Oprah’s Book Club is coming to Apple TV+

Oprah Winfrey is one of the A-list celebrities Apple has enlisted for Apple TV+. Winfrey has already signed on for a series with Prince Harry on mental health, and she's expected to release another documentary, Toxic Labor, about workplace harassment...

AI avatars of Chinese authors could soon narrate audiobooks

The Chinese search engine Sogou isn't stopping at AI news anchors. The company has created "lifelike" avatars of two Chinese authors, and it plans to have them narrate audiobooks in video recordings. According to the BBC, Sogou used AI, text-to-speec...

Anne Rice uses ‘lynching’, Dismisses history over E.L. James and Bullies


Anne Rice is no stranger to criticism. Perhaps that's why the author defended E.L. James's bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey after a Twitter chat went horribly wrong. However, replies to critics of her...

Stanford’s New Designer Carbon Boosts Battery Performance


Stanford University scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. "We have developed a 'designer carbon' that is both...

J. K. Rowling Says Sorry for Harry Potter Character Fred’s Demise


J.K. Rowling is clearly contrite. The fact that she had to kill off one of the characters among many in her past novels was a necessary evil. She is really really sorry about the euthanasia of Fred.A...

Crime and Mystery Writer Ruth Rendell Dies at 85


Ruth Rendell, known for her dark and chilling thrillers, died on Saturday at the age of 85.  The news is confirmed by her publishing company, however, no information about the cause of death is...

George R.R. Martin releases Next Game of Thrones Book Excerpt


Just few days before the April 12th release of season five premiere of Game of Thrones, author George R.R Martin released a brand new chapter from the much anticipated book ‘The Winds of Winter’....

Veronica Roth Dishes Tris in Lionsgate’s Insurgent


Veronica Roth, the author of the successful Divergent book trilogy, opened up to Hero Complex on why Tris' journey into accepting her less-than-ideal traits in Insurgent is so important to female...