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Géza Röhrig in Richard Kroehling’s After: Poetry Destroys Silence: “It was really quite a magic tree there on the shore.”

I first met Géza Röhrig when László Nemes introduced us at the Universal Pictures brunch in The Vault of the St. Regis for Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as Jobs with Jeff Daniels as Steve Wozniak and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld.

Géza Röhrig played Saul Ausländer in László Nemes’s Oscar-winning Son Of Saul. He played Georges, the cousin of Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg) in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance, and Shmuel opposite Matthew Broderick in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust (co-written with Jason Begue and co-produced by Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer).

Géza Röhrig with Anne-Katrin Titze on The Way Of The Wind: “Obviously it has been edited forever, and we all know that Terrence Malick is a maestro.”

He will be seen as...

Elon Musk’s X has implemented a default setting for user posts and interactions on the social media platform to be used to help train A.I. chatbot Grok.

“Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine-tuning,” the setting language reads.

The scheme does come with an option enabling users to opt out of the process, however.

While the default setting will automatically capture content for Grok, “all X users have the ability to control whether their public posts can be used to train Grok, the AI search assistant,” the company wrote Friday in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “This setting is available on the web platform and will soon be rolled out on mobile.”

Making accounts private can also prevent users’ material from being fed to Grok, the post noted.

Rolled out to premium subscribers on X last fall,...

Chuck Lorre’s name is synonymous with some of the most popular sitcoms on television over the years. Known as the ‘King of sitcoms’, the writer and producer’s works include Dharma and Greg, and his two big blockbusters Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, both of which had a hugely successful run on television.

Hollywood producer and writer Chuck Lorre (image credit: Kempton/Cc By-sa 3.0/Wikimedia Commons)

Being a veteran in this niche field for years now, Lorre has constantly heard criticisms targeted towards sitcoms and their relevance in the future. But as far as the creator was concerned, these opinions did not hold water as he believed firmly that the genre wasn’t going to disappear anytime soon.

Chuck Lorre Is Confident That Sitcoms Are Here To Stay

The success of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory amply proved that...

Throughout its run, many famous science figures stopped by the set of The Big Bang Theory, which is notable among the science community for making subjects like physics and astronomy look cool. These figures included the likes of Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, George Smoot, and Steve Wozniak, who all ended up having a brief cameo in the sitcom.

While it was common for scientists and physicists to pay a visit to the set of the acclaimed sitcom, things went south after one of them discovered actual uranium in Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment.

The Big Bang Theory Had Actual Uranium on Set A still from The Big Bang Theory | CBS

Being a sitcom centering around science, the show featured several props, including an antique Geiger counter, which was present in Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment. But when a famous physicist paid a visit, he discovered that it contained uranium, as...

The Big Bang Theory’s brilliant narrative involving a bunch of science geeks and a stunning wannabe actor forming an unlikely friendship, became one of the most watched sitcoms owing to its characterization and razor-sharp humor. Over 12 seasons, the show gained huge popularity for the seamless chemistry of its ensemble cast led by the brilliant Jim Parsons.

A still from The Big Bang Theory (image credit: CBS)

Series creators Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady looked back on many memorable moments and experiences during the filming of the show in a special interview to commemorate its 15th anniversary in 2022. In keeping with the main theme, many prominent scientists and celebrities graced the show with their presence on and off set, including this famous tech pioneer.

This Famous Entrepreneur Made Himself Comfortable On The Big Bang Theory Set

The eccentric Sheldon Cooper and friends contributed to some of the country’s brightest minds in the popular sitcom,...

Ozzy Osbourne blasted Kanye West on social media on Friday, claiming the rapper used a recording of a Black Sabbath song without Osbourne’s permission and against his will. The rapper ultimately released the Vultures song “Carnival” without the sample.

On Friday, Osbourne put the following message on his social media: “Kanye West asked permission to sample a section of a 1983 live performance of ‘Iron Man’ from the Us Festival without vocals & was refused permission because he is an antisemite and has caused untold heartache to many,” the singer wrote in capital letters.

New Delhi, June 9 (Ians) The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing India’s tech ecosystem is indeed vast, particularly among the youth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.

The Prime Minister reacted after meeting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in the national capital.

“Thank you for the insightful conversation @sama. The potential of AI in enhancing India’s tech ecosystem is indeed vast and that too among the youth in particular,” Pm Modi said in a tweet.

