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It's usually 60 to get a BJ's club card, but now it's only 15

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Back to School Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Look Up Trending Now Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Creator Playbook Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net Versus All Series It's usually $60 to get a BJ's club card, but now it's only $15 The following content is brought to you by Mashable partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. Get a BJ's Wholesale Club membership for $15 Credit: BJ's Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. A BJ's 1-year Club Card Membership is now only $15 (reg. Buying in bulk is one of the simplest ways to spend less on the stuff your family runs through every week.


I used an iOS 27 Shortcut to cut my screen time and retrain my brain

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Say More Look Up Mashable Selects Mashable Voices Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag All Series A custom iPhone Shortcut helped curb compulsive scrolling without relying on another screen-time app. The truth about iOS 27 Beta: Don't make this mistake! The new iOS 27 Shortcuts make it easy to program your own iPhone tricks with natural language. Bridget Carey explains how she used it to wean her from compulsively opening social media and getting lost in scrolling. You might find it better than other apps that limit screen time (and it's certainly cheaper than using a Brick).


AI audio deepfakes are leading new ai-impersonation scams

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Say More Look Up Mashable Selects Mashable Voices Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag All Series AI-generated voices are making impersonation scams harder to spot. Here's how to protect yourself. 'The Uprising' trailer sees Andrew Garfield leading the Peasants' Revolt 2:25 Apple's new Siri lives everywhere: What comes next? Scammers are using AI to impersonate high-profile targets, such as celebrities and politicians. Here's how you can stay safe.


A24s Club Kid trailer teases Jordan Firstmans Cannes hit

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Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Say More Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable Selects Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag VidCon with Mashable All Series After a seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes, 'Club Kid' is coming to cinemas. Shannon Connellan is Mashable's Senior Editor, General Assignments, based in London. She has been Mashable's UK Editor (and still manages the illustrious UK team) and Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives searching for . A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror, and loves to nerd out with movie stars, filmmakers, and TV creators . A24's'Onslaught' trailer is chilling stuff Michael B. Jordan's'The Thomas Crown Affair' trailer makes that getaway van Gogh'Primetime' trailer sees Robert Pattinson ready to catch a predator on TV A brand new trailer for Jordan Firstman's queer drama is here, and it's all about the major spanners life can throw in the works.


'We're expanding the cinematic toolbox': AI fault lines on show at Cannes

The Guardian

From beachside summits to yacht parties, leading figures at Cannes debated whether AI was cinema's next creative revolution or an existential threat. From beachside summits to yacht parties, leading figures at Cannes debated whether AI was cinema's next creative revolution or an existential threat. Darren Aronofsky among proponents of using technology, while Guillermo del Toro says he would'rather die' U nder a white marquee on Cannes' Croisette beach, with the Mediterranean glistening behind him and superyachts drifting across the horizon, the director Darren Aronofsky addressed an audience of executives and tech evangelists gathered for an "AI for Talent" summit. "There's so much pushback against AI," said Aronofsky, who has faced criticism over his embrace of generative AI projects though his new studio, Primordial Soup, at a time when artificial intelligence has become one of the film industry's most divisive fault lines. Darren Aronofsky: 'AI is not impersonating a person, it's actually a tool.' "AI is a terrible word, because it's a catchphrase for so many different things," continued the director of Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, and Black Swan.


Inside the UK's first AI-powered fertility clinic using state-of-the-art technologies to help women get pregnant - as one couple says 'artificial intelligence allowed us to hold our baby in our arms'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Police probe Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over'sex offences': Stunning update on investigation of former prince as officers appeal for potential'victim survivors' to come forward Trump celebrates Stephen Colbert's final show with brutal'no talent' swipe as bitter host takes one last jab at CBS on way out door Trump warns of possible military action in Cuba and says'I'd be happy to do it' as Marco Rubio declares the nation a'US national security threat' Dangerous truth about melatonin side effects... the astonishing dose you SHOULD be taking... and a new natural grocery store alternative hailed by doctors CIA Nostradamus warned Trump about Iran... now he's calling the President's doctors. Dirty secret Hollywood's Cool Girls don't want you to know. Mom-of-two abandons home in Pennsylvania to live on board CRUISE SHIP year-round - and her kids have'zero concept' their life isn't normal This quiet announcement from Prince William was missed by most... but this is why royal insiders tell me it spells disaster for Harry and Meghan's future: RICHARD EDEN White man charged after he was filmed screaming at black female neighbor and using the phrase'You people' Shock moment'slurring' Britney Spears is arrested for DUI after failing sobriety test Astonishing secret list of elite Hollywood liberals conspiring to elect Spencer Pratt revealed to KENNEDY by her LA moles. Suspected Somali fraudster filmed leaping off Minnesota balcony and driving away in luxury Genesis sedan after feds announced they were charging him with alleged $3.3m scam Inside Pizza Hut restaurant that's still EXACTLY like it was in the 90s... complete with checkered tablecloths, arcade and famous buffet Stephen Colbert's final Late Show episode leaves fans unimpressed as Ryan Reynolds leads series of surprise celebrity cameos How Meryl Streep's husband really feels about her secret relationship with Martin Short: Their years of agony... his hard red line... and why she won't divorce him Look away now, Carrie Bradshaw! Fears for Ariana Grande: Insiders lift the lid on Ethan Slater's costly sacrifice... her private nightmares... and what's really keeping them apart Inside the UK's first AI-powered fertility clinic using state-of-the-art technologies to help women get pregnant - as one couple says'artificial intelligence allowed us to hold our baby in our arms' If you were asked to think about artificial intelligence ( AI), visions of killer robots, dodgy chatbots, or deepfakes might spring to mind.


