RELATED STORIES HBO Max has removed the classic film Gone With the Wind from its movie library following a number of calls to do so, in light of the ongoing global protests for racial equality. ScreenRant first reported the news, and a search of the HBO Max archives confirms that the movie is no longer […]
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Can You Check Out Mental Health Services at Your Local Library?
This story is part of a series between OZY and Well Being Trust called Mental States of the Nation, where we explore ways that different states across the U.S. are enforcing and facilitating mental health parity. We think of libraries as a place to improve our minds through education and information. Now, some libraries are […]
Fast.ai launches fastai v1, a deep learning library for PyTorch
Fast.ai today announced the full 1.0 release of fastai, a free, open-source deep learning library that runs on top of Facebook’s PyTorch framework. The project has been under development for 18 months and launches the same day as PyTorch 1.0, which includes deeper integrations with Caffe2, ONNX, and a series of integrations with cloud provide…Read […]
Toss Books At Your Adorable Friends In Library
Library offers a cute experience of hanging out at the library, making use of all the books by playfully tossing them at your pals. I mean, yeah, reading those books would be good too, but there’s just something about lightly hurling tomes at these grinning, playful folks that just makes you want to keep on […]
The Librarian Revolves Around An Eerie Library & Its Keeper
In libraries are so quiet you could hear a pin drop, but in The Librarian, you might hear a little more than that. As the librarian, it is your job to make sure the library is safe, so you’ll have to muster all your courage and wit to face the puzzles put forth by the […]
Roger Corman’s Sons Sue to Halt Their Father’s Film Library Sale
The sale of the Roger Corman Library has hit a snag. Last month, word broke that Shout! Factory and Ace Films purchased 270 titles the library of legendary B-movie king Roger Corman. Now, Corman’s own sons are suing to block the sale, claiming the titles actually belong to an irrevocable trust. I was pretty darn excited when […]
Shout! Factory Acquires Roger Corman’s Library of 270 B-Movies
Shout! Factory has snapped up the rights to 270 films from B-movie master Roger Corman. This deal will enable Shout! Factory to not only redistribute the films on Blu-ray, but also reboot certain titles into new films. Time for the million dollar Slumber Party Massacre reboot! More on the Shout! Factory Roger Corman Library deal below. […]
Library of Congress will no longer save every tweet
Enlarge (credit: Michael Nagle / Bloomberg / Getty Images News) Yesterday, the US Library of Congress announced a change to its social media archiving policy. In 2010, the LOC had been given a complete archive of every tweet sent to that point; it has been grabbing every single new one since. But starting on the […]
The Library of Congress will start limiting its Twitter archives in 2018
It doesn’t seem odd anymore that governments might want to save Twitter archives for historical purposes, what with all the attention our president gets for his contributions to the platform. The UK has been saving tweets and YouTube videos as historic media since 2014, while our own Library of Congress made it a practice since […]
Duolingo adds French and German to its short story library
Six months ago, language learning service Duolingo introduced new mini-morsels of content called Stories. They walked users through short tales that would ideally be more organic than scripted conversations. Today, the service announced it’s expanded beyond Spanish and Portuguese by adding 20 Stories each in French and German. Duolingo launched Stories as an experiment, as […]