“We welcome all collaborations that can accelerate our digital transformation for empowering our citizens,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Altman said that he met Pm Modi and discussed India’s incredible tech ecosystem with him.

Altman, who also addressed students and others at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (Iiit-Delhi), said that he had a great conversation with Pm Modi.

“Great conversation with @narendramodi discussing India’s incredible tech ecosystem...

New Delhi, June 9 (Ians) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday said that he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital and discussed India’s incredible tech ecosystem with him.

Altman, who also addressed students and others at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (Iiit-Delhi) earlier this week, said that he had a great conversation with odi.

“Great conversation with @narendramodi discussing India’s incredible tech ecosystem and how the country can benefit from AI,a he Altman tweeted.

“Really enjoyed all my meetings with people in the @PMOIndia,” he added.

Earlier, Altman said that the company behind ChatGPT is not presently training GPT5 — the successor to GPT4.

“We have a lot of work to do before GPT5. It takes a lot of time. We are nowhere close to it,” Altman said at a conference hosted by The Economic Times in Delhi.

“We’re working on the new...

New Delhi, June 8 (Ians) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the creator of AI chatbot ChatGPT, has said that the company is not presently training GPT5 – the successor to GPT4. “We have a lot of work to do before GPT5. It takes a lot of time. We are nowhere close to it,” Altman said at a conference hosted by The Economic Times in Delhi on Wednesday.

“We’re working on the new ideas that we think we need for it, but we are nowhere close to the start. There need to be more safety audits: I wish I could tell you about the timeline of the next Gpt,” he added.

Altman’s comments come amid growing concern among AI researchers and Big Tech executives about the alarming pace at which the technology is developing.

In March, several top entrepreneurs and AI researchers, including Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak,...

Tech pioneer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Jewel hosted the Charitybuzz “Good Evenings” event Monday night at Tao at the Venetian, to raise new, essential funding for Jewel’s nonprofit, the Inspiring Children Foundation.

Jewel performs at CharityBuzz Dinner

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VIP guests at the event included Perez Hilton, tech luminary and CEO of Chegg Dan Rosensweig, Goldman Sachs Chief Medical Officer Neal Mills, and Boom Supersonic Aerospace founder Blake Scholl.

The intimate experience began with Wozniak, his wife Janet, and Jewel welcoming donors to the private Opium Room at Tao. Jewel treated guests to an up-close-and-personal acoustic performance, featuring “Hands” and “No More Tears,” amongst other famed and emotionally-inspired pieces. Singer songwriter Jp Saxe joined as a special surprise guest, performing “If The World Was Ending.”

Accompanying the performances, Tao and co-founder Jason Strauss contributed a first-class dining experience, and Tito’s provided signature...

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “Change is the only constant in life.” The entertainment sector is no exception to this adage. It’s an industry that has long benefited from advancements in technology that have increasingly enriched the quality of films and programs and have also condensed the filmmaking process across the entire pipeline from pre-production to distribution and exhibition.

But while it’s easy to look back and see how digital tech has improved the sector, assessing the future of the business as it stands on the threshold of two hot button topics — Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine — is much less clear.

AI has been increasingly polarizing, with Twitter owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak among more than 1,100 signatories of an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of advanced AI systems, citing “risks to society”. Meanwhile,...

While these generative Al models are designed to facilitate communication and provide helpful responses, experts have raised concerns that these pose great risks of hacking and data breaches that could compromise personal information.

A report by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 showed recently that ChatGPT-related scams are surging and despite OpenAI (the creator of ChatGPT) giving users a free version of ChatGPT, scammers lead victims to fraudulent websites, claiming they need to pay for these services.

"They might collect and steal the input you provide. In other words, providing anything sensitive or confidential could put you in danger. The chatbot’s responses could also be manipulated to give you incorrect answers or misleading information," said researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.

The report observed an increase of 910 per cent in monthly registrations for domains related to ChatGPT between November 2022-April 2023.

AI has long been a part of the cybersecurity industry. However,...

New Delhi, April 18 (Ians) After slamming OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Elon Musk is now working on “TruthGPT,” a ChatGPT alternative that will act as a “maximum truth-seeking AI.” In an interview with Fox News, Musk said that an alternative approach to AI creation is needed to “avoid the destruction of humanity”.

