A gambler in Guilin, China, turned $7 into nearly $270,000 by correctly predicting the scores of four World Cup matches, including a dramatic last-second win for Turkey against the USA. The bettor used an accumulator system known as 'M-chuan-1' to achieve the maximum fixed payout.
A gambler in Guilin, China, turned $7 into nearly $270,000 by correctly predicting the scores of four World Cup matches, including a dramatic last-second win for Turkey against the USA. The bettor used an accumulator system known as "M-chuan-1" to achieve the maximum fixed payout.
The Guilin-Hong Kong air route has been increased to daily flights, operated by Greater Bay Airlines with Boeing 737-800 aircraft. This enhancement aims to strengthen air connectivity between Guilin and the Greater Bay Area, facilitating business travel, family tourism, and shopping.
Olivia Rodrigo faced online backlash for her "Lolita" aesthetic in her "Drop Dead" music video and on stage. Critics accused her of infantilizing herself, while defenders argued for artistic freedom and the historical subversiveness of the babydoll silhouette.
Guilin Qixing District Market Supervision Bureau is investigating a cake shop for using the Liuzhou earthquake for commercial marketing. The bureau confirmed the shop's actions and has initiated a case, reminding businesses to avoid using disasters for promotion.
From Soderbergh to Aronofsky, esteemed Hollywood directors are starting to find ways to include artificial intelligence in the production of their filmsIn Steven Soderbergh’s beguiling new movie The Christophers, a reclusive artist (Ian McKellen) tangles with the quiet art forger (Michaela Coel) who his greedy children have hired to secretly finish further entries in a well-known painting series. The movie is smart and provocative about the nature of artistry and authorship, exploring what it means to create – and to stop creating. It’s especially fascinating coming from Soderbergh, who has made movies with workhorse dependability (The Christophers is his third theatrical release of the past 18 months) and also spent four years retired from directing features entirely.It also provides particularly jarring context for Soderbergh, in interviews promoting the film, to voice his interest in something that a lot of great artists have pointedly refused to embrace: using AI in films. Soderbergh mentioned in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine that he used what sounds like generative AI to produce “thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space” for his upcoming documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He also said that a movie he’s hoping to make about the Spanish-American war would use “a lot of AI”. In a subsequent conversation with Variety, Soderbergh didn’t sound like an AI evangelist, but nor did he back down: “I don’t think it’s the solution to everything, and I don’t think it’s the death of everything. We’re in the very early stages. Five years from now, we all may be going, ‘That was a fun phase.’ We may end up not using it as much as we thought we were going to.” Continue reading...
A 1995-born woman surnamed Qin from Guilin, Guangxi province, returned to her village two years after graduating from university to help her father raise snakes. She now manages over 60,000 venomous reptiles, including 50,000 five-step snakes and nearly 10,000 cobras, earning more than 1 million yuan (US$147,000) annually. Her father initially opposed her entering the dangerous snake farming industry.
