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☆ The Success of Mormon Fantasy Writers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Lauren Jackson | More About Lauren Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An epic origin story, a charismatic leader, a generational saga: Is this the description of a fantasy novel, or a religion’s history? For Mormon authors, the line is blurry. Drawing inspiration from their religion, Mormon writers have filled young adult best-seller lists with fantasy and sci-fi novels, Abby Aguirre reported for The Times. First, the church, officially called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, encourages members to become strong readers and public speakers from a young age. The religion also embraces the family-friendly entertainment that the Y.A.

Persons: Abby Aguirre, Stephenie Meyer’s, Orson Scott Card’s, ”, Ally Condie’s “, of Jesus Christ, churchgoers Organizations: The Times, of Jesus

☆ Taylor Swift's concert film headed to movie theaters
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

FILE PHOTO-Taylor Swift performs during the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball concert at Madison Square Garden in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 13, 2019. "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" will play in cinemas in North America starting Oct. 13, the "Anti-Hero" singer announced on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday. "The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I'm overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon," Swift said. Adult tickets for Swift's documentary cost $19.89 each, a nod to Swift's "1989" album, and children's tickets will cost $13.13. Reporting by Lisa Richwine; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Caitlin Ochs, it’ll, Swift, Lisa Richwine, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Madison, REUTERS, AMC Entertainment, Warner Bros, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, New York City, U.S, North America, Hollywood

☆ 'Oppenheimer' shows Christopher Nolan is the prestige box office hero Hollywood needs
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

LOS ANGELES — Christopher Nolan's films, from "The Dark Knight" to "Inception," have been a force at the box office for a solid two decades. As of Sunday, the dizzying, dialogue-heavy three-hour epic has generated around $300 million at the domestic box office, the fifth-most this year, and topped $777 million globally, the fourth-highest, since its July 21 debut. And that's without ever being the number one film at the domestic box office. "Oppenheimer" is Nolan's third highest-grossing domestic release, behind 2008's "The Dark Knight" and 2012's "The Dark Knight Rises." Both "The Dark Knight" and "The Dark Knight Rises" generated more than $1 billion at the global box office.

Persons: Christopher Nolan's, Oppenheimer, Mario, Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Angel Studio's Organizations: ANGELES, Warner Bros, Mario Bros, Universal, year's, Legendary Entertainment Locations: what's, Hollywood, Dunkirk

☆ The Tesla Cybertruck might always look a little busted
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Tim Levin | Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementThe polarizing polygon known as the Tesla Cybertruck is almost here, and it will probably look far from perfect when it finally hits the road. It all means that Cybertruck buyers who have suffered through years of delays may wind up with trucks that always look a little rough around the edges. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: How Tesla's Cybertruck stacks up against the Amazon-backed Rivian R1T electric truck"This is going to be a measure of the appeal of Tesla," Fiorani said. Anyone who's owned a stainless steel fridge knows they are a magnet for grime and are a nightmare to keep clean. "Musk has learned from his past mistakes – he understands that people will scrutinize this vehicle," Fiorani said.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, it's, Sam Fiorani, Fiorani, Geoff Wardle, S0kCyGUBFD — Elon, Wardle, who's, Musk, – Organizations: Tesla, BMW, Lexus, AutoForecast Solutions, California's ArtCenter College of Design Locations: Texas

☆ In ‘Invasion,’ Simon Kinberg Adds Touchy-Feely to Creepy-Crawly
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Elisabeth Vincentelli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He also teased a connection between that mysterious black shard and a certain Jedi weapon. In Season 1, the aliens crawling over Earth were lethal shape-shifting beasties. Yeah, we called them the worker aliens in Season 1. We see a few of them in Season 2, and they are evolved or enhanced into the hunter-killer aliens. They are organic, they are bioengineered — so they’re both organic and inorganic.

