Walt Disney is forming a new group to coordinate the company’s use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality, as the media giant explores applications across its film, television and theme park divisions.The newly formed Office of Technology Enablement will be led by Jamie Voris, the film studio’s chief technology officer who spearheaded development of Disney’s app for the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality device, an email seen on Friday by Reuters showed. Eddie Drake will succeed Voris as the studio’s CTO.”The pace and scope of the advances in AI and XR (extended reality) are profound and…
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This last week on Jeopardy!, champion Greg Jolin was trying to win his second game in a row. It wasn’t going to be easy, as Greg wanted to extend his win streak and add to his $24,001 in earnings. One of his challengers was a man named Sam Cameron. After the game, Sam said he was “super jealous” of Greg. Here is what happened and what Sam had to say about the game. Jeopardy! Challenger ‘Super Jealous’ Greg Jolin won $24,001 in his first win and wanted to extend his winning streak with a second win. His opponents included Sam…
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his campaign rally at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, U.S., November 1, 2024.Brian Snyder | ReutersFormer President Donald Trump’s final week in the race against Vice President Kamala Harris has been hampered by a series of controversial remarks and unforced errors that threaten to mute his closing argument to voters amid a deluge of Democratic attacks and legal backlash.Throughout the week, Trump’s campaign aired thousands of ads focused on his policy platform: universal tariffs, deeper tax cuts and sweeping immigrant deportations. But what garnered the most attention were a…
Chinese smartphone company Honor has released devices that fold up to be nearly as thin as an iPhone.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Honor on Thursday announced backing from new investors as the Huawei spinoff prepares for an initial public offering.The new backers are: China Telecom — one of the major telecommunications operators in the country — CICC Capital, Chinese venture capital firm Cornerstone and SDG, a fund linked to a Shenzhen economic zone. Honor said its existing partners also made a new investment round through an entity called Jinshi Xingyao.Honor said earlier this year it…
Every time H5N1 infects a mammal, it has a chance to develop mutations that make it more transmissibleAlamy Stock Photo It’s been detected in birds on every continent except Australia, seals in South America, foxes in Canada, as well as poultry, dairy cows and dozens of farm workers who have had contact with them in the US – and now the highly infectious H5N1 bird flu virus has jumped to a pig in the US for the first time. This development is, without a doubt, troubling. It affords the virus one of its best opportunities to date to evolve… Read…
(L to R) Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg in ‘A Real Pain’. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures, © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.Opening in theaters November 1st is ‘A Real Pain,’ directed by Jesse Eisenberg and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, and Daniel Oreskes.Related Article: Jessie Eisenberg and Claire Danes Talk FX’s ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’Initial Thoughts(L to R) Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin in ‘A Real Pain’. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures, © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.Jesse Eisenberg has long been an acquired taste as an actor, but as…
Cardi B has hit back at Elon Musk after he called her a “puppet” for endorsing Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming US election. Read More: Cardi B – ‘Invasion Of Privacy’ Review: A confident and compelling debut from the Bronx rapper The ‘WAP’ rapper made a speech endorsing Harris on Friday (November 1) during a campaign effort in Milwaukee, following performances by GloRilla, MC Lyte, the Isley Brothers, Flo Milli and DJ Gemini Gilly. Addressing the crowd at the Wisconsin rally, she compared herself to Harris, saying she had been an “underdog” throughout her career too. “I’ve been underestimated.…
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, greets supporters during a campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas on September 13, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesWith Election Day around the corner, there’s been just shy of $1 billion spent on political ads up and down the ballot in the last week, data from the ad-tracking firm AdImpact shows.The $994 million is close to one-tenth of the more than $10 billion that’s been spent on political advertising so far since the start of 2023, spent across just seven…