“I’m going to start something which I call ‘TruthGPT’ or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk was quoted as saying.

“And I think this might be the best path to safety in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe,” the Twitter CEO added.

In February, Musk for the first time tweeted that what we need is a “TruthGPT.”

The revelation comes as the billionaire has created a new company called X.AI which...

New Delhi, April 15 (Ians) Twitter CEO Elon Musk has created a new company called X.AI which will promote artificial intelligence (AI) in the ChatGPT era.

Incorporated in Nevada, Texas, the company has Musk as the only listed director, and Jared Birchall, director of Musk’s family office, as secretary, according to a filing.

X.AI has authorised the sale of 100 million shares for the privately held company, reports Wall Street Journal.

Musk aims to create an AI firm to take on Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the creator of the successful AI chatbot called ChatGPT.

Ironically, it was Musk who initially invested $100 million in OpenAI, but later exited the company.

In recent months, ChatGPT and Gpt-4 have become a rage worldwide.

In March, several top entrepreneurs and AI researchers, including Musk and Steve Wozniak, Co-founder of Apple, wrote an open letter, asking all AI labs to immediately pause training of AI...

A British radio and TV presenter has expressed the fear that his career will be rendered obsolete with the rise of ChatGPT, and the prospect of A.I. robots who will become better, funnier, cleverer, and at the fraction of the price of human beings on screen.

Greg James has been presenting the BBC’s Radio 1 youth-targeted Breakfast Show since 2018, and has recently made the move into TV, hosting a new reality show on Channel 4, Rise and Fall.

Striking a similar tone to a prescient interview David Bowie gave in 2000, giving advance notice of the good and the bad potential of the internet, something his interviewer seemingly scoffed at – and which is still often re-broadcast – James told the British press:

“I’ve got to be better than an A.I. That’s my challenge. It’s quite scary, how quickly things are moving but we can work with technology.

New Delhi, April 4 (Ians) As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a talking point on social media, representatives from Indian schools and experts on Tuesday expressed divisive concerns over children’s exposure to the AI chatbot in the classrooms.

Schools around the world have already banned ChatGPT, citing concerns that the AI tool which has been helping people write poems, essays and even work papers, can provide inaccurate information and enable cheating.

According to Nikita Tomar Mann, Principal at Indraprastha Global School in Noida, as amazing and fascinatingly incredible as it appears, “ChatGPT is still at a nascent stage” for us to fully comprehend its ramifications.

“Schools must keep it at bay for the time being, till such time we understand its need and utility at the school level,” Mann told Ians.

Children should rather be trained to be doing their own research, assimilate information, and construct their own knowledge out of it.

San Francisco, March 31 (Ians) Microsoft-owned OpenAI, the company that created AI chatbot ChatGPT, is facing a new complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) being asked to investigate the company and suspend its commercial deployment of large language models, including ChatGPT.

The nonprofit research group Center for AI and Digital Policy (Caidp) made public its complaint against OpenAI on Thursday, alleging the company violated Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair and deceptive business practices, reports CNBC.

According to Caidp, Gpt-4 is “biased, deceptive, and a risk to privacy and public safety”.

Moreover, the AI policy group said the large language model fails to meet the agency’s standards for AI to be “transparent, explainable, fair, and empirically sound while fostering accountability”, according to the report.

The group is asking the FTC to require OpenAI to establish an independent assessment of Gpt products before they are deployed in the future.

Over 1,400 tech leaders and academics including Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have signed an open letter calling on Artificial Intelligence developers to pause training of some of their more sophisticated AI experiments, citing risks they claim could result in “loss of control of our civilization.”

The letter, published by the Future of Life Coalition on Wednesday, comes at an unprecedented period of growth for AI, which has garnered significant attention in recent months thanks to chatbots like ChatGPT, image generators like Dalle-2 and Midjourney and voice-cloning software.

Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak are among the more than 1,100 signatories of an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of advanced A.I. systems.

The letter calls on technology companies to cease training A.I. systems that would be more powerful than the latest large language processing system known as the Gpt-4. According to Fortune magazine, A.I. power tends to correlate with the model’s size and the number of specialized computer chips needed to train it.

