Grammarly, a copyediting extension for Chrome and Firefox that points out typos and grammatical mistakes, had a major bug that allowed any website you visit to log into your account and read everything you ever wrote. It made all your documents, history, logs, tweets and blog posts vulnerable to high-tech snoops. Google’s Project Zero, which […]
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Disney’s ‘Oliver!’ Remake Hires Danny Strong to Write Script
Remember that previously-announced Disney Oliver! remake? The one starring Ice Cube, with Hamilton director Thomas Kail at the helm? It’s still happening! And the film now has a writer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumnus Danny Strong will pen the script. The original Oliver! was a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Ice Cube will play Fagin, the leader of a band of young pickpockets. Disney is […]
Person Paid to Write About Movies Confuses Guillermo del Toro With Benecio [sic] del Toro
The Shape of Water, as you may well know solely as an informed consumer of popular culture, is the acclaimed new film from Mexican master Guillermo del Toro. (You should see it! It’s good!) Those simple facts were apparently unattainable to Rex Reed, America’s worst working film critic, who published a “review” at the New […]
Did The Ranch Just Give Itself a Way to Write Danny Masterson Out?
Warning: The following contains spoilers from The Ranch Part 4 finale. Just starting your binge? Circle on back to our premiere recap by clicking here. Intentional or not, The Ranch‘s latest cliffhanger gives the show a pretty easy way to get rid of Danny Masterson’s Rooster. ICYMI: The actor was fired by Netflix on Dec. 5 […]
‘Prince Charming’ Hires Stephen Chbosky To Write and Direct Disney Reimagining
The Perks of Being a Wallflower writer-director Stephen Chbosky will pen and helm Disney’s upcoming Prince Charming, a live-action reimagining of the Prince Charming trope made popular in Disney flicks like Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and even Enchanted. Prince Charming will be the latest in a string of live-action Disney works that dip into their vault of classic animated […]
How to write a cryptocurrency white paper
GUEST: So you want to create the next bitcoin. Wonderful! But before you crack code, you’ll need to revisit English 101, because the blockchain community demands a white paper with every project. What’s a white paper? It’s a document that describes your project. How do you make one? Here’s a handy guide of best practices […]
Report: House of Cards Poised to Write Out Kevin Spacey for Final Season
Frank Underwood’s time on House of Cards looks to be ending in scandal. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix’s political drama is currently reworking scripts for the sixth and final season to write out series star Kevin Spacey’s character, former President Frank Underwood. (Production on the series was suspended earlier this week, and THR […]
Google’s Learning Software Learns to Write Learning Software
Google’s researchers have taught machine-learning software to build machine-learning software, in a project dubbed AutoML. https://media.wired.com/photos/59dfe8dcc1feb102266570ff/master/pass/ai_builds_ai-01.png Feed: All Latest
Drew Goddard Will Write and Direct Fox’s ‘X-Force’ Movie
20th Century Fox is moving full steam ahead with the X-Men franchise, and now one of its biggest spinoffs has found a new director. After Kick-Ass 2‘s Jeff Wadlow spent years attached, a new report says that Drew Goddard, the man who directed The Cabin in the Woods, will write and direct the studio’s X-Force team-up film, […]
Artificial intelligence is attempting to write the next ‘Game of Thrones’ book
HBO If you’re hanging out feverishly to find out what happens after this weeks’ drama-filled season seven finale of Game of Thrones, you’re not alone. With the TV show now firmly ahead of the books, fans might have to wait until 2019 to see how George R.R. Martin’s epic saga wraps up. So to give us some much-needed new […]