
AI, not so much. GPT-4 and other large language and multimodal models, which have taken the world by storm, are built using deep learning, a family of algorithms that loosely mimic the brain. The problem? “Deep learning systems with standard algorithms slowly lose the ability to learn,” Dr. Shibhansh Dohare at University of Alberta recently told Nature.
The reason for this is in how they’re set up and trained. Deep learning relies on multiple networks of artificial neurons that are connected to each other. Feeding data into the algorithms—say, reams of online resources like blogs, news articles, and YouTube and Reddit comments—changes the strength of these connections, so that the AI eventually “learns” patterns in the data and uses these patterns to churn out eloquent responses.
But these systems are basically brains frozen in time. Tackling a new task sometimes requires a whole new round of training and learning, which erases what came before and costs millions of dollars. For ChatGPT and other AI tools, this means they become increasingly outdated over time.
This week, Dohare and colleagues found a way to solve the problem. The key is to selectively reset some artificial neurons after a task, but without substantially changing the entire network—a bit like what happens in the brain as we sleep.
When tested with a continual visual learning task—say differentiating cats from houses or telling apart stop signs and school buses—deep learning algorithms equipped with selective resetting easily maintained high accuracy over 5,000 different tasks. Standard algorithms, in contrast, rapidly deteriorated, their success eventually dropping to about a coin-toss.
Called continual back propagation, the strategy is “among the first of a large and fast-growing set of methods” to deal with the continuous learning problem, wrote Drs. Clare Lyle and Razvan Pascanu at Google DeepMind, who were not involved in the study.
A journey inside Epic Systems' mythical and sprawling campus, a world away from Wall Street
Epic Systems, a 45-year-old health-care software company, remains privately held with a sprawling campus that's far from Wall Street or Silicon Valley.
Dorothy Gale was right — the Land of Oz is not in Kansas. Rather, it's nestled within the rolling green fields of Verona, Wisconsin, a town of nearly 16,400 people located about 10 miles southwest of the capital city of Madison.
Verona is home to the whimsical, sprawling 1,670-acre headquarters for Epic Systems, one of the biggest privately held U.S. tech companies. Epic's software is seemingly ubiquitous across hospitals and clinics, storing the medical records of more than 280 million people in the U.S.
While the company's workforce is tasked with the hefty responsibility of building tools to support doctors and nurses as they provide care to patients, Epic employees spend their days milling in and out of offices that look as if they were plucked straight from the pages of a sci-fi novel or children's book.
A yellow brick road inspired by "The Wizard of Oz" winds through the hallways of a gleaming, emerald green building. Giant chocolate chips mark the entryway to the chocolate factory, and a mischievous cat grins through the window of a building guarded by life-sized playing cards.
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You will be able to voice chat with an AI within WhatsApp
You will soon be able to have a voice conversation with artificial intelligence on WhatsApp, according to information from WABetaInfo. The publication claims to have found snippets of code indicating that the application will have a floating button in the chat list to start conversations with Meta IA, a type of ChatGPT developed by the owner of WhatsApp.
By touching the button, Meta AI would go into operation in "hands-free" mode, that is, it would remain constantly active, listening to the user and answering their questions without having to touch the cell phone during each interaction.
To deactivate continuous listening, simply tap the Meta AI button again to end the chat with the tool or switch to text conversation mode.
#newsonleo #technology #ai
It is not yet clear which voice commands will be available to the user, but considering that it is a conversational generative AI, it is likely that you can use the messenger to answer questions, request improvements to texts, create code and more. What we don't yet know is whether it will be possible to ask Meta IA to compose a text message and send it directly to a specific contact via WhatsApp, for example.
Additionally, the feature should allow users to customize Meta AI's voice in some way, making the assistant more user-friendly. Code snippets indicating the addition of these features were found in Beta version 2.24.18.18 of WhatsApp, available on Google's Play Store. So, voice chat with Meta AI is expected to come to Android first.
There is still no estimate of when these new features will be available in the stable version of WhatsApp, which is the version installed on most smartphones.
That is not surprising. We are rapidly moving towards a world where everything is different.
It is imperative to get the data on Hive.
Did you read some of what I posted in the technology threadcast about the 10000x of AI by 2030 and the billions that will be created?
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Meet the company that wants to replace rockets with space shuttles
Called the X-33, it was based on a concept called SSTO — or “single stage to orbit”. The SSTO eliminates rocket stages in conventional spaceflight—in which rockets containing engines and fuel are jettisoned during ascent to reduce weight—in favor of a single, fully reusable spacecraft.
The X-33 was designed to launch vertically like a rocket but land on a runway like an airplane, with the goal of reducing the cost of sending a pound (about 450 grams) of payload to orbit from $10,000 ( around R$56,000) to just US$1,000 (around R$5,600).
However, the program was canceled in 2001 due to technical difficulties, adding to a list of similar projects that did not come to fruition.
#newsonleo #technology #space
“I was leading the X-33 program, and we gave up on it because our assessment was that it would cost more than we were willing to spend, and we were at the limit of our technological capabilities to actually do it,” says Livingston Holder, an aerospace engineer, former USAF astronaut and X-33 program manager, and now CTO of Radian Aerospace, a Seattle-based company he co-founded in 2016 to revive the SSTO dream.
“Things have changed drastically since the X-33 — we have composite materials that are lighter, stronger and can withstand a greater thermal range than we had back then. And the propulsion is better than anything we had, in terms of how efficiently it burns propellant and how much the systems weigh,” he says.
The product of this updated technology is Radian One, a new space plane that will replace vertical launch with a very unusual system — a rocket-powered sled.
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To escape Earth's gravity and reach orbit, a rocket needs to reach a speed of about 28,000 km/h, according to Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former NASA astronaut who flew on five Space Shuttle missions.
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PromptPerfect: how to use a website that helps you create prompts for AI
PromptPerfect is an artificial intelligence platform that promises to help users create more complete and accurate commands to use in tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini Google and MidJourney AI, for example. In addition to generating more complete and assertive versions of the prompts, the resource also has an assistant mode, which helps you create new orders, organize ideas and even improve writing.