Musk has been outspoken in concerns about unrestricted A.I.’s threat to humanity and was was an original cofounder of the OpenAI nonprofit research lab in 2015. He broke with that company in 2018 and has since been critical of the company’s acceptance of billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft.

Other signatories to the open letter include Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI,...

At its third annual developer conference on Wednesday, NBCUniversal introduced a range of new products and capabilities aimed at enhancing the media company’s appeal to advertisers. Among them: a new “content quality index” partnership with MarketCast; an expansion of in-scene advertising capabilities; and the certification of 29 new measurement partners.

The One23 event in New York is named after NBCU’s One Platform, which unifies the company’s many advertising venues, across streaming, digital, social and linear TV. This year’s confab features appearances by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and NBC late-night host Jimmy Fallon. With an emphasis on technology, it is designed to complement the annual NewFronts and upfronts presentations by NBCU to advertisers in May. (Disney has added a similar event in the first quarter of recent years.)

A press release issued at the start of the conference highlighted 18 initiatives across areas like measurement, data, innovation, commerce. One...

Before he was a household name, Seth Rogen was really determined to become one. Back when his only notable role was as Ken Miller in the cult hit "Freaks and Geeks," the up-and-coming actor had big ambitions to take over Hollywood -- if only so that, as he told Vanity Fair in 2012, he could "get girls to sleep with [him]". In fact, before he gained major fame for his role in early 2000s Judd Apatow comedies, Rogen said he was "incredibly angry and repressed," despite his reputation as a down-to-earth, slightly sarcastic nice guy.

Clearly the young Canadian had something to prove, and Apatow had taken notice. The soon-to-be king of blockbuster comedy was planning his takeover of the genre and was going to bring Rogen along for the ride if it killed him. As "Freaks" writer J. Elvis Weinstein put it, Apatow was seemingly on "a mission to make this kid a star.

These days, Seth Rogen is showing up in Steven Spielberg movies and posting pictures of his pottery on Twitter. But back in the early-2000s, he had a near-legendary run appearing in Judd Apatow comedies, which truly jump-started his career. After his supporting role alongside Steve Carell in Apatow's 2005 effort "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," Rogen took on the starring role in the director's next project: the romantic comedy "Knocked Up."

Playing Ben Stone, the lovable stoner with a slacker mentality, the actor was described by Peter Sciretta in /Film's original "Knocked Up" review, as someone who "reminds me of a lot of my friends." Scenes with Ben and his band of layabout buddies feel like you're watching actual friends hanging out and busting balls. In fact, the movie succeeded in realistically depicting all kinds of life situations. Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann's Pete and Debbie felt so much like an...

With "The Fabelmans," which our review called "One of Steven Spielberg's warmest, most autobiographical films," the revered filmmaker now has a movie about his own origin story. Considering what the filmmaker has accomplished in the industry in more than half a century, it's fitting. But unlike superhero origin stories, there are no villains in this one, though that role could have easily been filled by Seth Rogen's character.

In the movie — which Spielberg directed and co-wrote with longtime collaborator Tony Kushner — Rogen plays Bennie, an honorary uncle to Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel Labelle), a Jewish boy based on Spielberg who grows up in post-World War II America with dreams of becoming a filmmaker. Sammy discovers that his mother, Mitzi (Michelle Williams), has an affair, cheating on his workaholic father, Burt (Paul Dano), with Bennie.

Bennie is based on "Uncle" Bernie Adler, the man whom Spielberg could have blamed, villainized,...

In the TV and film industry, "typecasting" refers to when an actor is consistently given the same kinds of roles. Sometimes, all it takes is a single memorable role for an actor to be cast as a similar character on a regular basis. It can often be a source of frustration for actors who want to branch out and demonstrate their versatility by playing a wide range of characters but are stuck with a label that prevents them from doing so. However, some actors seem to have no problems being constantly cast as the "mad scientist," the "loveable dufus," the "strong silent hero," or another type. After all, a regular paycheck is a regular paycheck.

Some actors have been lucky enough to make a successful career out of sticking to a certain genre only to branch out into roles completely unlike their previous work — often to critical acclaim. Here, we...

Riyadh, March 27 (Ians) Calling for international standards on space-junk data sharing, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said on Sunday that his new space venture called Privateer will “map” space junk. Speaking at the ‘Global Entrepreneurship Congress’ (Gec) event, Wozniak noted that currently, the efforts and launches and money that is coming from private instead of […]...

