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How do they choose castaways?Tens of thousands of people apply to appear on the show, and casting producers end up hiring a combination of many Survivor enthusiasts and people who often end up as models or actors. Still, recruited players must go through a complete casting process. “Believe it or not, we get a lot of applications from the same people every year,” former casting director Lynn Spielman, who worked on the show from its inception until 2018, told Reality Wanted. Presenter Jeff Probst is currently in charge of casting. “Typically, it goes something like this,” he outlined to Entertainment…
The UAE has built nearly 50% of the second pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) said on Wednesday. “Currently, too much of the world’s energy still passes through too few choke points,” Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said in an interview at the Atlantic Council. The new pipeline will double ADNOC’s export capacity via the Port of Fujairah, located in the Gulf of Oman just beyond Hormuz. The UAE is accelerating construction of the project in response to the Iran war. The pipeline is expected to be operational in 2027. Iran has…
Canada – 2025/08/07: In this illustrated photo, the SoftBank Group (SoftBank) logo is displayed on the smartphone screen. (Photo illustration: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket, Getty Images)Sopa Images | Light Rocket | Getty Imagesshares of Softbank Group skyrocketed on Thursday following blockbuster profits from Nvidia Overnight, it showed strong momentum in the field of artificial intelligence.SoftBank Group stock had been declining for five consecutive sessions, but rose 19.8% on Thursday, adding about $35 billion to its market capitalization.The company’s fortunes are closely tied to the AI boom through its stake in Arm Holdings and its investment in OpenAI, whose chip designs are…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell attends a press conference on April 29, 2026, in Washington, DC, USA. Li Rui | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON – A majority of Federal Reserve officials at their most recent meeting expected to need to raise interest rates if the Iran war continues to worsen inflation, according to minutes released Wednesday.The Federal Open Market Committee, which decides interest rates, once again voted to maintain its interest rate target between 3.5% and 3.75%, but the meeting received four “no” votes, the most since 1992, clearly increasing disagreement over the direction of policy.At issue…
Over the past few months, Figma has partnered with Anthropic and OpenAI to include support for AI CLI tools like Claude Code and Codex, allowing users to use these coding environments alongside their design software. The company is currently ramping up its own AI-smart efforts through a new AI agent that operates within a collaborative canvas. Figma says users can use natural language text prompts to instruct the new AI agent to automate tasks such as generating new designs, editing existing designs, or generating iterations of existing designs. Users can also launch multiple agents that can perform different tasks simultaneously.…
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang waves after a welcoming ceremony for US President Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026. Brendan Smialowski AFP | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company had “significantly conceded” China’s artificial intelligence chip market to Huawei as U.S. export restrictions continue to reshape the global AI semiconductor landscape.Huang’s comments came as Nvidia reported another blockbuster quarter, with revenue surging 85% to $81.62 billion from $44.06 billion a year earlier. The company also announced an $80 billion share buyback program and increased its dividend.However, China remained…
Khloe Kardashian stands with ex French Montana more than 10 years after splittingKhloe Kardashian is telling the truth about seeing a blowout from her past. More than a decade after her split from rapper French Montana, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star recently opened up about her side after a chance meeting with her ex. “It was so much fun,” Khloe said on the May 20 episode of her podcast Khloe in Wonderland, recalling a night out with her best friend Malika Haqq on a mutual friend’s birthday. “We went for dinner first, and we really enjoyed the dinner.”…
This image, included in a court filing by the Department of Justice on August 30, 2022, and partially redacted by sources, shows a photo of documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8, 2022.Department of Justice | APAfter leaving office in January 2021, the former federal prosecutor was charged with stealing a sealed report prepared by then-special counsel Jack Smith in the defunct criminal case against President Donald Trump over his possession of classified government documents.Carmen Mercedes Lineberger is accused in a four-count indictment unsealed Wednesday of saving sealed portions of Smith’s…
NanoCo, the company behind NanoClaw, a security-focused alternative to OpenClaw, has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round following a viral launch, founders tell TechCrunch. The funding was led by Valley Capital Partners with participation from angels including Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, and Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. NanoClaw creator Gabriel Cohen (pictured above, left) says that in a matter of weeks, the project went from coding on his couch to receiving viral support from Andrei Karpathy and Singapore’s foreign minister, inbound interest from dozens of investors, and even turning down an approximately $20 million acquisition offer that…
Members of the Samsung Electronics Labor Union hold a flag outside the company’s foundry and semiconductor factory in Pyeongtaek on April 23, 2026, as they hold a large rally to demand the removal of caps on performance bonuses. (Photo courtesy of Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)Jung Young Jae | AFP | Getty ImagesSamsung Electronics shares rose more than 6% on Thursday after the company’s labor union called off an 18-day strike scheduled for late Wednesday, allaying fears of unrest at the South Korean chipmaker.The union had announced it would continue its strike after government-brokered talks broke down on Wednesday. However,…