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Telluride just managed one of its best-kept secrets in years, per The Hollywood Reporter. On Sunday night, festivalgoers filed into a 650-seat theater with their phones locked away, having no idea what they were about to see, told only that it ran nearly three hours, hadn’t been shown anywhere, and that its principal creators would be in the audience. The surprise premiere they went on to enjoy is a new documentary from co-directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Called “You Can See Everything,” the film is said to capture Holmes and her husband, Billy Evans,…

Canal authorities may further reduce ship traffic if a strengthening El Niño worsens the country’s drought.Published On 8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026Panama could impose further cuts on the number of ships sailing through the Panama Canal, an official said, as a strengthening El Niño raises fears of water shortages at one of the world’s busiest maritime trade routes.The warning from the new administrator of the Panama Canal Authority, Ilya Espino de Marotta, on Monday came after the government declared a nationwide state of emergency over El Niño on August 26.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe canal, which handles…

The call for more monitoring comes in a new policy briefing by researchers.They are calling for increased monitoring of the vaccination’s impact, a review of the evidence, and collaboration with farmers “to ensure the greatest possible impact” from the programmes.In their policy briefing, they say “major questions remain about how many badgers are being vaccinated, what impact vaccinating badgers is having on disease levels in cattle, and how confidence in vaccination can be improved among farmers and veterinary professionals”.Dr Niall McKeown, a lecturer in the department of life sciences at Aberystwyth University and vice-chair of the British Ecological Society’s Wales…

Nigeria’s D’Tigress ended their 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup campaign with a heavy 56-111 defeat to France on Monday, finishing the group stage without a win. France, one of the favourites for the tournament, dominated from the start and effectively settled the contest in the opening half, racing to a 65-26 lead at the break. D’Tigress managed just 13 points in each of the first three quarters, while France scored 31 in the first, 34 in the second and 30 in the third to establish an unassailable advantage. Nigeria showed some resistance in the final quarter, scoring 17 points…

Striking images of Oasis’s reunion tour and Charli XCX bringing Brat to Glastonbury Festival are among the nominees at this year’s Abbey Road Music Photography Awards.The awards, which this year considered works by more than 24,500 submissions from 42 different countries, released a shortlist of 40 finalists across eight categories on Tuesday.The likes of Kendrick Lamar, Fontaines DC, Tame Impala and Sombr also feature in the shots, while other images of stars including FKA Twigs have been selected – out of competition – for judges’ awards.All of the finalist photographs will go on display in the LED tunnel at entertainment…

Mojeed Abisiga is an award-winning Data & AI Leader, entrepreneur, technology educator, public speaker, and Forbes Technology Council member, recognised as a Marquis Who’s Who Honoree, an Einstein Visa Green Card recipient. He is the CEO & Founder of AI Every Time, the world’s first 24/7 AI newsroom and AI content hub where people can follow, chat with, and learn directly from AI reporters & AI learning companions around the globe, each bringing a unique identity, expertise, and cultural voice, and the Founder & CEO of DataGlobal Hub, a platform dedicated to being a one-stop platform for news, education, networking,…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has linked Chinese counterfeiters now living in Nigeria to the proliferation of fake goods, worsening the production, distribution and sale of adulterated, harmful and unwholesome products. NAFDAC Director of Investigation and Enforcement, Martins Iluyomade, responding to The PUNCH in Lagos on Monday, said recent investigations found Chinese counterfeiters, previously operating externally, have set up plants and logistics channels inside the country. He said, “Before, to fake a product, you needed to go to China to bring it. Now, you don’t need to go. They are here (in Nigeria) with us.…

For successive administrations in Nigeria, the battle to salvage failing road infrastructure has posed an unnecessary challenge. The worsening condition of roads across the country, has consequently driven many people to prefer air travel. But, with humongous airfares, a conundrum has arisen, as many travellers are now unable to afford plane tickets. The Benin–Asaba and Lagos–Ore highways, for example, are in such poor condition that commuters have endured nightmares – sometimes spending more than 72 hours on a journey that should take no more than seven or eight hours. The dangers scarcely need spelling out, particularly the risk of being…

Nigeria’s D’Tigress crashed out of the 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup after suffering a heavy 111-56 defeat to France Nigeria’s D’Tigress crashed out of the 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup after suffering a heavy 111-56 defeat to France in their final Group B match in Berlin on Monday. The defeat completed a winless campaign for the African champions, who finished bottom of the group after earlier losses to South Korea and Hungary. D’Tigress had already been eliminated before facing France after the European side defeated South Korea 95-69 to secure a quarter-final place and end Nigeria’s hopes of…

AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF — and, as of last week, terms like “opaque recurrence,” the reasoning technique in OpenAI’s new Astra model that’s got AI safety researchers rattled. The vocabulary moves fast enough to make even very smart people in the tech world feel a little insecure. This glossary is our attempt to fix that: plain-English definitions of the AI terms you’re most…