Posts by Nathan Pine
Luca Guadagnino To Receive Filmmaker Award At Venice Film Festival
Call Me By Your Name and Challengers director Luca Guadagnino is set to receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (September 2nd – 12th, 2026). The award is bestowed on “a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.” The award ceremony will take place on Tuesday September 8thin the Sala Casinò (Palazzo…
Read MoreF&N nine-month net profit up 10.4% at S$130.6 million despite revenue drag
Income for the nine months falls 6% to S$1.7 billion due to forex headwinds and geopolitical disruptions [SINGAPORE] Food and beverage company Fraser and Neave (F&N) reported a 10.4 per cent rise in net profit before exceptional items to S$130.6 million for the nine months ended Jun 30. This is compared with S$118.2 million in…
Read More‘Pervert glasses’: Backlash against Meta’s smart glasses grows
Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit, but the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability, as some are calling the gadget “pervert glasses.” The social media giant dominates the market for smart glasses, which allow people to capture photos and videos, listen to music, take phone calls and ask questions…
Read MoreChinese AI Is Still Being Used To Plunder Hollywood IP
Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. Want to see Kim Jong Un gatecrashing Dunder Mifflin,…
Read MoreThe Caspian Sea Monster rises again
In the late 1950s, American intelligence analysts noticed a strange aircraft sitting beside a dock on the Caspian coast. It appeared to be a modified Tu-95 Bear bomber fitted with pontoons. It was never seen flying, but in the fevered years after Sputnik, some analysts wondered whether it might be a test for a nuclear-powered…
Read MoreDeutsche Bank, KBC freeze some Radiant World funds in Singapore
This comes amid concerns that Radiant World provided banks with falsified documents about iron ore trades Published Fri, Aug 7, 2026 · 05:17 PM [SINGAPORE] Radiant World is under growing pressure after two of its key banks froze its funds and major miners moved to cut ties with the iron ore trading house. Deutsche Bank…
Read MoreDonald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell trade bitter blows as feud reignites
President Donald Trump has reignited his decades-long feud with comedian Rosie O’Donnell after sharing an AI-generated image mocking her days after she claimed he appeared to be in poor health. Trump posted the image to his Truth Social account in the early hours of Friday morning. The AI-generated picture shows O’Donnell in what appears to…
Read MoreVolkswagen must cut costs faster to change, chairman says
Published Fri, Aug 7, 2026 · 04:23 PM VOLKSWAGEN’S majority owner urged Europe’s biggest carmaker to move quickly on cutting costs and excess capacity to return to competitiveness. Volkswagen should consider “every option” to usher in a turnaround, Porsche Automobil Holding said Friday. The holding company controlled by the Porsche-Piech owner family added that it…
Read MoreGreta Lee Reveals the Inspiration She Got From Working Alongside Taylor Swift on “Opalite” Music Video
Meanwhile, Moura—who shares kids Bem, 20, Salvador, 16, and José, 13, with wife Sandra Delgado—knew how important his bond with the Past Lives actress was for the project. “The entire film depended on that,” he explained to E!. “Greta is such a great actress. It was great. One thing that connected us, I think, was…
Read MoreChina central bank adds gold in Hong Kong amid trading hub push
This accelerates a longer-term trend where the People’s Bank of China moves gold reserves back home from London Published Fri, Aug 7, 2026 · 02:25 PM CHINA’S central bank is stockpiling more gold in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that is likely to support the city’s push to…
Read MoreMEtA Ordered To Pay An Additional $567M In New Mexico Social Media trial
In the second phase of New Mexico’s already big bucks social media lawsuit against META, a judge today slapped the Mark Zuckerberg created tech-giant with a penalty in the hundreds of millions of dollars and also put some potentially big restrictions about the company can and cannot do when it comes to kids being on…
Read MoreChinese AI chipmakers poised to gain from Beijing’s tech push
The country’s firms raise orders after Beijing mandates local tech firms find alternatives to Nvidia products Published Fri, Aug 7, 2026 · 01:10 PM CHINA’S artificial intelligence chip designers are expecting bumper sales this earnings season off the back of Beijing’s push to get local firms to use homegrown components and reduce their reliance on…
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