Persons: “ Deadpool, ”, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Organizations: Marvel, Apple, “ Locations: Los Angeles

☆ A mysterious 40,000-year-old hip bone suggests human ancestors and Neanderthals shared a cave — and perhaps a culture
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The bone could mean modern humans shared the cave with Neanderthals. The early human bone was found in a cave at the center of a debate about Neanderthal culture. Maureille is an author of the study about the hip bone, and an archaeologist from the University of Bordeaux. This raises a controversial hypothesis: that modern humans and Neanderthals shared the mysterious Châtelperronien culture, which has long baffled scientists. Research there suggests modern humans shared a cave with Neanderthals and Denisovans about 45,000 years ago.

Persons: Bruno Maureille, Will Oliver, Maureille Organizations: Service, University of Bordeaux, Sci Locations: Wall, Silicon, Arcy, France, London, Europe, Spain, Renne, Siberia

☆ Warner Bros delays 'Dune,' 'Lord of the Rings' films due to strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Lisa Richwine | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya, promoting the movie "Dune: Part Two", attend a Warner Bros. presentation during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. April 25, 2023. "Dune" was one of the most anticipated films on the late 2023 schedule. "Dune: Part Two" will now debut on March 15, a date that had been reserved for Warner Bros film "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire." As a result, an animated "Lord of the Rings" film that had been set for April was moved to December. Other major films on the 2023 schedule at the moment include Walt Disney's (DIS.N) "The Marvels," a Lionsgate (LGFa.N) prequel to "The Hunger Games," and "Wonka," another Warner Bros film that also stars Chalamet.

Persons: Steve Marcus, Frank Herbert’s, Oppenheimer, Walt Disney's, Wonka, Chalamet, Lisa Richwine, Chris Reese, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Warner Bros, National Association of Theatre Owners, REUTERS, Hollywood, AMC Entertainment, SAG, Sony Pictures, GameStop, Lionsgate, Writers Guild of America, Thomson Locations: Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S, New York, Los Angeles

☆ Tesla hasn’t issued final pricing or specs for Cybertruck as Musk memo warns of manufacturing challenges
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promoting the company's long-delayed, sci-fi inspired Cybertruck on social media this week. The company also said in a shareholder deck that it was "working on equipment installation for Cybertruck production, which remains on track for initial deliveries this year." On Wednesday, Musk shared a post on X, formerly Twitter, with an image of the Cybertruck, saying, "Just drove the production candidate Cybertruck at Tesla Giga Texas!" Musk also sent an email to "everybody" at Tesla on Wednesday about the Cybertruck and the challenges of producing the vehicle. What Musk said in the email implies that Tesla is still struggling with Cybertruck quality.

Persons: Elon Musk, hasn't, Tesla, Musk, let's, Elon Organizations: U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, Tesla, CNBC, Electrek Locations: Austin , Texas

☆ These 3 science fiction stories inspired Elon Musk and explain his business choices — but critics say he's missing the point
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

These stories' focus on great men and amazing technology defying the rules could explain his business choices. Elon Musk is one of the most divisive tech and business personas of our time, and there is much chatter about what shapes his beliefs and business choices. Beyond these, however, a consistent source of influence from his childhood to today is his self-professed love of science fiction. "That is Musk's guide for living, yet he is using that guide to justify doing the very thing that the story is opposed to," she added. Elon Musk loves "Deus Ex" and its cyberpunk styleElon Musk appears to be a huge fan of the 2000 science fiction video game, "Deus Ex."

Persons: Elon Musk, Isaac Asimov's, Douglas Adams, he's, dystopias, Napoleon, William MacAskill, Walter Isaacson, Musk, xAI Douglas Adams, —, Adams, Jill Lepore, it's, Hari Seldon, Jonny Diamond, takeaways, JC Denton Organizations: SpaceX, Guardian Locations: South Africa

☆ Tourists’ drinking misadventures up Eiffel Tower and in Trevi fountain
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. CNN —In travel news this week, misbehaving tourists in Europe, the German couple who moved to Italy to open a restaurant and city vacation ideas from Seoul to Bratislava. In Paris, drunken Americans were trapped overnight up the Eiffel Tower. In a separate incident, a man was arrested after jumping off Gustave Eiffel’s crowning achievement with a parachute. They could have done with the help of our partners at CNN Underscored, a product reviews and recommendations guide owned by CNN.

