Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans’ eldest daughter has filed a restraining order against her own father and his girlfriend!
18.05.2023 - 06:49 / variety.com
Naman Ramachandran Revered musician Sting is unimpressed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is predicting an upcoming battle against the technology. “The building blocks of music belong to us, to human beings,” the 17-time Grammy winner told the BBC. “That’s going to be a battle we all have to fight in the next couple of years – defending our human capital against AI.” The use of AI is increasingly prevalent in music and last week, U.K. creative industry chiefs called for regulation in the sector. Recent high profile examples of usage include David Guetta using AI technology to add the “voice” of Eminem to one of his songs; and an apparently artificial-intelligence-generated “collaboration” between “Drake” and “the Weeknd” went viral and was later removed from music streamers after copyright complaints.
“It’s similar to the way I watch a movie with CGI. It doesn’t impress me at all,” Sting told the BBC. “I get immediately bored when I see a computer-generated image. I imagine I will feel the same way about AI making music,” the “Every Breath You Take” singer added. “Maybe for electronic dance music, it works. But for songs, you know, expressing emotions, I don’t think I will be moved by it.” Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, CEO, U.K. Music had told a U.K. parliament’s science, innovation and technology committee investigating the governance of AI last week that in the music industry, assistive AI had proved to be beneficial, particularly in identifying copyright infringement, audience analytics and for business models, but there was a “lot more concern” when it came to generative AI. “The tools are useful, but we have to be driving them,” Sting said. “I don’t think we can allow the machines to just take over. We have to be wary.”
Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans’ eldest daughter has filed a restraining order against her own father and his girlfriend!
having two loaded guns in a Manhattan hotel.“Tell Me I’m Pretty” singer Matthew Shultz, 39, was arrested in January after cops found two loaded guns in his Bowery Hotel room.“Are you pleading guilty because you are, in fact, guilty?” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Cori Weston asked Shutlz Friday“Yes, Your Honor,” Shultz replied.The rocker pleaded guilty to three charges of attempted criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, and criminal possession of a weapon.Under the terms of the plea deal, Shultz must “stay out of trouble for one year” and show up for all his court dates, the judge explained.If Shultz does, he can withdraw his guilty plea on the two felony counts and be sentenced to one-year conditional release for a misdemeanor charge, the judge added.But if Shultz breaks the deal, he’s face up to seven years behind bars, the judge warned.Shultz was caught after a hotel worker saw him pull a gun from his pocket in an open part of the hotel.Prosecutors claimed he appeared to be intoxicated at the time.Cops found the two guns in a bag in his room and 11 Polaroid pictures of the weapons — including one with a hand holding and pointing the firearm, prosecutors said.
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sharing an anti-Nazi quote, with fans accusing him of fascism and intolerance.Morello, who has played guitar with the rock band for more than three decades, posted the quote to his Twitter page Wednesday. “German saying: If 9 people sit down at a table with 1 Nazi without protest, there are 10 Nazis at the table,” the post read. While the quote was unattributed, it clearly claims those who politely engage with people who demonstrate hateful behavior are complicit in their bad acts.
GOAL explores the rumors surrounding this potential takeover, examining the potential benefits and the ripple effect it could have on the beloved Southend-on-Sea community. In recent weeks, there have been rumours that Johnson is interested in buying Southend United, a professional football club in England. Southend United is currently in the National League, the fifth tier of English football.
bipartisan agreement on a new debt ceiling bill this week, but Republicans apparently aren’t too pleased with it – something the “Morning Joe” hosts called out as “hypocrisy squared” on Wednesday morning.The new bill, which is set to face a vote on Wednesday, needs to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate before the June 5 deadline set by the Treasury Department, or the country risks default. On Tuesday though, the Freedom Caucus minced no words about their feelings on the bill, saying “we will do everything in our power to stop it and end it now.”In discussing that opposition on Wednesday morning, host Joe Scarborough was just kind of flabbergasted, considering how Republicans handled the debt crisis while Trump was in office.
