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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Prime Video has been a free perk for those who subscribe to the ecommerce giant's free shipping service, but if you're a US Prime subscriber, things change from today. We first learned of the planned change back in September of last year, with the implementation date announced in an email to customers in December. If you want to retain the ad-free experience, you have to hand over an extra $2.99 per month. The WSJ notes Amazon's claim that it has a lower ad-load than most ad-supported services. Amazon's presentation said the average ad load per hour is expected to be between two and three-and-half minutes, which would be meaningfully smaller than traditional television and most other streaming services. Some commercials would appear before a program begins playing, while others would interrupt it.

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It's been two decades since she starred in 13 Going on 30 - and now Christa is embarking on an exciting adventure which will see her jet off to Rome in a bid to find her own happily ever after.

Some cancers are treated with immunotherapy - drugs that harness the body's natural defences to attack cancer cells - but with varying degrees of success.

A total of seven individuals are now subject to travel bans and asset freezes in action coordinated with Washington.

The family-run pub and restaurant serves up modern British dishes mixed with pub classics

Essex Police is also looking to speak to a man who may have witnessed the incident and who then helped in the aftermath

The Welsh Government shelled out for Gilestone Farm in Powys in 2022 to provide a permanent base and spin-off site for the Green Man festival - because organisers did not have the money.

Some 172 soldiers became ill at the Nanyuki barracks between February and April 2022 - almost a fifth of the 1,200 troops active there at the time.

Police have rushed to a London hospital after a 'violent incident' sent it's A&E department into lockdown.

The Seoul Twin Eye will be set upon an impressive 131 ft-tall cultural complex. It will operate as a spokeless Ferris wheel with two intersecting rings.

Plus: Dodgy ex-US official also sentenced for software and database theft in big day for the courts

A dark web drug kingpin has handed more than $150 million in cryptocurrency to US authorities and pleaded guilty to selling hundreds of kilograms of drugs over the internet.…

Billionaires are well-known for buying nuclear bunkers and far-flung properties in hopes of surviving a coming collapse - but some have set their sights on the open sea as a new home.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The estate of George Carlin has filed a federal lawsuit against the comedy podcast Dudesy for an hour-long comedy special sold as an AI-generated impression of the late comedian. But a representative for one of the podcast hosts behind the special now admits that it was actually written by a human. In the lawsuit, filed by Carlin manager Jerold Hamza in a California district court, the Carlin estate points out that the special, "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead," (which was set to "private" on YouTube shortly after the lawsuit was filed) presents itself as being created by an AI trained on decades worth of Carlin's material. That training would, by definition, involve making "unauthorized copies" of "Carlin's original, copyrighted routines" without permission in order "to fabricate a semblance of Carlin's voice and generate a Carlin stand-up comedy routine," according to the lawsuit. Despite the presentation as an AI creation, there was a good deal of evidence that the Dudesy podcast and the special itself were not actually written by an AI, as Ars laid out in detail this week. And in the wake of this lawsuit, a representative for Dudesy host Will Sasso admitted as much to The New York Times. "It's a fictional podcast character created by two human beings, Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen," spokeswoman Danielle Del told the newspaper. "The YouTube video 'I'm Glad I'm Dead' was completely written by Chad Kultgen." Regardless of that admission, Carlin estate lawyer Josh Schiller told the Times that the lawsuit would move forward. "We don't know what they're saying to be true," he said. "What we will know is that they will be deposed. They will produce documents, and there will be evidence that shows one way or another how the show was created."

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Constance Marten, 36, and Mark Gordon, 49, are accused at the Old Bailey of killing their newborn baby Victoria by taking her on the run to prevent her being taken away by social services.

Science minister Andrew Griffith made the outspoken comments in his latest newsletter to constituents.

A newborn great white shark was observed off the coast of Santa Barbara, California last year, shedding light on how and where the internationally endangered species give birth.

Barton has been widely condemned for his attacks on female pundits, even going as far as invoking the names of serial killers Fred and Rose West when making vindictive remarks online.

Lucinda Mullins, 41, went into hospital for a routine kidney stone removal surgery just before Christmas, however it led to an infection that caused septic shock - resulting in the quadruple amputation.

A software engineer has managed to disrupt the computerised locking system of a British Rail Class 800 train.

President Joe Biden is targeting social media influencers to help boost his re-election bid with the high hopes of landing the biggest star of them all: Taylor Swift.