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Despite being down Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Al Horford, and Marcus Smart, the Boston Celtics forced overtime on the road against the Milwaukee Bucks, which have won 11 in a row and own the NBA’s second-best record at 40-17.

Derrick White, Malcolm Brogdon, Mike Muscala, and Blake Griffin all helped Boston reach that point, as well as Sam Hauser, who buried a preposterous three off the bounce over Khris Middleton with only a few seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. The long ball marked Hauser’s third of the night and gave him 15 points in regulation. He also added nine rebounds and two assists.

The bucket probably carried a little extra weight for Hauser, who’s a Green Bay, Wisconsin, native.

Ultimately, Milwaukee climbed out of an early overtime hole and extended its winning streak to 11, headlined by a late triple from Jrue Holiday. Yet Tuesday was another impressive performance over the past seven days from a significantly shorthanded Celtics club against a fellow top-three team in the East. Last week, they defeated the Philadelphia 76ers, 106-99, inside TD Garden.

Much like last season, both the Bucks and Boston figure to factor prominently into the Eastern Conference playoff outlook. The win for Milwaukee moved it to just half a game behind the 41-17 Celtics for the No. 1 seed, in spite of Hauser’s temporary late game heroics.

Beabadoobee is not one to shy away from emotion. As many of her detail poignant accounts of living with anxiety, her latest effort sees her basking in love. On her new single, “Glue Song,” Beabadoobee is in a state of pure bliss, celebrating the joy of falling in love.

“I’ve never known someone like you / Tangled in love stuck by you / From the glue / Don’t forget to kiss me / Or else you’ll have to miss me
I guess I’m stuck forever / By the glue, oh, and you,” sings Beabadoobee over gentle strings, making the song feel all the more romantic.

In the song’s accompanying video, Beabadobee is seen in her homeland, the Philippines, as she spends time riding around the city, enjoying meals and sharing laughs with her family, and embracing intimate moments with her boyfriend.

“I wrote a lot of this song while on tour across Australia and Asia in the back of cars and traveling,” said Beabadoobee in a statement. “It’s a heartfelt song that means a lot to me…. A love song and the first one I’ve written in my new relationship. I usually write these songs that are sad, in the past with my writing even when it doesn’t sound sad looking back, the lyrics usually have been. For the first time this is just me being really happy. I’m in a really positive place for the first time in a long time and feeling love. We recorded the song with my guitarist and producer Jacob in his house and added in trumpets and strings. This song feels really personal and I went to my hometown in Ilo Ilo to film the music video. It’s where I was born and so that also added another personal touch to the song.”

You can watch the video for “Glue Song” above.

Arthur Fleck, the troubled loner Joaquin Phoenix played in the mega-hit sorta-spinoff Joker, was sad and single the first we saw him. In its sequel, though, he has himself a girlfriend: Looks like Joker: Folie-à-Deux is going to tell the story about how the clown that fights Batman seduced Dr. Harleen Quinn, played by Lady Gaga, while in Arkham Asylum. And for Valentine’s Day, director Todd Phillips decided to show a first look at the two love birds.

It’s not much: just a dark picture of Phoenix’s Arthur looking emotional, with what could either be makeup or blood on his cheek. Gaga’s future Harley Quinn holds his face, staring at him in shock or horror or both.

“Happy Valentine’s Day,” Phillips wrote in the caption.

Folie à Deux started filming back in December, and while details are currently unknown, its got a pretty great supporting cast. On top of a returning Zazie Beetz, as the neighbor with whom Arthur was infatuated, there’s Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener, who are both always welcome. For Gaga, it will be her first film since doing an Italian accent in House of Gucci, in which she acted opposite another person who’s played the Joker, Jared Leto. Meanwhile, she has the full support of another big screen Harley Quinn: Margot Robbie.

(Via IndieWire)

It appears a new era of 6lack may soon be upon us. Today (February 14), fans noticed a countdown on his website, seemingly teasing an announcement this coming weekend. While we’re excited for the possibility of new 6lack music, the elusive R&B superstar is bringing joy to others in a different way.

This Valentine’s Day, 6lack teamed up with the Water Boyz N The Hood of Atlanta for a special project. Over the years, the Water Boyz N The Hood have become a household name in Atlanta, known for their entrepreneurial spirit, as they sell bottled water on the side of the road to raise money to achieve their goals. Today, 6lack and the Water Boyz handed out free roses to raise spirits on Valentine’s Day.

In one of the videos, each of the Water Boyz are wearing red hoodies that read “Flower Boyz.” They are seen handing out flowers with messages from 6lack.

Some of the messages read “See you soon, Love 6lack,” catching some of the recipients by surprise.

Though 6lack himself isn’t seen in the clips, fans felt his kindness from afar, creating more anticipation for new music.

