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NBA star places 36,000 bet on outsider LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt winning heated race
Greg Sankey makes it clear that SEC didn't start the 16-team CFP format discussion, that's on the Big Ten Emmanuel Acho says it was'pretty stupid' for Jaxson Dart to introduce President Trump Lincoln Riley claims USC was'snaps away' from the playoff, says he's a better coach now than when at Oklahoma Notre Dame's Josh Yago delivers Memorial Day salute during anthem before lacrosse championship game Dak Prescott reunites with ex-fiancée Sarah Jane Ramos to celebrate daughter's first birthday Celtics guard Jaylen Brown challenges ESPN's Stephen A Smith to a debate at Harvard or MIT Wyndham Clark adds to his funky resume, TPC Craig Ranch slander and LIV Golf's pitch to new investors Unearthed fan video shows who Kyle Busch really was, NASCAR's darkest hour & Bubba Wallace's'Rowdy' story California mom speaks with compassion but brutal honesty about presence of trans athlete in daughter's sport Curt Cignetti jokes he had to'coach the hell out' of undefeated Hoosiers to be Indy 500 pace car driver A screenshot has WNBA fans asking: did a player endorse a threat toward Caitlin Clark? MLB reporter Tricia Whitaker hit with line drive during Orioles' game Brit Hume: A Trump endorsement'repeatedly' gives candidates a leg up Democrats' 2028 presidential hopefuls face scrutiny over elitism, political attacks'The Five' reveals what fans always wanted to know about them Defense expert argues Iran has never been'so isolated' Joey Jones calls out Dem candidate Platner for'hiding behind the Purple Hearts' of fellow vets Trump doesn't want Iran to become his Afghanistan: Mike Sarraille Any Iran deal will be judged by'how much it cost' to secure, ex-CIA station chief says Dr Rebecca Grant: Iran has'no place to go,' will have to sign a deal Pope Leo XIV calls for AI to be'disarmed' in critical warning about emerging tech'Fox News @ Night' panelists evaluate Spencer Pratt's Los Angeles mayoral campaign. Milwaukee Bucks forward Kyle Kuzma is betting big that LA will change its ways. Kuzma added some intrigue to next week's nonpartisan primary, placing a $36,000 bet that former The Hills reality star Spencer Pratt will pull off an upset victory and become the next mayor of Los Angeles. With the June 2 vote just days away, Kuzma, who won a championship with the Lakers in 2020, is backing Pratt's campaign.
Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year. Acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky is the executive producer of a new web series that matches human voice actors with video images generated in part by Google DeepMind. An insurrectionist robot unleashed by a mad inventor in Fritz Lang's . HAL 9000 sabotaging a manned mission to Jupiter in . Skynet, the self-aware global defense network that seeks to exterminate humanity throughout the franchise.
Chris Pratt blasts Hollywood stars with 'bad' attitudes on set, says it 'ruins everything for everyone'
Pratt, Charlie Day and Jack Black on new animated film, playing iconic characters, being fans of the game and more. Chris Pratt had harsh words for Hollywood stars who bring negativity to movie sets. On Thursday, the 45-year-old actor joined co-star Millie Bobby Brown and directors Joe and Anthony Russo on the New York Comic Con panel for their upcoming Netflix sci-fi film "The Electric State." During the panel, Pratt slammed actors who had "bad" attitudes while filming. "Look, these guys can attest to this, because they're the same way. Like, there's no room for s---ty attitudes there," the Marvel star said, via People magazine.
Netflix's The Electric State trailer shows off cartoony robots and oversized VR headsets
Netflix has released the first trailer for The Electric State, a post-apocalyptic road movie from Marvel (and Community) mainstays The Russo Brothers. The adaptation of Simon Stålenhag's 2018 graphic novel is set in a retro-futuristic version of the '90s after a robot uprising. It tells the story of Michelle, an orphaned teenager (Millie Bobby Brown) who ventures across the west of the US to look for her younger brother with a smuggler (a mustachioed Chris Pratt) and a pair of robots. The movie's look draws heavily from Stålenhag's gorgeous artwork, right down to the oversized VR helmets. The robots, in particular the one accompanying Michelle, have a cartoon-inspired aesthetic that wouldn't look out of place in Fallout.
Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
Eight years ago, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series of human tasks, including opening doors, operating power tools, and driving golf carts. Clips of them fumbling and stumbling through the Darpa Robotics Challenge soon went viral. Today the descendants of those hapless robots are a lot more capable and graceful. Several startups are developing humanoids that they claim could, in just a few years, find employment in warehouses and factories. Jerry Pratt, a senior research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, a nonprofit research institute in Florida, led a team that came second in the Darpa challenge back in 2015.
Autonomation • TechCrunch
"Jidoka" is a new one to me. TRI (Toyota Research Institute) CEO Gill Pratt described the concept as "Automation with a Human Touch." The anglicized version of the notion is "Autonomation" -- both are modified forms of " automation," in their respective languages. The word was originally applied to Toyota's Production System, highlighting the need for human participation in the process. Employing Jidoka principles throughout the production process is a vital element of the Toyota Production System, forcing imperfections to be immediately addressed by self-inspecting workers and thereby reducing the amount of work added to a defective product.
How well do you know the biggest gaming news of 2022?
A lot went on in the gaming space this year, with the industry seeing waves of acquisitions, the rise and fall of cryptocurrencies and NFTs, some game releases that took the world by storm and a casting choice for a video game movie that we all came together to dunk on. Think you can remember all the big stories? Try our quiz below to see how well you know the gaming news of 2022. Nintendo showed the first trailer for "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" in October, giving all of us an earful of Chris Pratt (of "Parks and Recreation" and Guardians of the Galaxy fame) as the iconic plumber. Many fans were swift to decry the choice for the snub to Mario's longtime voice actor, Charles Martinet, and for what they felt was Pratt's uninspired voice acting (not to mention his ties to the controversial megachurch Hillsong).
British store trials AI to spot customers not wearing face masks
Since COVID-19 became a part of our lives, businesses around Europe have been looking for ways to remind their customers to wear a face mask. One garden centre in West Yorkshire may have found the answer: artificial intelligence. It uses a system at its front entrance that watches people's faces and detects if they are wearing a mouth and nose covering. If it spots anyone without a mask, it can relay a message to the customer or notify staff. Jonathan Pratt, whose firm Videcon developed the system, says the idea is to "promote and increase mask-wearing so we can safeguard the safety of customers and staff."