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☆ When Soccer’s Content Mine Loses Sight of Reality
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The show, depicting Liverpool’s preparations for the 2012-2013 Premier League season, ran for only one series, amounting to just six episodes. Its subsequent cultural half life has been limited, too; those few elements which have lingered illustrate perfectly why it was not renewed. It would emerge later, of course, that both incidents were a little more nuanced than first assumed. The envelope trick had been adapted from a method once used — albeit with considerably more success — by Alex Ferguson. The portrait had been a gift from a disability charity with which Rodgers had worked closely during his time at his previous club, Swansea.

Persons: Marc Andreessen, ruefully, Brendan Rodgers, …, Rodgers, Alex Ferguson Organizations: maven, League Locations: Liverpool, Swansea

☆ Bobby Berk explains why he left ‘Queer Eye’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Designer Bobby Berk is sharing more about his decision to step away from “Queer Eye” after eight seasons. “Queer Eye has been the most amazing gift that I couldn’t have ever imagined,” Berk told Vanity Fair. Berk explained that after a seven-cycle contract that lasted through September 2022 had concluded, he thought the show would be over. Karamo Brown, Tan France, Bobby Berk, Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski in "Queer Eye." “We had mentally just prepared ourselves to move on—that’s why I left,” he said.

Persons: Bobby Berk, ” Berk, “ It’s, . Berk, Tan France, “, Tan, Berk, Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Ilana Panich, ”, maven Jonathan Van Ness Organizations: CNN, Netflix Locations: Tan France, France

☆ Sports Illustrated lays off most, possibly all, of its staff
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —The future of Sports Illustrated was uncertain Friday after the publisher of the iconic magazine and website laid off most or “probably all” of its guild-represented staff, its union said. In a memo sent to staff viewed by CNN, the magazine’s publisher said it is “laying off staff that work on the SI brand.”Authentic Brands Group has owned the magazine and website since 2019. “This is another difficult day in what has been a difficult four years for Sports Illustrated under Arena Group (previously The Maven) stewardship,” the union said in a statement on X. The union said it expects the Arena Group to honor its union contract and for all of its employees to be treated fairly. Levinsohn was replaced, effective immediately, by interim chief executive Manoj Bhargava, the 5-Hour Energy founder who owns a majority stake in The Arena Group, said Vince Bodiford, a spokesperson for Bhargava.

Persons: ABG, Manoj Bhargava, Mitch Goldich, It’s, Ross Levinsohn, Levinsohn, Vince Bodiford, Bhargava, CNN’s Oliver Darcy, Liam Reilly Organizations: New, New York CNN, Sports, CNN, SI, Arena Group, Sports Illustrated, ”, Hour Energy, Group, The Locations: New York

☆ Mass layoffs hit Sports Illustrated staff
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Rob Wile | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The publisher of Sports Illustrated is laying off much of the storied magazine's entire staff. The news, first reported by Front Office Sports, came less than 24 hours after publisher The Arena Group announced "a significant reduction in its workforce," comprising 100 employees. According to FOS, Sports Illustrated's parent company, Authentic Brands Group, has sought to revoke Arena's license to publish SI after Arena missed a payment. The union representing SI's staff said in a tweeted statement that it had been notified of Arena's intention to "lay off a significant number, possibly all" of its union-represented staff. "This is another difficult day in what has been a difficult four years for Sports Illustrated under Arena Group (previously The Maven) stewardship," the union said in a statement.

Persons: Richard Deitsch, Long, Ross Levinsohn, Manoj Bhargava, Bhargava Organizations: Sports Illustrated, Front Office Sports, Arena, Authentic Brands, The, Arena Group, SI, Authentic Brands Group, NBC News, Time Inc, Meredith Corp, Better Homes, Gardens, Sports, Innovations Ventures, Men's, Sports Illustrated Resorts Locations: Dominican Republic

