After MLB proposed cutting the draft from 20 to 12 rounds, slashing amateur signing bonuses by more than $150 million and preventing high schoolers from entering, the MLBPA called to preserve the current system while ...
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from B...
Dixon Q. Dern, a longtime Hollywood attorney who helped shape modern entertainment law through many innovative business deals, died July 19. He was 97. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dern earned undergraduate and...
The Guilford County Board of Elections voted Tuesday in favor of an early voting plan that does not include polling places at North Carolina A&T and UNC Greensboro, despite repeated student calls to keep in place ...
A whole lotta people were curious about the whereabouts of the Avengers. The first trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday” has been viewed a staggering 503 million times over 24 hours. That ranks as the second-biggest movie ...
The number seeking a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives could also set a record, according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics.
After receiving a $3,500 campaign contribution from a Palantir Technologies executive, one Democrat seeking the nomination in Michigan’s competitive 7th Congressional District chose to return the money. In September, ...
Defining success on your own terms matters more than chasing salary, job titles, or other people's approval, a lesson Bill Watterson delivered in his 1990 Kenyon College commencement speech ten years after his own graduation. He recalled painting Michelangelo's Creation of Adam on his dorm ceiling as a sophomore purely for the joy of it, then contrasted that passion with the soul deadening jobs that followed, including a brief editorial cartoonist role at the Cincinnati Post that ended within months and years spent designing advertisements in a windowless basement.
Bill Watterson protected Calvin and Hobbes with an uncompromising artistic integrity, refusing for six years to let his syndicate license the strip into toys, apparel, and films, and even turning down tiger conservation funding that came attached to a merchandising deal.
The U.S. government issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns about a jailbreak method that could bypass safeguards and let the models identify software vulnerabilities.
Microsoft internally explored spinning out Xbox as a standalone subsidiary and making the gaming brand easier to sell, according to a report from The Information citing three people familiar with the discussions.
Ancient Greek philosophy treated the household and domestic life as serious subjects of inquiry, and texts from Aristotle's Economics to the Stoic philosophers Musonius Rufus and Hierocles reveal a far richer discourse on marriage, home and gender than the dominant readings of Plato and Aristotle suggest.