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[1/2] SAG-AFTRA members walk the picket line during their ongoing strike outside Sony Studios in Culver City, California, U.S. September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLOS ANGELES, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Santa Claus will not be coming to Hollywood this year. The strike, which has entered its 14th week, is scrambling next year’s film slate and delaying the return of primetime television comedies and dramas. Some have sold rights to film and television libraries to keep the lights on, one buyer told Reuters. Some major studio films scheduled for next year could slip into 2025 if the work stoppage continues, according to the studio executive, raising concern that audiences will get out of the habit of going to theaters.
Persons: Mario Anzuoni, Santa Claus, , , Farrelly, Satan, Bob Marley, Guy Ritchie’s, Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill, Doug Creutz, Dawn Chmielewski, Lisa Richwine, Ken Li, Rod Nickel Organizations: Sony Studios, REUTERS, Reuters, Media, Warner Bros ., Television, CSI, CBS, Thomson Locations: Culver City , California, U.S, Santa, Hollywood, North America, Spain, Los Angeles
Oct 11 (Reuters) - Canadian toys and games-maker Spin Master (TOY.TO) said on Wednesday that it has agreed to buy U.S.-based toy-maker Melissa & Doug for $950 million in cash, taking the shares of the Rubik's Cube owner up nearly 8% in early trade. The move comes days after Spin Master signed a deal with the retailing and licensing division of Paramount Global (PARA.O) for a new animated series in the well-known Dora the Explorer franchise. Spin Master said it expects the Melissa deal, which includes $500 million in debt financing, to be immediately accretive to its earnings per share. Melissa & Doug makes toys for children in the preschool ages, and is known for its wooden jigsaw puzzles. Spin Master, which also owns the popular children's cartoon adventure series PAW Patrol, has a market capitalization of C$3.50 billion ($2.57 billion) as of stock's last close.
Persons: Melissa, Dora, Juveria Tabassum, Shailesh Organizations: Spin, Paramount Global, Explorer, Thomson
CNN —The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were previously thought impossible to follow. “An attosecond is to one second as one second is to the age of the universe,” the committee explained. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier shared this year's physics prize. Rapid movements blur together, making extremely short events impossible to observe. Electrons’ movements in atoms and molecules are so rapid that they are measured in attoseconds.
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FTX planned a "mini city" headquarters in the Bahamas that was never constructed, per Michael Lewis' biography. They eventually got a list of three ideas from FTX, including that the side of the building should resemble SBF's hair. AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen FTX was planning its headquarters in the Bahamas, the architects were asked to make it resemble Sam Bankman-Fried's characteristic hairdo, according to Michael Lewis' biography. Lewis writes that the two architects, Ian Rosenfield and Alfia White, were given "several hundred million dollars" and told to "have at it." "That was the first and only question we got to ask him," Rosenfield told Lewis.
Persons: FTX, Michael Lewis, , Sam Bankman, Lewis, Ian Rosenfield, White, Fried, Rosenfield Organizations: Service, Nassau Guardian, Fried's Locations: Bahamas
He said the use of AI in the music industry would likely be debated for years. Ek told the outlet there was a debatable middle ground where AI-generated music was influenced by, but did not mimic, an existing artist. The Spotify boss added that the use of AI in the music industry would likely be debated for years. Several artists have criticized this type of AI music. During an appearance on the "Full Send" podcast, Ice Cube said he would sue "the people and the platform" who made and distributed AI-generated music in his style.
Persons: Daniel Ek, Ek, , Drake, Spotify's, it's Organizations: Spotify, BBC, Service, BBC News, Apple Music, YouTube
Brainless Jellyfish Demonstrate Learning Ability
  + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Veronique Greenwood | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In the dappled sunlit waters of Caribbean mangrove forests, tiny box jellyfish bob in and out of the shade. Box jellies are distinguished from true jellyfish in part by their complex visual system — the grape-size predators have 24 eyes. On Friday, researchers published a report in the journal Current Biology indicating that the box jellyfish species Tripedalia cystophora have the ability to learn. Because box jellyfish diverged from our part of the animal kingdom long ago, understanding their cognitive abilities could help scientists trace the evolution of learning. How do box jellies tell when they are getting too close?
Persons: Anders Garm Organizations: University of Copenhagen
Elon Musk posted an apparently innocent meme joking about Ice Cube's name. X has dealt with mounting difficulties since Musk took over the platform. The X owner shared a seemingly innocuous image on his platform, captioned: "Remember Ice Cube? Since Musk took over Twitter last November, the company has faced mounting difficulties. Ice Cube previously provoked controversy on Twitter in 2020 after sharing a number of anti-Semitic images and conspiracy theories.
Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Elon, didn't, Walter Isaacson's, Isaacson Organizations: NWA, Twitter, Service, Fidelity Locations: Wall, Silicon, Sacramento, Portland , Oregon
The new Perelman Performing Arts Center is the most glamorous civic building to land in New York in years. You may have noticed the building under construction if you were near the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan during the past year or so. A floating, translucent marble cube, it nestles at the foot of One World Trade Center, just eight stories high, a runt in a herd of mega-tall commercial skyscrapers but impossible to miss. Back then, the city was all-consumed by grief and fear, its economy in free-fall, ground zero still a smoldering gravesite. We were reminded just this week of the toll when the names of the thousands of dead were again read aloud.
Persons: Osama bin Laden Organizations: Perelman Performing Arts Center, World Trade Center Locations: New York, Lower Manhattan
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Enriquez, a 52-year-old mason, had volunteered to help publicize a plan to suppress dengue by releasing millions of special mosquitoes in the Honduran capital. The Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that most commonly spread dengue have been resistant to insecticides, which have fleeting results even in the best-case scenario. SCIENTISTS SURPRISED BY BACTERIAThe Wolbachia strategy has been decades in the making. But along the way, O’Neill’s team made a surprising discovery: Mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia didn’t spread dengue — or other related diseases, including yellow fever, Zika and chikungunya.
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Broadway tickets are incredibly expensive; eating out and parking have always been part of the calculation. “If you’re having a night out with the family for $1,000, I don’t think the congestion toll is going to be the decision maker,’’ she said. Some of the concern around the economic reverberations of congestion pricing stems from the presumption it will cost $23 to come into the designated zone during peak hours. about what the pricing — and exemptions from pricing — will be across constituencies. As Carl Weisbrod, the chairman of the board, put it, sorting this all out was like “a Rubik’s Cube.”
Persons: Tyler Cowan, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, ” Kathryn Wylde, ’ ’, Juliette Michaelson, Carl Weisbrod, Organizations: Partnership, New, Times, Traffic Locations: Washington, Manhattan, New Jersey, Queens, New York City
Envisioned two decades ago to add vibrancy and draw people to a place of devastation and mourning, the Perelman Performing Arts Center is finally arriving at a very different ground zero. Still, organizers believe the arts space, also called “PAC NYC,” has an important role to play in one of the most sensitive, historic spaces in the United States. “The performing arts center is kind of an amenity for a luxury neighborhood that they built,” said Todd Fine, who runs a advocacy business for historical preservation in lower Manhattan. Early on, the arts center was to house three established groups — two theaters and a visual arts museum — plus a new museum celebrating freedom. Then he came to see it as a step forward for the trade center and on a personal level, an embrace of living life fully.
Persons: It's, , Khady Kamara, , Bill Rauch, Joshua Ramus, Mike Bloomberg, Ronald Perelman, “ There’s, ” Bloomberg, Laurence Fishburne, Jenna Bush Hager, Barbara Pierce Bush, ” Rauch, Kamara, Todd Fine, Rauch, Perelman, Craig Peterson, James Giaccone, Joseph Giaccone, ” Giaccone Organizations: Trade, Perelman Performing Arts Center, “ PAC, Performing Arts Center, Pentagon, Manhattan Cultural Council, Tuesday's Locations: United States, Pennsylvania, Afghanistan, Manhattan
Media analysts say this dispute could be the beginning of the end for the cable bundle. After a decade of steady decline, the pay TV bundle now appears to be on life support. Charter refuses to pay Disney's higher asking price for its family of networks, including ESPN, without including Disney+ and Hulu in the bundle. The cable giant also wants its customers to have a Disney-free option for a reduced price, which may also be a non-starter. Otherwise, it plans to send its pay TV customers elsewhere.
Persons: Tim Nollen, That's, Jessica Reif Ehrlich, John Hodulik, Hodulik Organizations: Disney, Media, UBS, ESPN, Hulu, Macquarie, Bank of America, Netflix, Charter Locations: imploding
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The start of hip-hop dates to Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc created continuous break-beats by working two turntables during a party in a rec room at 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx. On Friday night, exactly 50 years later, a concert was held at Yankee Stadium — roughly a mile and a half from hip-hop’s birthplace — to honor the occasion, featuring Run-DMC, Slick Rick, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Lil’ Kim and Nas. DJ Kool Herc, 68, also appeared onstage to accept an award. “I prefer old-school hip-hop,” Hetep said. He rapped about positivity, and that’s also what my music is about.”In the edited interviews below, attendees reflected on hip-hop’s 50th.