☆ OpenAI quietly removes ban on military use of its AI tools
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during an interview at Bloomberg House on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 16, 2024. OpenAI has quietly walked back a ban on the military use of ChatGPT and its other artificial intelligence tools. The shift comes as OpenAI begins to work with the U.S. Department of Defense on AI tools, including open-source cybersecurity tools, Anna Makanju, OpenAI's VP of global affairs, said Tuesday in a Bloomberg House interview at the World Economic Forum alongside CEO Sam Altman. The news comes after years of controversy about tech companies developing technology for military use, highlighted by the public concerns of tech workers — especially those working on AI. Workers at virtually every tech giant involved with military contracts have voiced concerns after thousands of Google employees protested Project Maven, a Pentagon project that would use Google AI to analyze drone surveillance footage.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Anna Makanju, OpenAI's, Makanju, Maven Organizations: Bloomberg House, Economic, U.S . Department of Defense, Bloomberg, Workers, Google, Pentagon, Microsoft, CNBC PRO Locations: Davos, Switzerland

☆ Women's health is gaining traction — and a top VC predicts a blockbuster IPO for Maven could pave the way for more transactions
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-26 | by ( Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Investors rely on "exits" such as initial public offerings when assigning valuations to similar companies, Farr said. So the lack of attractive data on this front is helping to hold back the women's health category as a whole, she said. "Depressed valuations are keeping the IPO window latched," the authors of the SVB report wrote. Maven ClinicWomen's health, long neglected by VCs, is gaining tractionHistorically, investment in women's health has lagged behind other parts of healthcare. More than 76% of women's health startups have at least one female cofounder, the SVB report said.

Persons: Chrissy Farr, Farr, Maven, Kate Ryder, SVB, Gina Bartasi Organizations: OMERS Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Business, Maven

☆ The 'solar wind,' which the sun is constantly blasting over the planets, suddenly disappeared and created a void around Mars
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-14 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Solar wind washes over the planets, but it briefly disappeared at Mars due to an event on the sun. Normally in our solar system, the sun is constantly spewing out a stream of charged particles and magnetic fields, called the solar wind. In December 2022, though, the solar wind suddenly disappeared around Mars, and the planet's atmosphere swelled by thousands of kilometers, as a result. An eruption on the sun swept away the solar windScientists determined that the sun had emitted a burst of high-speed solar wind, which swept away a region of the regular solar wind, leaving a void in its wake. To figure out if that's what happened, it helps to study the opposite extreme, when the solar wind vanishes.

Persons: Mars, Shannon Curry, MAVEN, Lacey Young, Curry, Owen Humphreys, NASA's MAVEN Organizations: MAVEN, Service, NASA, JPL, American Geophysical Union, Lacey Young NASA, Science, Space Station Locations: Mars, San Francisco

☆ Opinion: What the Sports Illustrated AI debacle is telling us
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Opinion Will Leitch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

(Full disclosure: I briefly hosted a television show for Sports Illustrated a few years back that no one watched.) But the only difference between those sports sites using AI writers and other sports sites using AI writers is that people actually used to enjoy Sports Illustrated and Deadspin; Yahoo, for example, has been contracted with a company called “Automated Insights” to write AI sport stories for years. Another game I like to play in my downtime is NBA2K, the wildly popular NBA video game. But in the game, Aldridge is not real; he’s just some pixels synced to audio the real Aldridge recorded years ago. Sports writers insist, as we fight back against a creeping AI world, that we can always do our jobs better than a robot can.

Persons: Will Leitch, ”, it’s, I’m, —, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, AdVon, Richard Johnson, Emma Baccellieri, Pat Forde, Tom Verducci, you’ve, It’s, Fox, Charissa Thompson, I’ve, Hall, Hall of Famer Andrea Kremer, Thompson, “, can’t, Curt Gowdy, David Aldridge, Aldridge, Video Aldridge, Julius Randle, Randle, … I’d Organizations: New York Magazine, CNN, Park Baseball, MLB, Sports, The Arena Group, The, Group, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo, Amazon, Hall of Famer, New York Times, NBA, Video Knicks

Many countries are working on them — and neither China, Russia, Iran, India or Pakistan have signed a U.S.-initiated pledge to use military AI responsibly. Another AI project at Space Force analyzes radar data to detect imminent adversary missile launches, he said. One urgent challenge, says Jane Pinelis, chief AI engineer at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab and former chief of AI assurance in Martell’s office, is recruiting and retaining the talent needed to test AI tech. Testing and evaluation standards are also immature, a recent National Academy of Sciences report on Air Force AI highlighted. Might that mean the U.S. one day fielding under duress autonomous weapons that don’t fully pass muster?