The objective is to create appropriate instructions, as these guidelines directly influence the quality and relevance of the generated response. PromptPerfect is free and available on the web, allowing you to use ten orders per day. There are also paid versions, which cost U$19.99 (around R$110) and U$99.99 (R$520) per month.
#newsonleo #technology #ai
The platform is structured in English, but it is possible to enter the command in your preferred language and receive responses in the same language automatically. It is also possible to use the browser's translator to view the content in Portuguese.
The resource can also be integrated with other tools and platforms through the API, a protocol that allows communication between different software. Check out the step-by-step guide below to use PromptPerfect and improve your commands for AI tools.
What are the SpaceX rockets?
SpaceX has developed several rocket models as part of its efforts to advance space exploration and reduce space transportation costs. Here are the main SpaceX rockets:
Falcon 1: This was SpaceX's first orbital rocket, which operated from 2006 to 2009.
Falcon 9: Currently SpaceX's workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed for the reliable and cost-effective transport of satellites and spacecraft. Its first stage is capable of landing and being reused.
Current Status:
As of my last update in April 2024, Starship was still in development and testing phases. SpaceX had conducted several high-altitude tests and was working towards orbital test flights. However, for the most up-to-date information on Starship's progress and achievements, I'd recommend checking SpaceX's official channels or recent news sources.
Starship represents a paradigm shift in spacecraft design and could potentially revolutionize space exploration if it achieves its design goals. However, it's important to note that many challenges remain in fully realizing this ambitious vision.
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Tell me all you can about the Starship? What is special about this one and what does the company think it will do for space flight?
Starship is SpaceX's most ambitious project to date, representing a significant leap in spacecraft design and capabilities. Here's an overview of Starship and its potential impact on spaceflight:
Design and Capabilities:
Fully reusable: Both the Starship spacecraft and its Super Heavy booster are designed to be fully reusable, potentially dramatically reducing the cost of space access.
Size: When fully stacked, Starship and Super Heavy stand about 120 meters tall, making it the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
Payload capacity: It's designed to carry over 100 metric tons to low ⇪ orbit× in its fully reusable configuration.
Versatility: Starship is intended for a wide range of missions, from Earth orbit to lunar landings and Mars colonization.
Propulsion: It uses SpaceX's Raptor engines, which run on liquid methane and liquid oxygen, chosen for their efficiency and the potential to produce fuel on Mars.
Key features:
In-orbit refueling: Starship is designed to be refueled in orbit, enabling long-distance missions like trips to Mars.
Heat shield: It uses an innovative heat shield design for re-entry, with ceramic tiles covering the windward side.
Landing system: Starship is designed to land vertically using its engines, both on Earth and other celestial bodies.
Expected Impact on Spaceflight:
Cost reduction: By being fully reusable, Starship could dramatically lower the cost of access to space, potentially by orders of magnitude.
Increased access to space: Lower costs could democratize space access, enabling more countries, companies, and even individuals to participate in space activities.
Mars colonization: SpaceX sees Starship as key to establishing a human presence on Mars, with the ability to transport large numbers of people and cargo.
Lunar missions: NASA has selected a version of Starship as a lunar lander for its Artemis program to return humans to the moon.
Point-to-point Earth travel: SpaceX has proposed using Starship for ultra-fast international travel on Earth, potentially reducing long-distance travel times to under an hour.
Large satellite deployment: Starship's large payload capacity could enable the deployment of much larger satellites or constellations of satellites.
Deep space exploration: With its long-range capabilities, Starship could facilitate missions to the outer planets and beyond.
Falcon Heavy: A heavy-lift launch vehicle that consists of three Falcon 9 first stages strapped together, with a second stage on the center core.
Starship: This is SpaceX's next-generation, fully reusable spacecraft and launch system currently under development. It's designed for a variety of missions, including Earth orbit, lunar, and Mars missions.
Dragon: While not a rocket itself, the Dragon spacecraft is often paired with the Falcon 9 for cargo and crew missions to the International Space Station.
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LeVar Burton recalls spending 'a lot of time naked' at the spa with the late Carl Weathers
Burton memorialized the "Rocky" actor at the posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony for Weathers.
LeVar Burton has fond memories of the late Carl Weathers — and many of them involve sweating it out butt naked.
Burton recalled hitting the steam room with the late Rocky actor during his speech at the ceremony honoring Weathers with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday.
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"Carl and I used to meet sometimes at a Korean spa here in Koreatown just east of us, and so we spent a lot of time naked in the sauna," the Star Trek: The Next Generation actor said. "Now, when you're naked with somebody, there's nothing to hide. No, I mean really, there's nothing to hide. But there are two meanings to that, because there is no artifice in the sauna. And Carl had no problem being his authentic self in every single moment."
Burton went on to say that Weathers' authenticity was "probably his greatest gift and greatest talent," adding, "I'm really glad that we have all gathered here today to celebrate such a remarkable human being."
"He was, in fact, the embodiment of a good man," the Reading Rainbow host said of Weathers' exemplary character earlier in his remarks. "Now, I do not use those two words in combination lightly, but Carl deserves it. In Carl's presence, you knew that he was focused 100 percent on you. He wasn't looking around to see who more important came in the room, he was laser-locked on this now-moment with you."
Mae Whitman welcomes first baby and names him after Parenthood costar: 'He's our best friend'
The cast of "Parenthood" just welcomed a new parent.
Parenthood parenthood announcement: Mae Whitman has given birth to her first child, and named him after costar Miles Heizer.
On Wednesday, Whitman introduced baby Miles to the world in an Instagram post, joking, "Not to be a Bieber about it but I too just gave birth to our son, Miles." Whitman continued that "he is the kindest, gentlest, smartest, funniest little beebee and he’s our best friend (pretty much exactly like his namesake Uncle Miles.)"
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"We are infinitely grateful he chose us as his parents," Whitman continued in her post. She thanked the obstetrics and midwifery organization Moxie Birth and Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. "for guiding our little family through all the unexpected twists and turns safely and with love and grace," as well as "everyone in our circle who has shown us such radical generosity and support."
"We love you! We’re so happy!" Whitman concluded.
Harry Potter star Imelda Staunton reprises role as Dolores Umbridge for 'extreme' new scenes in Universal experience
Staunton filmed new scenes for Universal Epic Universe's stunning new theme park ride, after previously saying she wouldn't return to the "Harry Potter" series.
