Final Oscar Predictions: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ and Warner Bros. Poised to Make History and Break Records

The final predictions for the Academy Awards nominations for 2026 where "Sinners" is projected to lead followed by "One ...
Alien vs. Predator Galaxy

Alec Gillis Talks Designing Predator: Badlands Creature Effects

Alec Gillis is a name that is as synonymous with the creature effects of the Predator and Alien series as the creators ...

Earth Must Die in this adventure game boasting a Dispatch-like voice cast of British comedy superheroes, and it releases later this month

Like Size Five's previous game Lair of the Clockwork God, Earth Must Die is inspired primarily by the comedy point 'n' click ...
IEEE

Effects of Multiple Japanese Datasets for Training Voice Activity Projection Models

Abstract: Voice Activity Projection (VAP) is crucial in dialogue systems for facilitating natural turn-taking. So far, models for predicting speech activity in spoken conversations and models ...

Jennifer Hale 'would love' to return to Mass Effect, either as Shepard or as an obscure alien

Mass Effect's Milky Way is home to many different ( bangable) alien species, from the bird-like turians to the jellyfish-like ...
IEEE

What a Laugh! – Effects of Voice and Laughter on a Social Robot’s Humorous Appeal and Recipients’ Transportation and Emotions in Humorous Robotic Storytelling

Abstract: Storytelling is an important method not only in entertainment but also for education or therapy. Humor can improve storytelling due to its social functions. We investigate whether the ...
Voice of Alexandria

Dense Fog Advisory in effect until 12 p.m. today (Tuesday) for the area

Minnesota...east central Minnesota...south central Minnesota... southeast Minnesota...west central Minnesota...northwest Wisconsin and west central Wisconsin. .DAY ...
Voice of Alexandria

Thousands of immigrant students flee LA Unified Schools after ‘chilling effect’ of ICE raids

Los Angeles schools have lost thousands of immigrant students for years because of the city’s rising prices and falling birth rates — and now that trend has intensified after the “chilling effect” of ...
Chicago Tribune

Screaming + vomiting: ‘Scromiting’ is the mysterious cannabis syndrome becoming more common

Like many cannabis smokers, Jared Panks used marijuana as medicine. As a paramedic, he’d seen the disastrous effects of other drugs and alcohol so, after years of fighting fires for the U.S Forest ...
ourvalleyvoice

New state laws affecting farms take effect Jan. 1

Several new state laws set to take effect this week will impact agriculture in California. Beginning Jan. 1, California farmers and ranchers will see changes pertaining to employee wages, management ...
barrie360

Here are some of the new rules in Ontario coming into effect on Jan. 1

New laws and regulations are coming to Ontario in the new year, including rules on pay transparency for job postings and harsher penalties for impaired driving offences. The province is taking ...
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Medvedev responds to Zelenskyy with threats, abuse, and alien theories

Russia’s Deputy Chairman of the Security Council and convicted war criminal Dmitry Medvedev launched a new barrage of insults against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, this time dragging aliens ...