AN HISTORIC 300-year-old pub in Sandiway named after a canine celebrity is closing its doors ahead of an exciting six-figure revamp. The Blue Cap, on Chester Road, was built as a coaching inn and ...

Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the ...

Disney sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI last week that warned the startup to stop using copyrighted characters without authorization. Character.AI allows users to create and interact ...

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

After William Hurt’s untimely death in 2022, Marvel Studios went ahead and recast his character, “Thunderbolt” Ross with another Hollywood legend, Harrison Ford, for the filming of the recently ...

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In 2024, I authored an NBJ article on what the “New ...