Tag: ABC

Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV

An anonymous Slashdot reader shares an opinion piece from The New York Times, written by Matthew Ball, former head of strategic planning for Amazon Studios. Here’s an excerpt: The next 12 months will see several video services come to market, including Disney+, AT&T/WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, Comcast/NBCUniversal’s unnamed service, Apple TV+ and Quibi from the Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. This increased competition…

Guido van Rossum Looks at Python’s Past, Present, and Future

This week from 63-year-old Python creator Guido van Rossum shared some interesting stories with ZDNet’s senior reporter Nick Heath: While sharing software with the world today only takes a few clicks, in the 1980s it was an altogether more laborious affair, with van Rossum recalling the difficulties of trying to distribute Python precursor ABC. “I remember around ’85, going on a…

Amazon Ring Alert Leads To Capture of ‘Extremely Dangerous’ Escaped Convict

ABC News describes how Amazon’s surveillance doorbell cameras today led to the capture of an “extremely dangerous” inmate: Homicide suspect Curtis Watson, 44, escaped from work detail on a tractor at the West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Henning, Tennessee, about 50 miles northeast of Memphis, on Wednesday. The tractor was later found about a mile away from the prison. Around 3:30…

Extreme U.S. Weather Brings Power Outages

“Ninety-four million people in parts of 23 states remain under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories on Sunday as one last day of scorching temperatures hits the Midwest and East Coast,” reports ABC News. “Sunday is the last day of oppressive heat, with many places in the Upper Midwest already feeling cooler Sunday morning after heat indices of 115 to 120…

A California Bill Could Destroy Uber’s Unsustainable Business Model

Last week, the California Senate’s Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee held a hearing and passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), which promises to make it harder for companies to claim workers are independent contractors and increase the operating expenses of Uber, Lyft, and other on-demand companies that already find themselves unable to turn a profit. Motherboard reports: Written by Assemblywoman Lorena…

First Flu Vaccine Created By AI To Be Trialed In the US

A “turbocharged” flu vaccine created by a computer with artificial intelligence in South Australia is set to be trialed in the United States. ABC reports: Flinders University Professor Nikolai Petrovsky has told the ABC the computer running a program called Sam invented the new drug on its own, in what he claimed was a world first. “We essentially showed all of…

Is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot disintegrating?

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a giant storm, the largest known in our solar system. It’s been seen through earthly telescopes for more than 300 years. Lately, it’s been showing signs of breaking apart. Is this the beginning of the end for the beloved Spot? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/is-jupiters-great-red-spot-disintegrating…

10-Year-Old’s Reality-Show Victory Revoked After Automated Bot Voting

An anonymous reader quotes ABC News:
The final result of Russia’s version of the popular TV singing talent show, “The Voice Kids,” has been cancelled after it was found that thousands of automated calls and text messages were used to rig voting in favor of its 10-year-old winner. Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB was brought in to examine the results after complaints were…