Steve Wozniak went up against the real-life "Molly's Game" ringleader, but the look on his face says it all ... he can win the pot like the best of 'em. The Woz and Molly Bloom spoke at the cryptocurrency convention, ChainXChange, at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, but had a meeting of the poker minds backstage before going onstage. If you're unfamiliar with Molly ... she's a badass. Molly's the inspiration for Aaron Sorkin's first film as a director.

See if you can identify the following people: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Mark Porat.

If you puzzled over the last name, don't feel bad. Porat was the founder of a technology company called General Magic, which you also probably haven't heard of despite it once being described in Forbes magazine as "the most important dead company in Silicon Valley." Matthew Maude and Sarah Kerruish's documentary General Magic, receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, provides a compelling history of a company that created a groundbreaking product that was unfortunately ahead of its time.

The company, started...

With the fifth season of “Silicon Valley” in full swing, it only felt right to have Zach Woods swing by TheWrap HQ once again — and we had a lot to ask him.

Woods has turned Jared Dunn — the straight-laced financial guru of “Pied Piper” with a penchant for revealing the most shocking details about his character’s murky background — into a fan favorite. (Just last week, we find out Jared’s stepmom wouldn’t let him eat pizza as a kid because “Italians aren’t real white people.”) But does Woods, who spends his time pretending to be a budding tech exec, envy anything about real-life startup employees? Not really, it turns out.

We tackled plenty more with Woods, including:

Also Read: Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Dumps Facebook

– Playing “F—, Marry, Kill” with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

– Why “Hard Knocks” is one of his favorite HBO shows, even though he doesn’t give a damn about football.

– Not recognizing Tesla and SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk when he first met him — and what perturbed the entrepreneur about “Silicon Valley’s” caricature of Silicon Valley.

Also Read: Elon Musk Just Sold $3.5 Million Worth of Flamethrowers

There’s plenty more, too, so check out the rest of our interview.

“Silicon Valley” airs on HBO on Sunday at 10 pm Est. The series was just renewed for its sixth season earlier this week.

Read original story ‘Silicon Valley': Zach Woods on Tech Culture and the Time He Didn’t Recognize Elon Musk (Video) At TheWrap...

Actress and activist Susan Sarandon has joined the growing list of celebrities and public figures abandoning Facebook in the wake of its privacy scandal.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress this week that there has been no “dramatic fall-off” of users after the Cambridge Analytica revelations. But there certainly have been prominent defections, including Cher, Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey and Rosie O’Donnell.

Sarandon tweeted her discontent today, which she attributed to censorship. She also posted to Instagram, a platform that’s owned by Facebook.

I’m leaving Facebook. #DeleteFacebook https://t.co/ObgFJVlK1s pic.twitter.com/0BeGk56Epi

— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) April 12, 2018

She’s not alone.

In Silicon Valley, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said growing concerns about the lack of privacy and security on Facebook prompted his exit. “Everything we are doing is being watched or monitored, known to other people,” Woz said this week in an interview with USA Today.

As Facebook continues to spend time under the microscope, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has become the latest tech titan to dissect the social network’s flaws.

According to a report in USA Today, “Woz” has become the latest member of the #DeleteFacebook movement.

“Users provide every detail of their life to Facebook and … Facebook makes a lot of advertising money off this,” Wozniak wrote in an email to the newspaper. “The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back.”

Elon Musk took the plunge last month in the wake of revelations of a sizable data breach that resulted from an affiliation with research firm Cambridge Analytica. Initially, it was reported that personal information for 50 million Facebook users had been compromised — the number was then adjusted upward to 87 million. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington as the week begins, and...

Steve Wozniak, the tech philanthropist who co-founded Apple, said he is leaving Facebook over the social giant’s aggregation of users’ data — and how Facebook profits off that info.

“Users provide every detail of their life to Facebook and… Facebook makes a lot of advertising money off this,” he said in an email to USA Today, according to a story published Sunday. “The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back.”

By contrast, Wozniak said, “Apple makes its money off of good products, not off of you. As they say, with Facebook, you are the product.”

“The Woz” says he’s exiting Facebook as the social platform continues try to contain the damage from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook last week revealed last week that data on upwards of 87 million users may have been improperly obtained by the political consulting firm,...

