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Laney College athletic director and former football coach John Beam — who was featured on Netflix’s “Last Chance U” — was shot on Thursday, ABC7 Bay Area reported. The shooting occurred on the college ...

Netflix’s new Japanese hit, Last Samurai Standing’s creator, Michihito Fujii, has now teased plans for Season 2 and 3, fueling fan excitement for the series that has already got a perfect 100% Rotten ...

Last week, the embattled chatbot platform Character.AI said that it would move to ban minors from conversing with its many thousands of AI companion and roleplay bots. Site users, including ...