Persons: —, Replicator —, Kathleen Hicks, ”, Gregory Allen, we’ve, Missy Cummings, George Mason, Lisa Costa, Wallace ‘ Rhet ’ Turnbull, Tom Siebel, Matt Visser, Palantir, Jack Shanahan, Maven, Mark Milley, Christian Brose, Paul Scharre, ” Anduril, Nathan Michael, Michael, Shanahan, Craig Martell, Martell, Jane Pinelis, “ Organizations: U.S ., Russia, Air Force, China, Pentagon, Department of Defense, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Navy, ” U.S . Space Force, Space Force, Space Systems Command, Blackhawk, ., U.S . Missile Defense Agency, Defense Counterintelligence, Security Agency, Third Infantry Division, NATO, Maven, National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency, U.S . Special Operations, ISIS, Command, Control, Chiefs, Armed Services Committee, U.S, Marines, Special Forces, Industry, BAT, Marine Expeditionary, Pentagon AI, LinkedIn, Johns Hopkins, Lab, National Academy of Sciences Locations: Md, Ukraine, U.S, China, Russia, Iran, India, Pakistan, ” U.S, Silicon Valley

☆ A growing number of tech execs think AI is giving Big Tech 'inordinate' power
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"Right now, there are only a handful of companies with the resources needed to create these large-scale AI models and deploy them at scale. McCourt also thinks AI could give too much power to tech giants. The inventor of the web, Tim Berners Lee, has also raised concerns about the concentration of power among the tech giants. On AI, however, he feels that while the technology giants now are leading the way, there is space for disruption. These are AI models that are not owned by a single entity, such as Google or Microsoft, and instead can be developed and added to by anyone.

Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meredith Whittaker, Whittaker, Maven, Frank McCourt, McCourt, Tim Berners Lee, Jimmy Wales, that's Organizations: Tech, Microsoft, Google, CNBC, Department of Defense, Los Angeles Dodgers, team, Liberty, Wales Locations: U.S, China, Wales

☆ The 20 Best Gifts for Your In-Laws—Including the Hard to Impress
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Karen I. Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +11 min

“There is an unspoken pressure on nailing the perfect gift,” says Kristin Fisher, the Collegeville, Penn.-based founder of custom gift box company Bocu. Leah Inman, a Dallas-based gifting consultant, recommends ordering a custom house portrait for mothers-in-law, in particular. They likely already know about red light therapy, so this petite wand makes the perfect gift, according to Fisher. That’s why he recommends gift cards, such as one from Massage Envy, which has more than 1,100 locations in the U.S. and offers both massage and facials, as well as stretch therapy. Inman recommends gifting this compact jewelry organizer for your jetsetting sister- or mother-in-law.

Persons: Karen I, Chen, ”, Kristin Fisher, we’ve, Leah Inman, Tami Claytor, Fisher, “, won’t, ” Fisher, Carver, Patrick Kucharson, Inman, they’re, Eden Delaune, Sonoma, Kucharson, ” Kucharson, Delaune, ” It’s Organizations: Homes, Watercolor, Amazon Locations: Penn, Dallas, New York City, Cleveland , Ohio, Eden, Fort Worth , Texas, cardigan, U.S

☆ Ruzwana Bashir Is Quietly Connecting the Tech World
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Story by Melia RussellPhotography by Lelanie FosterRuzwana Bashir is ransacking her kitchen cabinet for just the right tea. Bashir wears an Erdem floral-printed bra top, Erdem skirt, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, Old Jewelry earrings along with her own bracelet and ring. "Part of building a business was going out and sharing what you were doing with the world," Bashir says. For years Bashir's startup had been building muscle around these capabilities; now it had an eager audience. Eating at acclaimed restaurants is fine, but Bashir prefers the more-intimate affairs at tech executives' homes because, she says, "you can stay longer."