But while we wait, you can see some of the heartwarming moments above.

There were a few major disappointments at this year’s Super Bowl. The biggest, obviously, is that the Philadelphia Eagles lost. Some of the commercials weren’t so hot (or at least panic-inducing). And if you were Elon Musk, you were mad that your Super Bowl tweet had less engagement than a similar one by President Joe Biden. In fact, if you were Elon Musk, you’d do the sensible thing: delete it then order your techies to make a big change to the algorithm.

As per Platformer, on Sunday Musk picked sides in Sunday’s big game with a tweet that read, simply, “Go #Eagles!!” It got about 9.1 million impressions. Not bad — but not as good as Biden’s, in which he retweeted his wife, an Eagles fan, who posted a video of her wearing an Eagles shirt emblazoned with her surname.

“As your president, I’m not picking favorites,” he wrote. “But as Jill Biden’s husband, fly Eagles, fly.” That post got nearly 29 million impressions, handily housing Musk’s. So Musk did the mature thing and deleted it, as confirmed by Snopes.

But that wasn’t all. Having been at the game — sitting next to Rupert Murdoch, no less — he then flew back to Twitter HQ in the Bay Area and threatened to fire staffers who wouldn’t rework the algorithm so his tweets essentially received a kind of favoritism. As per Platformer:

By Monday afternoon, “the problem” had been “fixed.” Twitter deployed code to automatically “greenlight” all of Musk’s tweets, meaning his tweets will bypass Twitter’s filters designed to show people the best content possible. The algorithm now artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000 – a constant score that ensured his tweets rank higher than anyone else’s in the feed.

What Musk’s account received was what is internally called a “power user multiplier.” However, the “chief twit” is the only user who receives the luxury.

Musk even appeared to be tweeting through it.

And so anyone who hadn’t muted or blocked Musk’s account suddenly saw him everywhere in their feed. He even joked about forcing Twitter users to see his tweets, whether they wanted to or not, with a meme involving a woman forcing another to drink milk. That post, incidentally, received 118.4 million impressions — exponentially more than his not exactly creative pro-Eagles post.

Of course, as some Twitter engineers argued, perhaps Musk’s posts were, in his opinion, underperforming is because so many people had either muted or blocked him. Since taking over the platform, his account has not exactly been one of its most popular. But surely one way of making people like you more is forcing them to notice you.

(Via Platformer)

Veteran forward Joe Ingles has always been considered as somewhat of a jovial, lighthearted personality among NBA players. During Tuesday’s game between the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics, he put those qualities on display. After he drew an illegal screen from Blake Griffin, Ingles jokingly gave Griffin a pat on the head and received a technical foul as he sauntered down the floor.

It looked like a playful move from Ingles, but one Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla took exception to, for which he was vindicated by Ingles’ tech. The video above makes it hard to tell how Griffin interpreted Ingles’ tap on the head, but the officials clearly didn’t approve.

This isn’t the first time Ingles and Griffin have been involved in some on-court banter and high jinks either. Back in January 2019, after Ingles was penalized for an illegal screen against Griffin, Ingles called Griffin a “flopper” as the two walked to the other side of the court together. While Ingles never appeared in a preseason game with Los Angeles Clippers, the two did spend some together in the organization when Ingles was on Los Angeles’ 2014-15 training camp roster as well, so they have a history that dates back a while.

Bad Bunny has shared the video for “Ojitos Lindos,” a fan favorite from his Grammy Award-winning album, Un Verano Sin Ti.

In the video for the Bomba Estéreo-assisted track, Bunny is seen going on dates with several women in Puerto Rico. However, he can’t get over a special woman with the “ojitos lindos,” which means “beautiful little eyes” in Spanish.

After dropping off a montage of dates in their homes, Bunny drives off into the dark. He seems heartbroken, hinting that he is still not over his ex.

He then gets into a car wreck, and the screen fades to black.

In the next clip, he wakes up in a hospital, and is later greeted by his most loyal companion.

Nearly a year after its release, Un Verano Sin Ti continues to provide iconic music moments. During his acceptance speech at the 2023 Grammys for the Best Musica Urbana Album award, he revealed that making this album was a process that came naturally to him.

“I just made it, this album, with love and passion,” he said. “And when you do things with love and passion, everything is easier, and life is easier.”

You can watch the video for “Ojitos Lindos” above.

Sam Smith and Kim Petras have everybody talking with their smash hit, “Unholy.” But even after a week of Grammys buzz, and several complaints to the FCC, the hype isn’t dying down. Today, BBC Radio 1 shared a cover of “Unholy” performed by the one and only Lizzo.

She sang the song during an appearance on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge show. When explaining her choice, Lizzo said “It’s a massive tune,” in a British accent.