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Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 21, 2024.Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty ImagesAmazon said revenue in its cloud unit increased 19% in the third quarter, just missing analyst estimates.Revenue at Amazon Web Services totaled $27.45 billion, according to a statement Thursday, while Wall Street was expecting $27.52 billion, based on StreetAccount estimates. Year-over-year growth has accelerated for five consecutive quarters.The artificial intelligence portion of AWS is in the billions of dollars in annualized revenue, more than doubling year over year, Amazon CEO…
A tourist takes a photo as the Acropolis’ Propylaea are seen in the background, in Athens, Greece, on June 28, 2024.Elias Marcou | ReutersFlights between the U.S. and Europe have not been this cheap in three years, when many countries were just lifting Covid-19 era rules.Fares are low even for the traditionally slow late-fall and winter months outside of major holidays.”It is brutal to fill seats during these times of year,” said Brett Snyder, who writes the Cranky Flier travel industry site.According to flight-tracking company Hopper, “good deal” fares across the Atlantic to Europe are averaging $578 in November, down…
Apple Inc. agreed to buy software maker Pixelmator, adding a popular high-end photo-editing app to its lineup. Pixelmator announced the acquisition on its blog Friday, saying its Lithuania-based team would be joining Apple. The 17-year-old company — founded by brothers Saulius Dailide and Aidas Dailide — makes apps for the Mac, iPad and iPhone.The two companies already have a close relationship: Apple has frequently touted Pixelmator software in its marketing — including an iPad event last month — and the apps use an interface akin to the iPhone maker’s own applications.“We’ve been inspired by Apple since day one,” Pixelmator said…
Saturday Night Live will feature a surprise appearance by Vice President Kamala Harris, the NY Post reports. After a day of campaigning in Atlanta and Charlotte, she is joining Saturday’s (November 2) cold open sketch. With the 2024 election less than a week away, Harris’ surprise appearance marks another milestone in her brief, but storied campaign. Here’s what else to know about the next episode of Saturday Night Live. Who will host the SNL post-election show? NBC has revealed that Bill Burr will host the post-election show on November 9, with Mk.gee as musical guest! This is the first time in three…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Munich Security Conference at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany, on February 16, 2024.Tobias Hase | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesWith Wall Street laser focused on cloud computing this week, Google outpaced its rivals in growth, a key sign for investors that the internet company is gaining traction in artificial intelligence.Google’s cloud business, which includes infrastructure as well as software subscriptions, grew 35% year over year in the third quarter to $11.35 billion, accelerating from 29% in the prior period.Amazon Web Services, which remains the market leader, grew 19% to $27.45 billion,…
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 4, 2024.CNBCWarren Buffett sold another big chuck of his Apple stake, downsizing Berkshire Hathaway’s biggest equity holding for four quarters in a row.The Omaha-based conglomerate held $69.9 billion worth of Apple shares at the end of September, according to its third-quarter earnings report released Saturday morning. That implied Buffett offloaded approximately a quarter of his stake with about 300 million shares remaining in the holding. In total, the stake is down 67.2% from the end of the third quarter last year.The Oracle of Omaha started…
Chloë Grace Moretz has come out as a “gay woman,” while also endorsing Kamala Harris. The actress took to her Instagram on Friday to announce that she “voted early” and voted for Democratic presidential candidate Harris for the 2024 election. She also shared a photo of an “I Voted Early” sticker on her jeans. “There is so much on the line this election,” she continued. “I believe the government has no right over my body as a woman, and that the decisions over my body should come ONLY from myself and my doctor. Kamala Harris will protect that for us.”…
Last night (November 1), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Cardi B threw her full-throated support behind the Democratic candidate for U.S. president, Vice President Kamala Harris. After walking onstage to her breakout hit, 2017’s “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi B spoke about why she’s supporting Harris in the election, discussing women’s rights, the economy, healthcare, and more. She also rebuked Harris’ Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump. Watch Cardi B’s speech below.Cardi B has been outspoken politically over the years, showing support for Senator Bernie Sanders and interviewing President Joe Biden. She also joins a growing list of musicians to endorse Harris or…