Persons: Melia Russell, Lelanie Foster Ruzwana Bashir, Peek, She's, she's, Andy Warhol, Picasso, Bashir, I'm, Andreessen Horowitz, Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt, Goldman Sachs, Giuseppe Zanotti, Lelanie Foster, Bashir isn't, Elon Musk, Ronan Farrow, Roelof Botha, Mustafa Suleyman, we've, Bennett Miller, Capote, " Miller, —, doesn't, didn't, Madeleine Albright, Tom Ford, Jared Cohen, Oskar Bruening, Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg, I've, Bashir wasn't, Travis Kalanick, Adam Neumann, Ty, Emily Weiss, Bashir refashioned, Donald Trump, Bruening, Laurence Tosi's, Miller, Beyoncé, shrugs, Anna Wintour, Anna, we're, Taylor Swift, Katie Haun, Marc Benioff, Reid Hoffman, Marissa Mayer, Dick Costolo —, Cohen, Katherine Maher, Maher, Daniel Kahneman, It's, Radel, Becky Akinyode, Elaine Winter, Tiffany Bloomfield, Dela, Chad Hilliard, Enmi, Kenny Aquiles Ulloa, Cyrenae, Madison Perez, Aidan Lapp, Bashira Webb, Bryan Erickson, Jinyoung Chang, Rodriguez, Rebecca Zisser, Claire Landsbaum, Emma LeGault, Joi, Marie McKenzie, Conner Blake, Kyle Desiderio, Victoria Gracie, Nicole Forero, Virginia Alves Organizations: Google, Museum of, Business, Elon, Vogue, Roelof, Oxford University, Oxford Union, Blackstone Group, Harvard Business School, Studios, Web, Young, Organization, Dela Revoluciøn, Enmi Yang Digital Tech Locations: Manhattan, SoHo, Bahamas, United States, Balthazar, England, Israel, Petra, Istanbul, Elle, Utah, COVID, Salt Lake City, Costa Rica, Atlanta, WestCap

☆ Solar conjunction halts communications between Mars missions and NASA
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Robotic explorers investigating Mars are currently out of touch with space agencies on Earth after hitting a giant communications roadblock. Mission controllers at NASA won’t send any commands to its fleet of orbiters and rovers, including Perseverance and Curiosity, for the next 10 days due to the Mars solar conjunction. During the roughly two-week period, the hot, energized gas continually spewed by the sun from its outer atmosphere can interfere with the radio signals that NASA uses to communicate with its Martian robotic explorers. A Mars solar conjunction occurs every two years when the sun moves between Mars and Earth. The Ingenuity helicopter, which has largely served as the Perseverance rover’s aerial scout, will also lie low and won’t conduct any flights during this time.

Persons: Mars, NASA won’t, ”, Roy Gladden, “, Perseverance, MAVEN Organizations: CNN —, NASA, JPL, Caltech, Mars, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars Reconnaissance Locations: Pasadena , California, Gale

☆ Mike Johnson said he and his 17-year-old son use an app that alerts each other if they look at porn
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Newly-resurfaced footage shows House Speaker Mike Johnson touting an app called "Covenant Eyes." The app discourages porn use by alerting an "accountability partner" — in this case his son. AdvertisementAdvertisementRecently-unearthed footage shows Mike Johnson, now the Speaker of the House, promoting an app that enables "accountability" between him and his son over any porn use. "Covenant Eyes is the software that we've been using a long time in our household," he said. Johnson said he wasn't making any money off the Covenant Eyes app, saying: "I'm endorsing it because I'm a user."

Persons: Mike Johnson, It's, Lamar Odom, —, Johnson, ake, lear Organizations: NBA, Service, Cypress Baptist Church Locations: Benton, Cypress

☆ What it will take to make homes affordable again for millions of Americans
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Tim Mullaney | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

"At the current 8% mortgage rate, mortgage payment[s] are 38% of median income," Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi said. The National Association of Realtors measures affordability through its 34-year old Housing Affordability Index, or HAI. And even if home prices do the decline, that trend won't be sustainable unless America builds millions of more homes. And spreads will likely remain extra-wide until short-term interest rates drop below the rates on longer-term treasuries, Duncan said. "Mortgage rates will not go back to 3% – we'll be lucky if we get back to 5," Yun said.

Persons: —, John Burns, maven Mohamed El, Lawrence Yun, Yun, Mark Zandi, That's, Doug Duncan, Fannie, Duncan, Daryl Fairweather, They've, Fairweather, they've, Freddie Mac, –, Zandi, it's Organizations: Nurphoto, Getty, National Association of Realtors, John Burns Real Estate Consulting, NAR, Redfin, Allianz, America, Federal Reserve, realtors, Builders, Fed Locations: Florida, Austin , Texas, Boise , Idaho, Fannie Mae, America, New York, California, Phoenix, Tampa, Louisville, Indianapolis, Chicago

☆ How this 'AI whisperer' made $500,000 in 11 months selling courses and memberships using unicorn startup Kajabi
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That means Kajabi creators have earned an additional $1 billion since March, when the company announced creators had earned $5 billion. One of those creators is Rob Lennon, a self-described "AI whisperer" and entrepreneur, who uses Kajabi to host his courses and manage his paywalled membership called "Lennon Labs." Within the first 11 months of launching his Kajabi offerings, Lennon has earned about $500,000, according to Kajabi and Lennon. He earned about $200,000 in the first two months of selling his courses, per Kajabi. Building a course and membership businessRunning courses and a subscription service accounts for about 95% of Lennon's income, he said.

Persons: Rob Lennon, Lennon, hadn't, ChatGPT, He's, Kajabi, there's, —, Kajabi — Lennon Organizations: Lennon Labs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Mighty Networks Locations: Kajabi, Patreon, Substack

☆ 4 experts explain why Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars is 'romanticized', not 'realistic', 'cosmic vandalism'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Four scientists told Insider his plan is bad for technical, scientific, and ethical reasons. Yes, experts agree we might want to settle other worlds, but Mars might not be our best bet, at least not now, four scientists told Insider. SpaceX's first priority is "establishing a cargo route to Mars," Musk told the Washington Post in 2016. From Mars, Musk told the IAC, people could go to the asteroid belts, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and the Kuiper belt. AdvertisementAdvertisementEssentially, terraforming Mars would involve melting its polar ice caps, which would release CO2 reserves.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Ray Bradbury's, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christopher Edwards, He's, Musk, Refugio Ruiz Musk's, they'd, he's, Edwards, PATRICK T, FALLON, there's, Bruce Jakosky, Jakosky, Andrew Coates, Coates, Mars, terraformed, Alexander Gerst, Rachael Seidler, Refugio Ruiz, Seidler, Jeff Bezos, Buzz Aldrin, Chris McKay, " Edwards, that's Organizations: Service, Northern Arizona University, SpaceX, Mars SpaceX, International Astronautical, Washington Post, IAC, Elon Musk, NASA, Getty, Mars, ESA, University College London's, Science, University of Florida, AP, JPL, Caltech, SETI, Center for Strategic, International Studies, NASA's Ames Research Center Locations: Texas, Mars

☆ Bill Ackman says he hasn't talked to Elon Musk about X investment for Pershing 'SPARC'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Activist investor Bill Ackman on Monday told CNBC he had not spoken with Elon Musk about a deal involving X, formerly known as Twitter, but that he likes the business and Musk and suggested a deal with X would be welcome if Musk wanted it. The billionaire CEO of Pershing Square Holdings was discussing his new carve-out vehicle, which he called a SPARC, or special purpose acquisition rights company. The product is similar to a SPAC, but Ackman said that Pershing's structure would only invest in companies it views as long-term investments. Ackman made waves in a Sunday interview with the Wall Street Journal, where he said he would "absolutely" invest in X through his new SPARC structure. If part of X were to debut on the market, it would likely be at a valuation far below the $44 billion that Musk paid for it.

Persons: Bill Ackman, Elon Musk, Musk, he's, Ackman, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, SPACs, Linda Yaccarino's, maven Organizations: Monday, CNBC, Elon, Pershing Square Holdings, SPARC, Financial Times, Wall Street, Meta Locations: —

☆ Just Like Mom Used to Make
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Sam Sifton | More About Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The paprika made me think of the terrific food writer Arthur Schwartz, who was once the restaurant critic for The Daily News and later became known as the Food Maven. Arthur and I got to talking about the spice when I interviewed him for a story about chicken paprikash. I’d asserted that most paprika languishes in spice drawers, and is stale and flavorless as a result. To make a proper paprikash or goulash, I said, the smart move is to purchase some new paprika, bright and flavorful. Lidey’s recipe delivers!

