Quibi, an upcoming mobile-first video streaming service, will create a series based on Snap’s founding. Film executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman — HP Enterprise’s former CEO and current Quibi chief — have announced their plans for Quibi and SXSW, and they include making both scripted and unscripted originals available for streaming. The duo picked […]
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Amazon’s next big step in sports: buying into the Yankees Network
As Disney completes its acquisition of Fox there’s more than just the Marvel universe at stake. One condition of the purchase is that it will sell off Fox’s portfolio of regional sports networks, and as rumors late last year suggested, one interested party is Amazon. Reports from the New York Times and other outlets claim […]
Rosario Dawson Anthology Drama Briarpatch Greenlit at USA Network
USA Network is jumping into the Briarpatch. On Thursday, the cable channel ordered to series the anthology drama starring Rosario Dawson (Jane the Virgin), TVLine has learned. Season 1 is based on Ross Thomas’ novel of the same name and follows Allegra “Pick” Dill (Dawson), a determined investigator who returns to her corrupt Texas hometown after her […]
This neural network can swap sheep for giraffe, jeans for skirts
Researchers have developed an AI system — InstaGAN — that can swap sheep with giraffes, skirts with pants, and more in images.Read More
ChargePoint raises $240 million to expand electric vehicle charging network
ChargePoint has raised $ 200 million in a series H round of funding to expand its electric vehicle charging network into new and existing markets.Read More
Trump proposes state-run TV network to tell world how “GREAT” America is
Enlarge / President Donald Trump gets into an exchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a news conference a day after the midterm elections on November 7, 2018. (credit: Getty Images News) President Donald Trump yesterday proposed creating a government-run TV network that would broadcast globally to show the world how great America is. Trump […]
Facebook down: Social network goes dark
Published time: 12 Nov, 2018 18:39 Facebook appears to be suffering an unexplained outage, as millions of users on the East Coast of the US are getting a message “Sorry, something went wrong” when trying to access the social network. According to the web service DownDetector, the outage is spreading westward across the US, and […]
Tackling Mental Health Through a Connected Network
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. Most emergency rooms are designed to treat physical traumas. But many are also poorly adapted to treat mental health […]
AT&T steps up copyright enforcement, kicks customers off network
Enlarge / The entrance to an AT&T store in San Francisco, California. (credit: Getty Images | Robert Alexander ) AT&T is terminating the broadband service of more than a dozen customers who were accused multiple times of copyright infringement, according to a report by Axios today. “It’s the first time AT&T has discontinued customer service […]
CIA’s secret communication network was cracked by Iranians using… Google Search?
The web-based network which was used by the CIA to communicate with its sources was overcome by Iranians using text-book Google queries, a new exposé claims. The agency knew about the vulnerability, but failed to act on it. Probably the biggest failure of US intelligence since 9/11 has been the compromise of the CIA’s communication […]