She continued, saying, “I’m such a huge fan of Sam and Kim, and this song is just hot right now. I’ve been wanting to sing it, so you gave me a reason.”

During her cover, she sang to the beat of rolling drums and blaring, seductive horns. Her signature, soulful vocals gave the song a jazzy feel — not to mention, new sounds from a flute, and a hypnotic electric guitar bridge.

It’s been a big month for Lizzo. Last weekend, her song “About Damn Time” won the Grammy for Record Of The Year. This weekend, she will kick off the second leg of her Special Tour, appropriately called the Special 2our.

In the meantime, you can listen to Lizzo’s “Unholy” cover here at the 9:30 mark.

Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Keanu Reeves is not just one of the nicest, kindest, most gregarious folks in Hollywood. He’s also the star of a franchise in which machines take over humanity. So when he weighs in on all this rapidly evolving AI tech, as well as comparatively older stuff like deepfakes, and concludes that they’re worth worrying about, it’s probably a good idea to worry.

In a new interview with Wired, the sometime Neo was not cool with ChatGPT, the latest evolution in artificial intelligence, which people have been using to have “conversations” with dead people, ranging from William Shakespeare to Adolf Hitler. So far the AI responses have been just off enough to be unconvincing. But when the Wired interviewer wondered if a Keanu bot could one day conduct an interview, Reeves wasn’t worried about it happening in his lifetime.

“Oh no,” he told the reporter, “you should be worried about that happening next month.”

At one point the conversation turned to deepfakes, including the shot-down claim that Bruce Willis, who had to retire from acting due to having aphasia, was going to allow himself to be deepfaked (but has already had that happen in a Russian ad). Reeves really doesn’t like deepfakes.

“What’s frustrating about that is you lose your agency,” he said. “When you give a performance in a film, you know you’re going to be edited, but you’re participating in that. If you go into deepfake land, it has none of your points of view. That’s scary.”

Reeves said it was going to be “interesting to see how humans deal with these technologies,” which are already having “such cultural, sociological impacts.” For instance, he points out all the “data” computers amass about anyone using gadgets. “Technologies are finding places in our education, in our medicine, in our entertainment, in our politics, and how we war and how we work.”

He’s already worried about young people who’ve grown up with tech and may not see the dangers:

“I was trying to explain the plot of The Matrix to this 15-year-old once, and that the character I played was really fighting for what was real. And this young person was just like, ‘Who cares if it’s real?’ People are growing up with these tools: We’re listening to music already that’s made by AI in the style of Nirvana, there’s NFT digital art. It’s cool, like, Look what the cute machines can make! But there’s a corporatocracy behind it that’s looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, we’re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the nonvalue. And then what’s going to be pushed on us? What’s going to be presented to us?

Reeves concludes that things like the metaverse are already “a system of control and manipulation. We’re on our knees looking at cave walls and seeing the projections, and we’re not having the chance to look behind us.”

Again, this is someone who’s been thinking about the machines taking over humanity for the last quarter century. It’s probably worth doing some unplugging before AI suddenly starts getting dangerously good at their jobs.

In the meantime, you’ll soon get to see the non-deepfaked Keanu Reeves really doing his own stunts again in the fourth John Wick, which is very real and very long. That film will be released on March 24.

(Via Wired and Entertainment Weekly)

The eyes of the basketball world will turn to Salt Lake City this weekend for the 2023 NBA All-Star festivities. While the All-Star rosters, Rising Stars rosters, and Celebrity Game rosters are already publicly available, the league waited until just days before the extravaganza to formally announce the players taking part in Saturday night’s competitions.

However, the league and TNT joined forces to announce the participants on Tuesday and, as usual, Saturday’s slate will begin with the Skills Challenge. This year’s field for that event will feature three teams of three players with three rounds of competition. One team is entirely comprised of the Antetokounmpo brothers (Giannis, Thanasis, Alex) with another three-man group of Jordan Clarkson, Collin Sexton, and Walker Kessler. The final team is Paolo Banchero, Jabari Smith Jr., and Jaden Ivey.

The Skills Challenge will be followed by the annual three-point contest, with a star-studded field in place. All-Stars Jayson Tatum, Damian Lillard, Lauri Markkanen, and Tyrese Haliburton headline the field, and they will be joined by Kings guard Kevin Huerter, Heat guard Tyler Herro, Pacers guard Buddy Hield, and Blazers guard Anfernee Simons.

Finally, the Slam Dunk Contest field is set with high flyers from across the league. Pelicans forward Trey Murphy is the most prominent player in the field, with Knicks center Jericho Simons, Rockets forward KJ Martin, and fan favorite Mac McClung, who recently agreed to a Two-Way contract with the 76ers, also in the mix.

Coverage of 2023 NBA All-Star Saturday Night will begin at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, February 18, with full coverage on TNT throughout the evening.