Hulu Schedule December 11-17: New TV Shows & Movies Being Added

In a shocking development, the American magazine, the New Republic has crowned X owner Elon Musk as ‘The Scoundrel of the Year'. In a long article liberally seeded with choice name-calling, the magazine charted out the actions and decisions made by the billionaire in 2023 that got his this dubious award. The New Republic said, “He proved this year that he's not just evil but deeply stupid too”. This comes after Musk made the headlines recently for posting anti-semitic comments on X, which led to multiple advertisers boycotting the platform and also using expletives during a live interview.

Amid rising concerns and multiple legal battles of authors, publishers, and media houses over large language models (LLMs) using their copyrighted work to train AI systems, the New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. The publisher has alleged that the two AI firms have been using the former's copyrighted published work unauthorized to train their respective AI models. This lawsuit has now heightened the conflict between publishers and AI companies, as regulatory institutions still try to figure out the right way to control and monitor the data AI models are trained on. 

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Apple has opened negotiations in recent weeks with major news and publishing organizations, seeking permission to use their material in the company's development of generative artificial intelligence systems, the New York Times reported on Friday.

The festive period is finally upon us, and what better time is there to kick back on the sofa and work through your watch list? As usual, too, this Christmas is jam-packed full of great new releases on streaming, meaning that there will be plenty to keep you occupied after stuffing yourself with turkey. Among the highlights are a festive Doctor Who special to kick off Ncuti Gatwa's season as the Time Lord as well as Zack Snyder's hugely-anticipated new sci-fi adventure, Rebel Moon Part One. 

The New World team is,once again, discussing their methods of storytelling, with a highlight on music and sounds. In prior videos, they’ve touched on the subject, particularly with Brimstone Sands, but now, after four seasonal releases and the first expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, there’s a lot more to talk about.

First launched in 2020, the PlayStation 5 is now one of the most popular consoles of all time and a fan favourite with experienced and newbie gamers alike.

Wordle was a lockdown phenomenon: one of those games that, merits aside, simply landed at the right time. I've kicked the habit now but like pretty much everyone else I had a Wordle phase with the family WhatsApp group and, yes, when I'm nearly out of chances I have gone running to my six-letter friend Google. Wordle's enormous popularity was such that, in January 2022, the New York Times purchased the game from creator Josh Wardle for a sum «in the low seven figures.»

Starting on December 20, viewers can start streaming the first two episodes of the first season of the highly anticipated fantasy series,. The first season of the series will be based on Rick Riordan’s first book of the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and see Percy Jackson and his friends Grover and Annabeth Chase go on a quest to retrieve Zeus’ lightning bolt and catch the real thief after Percy is falsely accused by Zeus for stealing the lightning bolt. Walker Scobell of The Adam Project will essay the role of Percy.

The latest rumors for seem to suggest that and will be appearing in the film and fans are curious if there’s any truth to the rumors. Here is all you need to know.

The version 1.6 update for Honkai: Star Rail, dubbed “Crown of the Mundane and Divine,” will launch on December 27, developer miHoYo announced.

Starting on December 12, viewers can stream Wes Anderson’s latest project, Asteroid City, a comedy-drama that revolves around the events at a 1955 Junior Stargazer convention from the perspective of multiple attendees in the form of a play. The film serves as Anderson’s homage to popular memory and mythology about extraterrestrials and UFOs witnessed in the Southwestern deserts of the United States during the postwar period of the American 20th century and features an ensemble cast that includes Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wright, Willem Dafoe, Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, Steve Carrell, Jeff Goldblum, and Maya Hawke, among other cast members.