After previously expressing doubt that she'd ever return to the Harry Potter franchise, Oscar-nominated actress and The Crown star Imelda Staunton will reprise her role as Dolores Umbridge in Universal Epic Universe's new Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Ministry of Magic attraction inspired by the film series.
#entertainment #hollywood #films
Over 14 years following Staunton's final Harry Potter film performance in 2010's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, an official franchise YouTube video confirms that Staunton returned to film new scenes as the villainous character, who takes center stage in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry ride that takes guests through the British Ministry of Magic for Umbridge's trial. Visitors to the Universal Orlando Resort's next theme park (set to open in 2025) enter through the organization's grand atrium (as seen in the Harry Potter movies) ahead of the trial, until things go awry when, naturally, Umbridge attempts to escape and wreak havoc on her captors.
"You'll explore plenty of never before seen locations, like the Ministry of Archives and the Department of Magical Creatures," Hope Glomski, Universal Global Themed Entertainment said in the clip below, also confirming that film series characters like Corban Yaxley, Walden Macnair, the Carrow family, and Kingsley Shacklebolt will return in scenes for the ride alongside a new house elf character named Higgledy.
Ian McKellen wants to return as Gandalf in new Lord of the Rings movies: 'They better be quick!'
The 85-year-old also revealed he'll take the rest of the year off after falling during a recent performance that left him "feeling weak physically."
Sir Ian McKellan wants the new Lord of the Rings movies to hurry up and work some magic for his potential return as Gandalf.
The 85-year-old English actor has revealed that he'd like to return to the film series to reprise the role of the beloved wizard, now that LOTR film director Peter Jackson will return to produce two new films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels in the future.
#entertainment #ianmckellen #lordoftherings #movie
“I’ve just been told there are going to be more films and Gandalf will be involved and they hope that I’ll be playing him,” McKellen told Big Issue in a new interview, one of his first on-record conversations since the esteemed actor fell off stage in June during a Player Kings performance at the Noël Coward Theatre in London.
McKellen admitted that he didn't know much about the new Warner Bros. movie, but that the script is "not written yet," according to what he's heard. "So they better be quick!" McKellen joked.
The actor previously told The Times of London that he'd return as Gandalf on one condition: “If I’m alive."
Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore Dazzle in Venice as Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ Earns 17-Minute Standing Ovation
Swinton, Moore, and Almodóvar dutifully thanked a whooping audience during their standing ovation at Venice Film Festival's Sala Grande Monday night.
Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and Pedro Almodóvar are a force to be reckoned with — if their reception in Venice is anything to go by.
The trio soaked up the raucous applause inside the Venice Film Festival‘s Sala Grande Monday night where the world premiere of Almodóvar’s first-ever English language feature was received with an ardent 17-minute standing ovation.
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His poignant film The Room Next Door, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, follows best-selling writer Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) as they rekindle their friendship after losing touch. As they immerse themselves in past memories, anecdotes, art and movies, Martha, battling terminal cervical cancer, wants to die with dignity and asks Ingrid to be in the next room when she takes a euthanasia pill.
At the movie’s press conference earlier in the day, the Spaniard auteur, known for films such as Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and All About My Mother, discussed how the film is pro-euthanasia. “This movie is in favor of euthanasia,” he said.
“It is something we admire about the character of Tilda, she decides that getting rid of cancer can only be done by making the decision she actually makes… ‘If I get there before, cancer will not win over me,’ she says. And so she finds a way to reach her objective with the help of her friend, but they have to behave as if they were criminals.” He added: “There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world.”
Swinton and Moore are admittedly huge fans of the filmmaker and have used their time in Venice to sing his praises. Moore said she doesn’t know a director in the entire world who could have made a better film about female friendship.
“The lens that Pedro puts on this relationship is that not only do we have a mother and daughter story, which we see actually often in literature and in film, but we very rarely see a story about female friendship, and especially female friends who are older,” Moore said.
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@calebmarvel01 has the Threadcast back and running strong.
It is more than just music. It is anything entertainment-related.
Let's see if we can get the #leoentertainment tag trending.
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Alright sir, greetings and how is your day going?
Things are going well here, Caleb.
How are you today?
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Linda Deutsch, AP Trial Writer Who Had Front Row to Courtroom History, Dies at 80
Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years, has died. She was 80.
Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history for many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials — Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, among many others — died Sunday. She was 80.
Deutsch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022 and underwent successful treatment, but the cancer returned this summer. She died at her Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, said nurse Narek Petrosian of Olympia Hospice Care.
One of America’s best-known trial reporters when she retired in 2015, Deutsch’s courts career began with the 1969 trial and conviction of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. She went on to cover a who’s who of criminal defendants — Manson, Simpson, Jackson, Patty Hearst, Phil Spector, the Menendez Brothers, “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King.
She was in a Los Angeles courtroom in 1995 for the conclusion of “The Trial of the Century” that saw Simpson, an NFL Hall of Famer, acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend. Thirteen years later, Deutsch was in a Las Vegas courtroom when Simpson was convicted of kidnapping and robbery and sentenced to prison.
“When a big trial loomed, AP’s assignment editors didn’t have to ask who should get the assignment. No, the instant question was, ‘Is Linda available?’” recalled Louis D. Boccardi, who served as AP’s executive editor for a decade and as president and CEO for 18 years. “She mastered the art of celebrity trial coverage and, in the process, became something of a media celebrity herself.”
For decades, Deutsch covered every appeal and parole hearing of each convicted Manson Family member. Other historic moments included witnessing the 1976 conviction of Hearst, the newspaper heiress found guilty on bank robbery and other charges; the 2005 acquittal of Jackson on child molestation charges; and the 2009 murder conviction of Spector, the famed music producer.
“Linda was a fearless reporter who loved being on a big story — and she indeed covered some of the biggest,” said Julie Pace, AP’s executive editor and senior vice president. “She was a true trailblazer whose command of her beat and tireless work ethic made her an inspiration to so many journalists at the AP and across our industry.”
Her work, always written with verve, was not limited to celebrity — other trials involved fraud, conspiracy, environmental disasters and immigration — and eventually earned her the title of special correspondent, the most prestigious byline for an AP reporter.
