Company Town
Washed Out is the first major music artist to commission a music video using OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video technology.
May 2, 2024
Technology and the Internet
Watch L.A.
March 22, 2024
Recipes
Nov. 9, 2005
Fran Drescher, Tyler Perry and others are warning about the advances in text-to-video artificial intelligence technology. Producers, executives and artists all need to take proactive steps to protect themselves.
Feb. 27, 2024
Hollywood talent agencies and producers have met with AI companies, including ChatGPT maker OpenAI, to learn about how their technologies could be used in entertainment.
March 29, 2024
Food
In a move that seems particularly Grinch-like at first glance, a Tokyo restaurant has banned couples from eating there on Christmas Eve.
Dec. 24, 2017
A Japanese company has just come out with an extremely unconventional way to sell water.
Oct. 31, 2017
An amateur fisherman in Japan learned the hard way that he should probably be sticking to catch-and-release, after he cooked and ate a pretty fish he caught, and then had to be hospitalized because the fish was extremely poisonous.
Dec. 5, 2017
Fried chicken is wonderful, and one of the best things about it is that delicious aroma.
Dec. 19, 2017
Travel & Experiences
NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR by Matsuo Basho, translated by Sam Hamill, illustrated by Stephen Addiss (Shambala: $10).
Jan. 26, 1992