Summary Veronica Roth doesn’t mind that the Divergent movie franchise was never finished, understanding that the movies and her books were two separate things. The Divergent franchise struggled from the beginning, with the third movie ultimately being a box office flop due to poor execution and failure to capture the complexity of Roth’s novels. The … Read more
Partnerships between organizations end all the time. Sometimes it’s amicable, and sometimes it’s complicated. In the instance of Synapse and Evolve, it was complicated. Synapse operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services. It was providing those types of services as an intermediary between banking partner Evolve Bank & Trust … Read more
Suki Waterhouse has shared some rare new comments about life with boyfriend Robert Pattinson. The 31-year-old singer, actress, and model has been dating Robert, 37, since 2018 and they moved in together earlier this year. Suki talked about the process of moving in with Robert while chatting with podcaster Gillian Sagansky on Apple’s Driven Minds: … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — The European Union has pledged assistance worth 650 million euros to Ethiopia, nearly three years after it cut direct aid to the East African country over atrocities committed in a bloody civil war. Jutta Urpilainen, the EU commissioner for international partnerships, announced the agreement during a press conference with Ethiopian Finance Minister … Read more
Headlines This WeekOpenAI rolled out a number of big updates to ChatGPT this week. Those updates include “eyes, ears, and a voice” (i.e., the chatbot now boasts image recognition, speech-to-text and text-to-speech synthesization capabilities, and Siri-like vocals—so you’re basically talking to the HAL 9000), as well as a new integration that allows users to browse … Read more
On This Day: Sept. 24, 2008 The Happening Sarah Palin became an overnight political rock star when Republican presidential candidate John McCain introduced her as his running mate in the 2008 election cycle that eventually ushered President Barack Obama into the White House. His victory seemed less than assured when Palin introduced herself to the … Read more
ATHENS, Greece — Greeks had been voting Sunday within the first election since their nation’s financial system ceased to be topic to strict supervision and management by worldwide lenders who had supplied bailout funds throughout its practically decade-long monetary disaster. The vote pitches conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, a Harvard-educated former banking govt, in … Read more