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The Machine,” Bert Kreischer was lying in a hotel bed in Serbia trying to fall asleep to a Joe Rogan podcast. Instead of providing an ambient touch, the episode became a rallying cry for the shirt-averse comedian.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Last year, Jesse Collins won an Emmy. This year, he’s producing the Emmys. Fox and the Television Academy are set to announce on Thursday that Jesse Collins Entertainment has been tapped to serve as producers of this year’s landmark 75th edition of the Primetime Emmy awards. No host has been named as of yet, and there are still a lot of questions to be answered as to how the writers strike may impact this year’s Emmy Awards, or if the calendar might shift. But for now, the main event is still scheduled to air on Monday, Sept 18 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Fox. Jesse Collins Entertainment takes over from Done+Dusted and Hudlin Entertainment, which had jointly produced the Emmys in 2020, 2021 and 2022, the first two of which were COVID-impacted events. D+D had actually produced the Emmys for five consecutive years, having already been producing the Emmys telecast for two years when it was paired with Hudlin in 2020 to handle the unconventional, no-audience COVID-impacted Emmys. At the time, Hudlin made history as the first Black executive producer of the Primetime Emmys.
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As we honour International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament on May 24, we delve into the world of Canada’s top 10 emerging female artists.
Sophie Habboo and Jaimie Laing tied the knot for a second time on Saturday in a stunning ceremony in front of hundreds of guests, just a month on from their lower key courthouse wedding in April. While the Spanish celebrations seemingly went without a hitch, the loved up pair have revealed that this almost wasn't the case as thanks to predictions of poor weather, the couple's wedding planner suggested cancelling the celebration.
The battle for gender equality in the cinema industry is gaining ground but victory is a long way off, representatives of Time’s Up! UK, L.A.-based org ReFrame, France’s Collectif 50/50 and Brazil’s Mulheres group told a panel in Cannes on Friday.
Elizabeth Taylor’s middle-aged married woman after she has full-body plastic surgery. In Joseph Losey’s The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) he was Glenda Jackson’s paramour, while in Tinto Brass’s X-rated “erotic-war-drama” Salon Kitty (1976), he played a Nazi SS commandant who recruits a group of female SS auxiliaries in order to plant them as prostitutes in a high-class brothel to collect intelligence on patrons of the establishment. After Visconti’s death, Berger’s acting career dwindled to mainly small roles.
Sting has warned of an incoming “battle” between humans and Artificial Intelligence with regards to songwriting.The former frontman of The Police has spoken to the BBC about the increasing rise of AI-led songwriting, and how he believes it can never replicate songs written by humans.Sting added that the technological innovation “doesn’t impress me at all,” likening it to “the way I watch a movie with CGI”.The comments come in the same week that Spotify launched its AI DJ across the UK and Ireland, which recognises users listening habits and suggests new songs for them using artificial intelligence.The concept was first announced by Spotify back in February, when it unveiled its DJ feature, and described it as a “personalised AI guide that knows you and your music taste so well that it can choose what to play for you”.Last month, a UK band went viral after using AI to imagine what Oasis might sound like if they were to reform and release a new album in 2023.The eight-track album – dubbed ‘AISIS’ – was developed by indie band Breezer, who created their own tracks, then added an AI version of Liam Gallagher’s voice over the top.Elsewhere, April also saw Universal Music Group removed an AI-generated collaboration between Drake and The Weeknd from all streaming platforms, while Nick Cave is another to criticise the technology, saying that “ChatGPT should just fuck off and leave songwriting alone”.
not feel at ease overlooking the French Riviera? Though the films are the main event, luxurious fashion is the .Year after year, celebrities serve iconic looks that live in my head rent-free all year round. In 2022, Viola Davis shone like the sun in a bright yellow Alexander McQueen gown and eye-catching Boucheron jewels.
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EXCLUSIVE: In 2016, the hottest book in Hollywood hadn’t even been published yet. Circulating in galley proofs, it was the latest non-fiction work from author David Grann, whose 2009 book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon had recently been filmed by James Gray and produced by Plan B. His new book was another mouthful — Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI — and it proved just as tasty.