Persons: Gustave Eiffel’s, isn’t, Frenchman, Sri Lankan Tharshan Selvarajah, it’s, Nicolas Chazee, Mathilde Vougny, they’ve Organizations: CNN, Bratislava . Law, Delta Air Lines, Fruit, Sri Lankan Tharshan, Paris ’, Prague, Rover, YouTube Locations: Europe, Italy, Seoul, Bratislava, Paris, Rome, Hayling, Germany, Munich, Sri Lankan, Here’s, Hiroshima, Slovakia, Vienna, United States, Norway, California, Belgian, Indonesian, American, Colorado

☆ Millie Bobby Brown is ready for ‘Stranger Things’ to end
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Millie Bobby Brown is ready for “Stranger Things” to wrap up. The show’s star says the upcoming fifth season will be its last and Brown is prepared to move on from her character, Eleven. “You’re ready to go and blossom and flourish and you’re grateful for the time you’ve had, but it’s time to create your own message and live your own life.”The latest episodes have delayed filming because of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. “Stranger Things” premiered in 2016, with Brown starring from the start. She has referred to Bongiovi, who she has been linked to since 2021, as her “partner for life.”

Persons: Millie Bobby Brown, Brown, ”, Women’s, “, you’ve, Enola Holmes, Russo, ” Brown, Jake Bongiovi, “ I’ve, Bongiovi Organizations: CNN, WGA, SAG, Electric State

☆ I'm an AI prompt engineer. Here are 3 ways I use ChatGPT to get the best results.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Anna Bernstein is a prompt engineer at Copy.ai, which makes AI tools to generate written content. Her job is to write prompts to train the bot to generate high-quality, accurate writing. Here are her tips on how to write prompts to get the best outcomes from AI chatbots. Now, I'm a prompt engineer helping to optimize the most cutting-edge technology in the world. It's my job, then, to write prompts that can get that query to generate the best output through:Instruction, or "write a product description about this."

Persons: Anna Bernstein, —, I'm, it's, I've, didn't, ChatGPT Organizations: Morning, Copy.ai Locations: New York, English

☆ I'm one of only 26 Black women astrophysicists in America. Acting helped me overcome the stereotypes I felt as a woman of color in STEM.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

She's long grappled with her two loves, acting and astronomy, spending 11 years acting before getting her Ph. Shields said her acting experience helped her break free of the stereotypes she faced as a woman of color in science. D. program in astrophysics. D. program. D. program.

Persons: Aomawa Shields, Shields, astrobiologist, Kelly McGillis, Charlotte Blackwood, I'd, didn't, I've, Spitzer, — Organizations: Service, UC Irvine, Blue Angels, Miramar Air Force Base, Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, MIT, Lowell Observatory, Madison, PBS, University of Washington Locations: America, Wall, Silicon, San Diego, Shields, Miramar, Diego's, . Wisconsin, Los Angeles, grad

☆ Hollywood’s math problem: Getting paid for streaming ‘hits’ first means identifying them
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The problem with that is audience levels aren’t the only metric when weighing the value of streaming series. "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," starring Morfydd Clark, was a major investment for Amazon's Prime Video. Matt Grace/Prime VideoThis premium-TV strategy of stirring conversation is something HBO understood long before streaming became a competitor. Even if you didn’t watch “The Wire” or “Boardwalk Empire,” getting HBO meant hanging around with the cool kids. Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in the Netflix series "Wednesday."

Persons: Lucas Shaw, Power ”, Morfydd Clark, Matt Grace, ”, you’re, Kai ”, Jenna Ortega, Wednesday Addams Organizations: CNN, Bloomberg, Netflix, Amazon, Amazon's, HBO, Hollywood

☆ See inside Elon Musk's $50,000 house, thanks to this rare photo posted by his biographer
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Walter Isaacson shared a sneak peek inside Elon Musk's $50,000 house. Walter Isaacson gave people a glimpse into Elon Musk's $50,000 home on Sunday. Walter Isaacson shared a photo inside of Elon Musk's house. At the time, Musk denied living in the modular house, saying that he lives in a different small house in Texas. In 2020, Kanye West, one of Musk's longtime acquaintances, shared a photo from inside one of Musk's houses.