Marking World Water Day, One Drop, the international foundation created by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté to bring safe water access to people across the globe, is proud to report that its signature fundraising event, One Night for One Drop imagined by Cirque du Soleil, has surpassed the $35 million goal it set for itself when the event inaugurated in 2013.

Presented by MGM Resorts International, the sixth edition of One Night for One Drop was held on Friday, March 2, when some of the biggest names in entertainment came together inside the Michael Jackson One Theatre at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, for this year’s one-night-only production inspired by the life of Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Jewel. The sold-out performance and its gala celebration catapulted One Drop past its original fundraising goal.

Highlights from the show included Jewel’s beautiful hit songs. An unforgettable opening with Arab’s Got Talent winner Emanne Beasha.

The one and only Bill Gates made his debut on The Big Bang Theory on Thursday, March 29, and as expected Leonard, Howard, and Raj could not keep their cool. The Microsoft founder played himself in the episode titled "The Gates Excitation," and viewers got a good look at the genius' comedic side. "It’s fun to have a show where people are allowed to be a little nerdy and a little bit smart, so I can relate to it, so I was thrilled when I got the chance," Bill, 62, said of his cameo. "They’re total professionals, so it was a blast." .@BillGates was thrilled to guest star on this week's new #BigBangTheory, and the cast was thrilled to have him. See what happened behind the scenes with this video from set! pic.twitter.com/19HVUrzKn7— The Big Bang Theory (@bigbangtheory) March 27, 2018 Johnny Galecki, who plays Leonard on the CBS series,...

The one and only Bill Gates will be making his debut on The Big Bang Theory tonight, and as expected Leonard, Howard, and Raj cannot keep their cool. The Microsoft founder will be playing himself in the episode titled "The Gates Excitation," and viewers will get a good look at the genius' comedic side. "It’s fun to have a show where people are allowed to be a little nerdy and a little bit smart, so I can relate to it, so I was thrilled when I got the chance," Bill, 62, said of his cameo. "They’re total professionals, so it was a blast.” .@BillGates was thrilled to guest star on this week's new #BigBangTheory, and the cast was thrilled to have him. See what happened behind the scenes with this video from set! pic.twitter.com/19HVUrzKn7— The Big Bang Theory (@bigbangtheory) March 27, 2018 Johnny Galecki, who plays Leonard on the CBS series,...

David Crow Mike Cecchini Dec 11, 2018

We have seen the pop culture glory that is Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Repeatedly. So we're ready to dissect every geeky gem in it!

This article contains more Ready Player One spoilers than a Nintendo Player’s Guide walkthrough.

Ready Player One is now out on Blu-ray and HBO, and fans are basking in all of its easter egg glory. While Steven Spielberg was able to infuse a creative spark into the film that allowed it to stand on more than only pure nostalgia, there is no denying that the immediate hook of Ernest Cline’s novel and the subsequent Spielberg blockbuster is its cornucopia of movie references, video game easter eggs, and pop culture homages to all things ‘80s. The film might be set in 2045, but it’s good to know that the future is just as obsessed with Gen-x and Millennial culture as we are today!

Geek god Bill Gates is set to drop by The Big Bang Theory — and in doing so, cause quite a commotion.

The Microsoft founder will make a special guest-starring appearance as himself in a late March episode of TV’s No. 1 sitcom, when he attends a work function at Penny’s (played by Kaley Cuoco) pharmaceutical company. Getting wind of the VIP visit, Leonard, Sheldon et al do everything in their power to meet the computing icon.

Gates thus becomes the latest in an ever-longer line of nerd-tastic castings on the CBS hitcom, following in the footsteps of Star Trek...

Ryan Lambie Dec 29, 2017

Black Mirror delivers its scariest and most visually arresting episode yet in Metalhead. Spoilers ahead in our review...

This review contains spoilers for Metalhead.

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After the quivering slab of weirdness that was Terminator: Genisys, it was a wonder what on earth was left to be done with James Cameron’s ageing killer cyborg franchise. This episode of Black Mirror, I’d argue, offers on potential answer: pare the damn thing right down to its bare essentials: a would-be human target on the run, and a homicidal machine in hot pursuit.

Director David Slade has form in tense, blood-curdling horror (see also: Hard Candy, 30 Days Of Night and, er, Twilight: Eclipse), and he brings a brilliantly lean nastiness to Metalhead -...