All of a Sudden, the Glories of Cannes Are Upon Us

The New Yorker

In its first week, the seventy-ninth edition of the festival unveiled standout new works by James Gray, Paweล‚ Pawlikowski, and Ryรปsuke Hamaguchi. Attend the Cannes Film Festival long enough, and you will grow wearily accustomed to the reality that some of the best films to premiรจre there are routinely overlooked for prizes. Lee Chang-dong magnificently unsettling psychological chiller, "Burning," failed to ignite the excitement of the 2018 jury. The tragicomic glories of Maren Ade's " Toni Erdmann," from 2016, were just as inexplicably unrewarded. Jurors shut out David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence," in 2005; Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Flowers of Shanghai," in 1998; Krzysztof Kieล›lowski's "Three Colors: Red," in 1994; Martin Scorsese's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," in 1975; and--the tradition goes way back--Vittorio De Sica's "Umberto D.," in 1952.


The Brazilian Director Who's Up for Multiple Oscars

The New Yorker

Kleber Mendonรงa Filho wants his films to reclaim lost history. For Kleber Mendonรงa Filho, filmmaking is an act of both provocation and preservation. Mendonรงa was born in 1968, in the early years of a ruthless military dictatorship--a time when cinema, like much else, was harshly constrained. His mother, Joselice Jucรก, was a historian who studied Brazil's abolitionist movement, and she taught him that filling gaps in the cultural memory was a way to expose concealed truths. His relationship with film is inextricably linked with his home town, Recife--a port city where attractive beaches and high-rise developments coexist with sprawling favelas and rampant crime. In his youth, Mendonรงa was fascinated by the city's grand cinema palaces. He carried a Super 8 camera to the tops of marquees and shot dizzying images; he spent hours in projection booths, learning the mechanics of how films reached the screen. Over time, Mendonรงa watched those theatres fall into decline, an experience that he likened to being aboard a ship as it wrecked. But even as Recife lost its allure, he made the city a fixture of his films--a way of vindicating its place in history. His first narrative feature, "Neighboring Sounds," takes place on a street where he lived as a child, a setting that he spent years documenting. Later, he made "Pictures of Ghosts," a documentary about Recife told largely through its cinemas.


'Shakespeare would be writing for games today': Cannes' first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

The Guardian

The Cannes film festival isn't typically associated with video games, but this year it's playing host to an unusual collaboration. Lili is a co-production between the New York-based game studio iNK Stories (creator of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, about a photojournalist in Iran) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it's been turning heads with its eye-catching translocation of Macbeth to modern-day Iran. "It's been such an incredible coup to have it as the first video game experience at Cannes," says iNK Stories co-founder Vassiliki Khonsari. "People have gone in saying, I'm not familiar playing games, so I may just try it out for five minutes. The Cannes festival's Immersive Competition began in 2024, although the lineup doesn't usually feature traditional video games. "VR films and projection mapping is the thrust of it," says iNK Stories' other co-founder, Vassiliki's husband Navid Khonsari. But Lili weaves live-action footage with video game mechanics in a similar way to a game such as Telling Lies or Immortality. Its lead, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, won best actress at Cannes three years ago. Lili focuses on the story of Lady Macbeth, here cast as the ambitious wife of an upwardly mobile officer in the Basij (a paramilitary volunteer militia within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in Iran). As in the play, she plots a murder to secure her husband's rise. "I think that the narrative of Lady Macbeth is that she's manipulative, and that's exactly what got us interested," says Navid. "The social limitations based on her gender forced her to try to attain whatever leadership role she can," he continues. "If she was a man, she would have been one of the greatest kings that country would have ever experienced, but because she was a woman she had to work within the structure that was there for her.


Cannes Is Rolling Out the Red Carpet for One of This Century's Most Controversial Figures

Slate

Although the Cannes Film Festival is the world's most prestigious movie showcase, its spotlight rarely falls on nonfiction film. Years go by without a single documentary competing for its biggest honor, the Palme d'Or, and there is no separate documentary prize. Juliette Binoche, the president of this year's jury, devoted part of her opening-night remarks to Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian photojournalist who was killed in an Israeli airstrike the day after it was announced that her documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk would be premiering at Cannes. But the film itself was slotted into a low-profile sidebar devoted to independent productions. The festival did, however, roll out the red carpet for The Six Billion Dollar Man, Eugene Jarecki's portrait of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which premiered out of competition on Wednesday evening.