Monthly Archives: October 2022

Add voiceovers to your videos in just a few clicks with this app on sale for 50% off

TL;DR: As of Oct. 29, you can get a lifetime subscription to Micmonster AI Voiceovers for just $59, rather than $119 — that’s 50% in savings. It’s normal to feel worried about AI potentially stealing your job, but there are just some tasks that are better left to a robot’s devices. One of them is text transcription,…

Director Henry Selick talks ‘Wendell and Wild’ and the ‘charm’ of stop-motion animation

Wendell and Wild drops us into a handcrafted world of demonic fun fairs, austere religious academies, and snowy graveyards where the dead wait for resurrection. Bringing it all to life is director Henry Selick, whose films like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline have cemented him as a legend in the world of stop-motion animation….

He didn’t live to see NASA’s futuristic mission, but his ashes will join it in space

When a commercial rocket blew up seconds after lifting off the Virginia coast in 2014, no one got hurt, and NASA replaced the necessary supplies bound for the space station. Few people realized then, though, the cascading fallout of that explosion. The future of human-led Mars exploration hung in the balance: Without that rocket, NASA’s…

Afghan commandos that were trained by US Navy SEALs are being recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine, report says

Afghan commando force members take part in their graduation ceremony at Afghan National Army Special Operations Corps in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2020. Rahmatullah Alizadah/Xinhua via Getty Elite Afghan commandos are being contacted with offers to fight for Russia in Ukraine, reports Foreign Policy. The soldiers were once trained by US Navy SEALs…

Americans should brace for a cash crunch and a painful recession, experts say. Here’s what Jamie Dimon, David Solomon, and Ray Dalio warned this week.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Mario Tama/Getty Jamie Dimon, David Solomon, and Ray Dalio warned of a cash crunch this week. Dimon and Solomon flagged the risk of a US recession and a slump in consumer spending. Dalio underlined how rising interest rates could squeeze cash-strapped, debt-ridden governments. Jamie Dimon, David Solomon, and Ray Dalio have…

Obama mocks Trump for refusing to accept his 2020 election loss in a rare public rebuke

Former President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event for Georgia Democrats on October 28, 2022 in College Park, Georgia. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Obama mocked Trump for refusing to accept his 2020 election loss in a rare public rebuke. He said that when he lost his first election, he accepted defeat rather than inciting a…