Jake Laverde Nov 6, 2017

Fans of Digitiser? Here's why Mr Biffo's Found Footage might just be the web series you were looking for...

Memory is a funny thing. Rather than the fixed viewpoint we expect it to be, memories are malleable objects. Their shapes changed over time, exact details fading away replaced with approximations. But what we remember with sharp clarity is how we felt. TV shows, films music and books can fuel our nostalgia and bring us back to cosier simple times.

It’s the cracks between memories that Mr Biffo’s/Paul Rose Found Footage resides in; a web sketch show that mixes in genuine VHS footage with surreal sketches that play with memory and nostalgia. Riffing on high concept 80s detective shows, cartoon spin offs and songs dedicated to early microcomputer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Sir Clive Sinclair all rendered in gloriously glitchy VHS effect. Further selling the...

It might not have had anything as truly bizarre as Steve Wozniak doing the worm but Dancing with the Stars' Guilty Pleasure Night for season 25 was all over the place. This was especially true when it came to scores. The judges couldn't seem to agree on anything.

People is celebrating the Sept. 18 premiere of Dancing with the Stars‘ 25th season with 25 days of exclusive interviews, fun retrospectives, and new details about what fans can expect from the milestone season.

Another season of Dancing with the Stars means another season of passionate paso dobles, charming cha chas, and titillating tangos.

As fans gear up for season 25 of the ABC reality dance competition (premiering Sept. 18), People presents a list of the most outrageous dances in the show’s history:

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Bristol Pailin & Mark Ballas – the Monkees theme song (Season...

It’s easy to look at AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire” going into its fourth and final season as a completely different show than the one that premiered in 2015. The drama series about technology gurus in the early days of the 1980s computer boom initially told a story about two colleagues — Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) and Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) — who were engaged in a Steve Jobs vs. Steve Wozniak style relationship. Working to create an Ibm competitor, the two clashed on producing hardware and how to market the products. Season 2, however, presented a dramatic shift. Joe and...

James Franco and Seth Rogen have been friends and colleagues for a long time now, starting with a different 90's teen series, Freak and Geeks, back in 1999. Since then, they have appeared in countless films together, including what I consider the "Rogen/Franco Trilogy" made up of Pineapple Express, This Is The End, and The Interview; all about the undying bromance between the two on-screen stoners. This doesn't count the many cameos the two have enjoyed in the other's projects and the upcoming, well reviewed, The Disaster Artist.

And that's just acting! Both have experience behind the camera, with Franco directing The Disaster Artist, the documentary Saturday Night, and an episode of the Hulu show he starred in, Stephen King's 11.22.63. Seth Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg have also directed films and TV, from The Interview and This Is The End, to three episodes of AMC's Preacher. Rogen...

Alec Bojalad Jul 21, 2019

Need a laugh? Got 90 - 120 minutes to kill? Let us help with our list of the best comedy movies on Amazon Prime

Editor's Note: This post is updated monthly. Bookmark this page and come back to see what other excellent movie comedies get added to Amazon Prime.

Updated for August 2019.

You can see a complete list of Amazon new releases here.

Here's a fun fact about laughter for you. Some anthropologists believe laughter is an excellent way for primal man to express relief and signal that danger has passed once the saber-toothed tiger ambles away. Thankfully we don't have to deal with many saber-toothed tigers but that doesn't mean it doesn't feel great to laugh.

In that spirit, we've compiled a list of the best comedy movies on Amazon Prime for your viewing and laughing pleasure. This is an evergreen article, not tied to any specific time...

Top 5 Seth Rogen MoviesTop 5 Seth Rogen MoviesAmanda Wood & Adriana Floridia8/11/2016 10:00:00 Am

Canada’s own Seth Rogen has become pretty prolific in the industry these past couple years, with at least one new movie released every year. This month he’s got another movie hitting theatres with Sausage Party.

We don’t know about you, but Sausage Party is one of our most anticipated movies of the summer. There have been lots of good animation movies recently, but this is a little different. It’s not often that we see an animated movie aimed at adults, and Sausage Party certainly isn’t targeted towards kids.

If you haven’t watched the hilariously outrageous trailer, the plot follows a hot dog weiner (voiced by Rogen) who discovers the horrors of the world outside the grocery store and strives to let his food companions know the truth. Literally everybody is in this,...