Persons: Walter Isaacson, Elon, Musk, " Isaacson, Isaacson, Walter Isaacson Here's, Henry Gade's, Elon Musk's, we've, Coke, Weeks, he'd, Kanye Organizations: SpaceX, Elon Musk's, Twitter, SpaceX's, Wall Street Locations: Boca Chica , TX, SpaceX's, Boca Chica , Texas, Elon Musk's, Mars, Texas

☆ Record temperatures, plus Barbie, help to drive record movie box office
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Ellie Stevens | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Advertisements for the films "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie" appear at AMC Theaters at The Grove on Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Los Angeles. Chris Pizzello/APThis summer, scorching heat waves are helping take the movie box office to new levels. Movie-theater air conditioning is generally silent, powerful and adapts quickly to temperature swings. Within 5 years of the introduction of air conditioning in movie theaters in the 1920s, Basile said, 3,000 movie theaters were forced to put it in just to keep up with the industry. “Before air conditioning existed in movie theaters, summer was considered the dead season.” Not anymore.

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☆ Newly discovered ancient creature may have been the heaviest animal ever
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

This week, scientists shared discoveries of ancient species that lived and died tens of millions of years ago, providing tantalizing insights into creatures never documented until now. The colossal ancient whale, which swam the seas about 39 million years ago, likely weighed two to three times more than the blue whale. NASA/ESA/Joseph Olmsted (STScI)When the Hubble Space Telescope initially observed a young planetary system 32 light-years from Earth, it didn’t reveal any surprises. And the James Webb Space Telescope spied new details within the colorful, iconic Ring Nebula. The fruit flies in the groundbreaking study don’t typically reproduce through virgin births, also called parthenogenesis, although many animal species do.

Persons: Alberto Gennari, Michael Brecht, ” Brecht, Joseph Olmsted, Euclid, James Webb, —, Hala Alarashi, Alice Burkhardt, Ba, Emperor Nero, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, Canadian Rockies, Humboldt University, NASA, ESA, Hubble, Telescope, Petra Museum, CNN Space, Science Locations: Ica, Berlin, Jordan, East Coast, United States

☆ This totally useless feature is my absolute favorite part of Hyundai's futuristic new Tesla rival
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It's got a ton going for it, but its coolest feature is a silly glass orb. The glowing "Crystal Sphere" hides the gear shifter, then reveals it when you want to drive. For everyone else: The Genesis GV60 SUV comes jam-packed with dazzling tech like facial recognition, automated stop-and-go driving, and ultra-fast charging. You might think the Crystal Sphere could double as one of those old-school computer mice that predated touchpads, but it can't. The Genesis GV60.

Persons: It's, Tim Levin, Tesla, Kia EV6 Organizations: Morning

☆ Google just ended a controversial system that warned employees they were at risk of being labeled low performers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google has removed a controversial tool known as "support check-ins." They were a way to warn employees who were at risk of being labeled as low performers. The decision to kill support check-ins has split opinion among staff. Google has ended a practice that alerted employees when they were at risk of being labeled a low performer, Insider has learned. Prior to the GRAD system, and to the layoffs Google has conducted this year, Google was known as a company that rarely put employees on PIPs.

Persons: Fiona Cicconi, SCIs didn't, SCIs, we've Organizations: Google, GRAD, SCI, Employees

☆ Fact Check-Clip of UFOs in Nevada created with simulation game
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Footage from a video game has been miscaptioned as saying it shows UFOs flying over Nevada. Other online posts use the clip to fuel a conspiracy called Project Blue Beam, which says the U.S. government falsifies UFO footage. Both claims are false, as the footage stems from Digital Combat Simulator (DCS), a free-to-play combat flight simulation game. Some shared the clip with the caption: “was project blue beam on your 2023 bingo card? The social media clip shows a simulation of UFOs in Nevada stemming from a video game.

