How did curling become a Winter Olympics sensation?

How did curling become a Winter Olympics sensation?

EDMONTON, CanadaΒ β€”Β Jason Hills grew up in a rural hamlet in southern Alberta so small there were no traffic lights. Which wasn’t a problem because there wasn’t any traffic either. But there was a curling rink. β€œThere was nothing else really to do,” Hills said. β€œSo if you weren’t curling you’d go hang out at the…

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Disney to invest  billion in OpenAI under new licensing agreement

Disney to invest $1 billion in OpenAI under new licensing agreement

Walt Disney Co. is investing $1 billion in OpenAI under a new commercial partnership with the ChatGPT and Sora developer. The three-year licensing agreement will allow users of Sora, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence video tool, to create AI videos using more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars, the entertainment giantΒ announced Thursday.Β  Disney…

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Observer editor-in-chief James Harding says BBC should be ‘put beyond reach of politicians’ | Ents & Arts News

Observer editor-in-chief James Harding says BBC should be ‘put beyond reach of politicians’ | Ents & Arts News

The Observer’s editor-in-chief has called for the BBC to be “put beyond the reach of politicians” – and has compared the fight for survival within television to the zombie fungus in The Last Of Us. Speaking to Sky News about his James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday, James Harding said…

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