9 h. ago We are gen Z – and AI is our future. Will that be good or bad?

Our panel responds: the more we know about this technology, the more it is the source of hope and worry. We have views that must be heard• The panel was compiled by Sumaiya Motara and Saranka Maheswaran, interns on the Guardian’s positive action scheme Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Would YOU use a robot surrogate? China develops the world's first 'pregnancy humanoid' that's capable of giving birth to a live baby

It's a concept that currently only exists in sci-fi movies. But scientists in China are developing the world's first 'pregnancy robot' capable of carrying a baby to term and giving birth.

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52 h. ago Cheer up, Ice Cube, your War of the Worlds movie may be really bad, but it's not worthless | Saranka Maheswaran

Awful clunkers occasionally emerge from both Hollywood and Bollywood, but I have found value in most cinematic calamitiesIf the latest adaptation of HG Wells’s 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, a movie starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, was designed to make us pause and ask questions, it has certainly succeeded. Unfortunately, what a lot of viewers have been asking is why it was inflicted on the public in the first place. Is War of the Worlds “one of the worst movies ever made?”, asked the BBC. “Shockingly bad War of the Worlds is one of the worst movies of the decade,” said the New York Post. “Amazon’s War of the Worlds update should never have been released,” declared the Telegraph.The 2005 adaptation, starring Tom Cruise, was a smash hit. Now people are flocking to the remake to see just how bad a film can be – it’s in the top 10 films watched in the UK and US on Amazon Prime. It seems that we have come to love “bad” films almost as much as those deemed good. The website Rotten ...

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4 d. ago 'Most underrated masterpiece' movie climbs Netflix charts days after 'awful' remake

The streamer is home to some iconic action movies by some of the world's most esteemed directors

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5 d. ago New War of the Worlds film named one of the 100 worst movies ever

The film achieved a zero per cent score on the review aggregator site

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5 d. ago One of London’s best pizza restaurants is moving to a new location

One of London’s best pizza restaurants is moving to a new location  Time Out Worldwide

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5 d. ago Crisp Pizza: One of the Best Pizza Restaurants in London is Moving to a New Location

Crisp Pizza: One of the Best Pizza Restaurants in London is Moving to a New Location  Time Out Worldwide

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5 d. ago One of London’s best pizza restaurants is moving to a new central location

One of London’s best pizza restaurants is moving to a new central location  Time Out Worldwide

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8 d. ago Amazon Prime's most watched film has rare zero rating and 'not a single good thing'

Ice Cube-starrer War of the Worlds, which is directed by Rich Lee and based on HG Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, has one of the rarest ratings on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes

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9 d. ago How Hiroshima nuclear bomb inspired one of the world's most iconic movie franchises

It was a scene depicting horrifying devastation that was so chillingly accurate that nuclear experts praised director James Cameron for 'getting it right'.

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9 d. ago How did a new War of the Worlds movie get a 0% critical rating?

A cursed Covid-made version of the HG Wells classic, starring Ice Cube, was quietly buried after a five-year delay and perhaps it should have stayed buriedJust over 20 years ago, Steven Spielberg released War of the Worlds, a remake of the HG Wells classic updated for then modern day, capturing an era of post-9/11 anxiety filtered through the prism of late-90s disaster movies. That movie’s reputation has only grown over the years – it’s basically the thinking and anxious person’s Independence Day – but the Wells text has been revisited repeatedly since its publication at the tail end of the 19th century. 2025 seems as good a time as any for another update. And if ever any viewers yearned to see a new War of the Worlds beset with the constant pinging of a Microsoft Teams chat, Prime Video has a real treat in store.Yes, hovering towards the top of Prime Video’s movie charts is a new War of the Worlds, which arrived with little fanfare on the service at the end of July. In it, Ice Cube...

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1 week ago World's first AI movie star to rival ‘Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman’ created

Tilly Norwood is a ‘talking, waving, bona fide person’ who can even cry - despite being entirely a product of AI software

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1 week ago Bus driver notices suitcase moving and unzips it to find girl, 2, stuffed inside

WARNING: UPSETTING CONTENT The young girl was stored inside the bag in the luggage compartment of a bus as police praise the driver who noticed the child moving inside

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1 week ago ‘Terrible’ Prime Video thriller with packed cast could be ‘the worst movie of all time’

Ice Cube stars in a new science fiction thriller on Amazon Prime Video, but the movie has been dubbed one of the worst of all time

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3 w. ago What the culture war over Superman gets wrong | Noel Ransome

Rightwing commentators are furious over the superhero’s positioning as an immigrant. But his story was crafted to cushion uneaseWe’ve entered the era of the superhero movie as sermon. No longer content with saving the world, spandex saviors are now being used to explain, moralize and therapize it. And a being from Krypton has shown up once again in a debate about real life; about borders, race and who gets to belong. Superman. Of all symbols.I’ve read reactionary thinkpieces, rage-filled quote tweets and screeds about the legal status of a fictional alien – enough to lose count. This particular episode of American Fragility kicked off because James Gunn had the audacity to call Superman “the story of America”. An immigrant, by definition, as he was always meant to be.Noel Ransome is a Toronto-based freelance writer Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘I’m not a fan of hero movies, but the world needs to listen to Superman 2025'

In a world where governments are turning a blind eye to Israel's genocide in Gaza, Superman's anti-war message is revolutionary.

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4 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: US moving ‘with haste’ to enable weapons shipments to Kyiv, says Washington

Nato commander says separately that preparations under way to send first Patriot systems to Ukraine in deal involving European countries buying arms. What we know on day 1,241See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageThe US is moving to get weapons to Ukraine quickly under President Donald Trump’s plan for Europe to buy arms and is weighing selling Patriot air defence systems from its own stocks, Washington’s envoy to Nato has said. “We are all moving with haste to facilitate this and get this done, and, you know, I think things are actually moving very quickly,” the US ambassador to Nato, Matthew Whitaker, told journalists on Thursday. “But I can’t verify a date that this will all be completed.” Trump on Monday announced a deal with Nato chief Mark Rutte for European states in the alliance to buy US weaponry – particularly advanced Patriot systems – and give it to Kyiv, but questions have been raised over where the systems will come from and how soon they can get to Ukraine amid Russi...

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