[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 21 Episode 4 “Left Unsaid.â€] Okay, we’ll admit we were among those hoping for an appearance from Special Agent Kensi Blye tonight, considering the episode was directed by Daniela Ruah, who played the badass agent on NCIS: LA from 2009 to 2023. But we’re happy to have Ruah (who previously directed episodes of NCIS: LA) bring her knowing eye to helming NCIS. “It was the first time I was directing on ‘the mothership’ as we lovingly call it,†Ruah tells us in Case Closed, our NCIS aftershow. “It almost didn’t matter…
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Anthropic on Monday debuted Claude 3, a suite of artificial intelligence models that it says are its fastest and most powerful yet. The new tools are called Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku.The company said the most capable of the new models, Claude 3 Opus, outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra on industry benchmark tests, such as undergraduate level knowledge, graduate level reasoning and basic mathematics.This is the first time Anthropic has offered multimodal support. Users can upload photos, charts, documents and other types of unstructured data for analysis and answers.The other models, Sonnet and Haiku, are more compact…
A sign is pictured above a branch of New York Community Bank in Yonkers, New York, on Jan. 31, 2024.Mike Segar | ReutersRegional lender New York Community Bank may have to pay more to retain deposits after one of the company’s key ratings was slashed for the second time in a month.Late Friday, Moody’s Investors Service cut the deposit rating of NYCB’s main banking subsidiary by four notches, to Ba3 from Baa2, putting it three levels below investment grade. That followed a two-notch cut from Moody’s in early February.The downgrade could trigger contractual obligations from business clients of NYCB who require…
Former Trump Organization Finance Chief Allen Weisselberg attends a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on March 04, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesFormer Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty Monday to perjury charges related to his testimony in the New York civil fraud trial of Donald Trump and his company.Appearing in Manhattan criminal court in handcuffs and a face mask, the 76-year-old Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury in the first degree. He was initially charged with five counts.The Manhattan district attorney recommended that a judge sentence Weisselberg to five months…
The owners of this Florida mansion are asking for $24 million for their almost 11,500 square-foot residence inside one of the most expensive gated communities in Delray Beach, Florida.The price tag puts the home, known as Villa Ananda, at a price per square foot of almost $2,100, which is well beyond record-breaking territory for a non-oceanfront home in the town.Aerial view of Villa Ananda and the man-made lake that wraps around the estate rear garden.Daniel Petroni Photography”As long as affluent clientele regard Florida as a haven for lifestyle and tax benefits, the ultra luxury real estate market will flourish,” listing…
This Is Lorelei, the solo project of Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos, has announced a new album. Box for Buddy, Box for Star arrives June 14 via Double Double Whammy. He’s shared the new song “Dancing in the Club,†a character study of the romantic screw-up archetype, with a music video directed by Joey Agresta. Watch it below.Although Box for Buddy, Box for Star is the latest in a long line of solo records by Amos as This Is Lorelei, it’s technically the first solo full-length album that he’s written with a traditional LP release format in mind. Its…
Kylie Minogue has spoken to NME about potentially experimenting with indie folk music next, and revealed that she is open to new collaborations. Watch our interview above. The pop legend spoke to NME on the red carpet of the 2024 BRIT Awards, before receiving the award for Global Icon and closing out the ceremony by performing a medley of her biggest hits. Ahead of the show, NME asked the ‘Padam Padam’ singer about her recent comments about wanting to experiment with new genres – particularly indie folk. “I just listen to playlists of one song I like, which leads me…
Instagram launched direct messaging tools way back in 2013, but there hasn’t been a way to edit them after the fact. That changes today. Meta just rolled out a software update for the Instagram app that with one major caveat. You only have 15 minutes to make any changes.Here’s how it works. Once you send a direct message and realize you made a huge blunder, like “accidentally†professing your love to an old college buddy, just press and hold on the sent message. This will create a dropdown menu. Look for “edit†and make the required changes. Nobody will ever…
