The Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, which aim to highlight outstanding original talents and help their film careers, have revealed the 2026 winners for their fourth annual edition. Jack Hughes won the Fiction category with his film “Deadheading,” while Christine Seow and “Two Travelling Aunties” took home the prize for Non-Fiction. Additionally, Michelle Brøndum and Ida … Read more
Observers could easily dismiss Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas” as just another document on artificial intelligence. But under the surface lies a deeper question: whether modern political elites still have both the ability and the moral clarity to place restraints on power. The era of technology poses a choice between power domination and collective responsibility. … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has made awe-inspiring achievements since its founding over two decades ago and has big ideas — colonies on Mars, orbital AI data centers, rapidly reusable rockets — for the future. But as SpaceX makes its record-breaking public market debut, some experts express doubts it can reach its lofty goals, especially on its … Read more
The superstar has finally released her highly anticipated third studio album Don’t “drop dead” — Olivia Rodrigo has finally released her new album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. Fans have been anxiously awaiting the LP since the star first announced it back in April. You Seem Pretty Sad for a … Read more
At a European Union summit earlier this month, Sweden’s migration minister revealed that there is “strong support” among European governments for excluding military-aged Ukrainian men from the bloc’s temporary protection scheme for Ukrainian refugees. The policy, which allows Ukrainian citizens to live and work in the European Union, currently covers more than 4.3 million people. … Read more
When they get home, the residents of a small housing association on the outskirts of Hudiksvall, Sweden, plug in their electric vehicles to charge them or, intriguingly, power their homes. The two-way energy exchange enables the eight families living there to save a lot on electricity bills, resident Filip Kiltorp, a 33-year-old salesman, told AFP. … Read more
The third time’s the third charm for Olivia Rodrigo, who is beginning to look like she might be constutionally incapable of not turning in one of the year’s most diverting albums, in any given try. Not many artists have started off with as smashing a three-peat as Rodrigo and her producer/co-writer partner Dan Nigro, who’ve … Read more
Proust called love reciprocal torture, Bukowski said it was stranger than grass on fire, and Olivia Rodrigo admitted it was fucking embarrassing. Yet on “Drop Dead,” the opening cut from her new album, here she is in free fall, heart on her sleeve, ready to risk everything as hope and possibility flicker over a magical … Read more
FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search. Agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at the homes of the group’s leaders and staffers, carrying some subpoenas and seeking information … Read more
AI has generated a level of distrust and dislike for any technology that would have been unimaginable 5 years ago. Job losses and total insensitivity to all other community issues generated by AI have made it far worse. AI security, in particular, is now a true bugbear and making way too many headlines. Anthropic’s suddenly-famous … Read more