Walt Disney has announced a $1bn equity investment in OpenAI, enabling the AI startup’s Sora video generation tool to use its characters. Users of Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that draw on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters as part of a three-year licensing agreement between…
Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner fake it so real in this Army simulation exercise in the California desert. Source link
BERLIN, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Ageing Germany’s population could shrink by almost 10 million people, to around 75 million, by 2070 as the baby boomer generation gives way to much smaller cohorts, the statistics office said. In its latest population forecast, published on Thursday, the office said it expected one in four people in Germany to…
It was a pleasant March morning when I suddenly woke up with a strong feeling of visiting the revered Mehandipur Balaji temple in Rajasthan. It is a revered temple where Lord Hanuman is prayed in his child form. I had never been to the temple before but heard several (unbelievable) stories about the temple’s power…
Lucy Charles-Barclay had been dealing with stress fractures, joint pain and low energy before her coeliac disease diagnosis. Source link
Pakistan’s former spy chief has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by a military court, on charges including violation of state secrets and interfering in politics. Faiz Hameed led Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 2019 to 2021, during the tenure of now-jailed former prime minister Imran Khan. He was known to be a…
But for Emiliano Martínez’s outstretched arms, eh? A golden chance, deep in injury-time, for Australia’s wonder kid to become their golden boy, to push Argentina into an extra 30 minutes in the last 16 of the 2022 World Cup. “Liked what you saw there? You just wait ‘til 2026,” the Guardian wrote of Garang Kuol…
Twas three weeks before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for my 13-year-old daughter, who emerged from her lair with a level of vim uncommon in daylight hours. As she made her approach with laptop aglow, her droll little mouth was drawn up in a bow. It then became…
Top picks for seasonal TV cheer include concerts from Nashville and the Tabernacle Choir, along with a new “Nutcracker” on PBS. Source link
Kurnool Range DIG Koya Praveen and Superintendent of Police Vikrant Patil inaugurating the Rakshak fuel station at Adoni, on Thursday. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Kurnool Range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Koya Praveen and District Superintendent of Police (SP) Vikrant Patil on Thursday inaugurated Rakshak fuel station at Adoni. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Praveen…