Defense attorney Thomas Mesereau, who represented Jackson, called Deutsch “the epitome of ethics and professionalism in journalism.”
“I can’t think of anybody who rises to her level,” he said of Deutsch when she retired.
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Ethan Hawke Compares Acting to “the Joys of Doing Drugs,” Talks About Being “Slightly Disappointed That I’m Not a Wizard or a Jedi”
In a Venice master class, he discussed Richard Linklater, Peter Weir, how "greed runs our universe" and how "embarrassing" it is, for the industry, that he has only worked with a handful of female filmmakers.
The joys, magic and business side of filmmaking, his take on independent and blockbuster movies, including Star Wars and Harry Potter, as well as his collaborations with directors Richard Linklater and Peter Weir, and his lack of work with many female filmmakers, were all part of a Venice Film Festival master class featuring actor-director Ethan Hawke in Venice on Monday.
#movies #ethanhawke #newsonleo
Early on in the session, which was live-streamed, the star recalled coming to Venice for Dead Poets Society. “It was my first film festival. I was 18 years old. We showed the movie down the street, and it was an incredible experience,” Hawke recalled. “There were a lot of people who made the movie with us there at the premiere, and you could feel the movie cast a spell, and you could feel people’s response to the film.”
He continued that director Weir “was at that time, and still is, one of the very few master craftsmen I’ve ever met, and to work with him as a young person, and to absorb what he had to teach and then to see its effect in action” was impressive. “It was an act of collective imagination…. He was very good at getting a group of artisans to have the same imagination and the same dream, and then to watch that dream be given to others and received. It’s very powerful.”
Hawke then added, to laughs: “It was kind of like how one hears about the joys of doing drugs. You just want to do it again. It’s such a wonderful feeling because you don’t feel alone.” The creative continued: “There’s a strange double-edged sword to being an actor, which is that on the outside, you get celebrated in success, but the true joys of performing are in disappearing…you feel yourself disappear and become part of this dream. And that’s the feeling that’s so wonderful. And you see the dream live in other people, and that’s where the high comes from. And no sooner did I leave Venice at 18 years old that I just wanted to do it again. And as I look out at you, I’m so grateful to be here with you and to get to be a part of this still.” The crowd reacted with a big round of applause.
African Content Is Ready for Its “Global Moment,” MultiChoice Executive Tells MIP Africa (Exclusive)
But the pay-TV giant's top goal remains serving core African audiences, with nine of the 10 most watched shows on streamer Showmax now being local and 'House of the Dragon' the big exception.
“There’s a good chance that Africa’s film industry is about to have its own global moment.” That’s the bullish take shared on Monday about the state of African film and TV programming by Nomsa Philiso, CEO of general entertainment at African pay-TV giant MultiChoice Group, the owner of African streamer Showmax, in her opening speech at MIP Africa. “We’ve already seen that happen with Afrobeats, Amapiano and African music as a whole.”
#movies #africa
She also said that more African TV series and movies are being aired globally than ever before, pointing to what the company calls “a string of breakthroughs for African content last year,” according to highlights of her speech, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. Among them are the likes of university drama Wyfie, crime thriller series Reyka, and Shaka iLembe, the epic story of an iconic African king.
Plus, a record number of African films screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2023, and Rise: The Siya Kolisi Story won the audience award at the Tribeca Film Festival last year.
MultiChoice has also been taking African stories to the world through its sales arm MultiChoice Studios, as well as partnerships with such distributors as Abacus, AMC, Fremantle, StudioCanal and The Exchange, which is repping MultiChoice’s MIP Africa’s opening film The Fix.
After Reyka opened the Monte-Carlo Television Festival and earned International Emmy nominations in the best drama and best actress categories in 2022, Fremantle sold the first season to more than 150 territories, including BritBox in North America, Channel 4 in the U.K., and HBO in Latin America, Philiso mentioned.
Philiso also called out other examples of success, such as The Real Housewives of Durban which has screened on the likes of NBCU’s reality streamer Hayu, Peacock and Bravo, The Real Housewives of Nairobi, vigilante killer thriller Devil’s Peak which sold to Tubi for North America, and crime thriller miniseries White Lies, starring Natalie Dormer, which sold to the likes of Sundance Now, Stan in Australia and Channel 4 in the U.K.
MultiChoice says it is Africa’s largest content producer, with a presence in 50 of Africa’s 54 countries and telling stories in 45 languages.
Here is Everything New on Pluto TV & Tubi in September 2024
September is here and two of the largest free ad-supported streaming services are adding a ton of content. Here is everything coming to Pluot TV and Tubi in September 2024.
#tubitv #plutotv #cordcutting
Pluto Tv.
Here are some of the new channels and movies launching throughout September on Pluto TV.
Acapulco Shore
Welcome to Acapulco Shore: where the fights, drama and chaos are non-stop. Tune-in to see the contestants on one of the wildest journeys on television. The party doesn’t stop on Acapulco Shore; join the fun!
Cheers + Frasier
Sometimes you want to go where you know everybody’s name. Whether it’s a barstool in Boston or a shrink’s couch in Seattle, there’s always a place for you on Pluto TV’s Cheers + Frasier channel.
La Familia del Barrio
The very successful adult animation La familia del barrio is on Pluto TV. This Mexican family will mock reality with a high dose of dark humor. Everything can happen in this hilarious series.
ONE Championship TV
Experience all the action from the world’s largest martial arts organization on ONE Championship TV, featuring MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing, and more! Check out the best fighters on the planet, weekly events, and behind-the-scenes originals!
Pluto TV Novelas
We offer you the most complete catalog of novelas for free, to watch whenever and wherever you want. The novelas that accompany you over time: the most
memorable and the ones that move you. Powerful, emotional and current stories.
Queens of Reality
Take a personal look at all your favorite reality stars, as well as their family and friends’ most exciting moments as they enjoy everyday life, navigate family dramas, celebrate their biggest moments and so much more right here on Queens of Reality.
WOW – Women Of Wrestling
Channel dedicated to the premier all-female sports entertainment property features new and previous seasons of your favorite WOW Superheroes in epic high-energy matches.
Under His Influence
The Untouchables
Urban Cowboy
Used Cars (1980)
Wayward
A Wesley Christmas
When The Game Stands Tall
When We Were Kings
Who Gets The Dog?
The Wood
Tubi
It’s now September and Tubi has free content ready to drop on day one. Read on for all the new shows and movies coming as the month starts and the schedule for Tubi‘s Originals.
Originals
HAZARD – September 6, Action
Noah cherishes his girlfriend, his daughter, and his car, but taking on a risky driving job puts everything he values at stake.
MS. MURDER – September 11, Documentary
Discover three shocking tales of women whose seemingly normal lives are shattered by mysterious and suspicious deaths.
LETHAL LOOKALIKE: THE VIKTORIA NASYROVA STORY – September 14, Drama
Inspired by a shocking true story, a Russian conwoman with a shadowy past flees to New York, where she plots to steal the identity of her Ukrainian stylist.
NO VOLTEES – September 20, Horror
When two siblings return to their hometown, they face a violent, ominous presence lurking in their childhood home—their own father.
THE ASSISTANT 2 – September 7, Thriller
When a young woman infiltrates a family in hopes of uncovering the truth about her estranged twin sister, she slowly transforms from a nanny into a terrifying monster.
TOXIC HARMONY – September 21, Thriller
After leaving her girl group, a singer finds herself thrust into both fame and peril when she catches the eye of a powerful yet enigmatic record label executive.
A GOOD MAN 2 – September 28, Thriller
When Ethan Carter tries to leave the past behind, he finds himself back together with a toxic woman and pays the ultimate price.
Streaming September 1:
Action
Assassin’s Creed
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Empire State
G.I. Jane
Kung Fu Hustle
Last Action Hero
Live Free Or Die Hard
Mortal Kombat
Priest (2011)
The Grey
The Last of the Mohicans
The Marksman
Those Who Wish Me Dead
True Lies
Art House
The Beach Bum
Biutiful
Fast Color
Hacksaw Ridge
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Hurt Locker
The Raid 2
Black Cinema
ATL
Baby Boy
Bones
Boyz N’ The Hood
Dead Presidents
How High
Our Family Wedding
Set It Off
Thin Line Between Love And Hate
Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls
When The Bough Breaks
You Got Served
Black Cinema
ATL
Baby Boy
Bones
Boyz N’ The Hood
Dead Presidents
How High
Our Family Wedding
Set It Off
Thin Line Between Love And Hate
Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls
When The Bough Breaks
You Got Served
Documentary
Anne Frank Remembered
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Drama
8 Mile
Empire (2002)
Flamin’ Hot
Gifted (2017)
Honey (’03)
La Bamba
New York Undercover
Pearl Harbor
Ray
Selena
The Devil’s Advocate
The Guardian
The Outsiders
Horror
Annabelle Comes Home
Dead Silence
Halloween (’18)
Hide And Seek (2005)
House On Haunted Hill (1999)
Jennifer’s Body
Ma
My Soul To Take
Prom Night
Ready Or Not
Silent Hill
Slither
The Blob
The Frighteners
The Last House On The Left
Underwater
Village Of The Damned
Kids & Family
Annie (2014)
Dennis The Menace
Goosebumps (2015)
Invincible
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
The Flintstones
The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas
The Secret Life Of Pets
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Romance
Love Life
Maid In Manhattan
Never Been Kissed
Poetic Justice
Think Like A Man
Think Like A Man Too
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Battlefield Earth
Dredd
Fast Color
Gabriel
Independence Day
Jupiter Ascending
Stealth
The Fifth Element
Total Recall
Transcendence
Ultraviolet
Thriller
Arkansas
Enough
Extraction
Curve
Fear
Half Past Dead
Knock Knock (2015)
Running With The Devil
The Specialist
Vacancy (2007)
Western
3:10 To Yuma
A Fistful Of Dollars
Brothers In Arms
For A Few Dollars More
Guns Of The Magnificent Seven
Oklahoma Crude
Outlaw Posse
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The Shadow Riders
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Crosses $600M to Rule Labor Day, ‘Reagan’ in Close Race for No. 3
'Reagan,' starring Dennis Quaid, is in a close contest with 'Twisters' and 'It Ends With Us' as the topsy-turvey summer season comes to a close.
Labor Day weekend is never a big holiday for moviegoing, as most people mark the end of summer with other activities, and this year is no exception. Deadpool & Wolverine is the biggest headline of the four-day weekend as it stays No. 1 in its sixth outing and crosses $600 million domestically, becoming only the 16th film in history to do so, not adjusted for inflation.
#moviesonleo #boxoffice #films
The only newcomer landing in the upper reaches of the chart is the indie biopic Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid and based on Paul Kengor’s book The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. After a better-than-expected Sunday, the film has found itself in a three-way contest with Twisters and It End With Us for either third or four place. The order won’t be determined until final grosses for the four-day holiday weekend are issued Monday.
Distributor SBD is estimating a four-day opening of $10.07 million, which puts it ahead of Twisters‘ estimated holiday gross of $9.56 million and It Ends With Us‘ estimated $9.5 million. Rival studios, however, show Reagan coming in lower.
Receiving blistering reviews — its critics score is 18 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — Reagan fared better with audiences, who gave the biopic an A CinemaScore. Box office analysts knew the film would play older but hoped the attention surrounding the 2024 presidential election would broaden the audience, with no such luck. Roughly 85 percent of ticket buyers are over the age of 35 — including an unheard of 66 percent over the age of 55, setting Reagan up for a promising run on premium VOD, a preferred platform for older consumers.
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Did you do anything to fill the database today?
We are already streaming a movie on the threadcast..
https://inleo.io/threads/view/lucidlucrecia/re-pbvmwwxdcm
wow 😲😲😲
This is so beautiful
https://inleo.io/threads/view/lucidlucrecia/re-lbunhsdsmi
THats a nice Yash 🥂🥂
That looks like the African jungle
Doctors Alen green
THey are on a traditional festival 🥮🥮🥮.
That's a deep vision
This is a sexy looking young girl 🤔🤔🤔.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/lucidlucrecia/re-gdkbcshiyz
This girl is risky
But they look like gangsters
These guy are too hard.
They are cow boy's 😲😲😲.
Did you set this streaming to replay itself after this one?
That gun not for boys ooo
i hope the streaming is going well from your end?
