40 Years Ago, Rob Reiner Turned Stephen King’s Most Personal Story Into a Surprise Hit
Forty years ago, Rob Reiner‘s career path took an unexpected turn with the success of Stand by Me.
After starring on All in the Family, Reiner moved behind the camera to direct a pair of comedies: 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap and 1985’s The Sure Thing. An adaptation of Stephen King‘s 1982 novella The Body, Stand by Me represented Reiner’s first foray into dramatic filmmaking.
Saudi-Pakistan-Turkiye pact: A new shield or strategic signal?
Islamabad, Pakistan – Three folders – two in green and one in crimson red – changed hands beneath a portrait of Saudi King Salman at al-Safa Palace in Mecca on Friday.
X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards
X, the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is shaking up how it pays influencers and creators.
In announcing the change, the company said it will be winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program and replacing it with something called Original Content Rewards. X will stop accepting new Revenue Sharing participants, while existing participants will continue earning money through September 7.
Olivia Wilde Says She’s Become ‘So Much More Romantic’ Because of ‘The Invite’: ‘It Melted the Cynic Out of Me’
Olivia Wilde said she has become “so much more romantic” because of “The Invite.”
“It’s melted the cynic out of me,” she said at Switzerand’s Locarno Film Festival .
“I have spoken to people who have been through so much with their partners, and people have been in marriages for 40, 50, 60 years. They told me it was a very honest depiction of their own experience of really having several relationships with the same person.”
‘Tony’ Star Dominic Sessa on How Being a ‘Liar’ Helped Him Portray Anthony Bourdain and Why the Film Foreshadows His Later Struggles
For most actors, playing a real person in a biopic comes with an unrealistic amount of pressure.
But because Matt Johnson decided to focus on just one summer in 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain‘s life — long before the famed chef-turned-writer ever wrote “Kitchen Confidential” or became a household name — “Tony” star Dominic Sessa had a wide-open canvas.
Upcoming PS5 Games: The Future of PlayStation Exclusives
After what seemed like the end of console exclusives, Xbox and PlayStation are officially getting back into the game. (Let's be real, Nintendo never left it.)
While the past generation of PS5-exclusive games eventually made their way to PC, Sony announced in May 2026 that future single-player games will actually be exclusive to the console. That was a recent announcement, so things are being ironed out, and some games that have been development will still see a simultaneous launch on both systems.
Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use? - Engadget
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If you drive with an iPhone next to you every day, one of the biggest quality-of-life improvements you can make to your car is using Apple CarPlay. It's a feature that's been baked into iPhones since 2014 and lets you access navigation, messages, music and other apps through your car's infotainment system. You get simplified controls on a larger display and don't run the risk of being distracted trying to operate your phone while driving. Support for CarPlay goes all the way back to the iPhone 5, with most major car manufacturers, like Ford, Hyundai, BMW and Honda, having integrated it into their models.
Test Driver Who Crashed Tesla Into Salon Was Ineffectively Prepared For Driving EVs, Lawsuit Claims - Jalopnik
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There have been many lawsuits against Tesla over the functionality (or lack thereof) in its Full Self-Driving system. But this one is all about the human driver, who claims that Tesla representatives failed to tell her about the differences between driving an EV and a traditional car before a test drive, reports the Independent. This lack of knowledge allegedly caused her to crash into a hair salon where she was severely hurt.
Olivia Wilde Says She Fought for ‘The Invite’ to Get a Cinema Release: “They Bribe You to Not Take Theatrical”
Olivia Wilde met the international press during the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Saturday. Her latest film as a director-plus-actress, The Invite, is scheduled to screen in the Swiss town’s big central square, the Piazza Grande, on Saturday evening.
D-Wave’s $550M Quantum Computing Bet Makes Error Correction 10X Cheaper
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The hardest problem in quantum computing isn’t building more qubits. It’s stopping the ones you have from making mistakes. A new peer-reviewed paper in Nature shows that D-Wave’s dual-rail qubits can now entangle with each other cleanly. That’s been a critical missing puzzle piece for solving quantum error correction efficiently. D-Wave says its new qubit design could reduce logical error rates 10X at each step, and clears a path to a commercially useful 100-logical-qubit system by 2032.