On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and finally, for film club, Two Lane Blacktop. Joining host Leila Latif are David Jenkins and Lillian Crawford. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie...
Storied investors Accel and Prosus have launched a new investment partnership to back Indian startups from day zero, targeting founders building large-scale solutions with the potential to serve the masses in the South Asian nation. Announced on Monday, the collaboration marks the first time Prosus is investing at the formation stage. Both firms will co-invest from a startup’s earliest days,...
OpenAI is working on a new tool that would generate music based on text and audio prompts, according to a report in The Information. Such a tool could be used to add music to existing videos, or to add guitar accompaniment to an existing vocal track, sources said. It’s not clear when OpenAI plans to launch such a tool or...
OpenAI recently launched new app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify app. To get started, make sure you’re logged into ChatGPT. Then...
Nature, Published online: 24 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03487-6Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count. Source link...
Nadine YousifSenior Canada reporter in TorontoGetty ImagesDoug Ford said the advert will still run over the weekend, but will be paused on Monday so that trade talks between Canada and the US can resumeOntario Premier Doug Ford has said he will pause his province's anti-tariff advertisement campaign in the US, after it prompted President Donald Trump to terminate trade talks.Ford...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- A Virginia lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance Ltd., filed by the Office of the Attorney General, is set to move forward despite dismissal efforts from the platform. An opinion was issued by Richmond City Circuit Court on Friday, Oct. 24, in which they denied TikTok's demurrer and motion to dismiss the lawsuit, per...
OAKLAND, Calif. (RNS) — For the second time in six weeks, a pastor was struck in the head with a pepper round fired by a U.S. immigration agent as faith leaders protested the Trump administration’s deportation efforts. The pastor, the Rev. Jorge Bautista, was one of dozens of demonstrators who had gathered before sunrise Thursday (Oct. 23) at the entrance...
Having lower cholesterol levels may help protect against dementia, according to a large-scale international study led by the University of Bristol. The research, involving data from more than one million participants, found that people with genetic traits that naturally reduce cholesterol are less likely to develop dementia. The work was led by Dr. Liv Tybjærg Nordestgaard during her time at...
Deep within your gut lives a bustling world of microbes, each playing a role in digesting your food. Among them is one unusual microbe that produces methane -- a gas more often associated with cows and landfills than humans. According to new research from Arizona State University (ASU), this methane-making microorganism may influence how many calories your body extracts from...
