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‘I Owe $90K in Private Student Loans. What Do I Do?’
The Cut,
You don’t have much wiggle room, unfortunately. It’s time to break down the math.
Are Veneers the New Boobs?
The smiles of the contestants on The Golden Bachelor deserve their own show.
Saltburn Is All Vibes and Empty Provocations
Vulture,
Emerald Fennell may be an exasperating filmmaker, but she’s incapable of being boring.
The 15 best gifts for video game fans this holiday season
AV Club,
As Black Friday and its dreaded twin, the Cybered Monday, approach, the world of gaming is preparing to unleash some of its most deadly and powerful deals ahead of the holiday season. Luckily, The A.V. Club is here to help curate your holiday gift-giving selections, from the inexpensive to the “You gotta really love… Read more...
Top ultra-marathon runner got lift in car
Boing Boing,
Jo Zakrzewski is a successful and record-holding British ultra-marathon runner. She's also unsporting, according to a officials who handed her a yearlong ban for taking a ride in a car on the way to winning third place in the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool race. — Read the rest
DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes
TechCrunch,
Back in January, Google made some waves — soundwaves, that is — when it quietly released some research on AI-based music creation software that built tunes based on word prompts. Today, its sister business Google DeepMind went several steps further: it has announced out a new music generation model called Lyria that will work in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sony's next superhero movie looks to be another Morbius
It's Morbin' Time… again. Whatever is going on at Sony Pictures cannot be rationally explained: they have the film rights to characters like Spider-Man 2099, who have enjoyed a recent resurgence in popularity, but choose instead to produce movies about C-list Spider-Man villains without Spider-Man ever actually showing up. — Read the rest
Feds want speed reduction tech in every new car. Are American drivers ready?
On a Saturday afternoon in January 2022, a 2018 Dodge Challenger ran through a stop sign in Las Vegas, picked up the pace to a speed of 103 miles per hour and flew through an intersection on a red light. The Dodge struck the right side of a Toyota Sienna minivan, which carried seven occupants, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.