Let's watch and discuss the character on this movie 🍿🍿🍿
She needs some rest
That guy is a lover boy 🤣😍😂😍.
Waiting be this naa?
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Tell them to take it easy
The girls is seeing something in her dream
This jungle is not friendly at all ooo.
The are Almost at the site
They don't know what's at the other side..
They've entered a cave..
I hope the eyes are still open?
She is here something calling her name..
George Clooney Denies $35M ‘Wolfs’ Salaries for Him, Brad Pitt: “It’s Bad If That’s What People Think”
Clooney said he and Pitt gave a portion of their salaries back after a theatrical deal fell through for Jon Watts' film, which gets its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Sunday.
George Clooney has set right a claim that he and Wolfs co-star Brad Pitt were paid around $35 million each for the film, as reported in a New York Times article.
The duo brought their banter and riffing to the Venice Film Festival for the world premiere of Jon Watt’s action comedy, in which they play competing criminal fixers accidentally assigned to the same job. The two movie stars and real-world pals traded friendly jabs, praise and filmmaking insights in Italy at a press conference for Wolfs.
#entertainment #hollywood #film
At one point, Clooney explained that the pair gave portions of their salaries back after a theatrical deal fell through for the film, meaning it gets a limited release in “a couple of hundred theaters,” and brought up a New York Times article published last week by Nicole Sperling that said he and Pitt were paid more than $35 million each.
Obi Ndefo, Dawson's Creek Actor, Dead at 51
Obi Ndefo, who played Bodie Wells on Dawson's Creek, has died. The 51-year-old passed away five years after he lost both of his legs in a car accident.
After the accident, he went on to continue his acting and writing work. He co-creating a show titled Juice Bar and appearing on an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles in 2021. At the time of his death, he was working on a series titled Dream Big.
Katie shared a tribute to Obi following news of his passing. "He was wonderful to work with and such a kind man," she wrote on her Instagram Stories. "I sent prayers and grace to his family. Rest in peace."
#entertainment #death #actor #obindefo
Ethan Hawke says Harry Potter and Star Wars movies leave him disappointed that he's 'not a wizard or a Jedi'
By contrast, he says, "Richard Linklater’s movies… remind you that it’s a miracle that we walk on Earth and that we breathe at all."
Ethan Hawke is getting candid about his thoughts on some of Hollywood's biggest franchises, including Star Wars and Harry Potter.
During a master class at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, the actor-director compared the films by frequent collaborator Richard Linklater to those of the aforementioned tentpole movies.
#entertainment #ethanhawke #actor
“If you go see Harry Potter or Star Wars or something, which I’ve seen a million times, and I love them, but when they are over, I feel slightly disappointed that I’m not a wizard or not a Jedi,” he joked. “And I walk through my life thinking, 'I wish I were a Jedi.' And when you see a Richard Linklater film, you walk out feeling, ‘Well, I’ve done that. I’ve met a person, I’ve connected with another human being, and that was important, and that was magic.’"
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Winona Ryder says being 'blatantly' sexually harassed in her 20s and 30s 'soured' her desire to make movies
"All the great actors always told me that when it stops being amazing, you gotta get out," the actress recalled. "I really took that to heart."
Winona Ryder is opening up about how her experience of being sexually harassed in her late 20s and 30s affected her passion for making movies.
While the actress declined to identify the perpetrators, she explained that the incidents had a profound effect on her personally and professionally. "I had a couple of difficult experiences with a couple of people who were just blatantly sexually harassing me," Ryder recalled in a new Esquire U.K. interview. "It wasn't an assault. But it was incredibly inappropriate. It was wild. I really understand [what the victims of Harvey Weinstein and others went through]."
#hollywood #entertainment #winonaryder
Ryder said she was "lucky" the incidents "didn't happen as much" to her because she was a recognizable actress, having made a name for herself as a teen in films like Beetlejuice and Heathers. Still, she recalled, "I remember this feeling in your mind: You're negotiating, you're thinking about what's going to happen if you say something. You're working it out while this person is being extremely creepy."
Ryder added that she didn't realize just how jarring those moments were until she recently recounted them to her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice costar Jenna Ortega. "And as I was saying it, I was like, 'Jesus Christ, that's really f‑‑‑ed up,'" she said.
She eventually became accustomed to shutting down unwanted advances. "If someone was being inappropriate or drunkenly hitting on me it was like, 'Ha ha!' You kind of do that. 'Ha ha!'" she recalled. "Inappropriate? I dealt with that. But touching me? It felt very invasive."
The harassment took a serious toll on the actress and her perception of Hollywood. "I think in retrospect, it really soured [her on making movies]," she confessed. "All the great actors always told me that when it stops being amazing, you gotta get out. I really took that to heart."
Gary Coleman lived without any kidneys for nearly 25 years
The former child star lost his last kidney in 1985 while still starring on "Diff'rent Strokes."
If you know Gary Coleman, it's likely due to his iconic performance as the precocious orphan Arnold Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes. You may know that Coleman stayed around 4'8" his whole life due to a kidney condition. Gary, Peacock's new documentary about the troubled life of the late actor, reveals something few fans know — Coleman lived without any kidneys for nearly 25 years.
"The kidney that had been transplanted" into Coleman's body at the age of 5 and allowed him to make it to adulthood, explains lifelong friend Dion Mial in the doc, "was absorbed by the body. So from Dec. 1, 1985, until his death [in 2010], Gary lived without a single kidney in his body."
#entertainment #garycoleman #kidney
Gary traces Coleman's life from his humble origins in Zion, Ill., to superstardom on Diff'rent Strokes before he'd even reached teenagedom, to his rocky adult life, which was beset by turbulent relationships, exploitative financial entanglements, and a struggle to maintain his acting career.
Coleman's mother Sue remembers that "at about 2 years old, Gary started to run a temperature, and that's when they found out that he had this congenital kidney defect." Coleman was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a degenerative kidney disease which causes irreversible internal scarring.
"When he was 5 1/2, we got the news that they had a kidney for him," Coleman's mother says. Coleman's body quickly took to the new kidney and he quickly recovered in kind. "Two weeks after he had his surgery he was standing on his head," she recalls. Coleman himself concurred in a segment of archival audio: "Even when I was 5, I was the do or die, never say die, 'I'll be back' kind of person. That was the kind of kid I was."
Overall a good day for the numbers.
I'll try this out
You are always welcome to participate on our daily threadcast...
The price of $HIVE is continuously dropping. People who's into crypto for a long time knows what to do.
Yep. Press the buy now! But I think the price is weeding out those who are not for us
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I feel that it is getting lower
it's not just hive price that's dropping.
Overall #crypto market is same.
I know, I just specify it so everyone can relate:)
You know the drill!!!
✈️ Travel Talk #threadcast
Ep52 Mon 02-Sep-24
ℹ️ This is the #travelcast where we chat all things #travel on Leo
💬 Talk about your trips, discuss adventures and enjoy the world's delights!
Have fun! 🧳 🛫
Another hike in the Alpes (and one of the best rated posts of yesterday):
https://inleo.io/@godfish/outrunning-a-storm-in-the-alps-buj
Get the travelbug with an older article of mine about the Côte d‘Azur in France ✈️
https://inleo.io/@moretea/evenings-at-the-cotedazur-sunset-travelog-nice-france
Manic Monday TravelCast on the go… share all your travel tales, talk and tips!
Previous edition:
https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-312xuzecu
https://inleo.io/threads/view/pele23/re-leothreads-weeuud7v
Travel expert names the plane meal to always order to get 'best food'
Article via Express
If You Travel A Lot And Still Don’t Have Any Of These 45 Products, You’re Doing It Wrong
Article via BuzzFeed
Brits travelling to Italy this weekend warned of 'delayed and cancelled flights'
Article via Lancs Live
Railcard train travel to offer less of a discount
Article via BBC
Viennese waltz: top travel tips for a spin around Austria’s capital
Article via The Guardian
Abercrombie & Kent weighs up float as luxury travel booms
Article via Forbes
Scottish island named one of world's 'happiest' travel destinations
Article via the National
All of the countries currently on the Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ list
Article via Independent
LeoTravel community:
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https://inleo.io/threads/view/pele23/re-leothreads-25v45goug
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https://inleo.io/threads/view/oneplanet/re-leothreads-33sw56y28
🇵🇱 A little adventure down the salt mine in Kraków, Poland!
https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/cracking-krakow-visiting-the-salt-mine
https://inleo.io/threads/view/pele23/re-leothreads-2nhkdazrf
https://inleo.io/threads/view/khantaimur/re-xkkitnlexr
Feliz inicio de semana comunidad de Inleo, que sea una semana muy buena, productiva y cargada de grandes actividades para así lograr muchas cosas. Éxitos para todos. 😎
#spanish
Success for you too. Have a great and productive week 🥰
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Thank you, best regards.
if you are into futures trading on the crypto market. , you will understand why she is excited
#sarcasm #meme #cent #memes
https://img.inleo.io/DQmY9zK3bTfoZY3p6PuzFuXJZFQUnvgc95S2wdGggbbcRw8/images%20(9).jpeg
then you blink and now you are -$25
I hope she takes profit instead of being greedy at that point, lol
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https://inleo.io/threads/view/anderssinho/re-leothreads-2ovqt9pw
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#outreach #threadstorm
August 2024 was a huge month for me in terms of online earnings because I got my Medium web 2.0 blogging account enrolled in the partner program and this boosted all of my online earnings on all online platforms that I am currently working on. So I will segregate my earnings on each platforms in the list below so it can be easier for you all to understand:
🧵/2
I really am struggling on Hive.blog from a long long time since the inception of Hive.blog when steemit decided to divide I have been on the platform but sadly my main account keys got hacked from my email inbox which was really a shocker for me. But even after that incident I never gave up hope and this month I have worked really hard trying to improve my content and writing over 500 words every day blog posts on the platform.
Im surprised to see you earn more on Medium. Do you have similar articles?
What communities are you active in?
Yes similar articles usually I import my blog posts from here to medium or imdb to medium,
Keep hammering on Hive and maybe try different communities :)
Yes I will keep trying; thanks for the solid advice.
🧵/3
To know more about my August 2024 online earnings report you can read right below.
#gosh
https://inleo.io/@revolverocelotyt/my-online-earnings-report-for-august-2024-kxi
Gonna read your blog :)
Thank you so much for the support.
Congratulations keep it up
Three lovely ladies in front of infinity pool in Greece.
#photographers #photography #photocast #dailydook #leotravel
Cool photo. !DOOK
It's beautiful 😍
!DOOK
Just a quick coffee break #photographers #coffee #london
great pic as usual 👍
thanks. just a quick snap eheheh :D
Enjoy your break 😍
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Thanks :D It was nice. time to get back to work :D
On my daily walk
Gorgeous weather you have there! Enjoy the walk.
Love the shirt prints :)
enjoy your walk!
Boomer to Hiver....that would sounds good 😉 enjoy the lovely day.
Indeed it's a great privillege to be a bOOmer.
Walking in the oncoming lane looks a bit dangerous :) !BEER
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you look good at it
1/🧵 I made a pretty Scrunchie headband
#outreach #threadstorm#dithreadstorm#diy
I wrote about my experience mentoring a teenage girl in sewing and fabric design. We made a scrunchie headband, I highlighted the materials used, cutting and sewing techniques, and the final product
3/🧵Check out this post for more
https://inleo.io/@glorydee/lets-make-a-scrunchie-headband-gnd
Vacuuming done, landry in the dryer. And it is only 10AM in Newfoundland
I had a lot of energy today as well. I had almost all my chores done. Now, it's time to thread
!DOOK
Awesome, I am doing this all without much energy. Pushing myself. !BBH !DOOK
@sabrinah! @bradleyarrow likes your content! so I just sent 1 BBH to your account on behalf of @bradleyarrow. (20/100)
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Playoff Race
#baseball #mlb #sports
Let’s Go Mets
On Sunday, the Mets achieved a crucial sweep against the White Sox, aided by the Phillies' extra-innings victory over the Braves.
At the same time, the Diamondbacks and Padres secured wins to maintain their lead in the NL Wild Card race.
As Labor Day approaches, the Mets are just one game behind Atlanta for the last Wild Card spot and trail the two Western teams by four games.
