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‘Late Night With the Devil’ directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes with star David Dastmalchian. Kelly Gardener For horror fans, Late Night With the Devil marked one of the year’s most anticipated releases. Embracing an analog film filter, the found-footage flick starring David Dastmalchian reaped praise for its top-notch production design by leaning into a ’70s-era grindhouse aesthetic reminiscent of Dawn of the Dead or Death Race 2000. Following a late-night talk show host airing a Halloween special in 1977, it had all the makings of a cult hit. But the movie may be remembered more for the controversy surrounding its use of cutaway graphics created by generative…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As professional rugby teams and tournaments around the world contend with tough financial headwinds, Japan continues to buck the trend with historic growth in teams and crowds.The Japan Rugby League One will add three new clubs next season, growing to 26 teams over three divisions.The Secom Rugguts, based in Saitama, Yakult Levins, based in Toda, and LeRIRO Fukuoka, based in Ukiha City, will join the third division. The first division will have 12 teams, the second division will have eight and there’ll be six in the third division.Large corporations in Japan continue to show a…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – In the latest economic well-being report released in May 2023, American adults announced they were spending more, but they were not making more. No more money coming in but more going out does not add up. Nick Pisano is a Data Writer at Clever Real Estate. His article “2024 American Spending Habits: Nearly 75% Have an Overspending Problem” was a brutal, eye-opening look at how recklessly Americans overindulge knowingly.“74% of Americans, nearly 3/4, say they have an overspending problem in some area of their life,” proclaimed Pisano.Many Americans admit to missing bills, busting their budget, and…

 120/80 GROUP Invests to Serve New Markets Propelled by Artificial IntelligenceAgency Adds Strategic Leadership, Launches New Brand, Expands Services NEW YORK AND SAN JOSE, Calif., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Marking five years of unprecedented results in healthcare marketing and communications, 120/80 GROUP today announced multiple investments to support organizations, advocates and innovators who are transforming the U.S. healthcare system.The firm is accelerating into new markets with strategic executive appointments, an expanded portfolio of capabilities and a scalable organizational structure housed under a single entity, 120/80 GROUP, overseeing two go-to-market brands: “Today, ‘digital health’ is no longer a discrete market…

ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) —Freelance work is becoming the new normal.It’s a post-pandemic shift in how we work and live and it benefits both workers and companies.Read MoreAccording to Forbes, 72 million Americans have left their traditional 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. jobs with the comfort of a steady paycheck and benefits for the freedom of choosing when and where they want to work. And the freelance trend continues to grow.”I think the headline there is a third of the US population, now consider themselves independent workers,” said Shannon Denton, co-founder and CEO, of Wripple. “We’re actually talking about highly skilled,…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT just got a major upgrade thanks to the new GPT-4o model, also known as Omni. This is a true multimodal AI capable of natively understanding text, image, video and audio with ease. It is also much faster and eventually will be able to talk back to you.Right now its main benefit is in bringing massive reasoning, processing and natural language capabilities to the free version of ChatGPT for the first time. As part of the Spring Update announcement the company said it wanted to make the best AI widely accessible.The rollout isn’t happening instantly, becoming available gradually in…

Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) quarterly reports are not announced at the same time as most of its big tech brethren. While all the tech giants dial in their earnings roughly during the same period, Nvidia’s fiscal quarter always ends a month later, resulting in a late entry to the earnings game. While not intentional, in this AI-focused environment, making everyone wait for the stock market’s current darling to announce its latest financials, is kind of fitting. In fact, with the company readying to report F1Q25 results once the market action comes to a close next Wednesday (May 22nd), Deutsche Bank’s Ross Seymore,…

Jennifer Lopez And Sterling K. Brown in Atlas (IMDb) In Netflix’s new movie Atlas, Jennifer Lopez and Sterling K. Brown fight against humanoid terrorists in a war against artificial intelligence (AI). Lopez plays Atlas Shepherd, an analyst and AI specialist, while Brown portrays Colonel Elias Banks, a determined soldier. Together, they aim to defeat the AI leader, Harlan, with the help of an AI named Smith. Jennifer Lopez and Sterling K. Brown discuss how they’d survive the AI war   In an interview with CBR, they both reflect on the relevance of the movie’s theme in today’s society and speculate on…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – If you’re in downtown or midtown Memphis this week, you may be hit with the sweet smell of barbecue in the air.There’s not just one, but two barbecue cooking competitions happening in the Bluff City.Wednesday was the kickoff for the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest at Liberty Park and Thursday will be the kickoff for the first-ever SmokeSlam at Tom Lee Park in downtown Memphis.Barbecue competition is back in Memphis for the month of May.“I just hope the competition is ready because we’re about to change lives this weekend.” said Swinos pitmaster Josh Cooper.And so is…

In the past week of testimony in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, prosecutors were tying their case together, with two of the most important witnesses — a porn star and Mr. Trump’s one-time fixer — testifying just days apart.Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, testified for over nine hours, saying the payment at the heart of the case, $130,000 to silence the porn star’s story of a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, came at the orders of the former president and to the benefit of his 2016 campaign. Defense attorneys painted Mr. Cohen as a serial…