Persons: Lidey Heuck, Arthur Schwartz, Maven, Arthur, I’d, ” Organizations: The Daily News

☆ Hip-hop stars and financial luminaries: Ritholtz Wealth Management redesigns the investment conference
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Surf City USA —for a financial conference. A financial conference on a beach? Reinventing the financial conferenceWelcome to FutureProof, billed as "the largest gathering of top-tier wealth management professionals, CEOs, CTOs, COOs, and fast-growing financial advisors." It's the brainchild of Barry Ritholtz, co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and CEO Josh Brown. "Coming out of the pandemic, it was obvious to us that the traditional financial conference was past its sell-by date," Ritholtz told me.

Persons: Tang, Redman, They're, Jeremy Siegel, Jeff Kleintop, Charles Schwab, Emily Roland, John Hancock, Cliff Asness, Jeff Gundlach, maven Jan van Eck, Barry Ritholtz, Josh Brown, Ritholtz, FutureProof, You'll, Goldman, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, RIAs, Dan Ives, Scott Wapner, Siegel, Morningstar, Christine Benz, Jeffrey Ptak, Ben Johnson, podcasters Michael Batnick, Ben Carlson, Wu, Tang Clan Organizations: Wharton, Ritholtz Wealth Management, Chiropractic, Health, Investment Advisors, CNBC, Financial Locations: Huntington Beach , CA, Huntington Beach , California, Surf, Huntington Beach, AQR, DoubleLine, FutureProof, COOs, Wells, Wedbush, Young

☆ How much is Hulu worth? As Disney gears up to buy Comcast's share of the streamer, analysts say Bob Iger may have to pay a hefty price.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

When it comes to Hulu, value is in the eye of the holder. However, Comcast claims Hulu is worth double what Disney is saying, according to Bloomberg — even in a tough media environment. "It's what would a willing buyer in a robust auction pay," Roberts said of Hulu's valuation at a MoffettNathanson conference in May. Another way to value Hulu is by comparing its EV-to-subscriber ratio with that of Netflix. By buying all of Hulu, Disney can position itself for the next big trend in media, Noell said.

Persons: Bob Iger, Bloomberg —, Peacock, Brian Roberts, Roberts, financials, maven, Hulu, Tim Nollen, Netflix's, Nollen, Iger, Matthew Thornton, who's bullish, Barton Crockett, Crockett, Brandon Nispel, Nispel, Jason Bazinet, Bazinet, Davis Noell, Noell Organizations: Disney, Comcast, Hulu, Bloomberg, Wall Street, Macquarie, Netflix, Rosenblatt Securities, Citigroup, Star Wars, Marvel, Providence Equity Partners Locations: Hulu

☆ Little Richard embraced fluidity in rock ‘n’ roll. These are some of the artists he influenced
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Editor’s Note: The CNN Film “Little Richard: I Am Everything” tells the story of rock ‘n’ roll’s Black, queer origins. Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesPerhaps the closest thing to a successor Little Richard had was Prince, the late legend who, like Little Richard, resisted easy classification and reinvented music upon his arrival. Tina TurnerTina Turner and Little Richard reunited for a performance at the 1989 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. “I couldn’t believe the power of Little Richard on stage,” he said in Little Richard’s biography. Ian Gavan/Getty ImagesLike Little Richard, the British pop maven always felt at home in front of a piano, often tinkling the keys dressed in an ostentatious garment involving feathers (Little Richard, meanwhile, mostly stuck to suits).