On July 15, 1996, IndieWire launched as an e-mail newsletter providing “the daily news service for independent film.” (See the first newsletter here.) The original iteration of the site was the brainchild of Cheri Barner, Eugene Hernandez and Mark Rabinowitz, three recent college students obsessed with the movies. In the ensuing years, IndieWire grew and changed hands many times over. Barner now works as a talent manager in Los Angeles, Hernandez is the deputy director of the Film Society Lincoln Center, and Rabinowitz is a freelance publicist, consultant and programmer.

But they have remained a part of our close-knit community. As IndieWire arrives at its 20th anniversary, the trio gathered together for their first joint interview to recall the early days of IndieWire — as well as the thriving American independent film scene that inspired the publication.

Eugene Hernandez: IndieWire was an outgrowth of something that Mark, Cheri and I had started in 1995. At the time,...

WonderCon left San Francisco in 2011 under the guise that the Moscone Convention Center needed to be renovated. Bay Area residents were told that the move was temporary. Yet here we are in 2016, and WonderCon appears to have found a new home in the welcoming arms of Orange County. Nevertheless, there is still hope for those who live on the geek side in the Bay Area.

This year Silicon Valley held its inaugural Comic Con, and according to numbers posted by Silicon Valley Comic Con (Svcc) close to 60,000 guests made their way to San Jose over the course of three days. This places Steve Wozniak’s Comic Con as the biggest convention in Northern California.

The event celebrated science, technology, and pop culture with marquee events such as: the first North American reunion of the cast of Back to the Future, “Let’s go to Mars” with The Martian author Andy Weir,...

We took a road trip up to San Jose last weekend to check out the first ever Silicon Valley Comic Con. This was Steve Wozniak (of Apple fame) & Stan Lee’s venture. As we should have guessed by the location alone, this wasn’t the kind of con we’re used to. It was nerd on nerd (tech meets comics) and way more male-centric than the cons we usually go to. There were some great guests though like Nathan Fillion, Jeremy Renner, William Shatner, and a Back To The Future reunion. Watch the video to see how it all went down.

Also, interesting to note, there were far fewer Deadpools (our count was barely in the double digits) and instead Marty McFly & Spider Man cosplay were every where we turned. And also we only saw one Spider Gwen, but tons of girls wearing Spider Man and Spider-Woman costumes. This says something about SoCal vs.

Simon Pegg is in negotiations to join Olivia Cooke, Tye Sheridan and Ben Mendelsohn in Steven Spielberg's sci-fi feature "Ready Player One" at .

Based on the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, the story is set in a virtual reality universe called Oasis that humans in the not-too-distant future come to prefer to living in the real world.

The action begins when James Halliday, the founder of Oasis, dies and offers his fortune up in a treasure hunt that brings out all kinds of contestants - including a teenager named Wade Watts (Sheridan).

Pegg will play Ogden 'Og' Morrow, the co-creator of Oasis and best friend of Halliday. Rich yet humble, the role is said to parallel that of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Zak Penn penned the script for the film which opens March 2018.

Source: The Wrap...

Steve Jobs. It’s a name synonymous with technological innovation. In the new film that bears the same name, we get a peek into the life of that man during three very different moments in his life. Jobs (Michael Fassbender) cofounded Apple with his friend Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) in a garage. Despite their differences in personality and approach, the Apple IIc they developed there was instrumental in building the early iterations of the company now known for iPads, iPhones and all that other cool stuff beginning with “i.” As Jobs changes through the years, he chooses to ignore the past … Continue reading →

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We think we know Steve Jobs, the maestro behind Apple but unless you read one of his biographies or watch Jobs or Steve Jobs, you only have impressions. General audiences will recognize the man in the black turtleneck and know he gave us the iPod, iPhone, Macintosh, etc. but most will mistakenly credit him for being the builder of these gadgets.

Read Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography or study Jobs through the myriad video interviews or articles available online and you come to understand he was a visionary who pushed, prodded, cajoled, wheedled, and demanded his workers to meet his exacting standards.

Capturing that volatile and complex man on film would be a challenge for any production crew but director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin were the kind you wanted for something challenging. Sorkin took Isaacson’s bio as a starting point but then read and read more material.