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Chernin Entertainment Expands Film Team With Key Hire, Promotions (EXCLUSIVE)

Chernin Entertainment, the prolific independent film and TV producer founded by former News Corp. chairman Peter Chernin, has expanded its in-house film team. Under movies chief David Ready, the film unit has had big wins this year in theaters (“Backrooms”) and on streaming (Netflix’s “The Last House”), and will continue to scale its slate. To

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract That Could Set A New Standard For Game Developers

A group of 1,900 employees at Blizzard Entertainment has successfully signed a union contract with Microsoft, securing several guarantees for members. Represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the contract has given the Blizzard workers more workplace flexibility and guaranteed wage increases, but several other industry-first agreements could make this a blueprint for other

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics for September 2026 Announced

by William D'Angelo , posted 5 hours ago / 501 Views Sony Interactive Entertainment  on the  PlayStation Blog  has revealed the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog games for August 2026 . The PlayStation Plus monthly games for the month were made  available earlier this month  and include Sniper Elite: Resistance for PS5 and PS4, MLB The Show 26 for

Google experiment ditches WebKit for its own engine in Chrome for iOS

Apple's App Store policies require that the Chrome browser on iOS uses the WebKit engine rather than the usual Blink, but that isn't stopping Google from indulging in a "what if" scenario. The Register has noticed that Google recently started work on an experiment that would port Blink to iOS. The project is limited to

Google and Microsoft prepare dueling generative AI debuts

February 6, 2023 2:10 PM Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Google and Microsoft, in separate surprise announcements, confirmed they plan to offer dueling generative AI debuts over the next two days. Today, Google unveiled a new ChatGPT-like chatbot named Bard, as it races to catch up in the

For now, don’t Google search for software downloads

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. PSA: For many, Google is the most straightforward way to find specific software, but malicious actors have made this dangerous over the last few months. If you click on one of the top Google results (usually an ad, not a

You can’t trust Google results for software downloads right now

Image: PCWorld Not even a month ago, sharp-eyed Redditors noticed that searching for AMD graphics card drivers on Google served up a shady text ad as the first result. Our advice then (as now) was to be careful when looking for Radeon software, plus maintaining good search habits in general. Life’s far easier when you

Google rushes to launch its own ChatGPT-like technology soon

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Something to look forward to: Google CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed the company's plans to integrate AI technologies into search and other products. During a Q4 earnings conference call this week, Pichai said that users would very soon be able to

MusicLM: Google AI generates music in various genres at 24 kHz

text-to-music — Your musical wish is MusicLM's command, making audio from "rich captions." Benj Edwards - Jan 30, 2023 10:43 pm UTC Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an exploding ball of music.Ars Technica On Thursday, researchers from Google announced a new generative AI model called MusicLM that can create 24 KHz musical audio from

Google agrees to provide clearer information on its services to EU users

Google has agreed to provide clearer information to users browsing Google Store, Google Play Store, Google Hotels and Google Flights in Europe, the EU Commission announced in a press release. It will soon show whether it's acting as an intermediary or selling products directly, and better inform consumers about deliveries, returns and repairs and more.

Google Ignores Concerns Over New Topics API

Software Published: January 23, 2023 | 4:52 AM Google announced that they plan to continue with the Topics API, an ad-targeting component of its Privacy Sandbox proposal for targeted advertising. This is in despite of calls from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Mozilla, and WebKit to change the plans over privacy concerns. WebKit has

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Chernin Entertainment Expands Film Team With Key Hire, Promotions (EXCLUSIVE)

Chernin Entertainment, the prolific independent film and TV producer founded by former News Corp. chairman Peter Chernin, has expanded its in-house film team. Under movies chief David Ready, the film unit has had big wins this year in theaters (“Backrooms”) and on streaming (Netflix’s “The Last House”), and will continue to scale its slate. To

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract That Could Set A New Standard For Game Developers

A group of 1,900 employees at Blizzard Entertainment has successfully signed a union contract with Microsoft, securing several guarantees for members. Represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the contract has given the Blizzard workers more workplace flexibility and guaranteed wage increases, but several other industry-first agreements could make this a blueprint for other

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics for September 2026 Announced

by William D'Angelo , posted 5 hours ago / 501 Views Sony Interactive Entertainment  on the  PlayStation Blog  has revealed the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog games for August 2026 . The PlayStation Plus monthly games for the month were made  available earlier this month  and include Sniper Elite: Resistance for PS5 and PS4, MLB The Show 26 for

A 13% dividend is set to force another Bitcoin treasury company into the unthinkable: liquidating its BTC to pay cash

Image by CryptoSlate Cash covers about 18 months of the current run rate in a static calculation, while common issuance has already become a funding channel. Editor-in-Chief CryptoSlate Strive's SATA preferred stock had 7.83 million shares outstanding and a $782.95 million stated amount at June 30. At a 13% rate, SATA implies about $101.8 million

Since Everyone LOOOOVES To Talk About Women’s Relationships, Here Are 9 Celebrity Men Who Have Been Engaged 3 (Yeah, 3!!) Or More Times

Look, I get it. When you're a big Hollywood star, it's probably hard to have a "normal" relationship. Everyone is nosy as hell, the pool of people you can relate to is small, and there are millions of eyes on you, waiting for the downfall of your relationship. So, when you meet someone who gets