Bill Gates Discusses His Love for Books and Reading
In a new interview with TIME, Bill Gates discusses his new list of recommended summer reading, his voracious appetite for the written word and the books that have influenced his life and mind. 1. What book do you most often recommend? Who is your most trusted book recommender?
I read Stephen Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature a few years ago and got to talk to him about it after, which was a lot of fun.
Bing's AI Is Threatening Users. Thats No Laughing Matter
Shortly after Microsoft released its new AI-powered search tool, Bing, to a select group of users in early February, a 23 year-old student from Germany decided to test its limits.
It didn’t take long for Marvin von Hagen, a former intern at Tesla, to get Bing to reveal a strange alter ego—Sydney—and return what appeared to be a list of rules that the chatbot had been given by its programmers at Microsoft and OpenAI.
Caller calls into TV Show to advise presenter , tells her to cover yourself
"I don't want to talk about your topic, I am a bit distracted, but I want to say something," Hauwa said. "I want to commend you, Morayo, for the way you dress when you are on TV, and Nima." However, she then expressed her discomfort with Tope’s wardrobe choices, suggesting that as a mother and wife, Tope should dress more conservatively. "But I really want to make an observation about Tope Mark-Odigie.
Charles Melton and Elizabeth Olsen Teaming Up for Todd Solondzs Love Child
“May December” breakout Charles Melton has lined up another major feature and is set to star alongside Elizabeth Olsen in Todd Solondz‘s next film, the darkly comic “Love Child.”
Killer Films (“Past Lives,” “May December”), 2AM (“Past Lives”) Volition Media (“Sam and Kate,” “Land of Bad”) and Gramercy Park Media (“The Fabulous Four,” “Blood for Dust”) are teaming with Rocket Science to bring the project to this week’s European Film Market.
Cheating wife caught on CCTV having sex with 'Maiguard'
The incident happened in a suburb of Nairaobi, the capital of Kenya, according to Mpasho.co.ke, where the man found out the hard way that his own wife was sleeping with his paid security man in his absence. The report has it that the man was compelled to secretly install the camera after rumours of his wife's flirtatious tendencies got to him and her constant denials. ADVERTISEMENT
The cheating wife busted Photo Credit: Mpasho.
Congress Poised to Welcome First Transgender Member. Meet Sarah McBride
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It’s all too easy to dismiss the political clout of LGBTQ Americans based solely on how well they have found toeholds in office. After all, just one-quarter of 1% of elected officials in the United States identify as part of the community. And that’s after so-called Rainbow Wave elections of recent cycles.
Eat Animals: Enough With the Guilt
If a cow could eat you, it would. It wouldn’t give a hoot about your feelings. It wouldn’t kill you quickly or humanely and it certainly wouldn’t worry about whether it was right to make a meal of you in the first place. It would ask itself one question: Am I hungry? If the answer was yes, you’d be lunch.
In that one way, at least, the carnivorous cow would be smarter than we are.
Fast and the Furious Movies: Every Stunt, Song, Car Ranked
The eighth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, Fate of the Furious, hits theaters April 14. Naturally, we watched every film to determine which movie was the fastest and furious-est of them all. We took notes on the car flips, the quips and the man tears spilled over Corona beers, ranking everything.
Some people may think these movies are all the same, but each one is unique with a diverse array of muscles and motors.
Foreign News: Answering Ethiopia | TIME
In his Geneva hotel suite one morning last week young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, his brow worry-puckered, argued and pleaded with dusky members of Haile Selassie’s entourage, trying to persuade them to advise His Majesty not to inconvenience the Great Powers by personally arising in the League Assembly to air Ethiopia’s wrongs. ”Tell your Emperor that no head of a State has ever addressed the League—it would be unprecedented!” cried young Tony Eden with his British reverence for precedent.
Government suspends financing for Syria stabilization projects
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has "redirected" $230 million originally set aside to help begin the recovery of areas liberated from Islamic State (IS) group control after coalition partners committed $300 million of their own, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. The comes in response to President Donald Trump's insistence that allies and partners "increase burden-sharing" in the war-wracked country, she said. The decision was made based on the additional pledges, including $100 million from Saudi Arabia and $50 million from the United Arab Emirates, and "