Persons: “, Joseph A, ”, iceman_fox1, Read Organizations: U.S, ., Lehigh University, USAF, Raptors, Reuters Locations: Nevada

☆ Behold, the Orb: I can't stop thinking about Sam Altman's dystopian eyeball-scanning device
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The orbs, shiny sculptural spheres that scan the eyeballs of new members, seem to have become the company's dystopian symbol. But Worldcoin's Orbs look more like inscrutable machines than something mythological. Worldcoin has said it has emphasized privacy in designing a system based on extracting eyeball scans. And the eyeball scans get erased, according to Worldcoin. Worldcoin has said that "World IDs" don't contain any eyeball scans or iris data.

Persons: Sam Altman's, Worldcoin, Sam Altman trumpeted, Alex Blania, Donald Trump, Tim Sweeney, It's Organizations: Twitter, Epic, pitchfork, MIT Technology Locations: Lisbon, Singapore, Sands, Miami, Tokyo

☆ A sci-fi magazine editor says his team are sent so many 'consistently bad' AI-generated articles that their workload has almost doubled
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A magazine editor told CNN his team struggled to review the huge volume of articles generated by AI. Employees at a small sci-fi and fantasy publication say new AI-powered tools are making their jobs harder. He said his team's workloads had almost doubled and they'd struggled to review a stream of "consistently bad" AI-generated content. However, AI-powered tools come with various issues, including a tendency to invent or "hallucinate" facts. Technology publication CNET was forced to issue a string of corrections on several articles after errors were discovered in its AI-generated articles.

Persons: Neil Clarke, workloads, they'd, Clarke Organizations: CNN, Employees, Technology, CNET

☆ ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Review: There’s Only One John Boyega
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Robert Daniels | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The first hour of “They Cloned Tyrone” is surprisingly talkative. Taylor positions these sites as places where an outside force can easily undermine the Black community, rendering it pliant through food, religion and beauty products. You wonder, however, whether the film is portraying these spaces as necessary sites for escapist joy or scrutinizing them as crutches. Taylor portrays Black self-hatred as a danger equal to these extensions of white contempt. A play on “The Truman Show” by way of “Undercover Brother,” “They Cloned Tyrone” also stands firmly on its glossy style — the evocatively smoky John Carpenter-esque cinematography and the Blaxploitation-inspired costumes — and its spirited performances.

Persons: Tyrone ”, Fontaine, Slick Charles, —, Taylor, Black, ”, John Carpenter, Foxx, Parris, Tyrone Organizations: Truman, Netflix

☆ The Cybertrucks that never came to be: This newly shared photo of Elon Musk shows early, more curvy designs for Tesla's truck in the background
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Walter Isaacson shared a photo that provides a rare peek at Tesla's early Cybertruck designs. Walter Isaacson shared a photo that appeared to have some previously unseen Cybertruck details in the background. Isaacson shared a photo with some early designs ideas for the Cybertruck in the background. Even a scaled back early design of the Cybertruck looks out of place next to a Ford pickup truck. Walter Isaacson on TwitterOther pictures on the board appear to be more reminiscent of Tesla's current design for the electric pickup truck.

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☆ Self-healing metal? It's not just the stuff of science fiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Self-healing metal is still just science fiction, right? Metal fatigue can cause catastrophic failures in areas including aviation - jet engines, for instance - and infrastructure - bridges and other structures. It occurs at the nanoscale, and we have yet to be able to control the process," Boyce added. Scientists in the past have fashioned some self-healing materials, mostly plastics. Study co-author Michael Demkowicz, a Texas A&M University professor of materials science and engineering, predicted self-healing in metal a decade ago.

Persons: Ryan Schoell, Khalid Hattar, Dan Bufford, Chris Barr, Craig ., Read, Brad Boyce, Boyce, Michael Demkowicz, Demkowicz, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: government's Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, M University, Thomson Locations: New Mexico, WASHINGTON, Texas

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