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A new generation of storm chasers takes on Mother Nature in Twisters trailer
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, and Glen Powell star in Twisters, a standalone film inspired by the 1996 classic.
Like so many others, I adored the 1996 film Twister, now a classic in the "disaster porn" genre and still in frequent weekend and holiday rotation on broadcast and cable networks nearly 30 years later. We're finally getting a follow-up with Twisters, directed by Lee Isaac Chung (Minari). Universal Pictures dropped the official trailer during the Super Bowl on Sunday.
(Some spoilers for the original film below.)
Twister rocked the 1996 box office, racking up $495 million worldwide and snagging an Oscar nomination for special effects. Critics' reactions were more mixed. The film earned well-deserved praise for its special effects and sheer entertainment value. Who can forget the flying cows, the jaw-dropping CGI twisters, and that classic scene when a tornado suddenly rips through a drive-in movie screen right in the middle of The Shining? But others criticized the thin character development and dismissed the film as "loud," "dumb," and "a triumph of technology over storytelling and the actor's craft."
After Figma's $20 Billion Windfall Evaporated, It's Picking Up the Pieces
Regulatory scrutiny felled the sale of Figma, a design platform, to Adobe. Now it's grappling with employee expectations and a changing market.
Watermarking the future
A video of Elizabeth Warren saying Republicans shouldn't vote went viral in 2023. But it wasn't Warren. That video of Ron DeSantis wasn't the Florida governor, either. And nope, Pope Francis was not wearing a white Balenciaga coat.
Generative AI has made it easier to create deepfakes and spread them around the internet. One of the most common proposed solutions involves the idea of a watermark that would identify AI-generated content. The Biden administration has made a big deal out of watermarks as a policy solution, even specifically mandating tech companies to find ways to identify AI-generated content. The president's executive order on AI, released in November, was built on commitments from AI developers to figure out a way to tag...
Helsinki-based Bob W, an Airbnb-like marketplace for premium short-term apartment rentals, raised a €40M Series B led by Evli Growth
Bob W, a marketplace for premium short-term apartment rentals, has raised €40 million ($43 million) in a Series B round of funding.
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