Apple unveiled two new models of MacBook Air on Monday, March 4. The new 13-inch and 15-inch models now come equipped with Apple’s 3nm M3 chipset. Apart from the processor, there are some minor upgrades in the tech giant’s refreshed MacBook Air lineup for 2024. The company is also claiming up to 18 hours of battery life with the upgraded laptops. Notably, last year, the iPhone maker refreshed the MacBook Pro lineup, bringing the M3 SoC to its flagship-tier laptops.Apple MacBook Air (2024) price in India, availabilityThe new 13-inch Apple MacBook Air with the M3 chipset is priced at Rs.…
Josh Folsom has sworn he‘s tried to change where he came from by helping others and solving crimes. Yet when he suspected Kahn Schefter murdered his mother, he snapped. Many of us can relate to that as you’d want to harm someone who killed your parents, but would you do it, especially if you were law enforcement? Josh’s arc has been tricky. Some people relate to it, while others hate it. Luckily, it ended tonight when the undersheriff and the review board decided his fate. TV Fanatic chatted with Matt Lauria about his thoughts on Josh’s…
Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks at a “Get Out the Vote” Rally in Conway, South Carolina, on February 10, 2024. Julia Nikhinson | Afp | Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed the Colorado court ruling that barred former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot because of a provision in the U.S. Constitution on insurrection.The Supreme Court’s ruling means that no other state can bar Trump — or any other candidate from now on — from a presidential ballot or election for Congress by invoking the insurrection clause in…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is reviewing ideas from the private sector on how to augment the Global Positioning System constellation with smaller, lower-cost satellites. The Space Force’s procurement arm, the Space Systems Command, last month issued a request for information probing the capabilities of the private sector to design a a more affordable GPS spacecraft that is also interoperable with existing GPS infrastructure. A network of 31 GPS satellites 12,000 miles above Earth broadcast positioning, navigation and timing signals. The military’s current GPS spacecraft are built by Lockheed Martin. The company last year delivered the 10th and final…
Can quantum computers be useful?Eric Lukero/Google Google and XPRIZE are launching a $5 million competition to find practical uses for quantum computers that could actually benefit society. We already know that quantum computers can perform specific tasks faster than classical computers, after Google first claimed quantum advantage for its Sycamore processor in 2019. However, these demonstration tasks are simple benchmarks with no real-world applications. “There’s a lot of rather abstract mathematical problems where we can prove quantum computers give very, very large speed-ups,†says Ryan Babbush at Google. “But a lot of the research community has been less focused on…
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A Culinary Visit to the Belly of the Country J G Lynas Share article King of All Hogs by J G Lynas We’d been driving for two days, unsure where we were in this land of grass and hard dirt, the world made liminal by the blur of the road, by the pleasant haze of our cigarettes. Inside the car, with me and Mark and a dash full of snacks, all was fusty, dusty, happy, and warm. We slept by the roadside, pissed where we pleased, honked the horn into the moonless night. Mark had heard about Guthrie Farm from…
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I know firsthand how overwhelming it can be to shop Net-a-Porter’s treasure-filled sale section. There are so many gems (and sparkling designer distractions) on every page that it gets hard to keep the focus and streamline your cart based on your actual needs, especially if you are trying to stick to a more reasonable budget. At a friend’s request, I recently took a deep-dive and came up with a lovely selection of pieces that are sure to be worn for many seasons to come while still nodding to the current trends.My virtual cart ended up being filled with a variety…
Some of the biggest films of 2023 have made their streaming debuts, joining the long list of exciting TV titles coming out in March. Christopher Nolan fans can now watch Oppenheimer on Peacock, just in time for the 2024 Oscars where it’s expected to rake in a bundle of awards. The shocking and twisted Saltburn is also now available to stream, as is Sofia Coppola‘s Priscilla, which like Saltburn stars Jacob Elordi. On the TV side, Kate Winslet returns to the small screen in HBO‘s The Regime in which she plays a wacky but dangerous dictator of an unnamed country in Middle Europe. Come for…