In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by actor and director Ben Affleck. The streaming company announced the acquisition in March, with a statement from Affleck saying he wanted to “protect the power of human creativity.” According to Affleck, InterPublic’s AI tools help
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang spent two days (July 15-16) in Tokyo courting Japan’s industrial and chip supplier elite, weeks after a keynote speech in Taiwan and months after a visit to South Korea. It left with deals that span Japan’s entire tech ecosystem: a national AI factory, partnerships with the country’s leading robotics companies, and
Only the front of the oven closest to the door, and about an inch from each side wall, cooked a little cooler, about 20 degrees cooler. This is still an impressive result, especially compared to turntable models that don’t even allow you to use most of your microwave space. Just keep in mind that with
Apple recently filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information. (In response, OpenAI said it is “not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit.”) On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast,
Valve claims that the Steam Machine can achieve “up to 4K at 120Hz” on compatible displays over HDMI 2.0 connections (albeit using AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling technology, rather than native resolutions), but the Steam Machine Verified label it will apply to games in the Steam Store is based on a 1920 x 1080
was everything Chris Martin’s idea. During the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the Coldplay frontman called Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, for whom he curates the Global Citizen Festival, to propose something new. “Wouldn’t it be amazing,” Evans remembers Martin saying, “if we could do the first World Cup halftime show?” Evans agreed and
