Nicola Coughlan, Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville are among the high-profile names backing a new campaign against AI voice cloning. Titled “Save Our Voices Now,” the initiative calls for greater protections against AI technology being used to replicate a person’s voice, according to The Guardian. The group of over 80 industry names — which also
The Nepali army has been working to rescue survivors who had been trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower project in Rasuwa. Footage shared by the country’s prime minister office shows soliders carrying survivors and crawling across thick slates of mud to reach others. An update issued by officials on Thursday indicated more than 100
As they worked on their long-gestating first feature, “London,” Brazilian filmmakers Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli dove headfirst into cinematic portrayals of disability. What they found was frustrating: often infantilized and overreliant characters in condescending stories that looked at disability as “punishment” or something that “needed fixing.” Their Venice Critics’ Week character study sets
The investors claim they were told that “Selena Gomez, one of the most famous women on earth, with a billion-dollar brand and a platform unmatched in social media, would be actively building the company as its head of marketing”. Gomez’s attorney Matthew Rosengart says their allegations are “vague, generalised and contradictory” and that Gomez never
“Aontas,” the Irish-language heist thriller from director Damian McCann, has been chosen as Ireland’s entry for the best international feature film category at the 2027 Academy Awards. The film was selected by the Irish Film & TV Academy (IFTA) and a committee including “Evil Dead Rise” director Lee Cronin, “Derry Girls” creator Lisa McGee, BAFTA-nominated
When Crown Prince Haakon married Mette-Marit in 2001, the king and queen welcomed her four-year-old son from a previous relationship. Marius Borg Høiby was treated as one of the family, but the royal house later stressed he was never a royal. The king’s daughter Princess Märtha Louise initially married a Norwegian writer before controversially remarrying