2/2
With 25 games left in the season, FanGraphs gives the Mets a 28.8% chance of reaching the postseason.
New York faces the 14th most challenging schedule in MLB for the remainder of the season.
Tiebreakers:
vs. ATL: 5-5
vs. ARI: 4-3 (finished)
vs. SD: 5-2 (finished)
vs. SF: 2-4 (finished)
vs. CHC: 4-3 (finished)
vs. STL 4-2 (finished)
If you jump ship when the market is bleeding, you are really in the wrong place.
Plot Twist: This is not a post about ship.
it's not for the...
We are not going anywhere
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Horses are men best friends.
Or dog?
Or cat?
I know this is a tough decision to make.
#memes
I have owned a dog and a cat before. , while growing up my dad had a horse , from my personal experience I will pick "dog " as the men's best friend.
ahh I see, most people get attached with dogs too easily.. and yea they're loyal too so make sense.
We all know the answer is a dog. You are just trying to mess with our minds, lol
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This is hilarious!!
A lot of Arabs in history are very proud of their horses and treat them as friends.
#wordofthedayonleo - incandescent
What It Means
Incandescent has literal and figurative meanings. Its literal meanings relate to heat and light; it describes something that is white or glowing because of great heat, and also something (like a light bulb) that produces bright light when heated. In figurative use, incandescent relates to several kinds of brilliance. Something or someone described as incandescent can be very impressive, successful, or intelligent, or simply happy and lively. In British English, incandescent can also describe someone or something feeling or showing great anger.
//The invention of the incandescentbulb in the 19th century ushered in the age of electric lighting.
//However much we were inclined to dislike her, it was hard not to be charmed by her incandescent smile and wit.
#gmfrens
🔗 Source in comments
🔗 Source:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incandescent
1/3 🧵Battle Mage Secrets que promueve la comunidad de
Splinterlands
#outreach #threadstorm #splinterlands
2/3 🧵 Fui sorprendido con magia en un SUPER SNEAK...
3/3 🧵
Te invito a disfrutar de esta publicación a través de siguiente enlace
https://inleo.io/@eliaschess333/le-apuesto-al-ataque-directo-en-el-super-sneak-pero-mi-rival-sorprende-con-magia-battle-mage-secrets-espeng-axi
https://inleo.io/threads/view/taskmaster4450le/re-leothreads-onkkvquo
#Bitcoin has divergent sentiment between crowd and institutional investment.
Are you #bearish or #bullish on #btc?
I am bearish on BTC 🚀
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lets try #dailydook
#freecompliments #fg
Great job
Here is a !DOOK for you
Good Morning Lions! It's good to be back lion 🦁
Very much welcome sure many goodies came back with you?
Where did you go?
Good Morning and welcome back
!DOOK
I am now scheduled for a biopsy.
Wonderful news (mostly not so wonderful)
Oh, great. Please be healthy, I love interacting with you in this space 🥺
!DOOK
That's what they're trying to make me, but apparently my body fight itself - some autoimmune shite 😅
Oh no! We need to attack your autoimmune shite. It is not fair 😰
!DOOK
Hopefully people are realizing how important it is to have a decentralized database. We need to democratize data.
Adding to Leo can aid in that effort.
We should talk more about how much a platform like Reddit sells their info for. Then we
I have been writing about it for about a year. Not sure how much more I can talk about it.
I meant the rest of us. You can only shout as much. But I guess 95% here still dont understand the value of data.
That is true. Not sure if more shouting will help. If they dont hear one, will they hear many.
But you are right. People need to keep mentioning the idea.
Data is the new oil, why give it all to Big Tech?
Arent people parrots? Repeating what they hear :)
A decentralized database is very important. We can't let the centralized platform take all the pie.
!DOOK
It is crucial. I just wrote an article about the data feedback loop that happens even when we use a chatbot.
Time to start changing that.
I won't lie, I have a very spatial understanding of this, but I'm trying to figure it out !ALIVE
With data being locked down, only big companies can afford to buy (or steal) it. That is why decentralized, permissionless databases are so important.
Now everything falls into place :) !VSC
Well it provides a clear alternative in my opinion. The challenge is 99.9999% of the people do all they can to keep feeding Big Tech...even those supposedly in Web 3.0.
To stop doing this, you need to, at a minimum, give up other social networks, or use them to a minimum only for reposts :) !BEER
I would agree. That is the point. If one is on the other social media sites, those servers are being fed. And guess who has access to them? Nobody.
Post text on Hive, it is available to everyone.
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Do you receive the kind of encouragement that you need? And from whom?
I encourage myself. Relying on others for certain things we can give ourselves is a recipe for disaster
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Mhm, yes, I am a very cautious animal, so I need a lot of encouragement, and so I end up writing here what I would need to hear, because if I need that encouragement, then probably someone else does too..
Oh! I applaud you. It takes a great deal of bravery to give what you reallly want to other people. You are doing great.
!DOOK
I quite agree with you on what you meant by relying on people on what we can do for ourselves #dailydook
I am glad you agree ❤️
!DOOK
https://inleo.io/threads/view/leoentertainment/re-leothreads-hj5m44ez
This is a beautiful one from @onealfa
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-qcezztgctj
Its a good qoute
https://inleo.io/threads/view/anderssinho/re-anderssinho-jxrgl2y6
I agree. That is why it is called, "Present"
!DOOK
https://inleo.io/threads/view/sabrinah/re-leothreads-33r6u8ern
Thanks for sharing, sir 😍
!DOOK
@taskmaster4450le by @leofinance Is The Metaverse Still A Thing? A few years ago, the Metaverse was all the craze. #metaverse#web3 #vr #ar #neoxian #gosh.
What did the post say? Is it still a thing or not?
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The tech news site Anandtech is shutting down after 27 years. A few of the old sites are still going. I look at Arstechnica. Blogging is okay, but journalism is different. Maybe Hive could be an alternative eventually.
Cosechando ando en #dcrops en este verano ingame. #spanish #hivenftgamelatino
DOT is in a prime accumulation zone and trading just above the $4 mark. With a 48-hour unlocking period and 16% to 19% APR, it’s a good option, even for speculators. #Polkadot #DOT #Crypto #Investing #Trading
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Ancestral Infant's Head
How does it look like?
The head? Watch the video ;P
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