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Johnny Depp defamation trial: Amber Heard's personal assistant accuses actress of abusive work environment

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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what clicked this week in entertainment. Amber Heard's former personal assistant accused the "Aquaman" actress of creating an abusive work environment in a videotaped deposition played Thursday during actor Johnny Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife in Fairfax, Virginia. Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 35, for $50 million over an op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post alleging she was the victim of domestic abuse. Heard never identified Depp directly, but attorneys for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor say her allegations have negatively impacted Depp's career and relationship with his family.


'Transformers,' 'Fifty Shades' lead Razzie Award nominations for worst in film

Los Angeles Times

Today in Entertainment: Megyn Kelly swats back at Jane Fonda; and the Razzie nominees for worst in film are... 'Transformers,' 'Fifty Shades' lead Razzie Award nominations Megyn Kelly fires back at'Hanoi Jane' Fonda over plastic-surgery feud Princess Eugenie is engaged and tying the knot in the same venue as her cousin Prince Harry Morgan Freeman confirms it was Lily Tomlin who interrupted his SAG Awards speech Sterling K. Brown makes history at SAG Awards -- and says Time's Up Sterling K. Brown makes history at SAG Awards -- and says Time's Up Nominations for the 2018 Razzie Awards came out Monday, with the bulk of the loathing -- nine nominations each -- heaped on "Transformers: The Last Knight" and "Fifty Shades Darker," with "The Mummy" and its eight nods close behind. The mock honors, now in their 38th year and formally known as the Golden Raspberry Awards, are given out annually the day before the Academy Awards and honor the worst in film. Winners get a raspberry statue spray-painted gold. Tom Cruise, "The Mummy" Jamie Dornan, "Fifty Shades Darker" Mark Wahlberg, "Transformers: The Last Knight" and "Daddy's Home 2" Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Zac Efron, "Baywatch" Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Javier Bardem, "Mother!" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Russell Crowe, "The Mummy" Josh Duhamel, "Transformers: The Last Knight" Mel Gibson, "Daddy's Home 2" Anthony Hopkins, "Collide" and "Transformers" The Last Knight" Javier Bardem, "Mother!" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Any combination of two characters, two sex toys or two sexual positions, "Fifty Shades Darker" Any combination of two humans, two robots or two explosions, "Transformers XVII: Last Knight" [sic] Any two obnoxious emojis, "The Emoji Movie" Johnny Depp and his worn-out drunk routine, "Pirates of the Caribbean XIII: Dead Careers Tell No Tales" [sic] Tyler Perry and either the ratty old dress or worn-out wig, "Boo 2! A Madea Halloween" Johnny Depp and his worn-out drunk routine, "Pirates of the Caribbean XIII: Dead Careers Tell No Tales" [sic] In 2017, the director, actor, actress and worst-picture awards all went to the 2016 documentary "Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party," which featured director-narrator Dinesh D'Souza and actress Rebekah Turner, who played Clinton.


Diffbot organizing Web data for enterprise use

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Diffbot is trying to reorganize all the data on the Web so it can be put to better use. The service "converts the existing Web into a structured database-like representation that can essentially be used for all sorts of intelligent applications," said Mike Tung, Diffbot CEO. On Thursday, Diffbot said it had received $500,000 in funding from Bloomberg Beta, the investment arm of the Bloomberg media company. Andy Bechtolsheim, a founder of Sun MIcrosystems and the first major investor in Google, is also a backer. Diffbot says it already has paying customers for the service, which is being used by Microsoft's Bing, Adobe, Salesforce.com, and eBay.


Johnny Depp is MIA in first look at new 'Pirates of the Caribbean'

Los Angeles Times

When "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" is released next year, it will have been six years since Captain Jack Sparrow and company last graced the big screen and nearly 13 years since the franchise debuted in 2003. On Sunday, Disney released its first look at the fifth "Pirates" film and it's everything a fan could want from the franchise, save for one glaringly obvious absence. As the teaser unfolds, audiences are shown a British ship under siege by ghost pirates (probably not the same ghost pirates who have previously plagued the films, but to a certain extent all ghost pirates look the same to me) as the fog rolls in off the sea. Striding over the deck is a foreboding presence, soon revealed to be Javier Bardem as Captain Salazar, an old nemesis of Jack Sparrow. With the air surrounding them filled with fire particles from the burning ship, he tells a young man to find Sparrow and give him a message: "Death will go straight for him."


Stephen Hawking: 'Are we taking Artificial Intelligence seriously

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With the Hollywood blockbuster Transcendence playing in cinemas, with Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman showcasing clashing visions for the future of humanity, it's tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction. But this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake in history. Artificial-intelligence (AI) research is now progressing rapidly. Recent landmarks such as self-driving cars, a computer winning at Jeopardy! and the digital personal assistants Siri, Google Now and Cortana are merely symptoms of an IT arms race fuelled by unprecedented investments and building on an increasingly mature theoretical foundation. Such achievements will probably pale against what the coming decades will bring.