As tech giants like Apple and Facebook prepare to spend billions of dollars on movies and TV, longtime Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg is looking to write some big checks for original content, too. Katzenberg began his career at Paramount Pictures (where he worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture), but is best known for running Disney’s motion picture division during the period… Read More
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Commentary: With “Blade Runner 2049” hitting theaters this week, I returned to the 1968 novel that inspired the original science fiction film and was struck by its prescience.
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Optoma has released new fully wireless headphones under its ‘NuForce’ audio sub brand, the BE Free8 earbuds. These are like Apple’s AirPods, requiring no wire to connect them, and they connect via Bluetooth to any device. The charging pod they ship with even has a similar design to the AirPod case, and carries three backup charges for powering up on the go. The NuForce… Read More
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Here’s the third new Lifx product in the past two weeks: a set of smart, color-changing light bars that work with Siri, Alexa, and the Google Assistant.
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Plus: The Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango are recalled, and the Omron dashboard knows if you’re holding a phone.
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Richard Smith, who stepped down last week, draws fierce criticism from Congress after Equifax’s massive breach.
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The OLED displays you crave.
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Microsoft provided additional details on its Windows Mixed Reality vision, including the announcement of a new Samsung Odyssey headset and the beginning of pre-orders for the headsets arriving this holiday season.
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In a continued effort to pass on any responsibility for the largest data breach in history, Equifax’s recently departed CEO is blaming it all on a single person who failed to deploy a patch.
Hackers exposed the Social Security numbers, drivers licenses and other sensitive info of 143 million Americans earlier this summer by exploiting a vulnerability in Apache’s Struts software… Read More
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Judge William Alsup has ruled that the Waymo v. Uber trial would be delayed until December 4. The trial had been expected to start with jury selection on October 10. This gives Waymo additional time to review new documents associated with the Stroz report. Waymo has been pushing for the delay to account for the mountain of materials in need of review surrounding Stroz’s due diligence report. Read More
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