[ad_1] Image: Paramount Across various slices of entertainment, crunch and overwork have become big problems. Though it’s been commonly talked about in video games in recent years, those discussions have bloomed over into animation, as we saw with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse earlier this summer. Turtle Power with Melissa Navia | First Fandoms According to … Read more
[ad_1] Photo: California Department of Fish and Wildlife (AP) A notorious 500-pound black bear responsible for a spate of home invasions over the last year was finally successfully captured in Lake Tahoe on Friday. The female bear, known as “Hank the Tank,” broke into 21 different homes with three cubs in tow. She will be … Read more
[ad_1] Image: Marvel Studios Almost a full year after allegations of overwork and poor conditions, the visual effects staff at Marvel Studios is forming its own union. io9 Interview: Oscar Isaac Was ‘All In’ on Moon Knight Per Vulture, 52 on-set employees filed an petition for an election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). … Read more
[ad_1] Photo: VALUA VITALY (Shutterstock) A new study published by a number of British researchers reveals a hypothetical cyberattack in which a hacker could leverage recorded audio of a person typing to steal their personal data. The attack uses a home-made deep-learning-based algorithm that can acoustically analyze keystroke noises and automatically decode what that person … Read more
[ad_1] Director William Friedkin poses a Lifetime Achievement Award given to him at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on in 2012. Photo: Gareth Cattermole (Getty Images) From iconic directors and legendary actors, to big corporations and famous name brands, it seems everyone in Hollywood has something incredible to say about William Friedkin. The legendary, … Read more
[ad_1] Prosecraft.io, a site that used novels to help power a data-driven project to display word count, passive voice, and other much more subjective, writing-style markers such as vividness, shut down today after authors protested the project. Prosecraft used the full text of over 25,000 books—which is entirely copywritten material—in order to develop a library … Read more
[ad_1] Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric and Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid.Image: Disney The mermaid (and merman) of the moment might be popping up on screens right now in Barbie, but Disney would like to remind you that The Little Mermaid also came out this year. If you didn’t make … Read more
[ad_1] Colorado’s state government has warned students and teachers that hackers may have accessed their personal information — dating as far back as 2004. In a notice on its website, the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) confirmed it experienced a ransomware incident that saw hackers access and copy data from its systems between June … Read more
[ad_1] Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Goodbye Antares-230+ Layoffs at Planet and Astra By the way…We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated Space Stage to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Plus, we’ve joined forces with the Aerospace Corporation to host the Space Domain Awareness Challenge Pitch-off for startups using AI to analyze satellite … Read more
[ad_1] TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, which runs September 19–21 in San Francisco, is the startup world’s big tent. It draws founders, venture partners, CEOs, engineers, scientists, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs, product managers, CMOs, corporate M&A directors, MBA candidates and business developers who form the entire backbone of the startup ecosystem. The basic gist: It’s where … Read more