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Steve Dent / Engadget:
Netflix won only one Oscar award, for Wes Anderson's short film, and Apple TV+ won zero, despite 32 combined nominations; Universal won big with Oppenheimer — The streamers combined for 32 nominations but Netflix won just a single award. — Despite combining for 32 nominations …
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Mstyslav Chernov's “20 Days in Mariupol” won the Oscar for best documentary, a first for AP and PBS' “Frontline” — Mstyslav Chernov's “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday night.
Reuters:
Getty, Reuters, AP, the AFP, and other news outlets withdraw a photo issued by the UK's Princess of Wales, after analysis suggested the photo had been altered — Several leading news organisations have withdrawn a photograph issued by Kensington Palace of Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales …
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Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Roku faces a backlash after appearing to lock the devices of users who don't agree to its new Dispute Resolution Terms, asking them to write a letter to opt out — Users are opted in automatically unless they write a letter to Roku by March 21. — Roku customers are threatening to stop using …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan sue Nvidia over allegedly using their work to train NeMo, and say Nvidia “admitted” to using the books — Nvidia (NVDA.O), whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who said it used …
Financial Times:
Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker says the group has $8B to spend on M&A and AI investments, to help transform its businesses of supplying professional data — Media and data group will develop its own technology and scoop up targets with AI capabilities
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Leichtman: the largest pay TV providers in the US ended 2023 with about 71.3M subscribers, losing ~5M subscribers YoY, and down from 91.5M at the end of 2018 — The figure brings the industry's total net losses in the past five years to over 20 million, according to Leichtman Research Group
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
William Whitworth, who wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker before working as the EIC at The Atlantic from 1980 to 1999, died on March 8 at age 87 — After writing memorable character sketches and fine-tuning others' copy at The New Yorker, he spent two decades as editor in chief of The Atlantic Monthly.
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: Biden's State of the Union address averaged 32.23M viewers across 14 broadcast and cable outlets, up 18% over 2023; Fox News led with 5.84M viewers — The president's annual speech to Congress improved by 18 percent over 2023. — The 2024 State of the Union address drew a larger TV audience than the 2023 address.
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Kylie Robison / Fortune:
Source: X plans to launch a TV app, which looks “identical” to YouTube's TV app, for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs next week — In a bid to compete with YouTube and recast itself as a video platform, Elon Musk's X is launching a television app for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs, a source at the company told Fortune.
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[Thread] The Center for Public Integrity Union says the nonprofit plans to lay off 11 staffers, which represents over half of its members — Today, @publicintegrity management informed us that they will lay off 11 of our beloved coworkers. This figure represents more than half our unit.
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Bruce Haring / Deadline:
Digital Marilyn, an interactive AI avatar of Marilyn Monroe that was created using GPT-3.5 by Soul Machines and Authentic Brands Group, was unveiled at SXSW — One of Marilyn Monroe's most famous quotes was, “I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
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