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AI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion

If you've got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character's voice throughout a scene, there's a job listing calling for your experience. The catch: You won't be performing in a theater, a film studio, or an underground performance space. You'd be using your talents […]

Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)


From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London, one in Paris,accounted for nearly three billion dollars. But beyond the headline […]



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Resident Evil Requiem's Grace had to die for 'two to three minutes' to get the part

Angela Sant'Albano, Grace's VA in Resident Evil Requiem, tells Polygon how she got the role and made it into her own

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro are the choice — if you have a Galaxy phone

Samsung promised "more than a design refresh" for its new top-end Galaxy Buds - it added upgraded woofers for improved, dual-amped hi-fi sound, a new blade design, clearer call performance, and better noise cancellation. Ultimately, while the $249.99 Galaxy Buds 4 aren't a huge leap forward over the previous model, they keep what was good […]

The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse

In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. And another app - not as popular, but growing fast, and already hugely influential among the tech set - looked […]