Persons: DJ Kool Herc, , Slick Rick, Snoop Dogg, Lil ’ Kim, Nas, Tupac Shakur, Hetep BarBoy, ” Hetep, , that’s Organizations: Yankee, Locations: Bronx
In an interview with Audacy Live reported by Rolling Stone, Ed Sheeran said he wasn't keen on AI. The musician said he found the tech a "bit weird" and worried about its potential to take jobs. The generative AI boom has made its way into the music industry and angered some artists. Sheeran is far from the first musician to speak out against AI's increasing presence in the music industry. Grimes has launched AI software called Elf.Tech, which allows users to make music in her voice and style.
Persons: Rolling Stone, Ed Sheeran, wasn't, Audacy, Sheeran, Drake, Grimes Organizations: Audacy, Morning
That’s right, I take it way back to the days when “summer vacation” didn’t mean me looking for reasonable airfare and accommodations to book. Something to sip on…A scene from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem." “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” is out this week and if ever there was a franchise that is both for the young and young at heart, it’s this one. One thing to talk about…People attend Day 3 of the Lollapalooza Music Festival on Saturday, July 30, 2022, at Grant Park in Chicago. That’s right, you can enjoy the long-standing, Chicago-set music festival from the comfort of your own home – and no need for porta-potties!
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The Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems for Your Home
  + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( David Murphy | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +22 min
Our favorite mesh Wi-Fi system, TP-Link’s Deco XE200, supports Wi-Fi 6E, meaning it will deliver the best possible speeds for any device you can buy in mid-2023. Best overall mesh Wi-Fi systemBuy Side Top Pick TP-Link Deco XE200 $800 at Amazon $800 at b&h The XE200 offers the perfect mix of fast speeds, simple setup and app-based adjustments, offering the fastest mesh Wi-Fi at home for all the latest Wi-Fi 6E devices. Price: Our research found you’ll spend around $300 or less for a lower-price mesh system, or about $800 or less for a high-performance mesh system. We tested the mesh systems by first connecting a Google Pixel 7 Pro to a single Wi-Fi mesh access point (set up as the home’s primary router) from a handful of feet away within the same room. It’s still important that a mesh Wi-Fi system be able to deliver strong performance across as far a range as possible.
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There’s a refreshing sense of nostalgia in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” — and it doesn’t just have to do with the fact that the eternally youthful ninja turtles have been around since the 1980s, in the form of the original comic book series, as well as TV adaptations, films, toys and video games. After all, what’s more adolescent than that? Now, as teenagers, the turtles — pugnacious Raphael (Brady Noon), doofy Michelangelo (Shamon Brown Jr.), nerdy Donatello (Micah Abbey) and their ever-earnest leader, Leonardo (Nicolas Cantu) — dream of having a normal life with humans. But the aboveground masses face their own threat: Another mutated creature, Superfly (Ice Cube), aims to overtake the human world, Magneto-style. The turtles team up with a student journalist named April (Ayo Edebiri) to try to save the day and hopefully be accepted into human society.
Persons: Jackie Chan, who’s, pugnacious Raphael, Brady, doofy Michelangelo, Shamon Brown, Donatello, Micah Abbey, Leonardo, Nicolas Cantu, , Ayo Locations: New York
Keita Takahashi did not want to say much before an official announcement for his upcoming project except that it would include a boy and his dog. Yet the creations by one of the video game industry’s most eccentric designers are never that straightforward. One of his games stars a mustachioed green cube on a mission to reunite a group of giggling objects in a circle of friendship. Surreal characters, simple controls and a catchy soundtrack turned the 2004 PlayStation 2 title into a masterpiece. Last month its sequel, We Love Katamari, which arguably perfected those qualities, was rereleased with improved graphics and new levels.
Persons: Keita Takahashi, Katamari Damacy
At first glance, Maison Lune, an art gallery in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, looks exactly like a home. Yes, there are paintings and ceramics on display, but there’s also a bed, a full kitchen, a bathtub. In early 2022, when Sandrine Abessera and Lubov Azria moved in, they immediately felt it was a space that needed to be shared. It was also about rethinking the typical art-viewing experience — a departure from the white-cube art gallery, said Ms. Abessera, 45, an artist and designer. “We were drawn to this idea of being an art gallery,” she said, but one “where you can sit and it’s not just a blank box.”
Persons: Maison, there’s, Sandrine Abessera, Lubov Azria, , Azria, Max Azria, Abessera, , it’s Locations: Maison Lune, Venice, Los Angeles
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