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The solid of the brand new HBO collection The Idol on Tuesday defended its overtly sexual scenes and rejected rumours of onset turmoil, after the present scandalised critics at Cannes. “We all know we’re making a present that’s provocative, it is not misplaced on us,” director Sam Levinson advised journalists the day after the collection premiered on the movie competition on the French Riviera.The present depicts Lily-Rose Depp as a pop star struggling to get again on monitor after a breakdown, surrounded by heartless handlers when she meets the manipulative chief of a modern-day cult, performed by musician Abel “The…
Sony stated on Wednesday that its standing as an impartial supplier of content material to streaming providers is paying off at a time when platform operators are coming beneath strain to display profitability.“Our resolution years in the past to remain out of the crowded normal streaming area and as an alternative change into the change into the business’s main impartial content material provider was clearly the suitable alternative,” Tony Vinciquerra, CEO of Sony Photos Leisure, informed an investor briefing.Hits from the Japanese tech leisure conglomerate on streaming platforms embody The Final Of Us on HBO Max, Cobra Kai on Netflix,…
Visible messaging app Snapchat has crossed 200 million month-to-month energetic customers mark in India and 120 million of them watch content material on the platform, mum or dad agency Snap stated on Tuesday.The corporate on the event introduced the launch of an experimental AI-powered chatbot customised for Snapchat, My AI, that may suggest birthday reward concepts, plan a visit for an extended weekend and even recommend a recipe for dinner.”Snapchat reaches over 200 million month-to-month energetic customers in India,” Snap stated in an announcement.The visible messaging app has over 750 million month-to-month energetic customers globally comprising 90 % of customers…
Home windows 11 is ready to realize assist for added file compression and archiving codecs. On the ongoing Microsoft Construct developer convention, the corporate introduced just a few new options coming to Home windows 11 together with native RAR assist. The addition of assist for a number of file compression codecs will permit customers to open, extract, and edit archives in numerous codecs with out having to put in further third-party instruments. The corporate is but to disclose when assist for the brand new codecs is coming to Home windows 11.On Tuesday, Microsoft introduced that it’ll replace Home windows 11…
Sony mentioned on Wednesday that the success of hit drama The Final Of Us from tv community HBO is boosting gross sales of the sport sequence upon which it’s based mostly, in a stand-out case of the group repurposing its common franchises.“We might see very, very clearly that each time an episode of that present dropped, that gross sales of the sport elevated very dramatically,” Sony Interactive Leisure CEO Jim Ryan informed an investor briefing.The success of the present is a notable instance of efforts by Sony to drive enterprise throughout completely different enterprise strains after its transformation from an…
Microsoft on Tuesday began making accessible to customers a number of AI upgrades, together with to ChatGPT, its search engine Bing in addition to to cloud providers – an expansive launch that seeks to slim the hole with Alphabet’s Google.Amongst key modifications is the rollout of stay search outcomes from Bing to ChatGPT, the viral chatbot from its associate OpenAI whose solutions initially have been restricted to data as of 2021.Now, ChatGPT can pull from Bing internet outcomes for paid subscribers and can accomplish that quickly free of charge customers, the corporate stated at its annual Microsoft Construct convention.The corporate…
Upcoming superhero film The Flash simply received its ultimate trailer, forward of its premiere on June 16. Marking a reset level for the DC Universe, the movie has been long-gestating at Warner Bros., enduring a bunch of ups and downs, together with lead Ezra Miller’s run-ins with regulation enforcement final 12 months. The brand new trailer, nonetheless, appears to spoil the start segments of the much-awaited film, as Barry Allen cracks open the multiverse together with his new-found time journey skills and reunites together with his mother and father. Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne will get extra screentime on this trailer,…
Netflix on Tuesday expanded its crackdown on password sharing to the US and greater than 100 different international locations, alerting customers that their accounts can’t be shared free of charge exterior of their households.The streaming video pioneer has been on the lookout for new methods to earn money because it faces indicators of market saturation, with efforts together with limits on password borrowing and a brand new ad-supported choice.Netflix on Tuesday mentioned it was sending emails about account sharing to prospects in 103 international locations and territories, together with the US, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Singapore, Mexico and Brazil.The emails…
Netflix on Tuesday expanded its crackdown on password sharing to the US and greater than 100 different nations, alerting customers that their accounts can’t be shared free of charge exterior of their households.The streaming video pioneer has been searching for new methods to generate income because it faces indicators of market saturation, with efforts together with limits on password borrowing and a brand new ad-supported possibility.Netflix on Tuesday stated it was sending emails about account sharing to clients in 103 nations and territories, together with the US, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Singapore, Mexico and Brazil.The emails state {that a} Netflix…
Tapping into the rising recognition of Unified Funds Interface (UPI), Google Pay at the side of the Nationwide Funds Company of India (NPCI) on Tuesday introduced the aptitude for customers to make UPI funds with RuPay bank cards. With this growth, customers can hyperlink their RuPay bank cards with Google Pay to seamlessly pay in any respect on-line and offline retailers the place RuPay bank cards are accepted. This characteristic is now obtainable to RuPay bank card holders of Axis Financial institution, Financial institution of Baroda, Canara Financial institution, HDFC financial institution, Indian Financial institution, Kotak Mahindra Financial institution, Punjab Nationwide…