Donald Iwerks, son of Mickey Mouse co-creator Ub Iwerks, whose groundbreaking innovations transformed cinematic storytelling and immersive entertainment, died on July 9. He was 96 years old. Iwerks spent more than six decades on projects for The Walt Disney Company, along with his own studio, Iwerks Entertainment. Don pioneered innovations in projection technology, 3D and
Actor and producer Seth Green has joined the advisory board of growing esports entertainment company, Global Gaming League (GGL). Green joins GGL in launching its new gaming platform, GGL Primes, offering free and paid tiers. To celebrate Green joining the organization, GGL Primes will host “Ready, Seth, Go!”, a month-long immersive tournament series beginning Thursday.
Four months after being promoted to president of Disney Entertainment Television, Debra OConnell experienced her first morning Emmy nominations in the new job, and it was good for the executive. The Walt Disney Company earned a total of 125 nominations at the 78th Emmy Awards, including 46 for ABC (the most for any broadcast network).
BILLINGS, Mont. — Chess’s international governing body on Friday suspended former world champion Vladimir Kramnik for at least a year after he leveled unproven allegations of cheating against other players, including Daniel Naroditsky, who died last year at age 29. Kramnik accused Naroditsky of cheating last year and continued to share suspicions on social media.
LAS VEGAS — A book co-written by the man who prosecutors allege ordered the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur can be used in trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. The defense attorney for Duane “Keffe D” Davis tried to bar the 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend” from being used in trial, which is scheduled
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over