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Film festivals are rich terrain for brilliant cinematic discoveries, and among the finest and funkiest finds of SXSW 2026 is Edie Arnold is a Loser. The feature directorial debut of Megan Rico and Kade Atwood, this coming-of-age comedy is as hilarious as it is chaotic and devilishly iconoclastic. 

Like Juno, this fresh and funny film centers on a high school weirdo who treads an unconventional path



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At SXSW, the AI audio company ElevenLabs partnered with Rebecca Gayheart Dane, the wife of the late actor Eric Dane, to promote a new initiative that will provide free AI voice restoration to 1 million people with permanent voice loss.

Appearing alongside Gayheart Dane at a SXSW panel on Friday, ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski said the company is actively looking for people around the world


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Trump on Friday announced the US had launched strikes against Iran's Kharg Island
  • President Donald Trump said the US has destroyed military targets on Kharg Island.
  • The island, located off the coast of Iran, is central to the country's oil empire.
  • Trump said the strikes did not damage the island's oil infrastructure.

President Donald Trump said late Friday that the US


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TL;DR: Live stream Puerto Rico vs. Italy in the 2026 World Baseball Classic for free on Tele Rebelde or Venevision. Access these free streaming platforms from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.


The 2026 World Baseball Classic has already produced a number of interesting storylines, but Italy's victory over USA was probably the biggest moment of the competition so far. How far can Italy go in



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I can't count the number of times I stood outside my neighborhood church and lied to myself about my smartphone usage.

Over the past decade, my daughters have often stopped to play on the church's thick grass lawn. That's when I engage in the ritual of pulling the device from my pocket to pass the time, under the guise of efficiency. The lie arrives swiftly: You need to catch up on the online


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OpenAI plans to add its Sora video generation model directly into ChatGPT, The Information reports . The standalone Sora app was seen as a smash hit when it launched alongside Sora 2 in September 2025, but interest in the video generation app has fallen in the time since as users ran into limits on the amount and kinds of videos they could create.

Adding Sora to the ChatGPT could give the model a



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YouTube still hasn't solved its AI problem. Digitally faked content is still seeping through the cracks, as users are inundated with AI-generated brainrot and AI-powered misinformation.

But Google, YouTube's parent company, believes it can at least assuage the worries of concerned parents — with even more AI.


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Is it possible to have an even-tempered conversation about AI right now? It feels like there are two camps on the artificial intelligence debate, with one side promising that AI will save humanity from disease and labor, while the other warns AI will bring about the abrupt eradication of all mankind. Are you panicked yet? 

Join the club. AI is being developed so fast and furiously that it's already


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Forget brat summer — Charli XCX is working on film star fall. Following hot on the heels of playing herself in the Gen Z comedy series Overcompensating, the British pop star hit the Venice film festival with 100 Nights of Hero, a fashion-forward fantasy romance from Julia Jackman. Then came the Toronto International Film Festival, where she appears in two more provocative films, Romain Gavras' eco


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