Persons: “, Richard, Lil Nas, Little Richard, didn’t, Prince, David Bowie, Janelle Monáe, Dick Clark, Little Richard’s, Prince Prince, Kevin Winter, ” Richard, Rosetta Tharpe, you’ll, Frutti ”, NPR’s Ann Powers, Frutti, …, ” Prince, Richard’s, Nikki ”, MTV “, ” David Bowie David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust, Bowie, ”, Ziggy, wouldn’t, ” Bowie, Tina Turner Tina Turner, Sonia Moskowitz, Ike, Turner, —, Elvis, Mick Jagger Richard, Jagger, Little, Elton John Elton John, Ian Gavan, maven, John, he’s, ” John, Beverly Hilton, Freddie Mercury, might’ve, Queen —, Elvis Baz Luhrman’s, ” dramatizes, Alton Mason, Richard careens, Elvis ”, King —, Janelle Monáe Janelle Monáe, Ethan Miller, Monáe, ” Monae, Richard . Lady Gaga, Gaga, Jo Calderone, Princess Lavonne, Lavonne, he’d, Jo, Princess Lavonne’s, ” Ashon Crawley Organizations: CNN, MTV, Roll Hall, Beverly, Warner Bros, Warner Bros ., USA, NPR Music Locations: London, New Orleans, British, Monáe

☆ How India landed on the moon and flew to Mars at a fraction of the cost of NASA and Russia missions
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

India has become the first nation to land a robotic mission to the crucial south pole of the Moon. AdvertisementAdvertisementSmall spacecraft, small costsIndian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for "moon craft" in Sanskrit, travels after it was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Aijaz Rahi/AP PhotoIndia's main strategy for being frugal on the moon seems to be that it kept the spacecraft small. NASA/JSCThis wasn't India's first attempt to land on the moon's south pole. It aimed to make a soft landing on the south pole of the moon, where nobody had succeeded yet.

Persons: NASA's, Elon Musk, Aijaz, That's, Satish, Robert Braun, Andrew Coates, Anatoly Zak, They've, Braun, Russia's Luna Organizations: Service, Hollywood, ISRO, SpaceX, Twitter, Indian Space Research Organization, New York Times, NASA, Space, Chandrayaan, Space Exploration, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, MAVEN, BBC, Planetary Society, JSC Locations: Wall, Silicon, India, Bengaluru, Sriharikota, Soviet Union

☆ ‘Gran Turismo’ Review: Once Upon a Pair of Sticks
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Nicolas Rapold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Since the late 1990s, the Gran Turismo racing games for PlayStation have brought in billions of dollars, rivaling the box-office bounties of some movie franchises. It was only a matter of time before a movie offshoot arrived, following in the tracks of other live-action adaptations of PlayStation games, including last year’s “Uncharted.” “Gran Turismo” the movie tells the true (but unlikely) story of Jann Mardenborough, a Gran Turismo maven who became a professional racer of actual cars on actual tracks. Mardenborough’s leap from pixels to asphalt was an effective advertisement for Gran Turismo as more than a game, but his transition wasn’t all smooth. After Jann’s father (Djimon Hounsou) says there’s no future in gaming and brings Jann to his job at a rail yard, Jann goes off and wins a contest held by Nissan to recruit promising Gran Turismo players. Once again Jann exceeds expectations and beats out a more TV-ready competitor for the chance to race professionally.

Persons: Jann Mardenborough, Neill Blomkamp’s, Jann, Archie Madekwe, Madekwe’s Jann, Jann’s, Djimon, Geri Halliwell Horner, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom Organizations: Gran Turismo, PlayStation, Turismo, Gran Turismo maven, Nissan Locations: Cardiff, Wales

Amazon, the United States' second-largest employer, will now offer fertility and family planning services to employees through a partnership with Maven Clinic. The free offering will be available to more than 1 million eligible Amazon employees spread across 50 countries outside of the U.S. and Canada. The addition of Amazon to the company's partnership portfolio means an increase of about 7% in patients under Maven's care. The continued challenges around reproductive health care in the U.S. highlights why there has been strong corporate interest in partnering with Maven. What's more, a survey by Maven revealed that 71% of companies are considering adding or have added reproductive health benefits in the wake of the decision.

Persons: Maven, Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Roe, Wade Organizations: Maven Clinic, Amazon, Maven, OB, CNBC Disruptor, CVS Health Ventures, Intermountain Health's VC, Microsoft, L'Oreal Locations: United States, Canada, America, U.S

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