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AI's impact on jobs, tech's touchy topic
AFP, Published on 27/03/2025
» NEW YORK — "Stop Hiring Humans" read a provocative sign at an artificial intelligence (AI )conference in Las Vegas, where the impact of new artificial intelligence models on the world of work had sparked some unease.
Academy unearths long-lost 'race films' in Black cinema exhibit
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Long before Denzel Washington, Spike Lee or even Sidney Poitier, generations of pioneering and revolutionary Black US filmmakers played a key role in shaping early American cinema and dispelling pejorative stereotypes, a major new Hollywood exhibition argues.
Hong Kong parents decry child separations during virus surge
AFP, Published on 23/02/2022
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong parents are being separated from children and babies who test positive for the coronavirus, compounding public anger over the financial hub's lack of readiness for a major outbreak now sweeping the city.
A familiar question at Cannes: where are the women?
AFP, Published on 03/07/2021
» PARIS - With just four women among the directors behind the 24 films in competition for the Palme d'Or, a familiar script is playing out at Cannes.
Gay Pride events go online to mark 50th anniversary
AFP, Published on 28/06/2020
» PARIS: Fifty years on from the first Gay Pride march, the LGBT community and their supporters took many of their events online Saturday, responding to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
California to reopen filming, but virus hub Los Angeles 'weeks behind'
AFP, Published on 21/05/2020
» LOS ANGELES - California will unveil plans to reopen its world-famous entertainment industry next week but coronavirus hotspot Los Angeles faces further delays, the state's governor said Wednesday.
The Tooth Fairy won't catch the virus, Fauci assures seven-year-old
AFP, Published on 22/04/2020
» WASHINGTON - Top US health and infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci has assured a young girl that the tooth fairy is not at risk of infection during the coronavirus pandemic.
Kirk Douglas, from ragman's son to Hollywood icon
AFP, Published on 06/02/2020
» LOS ANGELES - American cinema giant Kirk Douglas, who died on Wednesday aged 103, rose to the heights of Hollywood from an impoverished childhood as the son of Jewish Russian immigrants.
Television's best and brightest shine on Emmys red carpet
AFP, Published on 23/09/2019
» LOS ANGELES: Both the looks and the temperature were red-hot Sunday on the Emmys red carpet, where Hollywood's top stars battled the heat and humidity to bring their fashion A-game.
'Easy Rider' star Peter Fonda dead at 79
AFP, Published on 17/08/2019
» LOS ANGELES: US actor Peter Fonda, the star of the classic 1969 road movie "Easy Rider," died Friday aged 79 from respiratory failure due to lung cancer, his family said.