Month: September 2024
YouTube is adding ‘seasons’ to make your favorite channel more like Netflix
YouTube creators can now break their videos up into different seasons and episodes to make them easier for viewers to navigate — and binge-watch — on TV. The upcoming feature comes as YouTube has increasingly been pushing into the living room, with YouTuber revenue on TVs up 30 percent year over…
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$200 million supercomputer will be scrapped within weeks — ORNL’s Summit could be a bargain for someone with very deep pockets, lofty ambitions (and some serious real estate to park it all)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee has announced plans, via X/Twitter, to retire its Summit supercomputer in November 2024. After six years of service and over 200 million node hours of research, Summit’s decommissioning marks the end of the road for what was, in 2018, the world’s most powerful…
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Lionsgate signs deal to train AI model on its movies and shows
Today, Lionsgate — the studio behind films like the John Wick and Hunger Games franchises — announced that it is partnering with Runway to create a new, customized video generation model intended to help “filmmakers, directors and other creative talent augment their work.” In a statement about the deal, Lionsgate’s…
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Intel splits off foundry business — new dawn for chip giant as it announces major transformation plans
Intel has announced plans to establish a new Intel Foundry Services (IFS) spinoff – with the foundry business set to become its own standalone subsidiary. The announcement, made by company CEO Pat Gelsinger, is said to align with three of Intel’s main goals, enhancing its foundry operations, cutting costs and…
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Before he returns for Netflix’s Peaky Blinders movie, Cillian Murphy’s new historical drama Small Things Like These looks like it’ll make me weep
As Cillian Murphy prepares to reprise his role as fearsome gangster Tommy Shelby in the upcoming Netflix Peaky Blinders movie, his intense performance in the trailer for new movie Small Things Like These is just as goosebump-inducing. After Murphy’s well-deserved Oscar win for his performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer in…
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House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio
The bill, titled the AM for Every Vehicle Act, would direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue a rule that “requires automakers to maintain AM broadcast radio in their vehicles without a separate or additional payment, fee, or surcharge.” Supporters say they are pushing the bill out…
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