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Lili Reinhart Says Male Director Told Her ‘Suck in Stomach’

Lili Reinhart Says Male Director Told Her ‘Suck in Stomach’

Lili Reinhart says a male director once told her to “suck in her stomach a little bit” while on set. In an interview with Cosmopolitan alongside her Forbidden Fruits co-stars, the actress was asked to recall an “acting note” she “took personally.” “When I had a male director come up to me and silently lean over and go, ‘Just suck in your stomach a little bit,’” Reinhart said, which made her co-stars gasp. “Oh my God! What is his name?,” Victoria Pedretti said to which Reinhart said she would tell them later. Despite Alexandra Shipp encouraging Reinhart to “say his name,” Reinhart kept mum. She also did not reveal the project she was filming on when the comment was allegedly made. “Time for a hex,” Lola Tung also said in response. Reinhart has been publicly open about her struggles with body dysmorphia and an eating disorder. In an interview with Self magazine last year, Reinhart revealed that during the filming of season six of the CW’s Riverdale, she experienced several health issues and weight gain, which prompted an …

Rockin’ farm fields suck up tons of CO2

Rockin’ farm fields suck up tons of CO2

The people of Sarekha Khurd have grown rice for longer than they can remember. A few hundred families live in this village in north-central India. Trees separate their little fields, which are slanty rectangles of land. As those fields turn gold each fall with ripened rice, a sweet smell perfumes the air. Harvest time is nearing. But these fields aren’t just growing grain: They’re also capturing carbon. Farmers here are part of a worldwide effort to combat climate change. Its goal is to pull billions of tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. In Sarekha Khurd, this effort starts in May. That’s when trucks rumble down dirt roads, dumping out huge piles of crushed, volcanic rock. Each load brings several hundred tons of gray basalt. Farmers sprinkle the dust-sized particles onto their fields. Weeks later, when the monsoon rains arrive, they plant rice. The dust comes from rock usually used in road building. People mine this basalt from a nearby quarry. It doesn’t look like anything special. Explainer: CO2 and other greenhouse gases …

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck

Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Tech leaders are predicting an imminent revolution in the field of robotics, promising a future in which humanoid robots can leverage the power of artificial intelligence to help us out in our day-to-day lives, from folding the laundry to taking care of the elderly. AI chipmaker Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang even went as far as to prophesize, in January of last year, that the “ChatGPT moment for general robotics is just around the corner” in January of last year. The desire for a robot-dominated future is certainly there, from Tesla CEO Elon Musk arguing its Optimus robot could turn his ailing car business into the most valuable company in the world, with demand for humanoid robots quickly becoming “insatiable.” This year’s CES convention in Las Vegas was expectedly chock-full of companies showing off a variety of robots, from bipedal assistants designed to fold towels to battlebots that beat each other up in the ring. There’s an immense amount of hype surrounding what the tech industry is hoping …

Why does AI suck at making clocks?

Why does AI suck at making clocks?

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. I can’t stop thinking about the website AI World Clocks. The premise is simple: all the major AI models on the market are asked to code a clock, and you get to see the results. The catch: They’re all beautiful disasters.  The numbers seem to be consistently in the wrong place, and sometimes are outside the clock itself. The hands may or may not be in the correct position, and sometimes are floating off in space outside of the clock. Even the clocks that are pretty good look…off, somehow.  “Telling time is a very human thing, very easy thing for us to do, and something you learn at a very young age,” Brian Moore, the artist behind the site, told me in an interview. “It’s kind of fun and funny to turn the tables—to see something a human could do very easily and a computer cannot.”  I’ve kept this site open throughout the process of writing this article and can confirm: …

15 Stephen King adaptations that don’t suck (and where to stream them)

15 Stephen King adaptations that don’t suck (and where to stream them)

No living author has had more of their work adapted for the screen than Stephen King. If it weren’t for William Shakespeare, you could expand that to “living or dead.” There are good Stephen King adaptations and terrible Stephen King adaptations. There are adaptations that have become iconic and others you’ve never heard of. Today we’re focusing on some of the best. 11.22.63 (2016) Every boomer’s fantasy comes to life This Hulu miniseries is about a teacher (James Franco) who is given the opportunity to go back in time and prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As long as we’re talking about King movies with numbers for titles, 1408 is a fun film about an author (John Cusack) who gets trapped in a haunted hotel room. You’ll notice a couple of such bonus recommendations throughout the article; there have been so many good King movies that we have to sneak some in at the margins. You can stream 1408 on Hulu. Release Date 2016 – 2016-00-00 Showrunner James Franco Directors James Franco Writers …