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Five features that caught our eye from today’s YouTube livestream
18 Sep

Five features that caught our eye from today’s YouTube livestream

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YouTube’s creator-focused , Made On YouTube, is here again, and there's plenty to talk about. From more AI integration to Communities, YouTube seems to be gearing up to compete against rivals like TikTok and Netflix. Here are five things that genuinely interested us among the deluge of updates and new features.YouTube is introducing the system, which lets viewers “go beyond” liking and sharing a video. The idea is to allow fans to give more visibility to smaller — so hyping is only allowed for videos from creators under 500,000 subscribers, and only on videos under a week old. Content with…
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Shogun and The Bear win big for Disney at the Emmys
17 Sep

Shogun and The Bear win big for Disney at the Emmys

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The second Emmys of 2024 have come and gone, with streamers once again winning big for some of our favorite television shows. Disney had a fantastic night, winning 60 awards across all its platforms, including Hulu and Disney+. Hulu's limited series Shogun led it to victory with 18 wins — 14 at the Creative Arts Emmys and four on Sunday.Shogun, based on a book of the same name, is a fictional retelling of 17th-century feudal Japan. The show took home the awards for best lead actor and lead actress in a drama series, with Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai becoming…
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There’s a Stranger Things Polly Pocket set, and its design is really clever
07 Sep

There’s a Stranger Things Polly Pocket set, and its design is really clever

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Mattel's latest Polly Pocket collab is a Stranger Things playset that houses the fictional town of Hawkins and the Upside Down in a compact shaped like a walkie-talkie. The set, introduced this week, contains figurines of the characters Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will — plus a very non-threatening interpretation of the Demogorgon. Pre-orders for the $50 collectible are now open through Mattel Creations and major retailers, including Walmart and Target. It’s expected to start shipping later this month. MattelThe set also includes a few tiny walkie-talkies, bikes, a wig for Eleven and a little stack of waffles. There’s even…
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He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He’s Doing the Real Thing
12 Aug

He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He’s Doing the Real Thing

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When I interviewed writers and actors at the picket lines of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes last year, there was a mix of sentiment around AI, which, while largely negative, encompassed anxiety, uncertainty, equivocation, as well as anger.The crowd in Burbank was the most uniformly and passionately anti-AI I’ve ever witnessed. Asked for his thoughts on how AI was impacting his industry, one animator said, “AI can fuck right off.” I asked the storyboard artists Lindsey Castro and Brittany McCarthy for their thoughts on AI, and both simply booed.A year after the WGA strikes, AI was not, to the animation…
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Arcane second season has leaked online, so watch out for spoilers
09 Aug

Arcane second season has leaked online, so watch out for spoilers

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A good portion of the upcoming season of Netflix’s hit animated drama Arcane has leaked online, and according to reporting and . A production assistant at Fortiche, the French animation studio behind the series, confirmed the news in a now-deleted post on X, which was captured and published by Mobile Syrup.“We just got informed that episodes from Arcane season two have been leaked,” the post read. “I cannot express how sad we are. We worked very hard on the show. Please, try to avoid the spoilers as much as you can and do not share them. It feels devastating.”This is…
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Stranger Things will make its Broadway debut in March 2025
07 Aug

Stranger Things will make its Broadway debut in March 2025

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Starting next year, Stranger Things fans will be able to watch its stage play spin-off on Broadway. The prequel to the popular sci-fi/horror series, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, won two Olivier Awards and several other accolades since it premiered on West End in December 2023. Its West End production will run until sometime in 2025, thanks to an extended run, but performances on Broadway will also begin on March 28, 2025. That said, the play will officially open at Marquis Theatre in New York on April 22, 2025.The First Shadow is set in 1959, before the events in the…
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NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permission
05 Aug

NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permission

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In the latest example of a troubling industry pattern, NVIDIA appears to have scraped troves of copyrighted content for AI training. On Monday, 404 Media’s Samantha Cole reported that the $2.4 trillion company asked workers to download videos from YouTube, Netflix and other datasets to develop commercial AI projects. The graphics card maker is among the tech companies appearing to have adopted a “move fast and break things” ethos as they race to establish dominance in this feverish, too-often-shameful AI gold rush.The training was reportedly to develop models for products like its Omniverse 3D world generator, self-driving car systems and…
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Season 2 of ‘Squid Game’ arrives on Netflix December 26
01 Aug

Season 2 of ‘Squid Game’ arrives on Netflix December 26

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Netflix has finally set a date for the next season of Squid Game, almost three years after the Korean drama became a massive hit in the US. Season 2 is set to hit Netflix December 26, with a final third season coming sometime in 2025, the streamer .While the initial teaser for Season 2 doesn’t reveal much about what to expect in the next installment, Netflix shared a few more details about the plot in a letter from Hwang Dong-hyuk, the series’ director and writer.Seong Gi-hun who vowed revenge at the end of Season 1 returns and joins the game…
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The Bioshock movie is still happening but with a reduced budget
26 Jul

The Bioshock movie is still happening but with a reduced budget

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We haven't had an update on Netflix’s Bioshock movie in a couple of years, leading some to wonder if it was quietly canned. The good news? The movie’s still coming. The (potential) bad news? The budget has been slashed, according to reporting by Variety.This comes from producer Roy Lee, who was one of the people behind The Lego Movie. He announced the reduced budget during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. He didn’t put out any numbers, but did say that the movie is currently being “reconfigured” to be a “more personal” film. Director Francis Lawrence is still helming the…
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AMC is bringing fifteen shows to Netflix for one year
17 Jul

AMC is bringing fifteen shows to Netflix for one year

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AMC and Netflix have inked a deal to bring several series from the cable network to the streaming platform later this summer. that the agreement includes seasons 1-8 of Fear the Walking Dead, season 1 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, seasons 1-4 of Preacher, seasons 1-3 of A Discovery of Witches, seasons 1-3 of Into the Badlands, seasons 1-2 of Kevin can F*** Himself, seasons 1-2 of Dark Winds, seasons 1-2 of Gangs of London, season 1 of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, season 1 of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, season 1 of Monsieur Spade, season 1 of…
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