Big Tech
Google releases their own open source AI framework.
The big tech companies have fallen so far, they can only go up. This article says they are about to rise and shows signs of it.
Koch Network to support anyone but Trump both financially and mediawise.
ChatGPT is in Bing or will be soon.
Nintendo is winning their lawsuits on Joypad drift.
Disney is rumored to buy Harry Potter from JK Rowling and Warner Bros. It actually makes sense, not the sale that's insane, but the propaganda against Rowling could be corporate. Remember all the corporate hate against star wars right up till Disney bought it?
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stijn-spanhove_augmentedreality-8thwall-niantic-ugcPost-7028084207620882432-BOEr https://archive.ph/49lbw
Using various programs, someone creates an AR character in an actual park.
https://archive.ph/KqAnq Windows 11 without the bloat. 2GB RAM and no TPM.
https://archive.ph/QhV9x New design for drone propellers is quieter.
To be fair, the Cursed Child was mostly written by two playwrights, she basically just approved it and slapped her name on it.
Fantastic Beasts though, is mostly her, as the main faults of it lie with the script.
To add onto this Disney basically fobbed her off, was only going to do a ride based on the system they later used for the toy story shooting gallery 'ride' and wouldn't do Hogwarts because they didn't want competition for their castles. Losing out on this and having the studios chump them out was likely part of what made them so IP hungry.
More and more this is starting to feel like Disney is becoming some Akira-esque monstrosity grabbing up every scrap of creativity in it's reach. I gotta agree though, Rowling really doesn't seem that interested in putting in the work that people want out of her, signing off on actual fanfiction showed that.
Tetsuyo!!!
The theme park thing would be very interesting, because Disney would own 3 of the biggest IPs at Universal parks. The Marvel and Simpsons areas are already an interesting subject which people into that subject love to talk about.