Season 8 of “Love Island USA” has achieved the most-watched debut for an original season of television ever on Peacock. The season, which premiered on June 2 and has released three episodes so far, has reached a total of 824 million minutes watched, according to first-party data from NBCUniversal. That’s a 74% increase compared to … Read more
The City of Kelowna once asked its AI chatbot which beaches had lifeguards. The answer came back confidently wrong. The bot listed lifeguards at beaches that did not have them, because somewhere, deep in the city’s website, sat an old PDF from when Kelowna’s beaches did have lifeguards. Nobody had touched that document in years, … Read more
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Night of the Hunter,” the Season 2 finale of “Your Friends & Neighbors,” now streaming on Apple TV. “Your Friends & Neighbors” now has one fewer neighbor. Leading up to the Season 2 finale, James Marsden’s shady billionaire Owen Ashe had tripped and fallen in his own … Read more
France’s ambition to compete in the global rush to build artificial intelligence data centres is dividing a small village outside Paris, where a massive planned facility stokes both hope for an economic dividend and fears of disruption. Lying between the capital and the ancient royal palace at Fontainebleau, Fouju is a community of just 650 … Read more
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Before he was starring in movies, Vince Vaughn was a kid in suburban Chicago watching Notre Dame and Bears football. “I was so fortunate because we didn’t have a lot when I was younger, … Read more
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang arrived in Seoul Friday for a packed schedule of meetings with tech leaders, promising “some surprises” for South Korea while predicting robotics will be the country’s next major growth sector. The visit comes about seven months after Huang’s last trip to South Korea, when he pledged to supply the government … Read more
“Resident Evil: Veronica,” a remake of the 2000 “Resident Evil” game “Code: Veronica,” will be released by Capcom next year. The original “Resident Evil – Code Veronica” took place three months after the events of 1998’s “Resident Evil 2” and concurrently with 1999’s “Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.” The story follows “Resident Evil” characters Claire Redfield … Read more
A US federal judge on Friday threw out a series of restrictions placed by President Donald Trump’s administration on legal immigration following last year’s shooting of members of the National Guard by an Afghan immigrant. District Judge John McConnell said the restrictions on processing of asylum, work permit, green card and citizen applications from nationals … Read more
“The Pitt’s” department head makeup artist Myriam Arougheti knew that after the success of the show’s first season, she would have to step things up a notch for season 2. The first season featured heart attacks, third-degree burns and an emergency thoracotomy. For Season 2, the challenge was to push boundaries and elevate the drama … Read more
Today’s edition of quick hits. * A potentially important ruling: “A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration last year unlawfully paused final immigration decisions for individuals from countries affected by its so-called travel ban. The lawsuit, brought forward in March by various nonprofits representing immigrants, criticized several Citizenship and Immigration Services policies that paused … Read more