All of Warner Bros.’ theatrical movies will get simultaneous releases on HBO Max next year
Following last month’s news that “Wonder Woman 1984” will be released simultaneously on HBO Max and in U.S. theaters, Warner Bros. and its parent company WarnerMedia just announced that they will follow the same strategy with every theatrical release they have planned for 2021.
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Bill Gates just released a plan for US leadership on climate change, including $35B in funding
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Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men and most prolific philanthropists, has just released a broad new plan on how the U.S. could take the lead in the fight against climate change.
“[We] need to revolutionize the world's physical economy—a
NASA selects four companies for moon material collection as it seeks to set precedent on private sector outer space mining
NASA has selected the winning candidates that they’ve decided to tap to collect lunar resources for eventual Earth return. The four companies all have rides booked on future commercial lunar lander missions, and the agency is using this as a demonstration of what kinds of efficiencies it can
Thoma Bravo acquires Flexera for second time paying $2.85B
Thoma Bravo must really like Flexera, an IT asset management company out of Chicago. The private equity firm bought the company for the second time today. Sources told technewss the price was $2.85 billion.
Technically, Thoma Bravo is getting a majority stake in the company, buying it from previou
As crypto comes back, Binance-backed Injective Protocol launches Testnet for its DeFi trading platform
Decentralized exchange protocols that allow crypto traders and investors to trade across different block?hains have been in development for a while. A significant new development now comes with the launch of the “Testnet” from Injective Protocol. Injective has been backed by Binance, o
YouTube introduces new feature to address toxic comments
YouTube today announced it’s launching a new feature that will push commenters to reconsider their hateful and offensive remarks before posting. It will also begin testing a filter that allows creators to avoid having to read some of the hurtful comments on their channel that had been automat
Google’s co-lead of Ethical AI team says she was fired for sending an email
Timnit Gebru, a leading researcher and voice in the field of ethics and artificial intelligence, says Google fired her for an email she sent to her direct reports. According to Gebru, Google fired her because of an email she sent to subordinates that the company said reflected “behavior that
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AWS expands startup assistance program
Last year, AWS launched the APN Global Startup Program, which is sort of AWS’s answer to an incubator for mid to late-stage startups deeply involved with AWS technology. This year, the company wants to expand that offering, and today it announced some updates to the program at the Partner key
Find out how startups like Skyroot and Bluefield are building new industries at TC Sessions: Space 2020
At our fast-approaching first TC Sessions: Space event, which is happening December 16-17, we’re going to be highlighting some of the most exciting startups and founders tackling big problems with innovative and groundbreaking solutions.
Some of those companies are focused on building tomorro
VCs who want better outcomes should use data to reduce founder team risk
VCs expect the companies they invest in to use data to improve their decision-making. So why aren't they doing that when evaluating startup teams?
Sure, venture capital is a people business, and the power of gut feeling is real. But using an objective, data-backed process to evaluate teams —
Atlassian brings new DevOps metrics to Jira
Atlassian is launching an update to its ubiquitous Jira issue and project tracking service today — and specifically the Jira Software Cloud version — that brings a number of new features for visualizing and measuring how code moves through the development pipeline. With this, project ma
MLCommons debuts with public 86,000-hour speech data set for AI researchers
If you want to make a machine learning system, you need data for it, but that data isn’t always easy to come by. MLCommons aims to unite disparate companies and organizations in the creation of large public databases for AI training, so that researchers around the world can work together at h
Space startup Aevum debuts world’s first fully autonomous orbital rocket launching drone
Launching things to space doesn’t have to mean firing a large rocket vertically using massive amounts of rocket-fuel-powered thrust — startup Aevum breaks the mould in multiple ways, with an innovative launch vehicle design that combines uncrewed aircraft with horizontal take-off and la