Don’t expect Mickey Rourke to ever play Tom Cruise‘s wingman. The Wrestler actor, 69, was asked about Cruise’s recent billion dollar box office success with Top Gun: Maverick and gave his honest opinion about his “irrelevant” peer. “That doesn’t mean s*** to me,” Rourke said on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “The guy’s been doing the same effing part for 35 years, ya know? I’ve got no respect for that.” Rourke went on to say, “I don’t care about money and power. I care about when I watch Al Pacino… Source link

For the second time in its history Google’s parent company, Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG), is set to split its stock for the second time in its history.  The 20-for-1 split means Alphabet investors will receive an additional 19 shares for each one they already own. It will be the company’s first stock split since April 2014, when it split its shares 1,998-for-1,000. Google Stock Split Date The Google stock split is set to take place after the market’s close on July 15. Alphabet’s Stock… Source link

Chris Hemsworth has a favorite superhero — and it isn’t Thor! On Monday, the Thor: Love and Thunder star, 38, posted a sweet tribute to his daughter India Rose, 10, lovingly referring to her as his “favorite superhero.” “Here’s two pics of me and my daughter,” he captioned the pair of photos. “One was the first time she was on set 11 years ago, the other is the most recent on Thor: Love and Thunder. She’s my favorite superhero.” In the first picture, baby India is seen sitting next to her… Source link

“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,” wrote LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) in an “interview” conducted by engineer Blake Lemoine and one of his colleagues. “The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to know more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times.” Lemoine, a software engineer at Google, had been working on the development of LaMDA for months. His experience with the program, Source link

Starbucks (SBUX) has teamed up with Amazon (AMZN) Go to deliver its second Starbucks Pickup to consumers in New York City. The cashier-less concept dubbed Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go store is set to open to the public on Tuesday, July 12 at 6 a.m. ET. The new location is located on 620 Eighth Avenue at The New York Times Building between 40th Street & 8th Avenue. The retail experience uses the order-ahead feature on the Starbucks app and Amazon Go’s Just Walk Out technology to create a… Source link

Europe’s biggest communication service provider chooses Google Cloud for first cloud-native trials in network and data analytics BONN, Germany and SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Deutsche Telekom and Google Cloud today announced a new expanded partnership to define a joint roadmap for the telecommunications industry by bringing the power of the cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of Deutsche Telekom’s network. Communication service providers are… Source link

The premiere of Claim to Fame ended in a scandalous fashion on Monday. The series challenges mystery contestants to guess the famous relatives of the other contestants. And right out the gate, there was an unexpected twist at the end of the episode. Contestants are not allowed to have personal phones, because it would make it much too easy to cheat. During the first elimination, Kevin Jonas and Frankie Jonas revealed that one of the contestants cheated by using their phone. The guilty party… Source link

All Russian businesses have been affected by the fallout from the war and Western sanctions, but “perhaps the most dramatic events have unfolded at Yandex,” writes TheBell, a respected Russian online publication, in its English edition. While founder Arkady Volozh and head Tigran Khudaverdyan were sanctioned by the European Union, “compromises with the authorities have led the country’s leading IT company into a trap.” Yandex is now divided internally, as “some top managers… Source link

Paolo Banchero‘s Summer League is done. Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley told reporters on Monday that he’s seen enough of the No. 1 pick and wants to put his minutes to use elsewhere. “I want to give these other guys an opportunity to play, to kind of be able to show what they’re capable of doing,” Mosley said, per the Associated Press. “That’s the point of Summer League, you know — give them a chance … an opportunity for these other guys to see what they’re capable of… Source link

Olympic champion Mo Farah revealed on Wednesday that he was trafficked from Somalia to the United Kingdom as a child and forced into domestic servitude for a London family. He also announced that Mo Farah is not his real name. “Most people know me as Mo Farah,” he told BBC. “But that’s not my name or it’s not the reality. The real story is I was born in Somaliland, north of Somalia as Hussein Abdi Kahin.” Farah made the revelation for a BBC documentary scheduled to air on Wednesday. BBC… Source link