Posts by Nathan Pine
Survivor 49’s Jake Latimer Details Recovery After Being Bit by Venomous Snake
‘Survivor’s Jeff Probst Details Contestant’s Snake Bite That Led to Medical Evacuation He may not have won Survivor, but Jake Latimer can still call himself a survivor. The contestant on season 49 of the reality competition series was airlifted out of Fiji and subsequently pulled from the game after being bitten by a highly venomous banded sea…
Read MoreNetflix’s Eleonora ‘Tinny’ Andreatta On “Telling Local Stories Away From The Stereotypes” During Streamer’s First Decade In Italy
Netflix is marking ten years in Italy in Rome this week with the streamer’s co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, in the Italian capital to mark the occasion, but its impact is deeper than simply a decade of work. Netflix’s VP of Original Content for Italy, Eleonora Andreatta, says the streamer has “broken taboos” that the industry held…
Read MoreTesla’s China shipments rise at start of busy sales season
The carmaker shipped 90,812 units from the plant last month, up 2.8% from a year earlier SHIPMENTS from Tesla’s Shanghai factory increased in September as China’s car market kicks off its busy sales period and automakers start their final push to meet annual targets. The carmaker shipped 90,812 units from the plant last month, up…
Read MoreBrazilian Star Wagner Moura “Scared” Of AI, But The Actor’s Not Afraid “Of The Truth” Being Told In Oscar Contender ‘The Secret Agent’ — Breaking Baz @ The London Film Festival
EXCLUSIVE: Wagner Moura, star of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s acclaimed Cannes Film Festival award-winner, The Secret Agent, is scared of AI and how to deal with it. “Especially,” he warns, “the idea that the truth as we know it, it’s kind of over. That scares the s**t out of me.” He worries that when you see someone speaking…
Read MoreSitges & Fantasia Horror ‘Lucid’ Gets International Sales & Canada Deals
EXCLUSIVE: Filmoption International has boarded genre feature Lucid ahead of its international premiere at Sitges Film Festival in Spain, where it is in competition for the Noves Visions Award, and its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival this month. Lucid, written and directed by Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall, had its world premiere at Fantasia Film…
Read MoreChina’s state banks ramp up US dollar buying to stabilise renminbi: sources
The combined actions of the lenders mark a reversal from last year’s efforts to defend the weakening renminbi [SHANGHAI/BEIJING] China’s major state-owned banks ramped up US dollar buying in the onshore foreign exchange market in recent weeks, people with knowledge of the matter said on Friday (Oct 10), as analysts said the move was aimed…
Read MoreTrump Misses Out On Nobel Peace Prize As Norwegian Org Fetes Venezuelan Politician María Corina Machado
Norway’s Nobel Committee announced on Friday that Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado had won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, dashing President Donald Trump’s reported hopes that he was in the frame for the award. The prize goes to a person or an organization that’s has done the most “for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or…
Read More‘Spitting Image’ Roasts “Studio C Anal” After Deadline Revealed Paddington Copyright Lawsuit
Spitting Image has delivered a typically waspish response after Deadline revealed this week that it had been served with a lawsuit by the owners of Paddington Bear. Avalon’s YouTube puppet sketch show roasted “Studio C Anal” (better known as StudioCanal), with Paddington wiping his derrière with the legal filing and declaring: “Your writ, my s**t.”…
Read MoreTata Consultancy Services slashes 19,755 jobs in biggest workforce cut amid AI, US strains
[MUMBAI] Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) made its steepest-ever job cuts as strained ties with the US and a rapid shift towards artificial intelligence reshape the country’s US$280 billion IT services sector. India’s biggest private-sector employer cut 19,755 employees in the quarter ended Sep 30, according to the company’s quarterly earnings presentation. That number includes staff…
Read MoreIsrael Ministers Approve Donald Trump’s Ceasefire & Hostage Release Plan
Israeli ministers have approved President Donald Trump‘s ceasefire and hostage release plan in Gaza. A short statement from the office of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu said: “The government has just now approved the framework for the release of all of the hostages – the living and the deceased.” The first phase of a ceasefire plan…
Read MoreComfortDelGro’s quiet tech play and why it’s not sweating GrabCab
Grab says it won’t poach rival drivers, but its entry may intensify Singapore’s tight market [SINGAPORE] Within just a decade, Grab has gone full circle from an entrant challenging incumbent taxi companies to becoming one itself. In July, three months after getting a street-hail license in Singapore, it launched its own taxi service GrabCab. With…
Read MoreAI jobs shock is coming and firms aren’t ready: Klarna CEO
The CEO sees the AI boom spelling the end to what he calls “excess profits” in both the banking and software industries [LONDON] From technology firms to translators, the world has not faced up to the consequences of artificial intelligence wiping out swathes of jobs, according to one of AI’s biggest cheerleaders in finance. “I…
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