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Few men’s names are better known than Peter Mark Roget’s.

As Hollywood grapples with its most significant labor dispute in over half a century, the role of AI in the entertainment industry has come under intense scrutiny, with British actor Stephen Fry revealing his voice was digitally cloned without his consent based on his narration of Harry Potter audiobooks. Fortune

Much has been made of the September 9, 2023 simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of the claims of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, who was part of the security detail in Dallas, Texas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22,

Amazon has unveiled a new AI service designed to transform how sellers create and manage product listings, claiming AI-generated listings will offer customers a more enriched shopping experience.

Tech outlet Gizmodo’s parent company, G/O Media, has laid off its Spanish-language editorial team and replaced them with AI-generated translations.

A few days ago former White House chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci admitted the evidence supporting mask mandates was weak. Why would he do this as they appear to be gearing up Pandemic 2.0? Is it a sign Fauci is going to be made a scapegoat? Or is

A survey has ranked Washington, DC, as the least desirable place to live due to its high crime rate and cost of living.

Iain Davis returns to Perspective to discuss his on-going series of articles on “Synthetic Hegemonic Currency” (available on Geopolitics & Empire). SUPPORT OFFGUARDIAN For direct-transfer bank details click here. Read the full article at the original website References: * https://geopoliticsandempire.com/author/iain-davis/ * https://off-guardian.org/support-us/#bank

The Internet Archive, like hundreds of US libraries, is a non-profit institution.  Yet a court ruling in mid-August has sided with publishers’ commercial interests to disallow non-profit organisations from lending books. But there’s a significant catch – the protections afforded to the Internet Archive and all libraries under the first

A 38-year-old woman and her pet dog were rescued from a flash flood in Utah’s Mary Jane Canyon, thanks to the emergency satellite SOS feature on her iPhone.

NEW YORK (AP) — Shawn Batey was sweating in the August sun on the 100th day of the writers strike, carrying her “IATSE Solidarity” sign on the picket line outside Netflix’s New York offices, but she was glad to be there. A props assistant and documentary filmmaker, Batey is a

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Tuesday that next month’s Dreamforce conference could be the last that he holds in San Francisco because of the growing problems of homelessness and drugs in the city, leading to rampant crime. Benioff made his threat in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle: