dryriver shares a report from CNN: Sports brand Asics has issued an apology after “objectionable content” played on the screens above its store in Auckland, New Zealand. Pornographic videos were shown on promotional screens for hours outside an Asics store in Auckland, New Zealand on Sunday morning, the New Zealand Herald reported. The Japanese sportswear brand apologized Sunday, saying the material…
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Locast, a Free Streaming Service, Sues ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox
Locast, a little-known nonprofit behind a free streaming service, sued ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox on Friday, alleging that the television networks colluded in an effort to chill its business. From a report: Locast streams network shows and sports programs through a free app that relays broadcast feeds online. People can get the streams without a cable or satellite plan, potentially…
HBO Fends Off Streamers at Emmys While Other TV Networks Struggle
HBO managed to thwart competition from big streaming companies again Sunday night, taking home far more Emmy wins than any other network or streaming company. From a report: Other legacy cable and broadcast networks otherwise had a rough night. All other broadcast and cable networks combined nabbed 24 awards — 10 fewer than HBO. HBO has been known for decades as…
Makers of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Respond To Criticism of Healthfulness
Last week NBC News ran an opinion piece by a certified nutritionist arguing that plant-based/meat-free alternatives at major fast food chains “aren’t actually any healthier.” Bloomberg got a response from two of the major meat-substitute companies:
According to Impossible, the attacks are all part of a “smear campaign to sow fear and doubt about plant-based meat.” The company said its burgers and…
Netflix Lands ‘Seinfeld’ Rights in $500M-Plus Deal After Losing ‘Friends’ and ‘The Office’
Seinfeld will be master of a new domain starting in 2021. From a report: Netflix has landed worldwide rights to the iconic sitcom in a five-year deal with distributor Sony. The show will move from current rightsholder Hulu when its deal is up in 2021. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the new Seinfeld streaming deal is worth more than $500…
Extreme Weather Events This Decade Have Cost America $750B
An anonymous reader quotes NBC News: An analysis of weather disasters that did more than $1 billion in damage from the National Centers for Environmental Information finds that such high-cost events are up markedly since the 1980s. (The dollar figures for the events were adjusted for inflation.) There have been 250 such events since 1980 and almost half them, 111, have…
Are Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Really Healthier Than Meat?
Plant-based/meat-free entrees are coming to major fast-food chains including White Castle, KFC, Del Taco, the Cheesecake Factory, and Subway. There’s just one problem, argues an opinion piece by a certified nutritionist at NBC News: “these offerings aren’t actually any healthier.” The Impossible Whopper, for instance, not only has comparable caloric and fat levels as its meat-based counterpart, but it has more…
Some of the Best Video Game Streamers Are Senior Citizens
“As we’ve discussed in the past, old people are some of the only video game streamers worth watching,” writes the AV Club: Filled with the wisdom that comes from age, seniors are the necessary corrective to Twitch and YouTube channels currently dominated by excitable whippersnappers. Fortunately, as outlined in a piece NBC’s Kalhan Rosenblatt that explores this world, video games are…
100-Year-Old James Lovelock Predicts Humans Will Be Replaced by Self-Aware AI
A new book by futurist James Lovelock argues “Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end. The understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call ‘cyborgs’ that will have designed and built themselves.” An anonymous reader quotes NBC News’ Mach blog:
Lovelock describes cyborgs as the self-sufficient, self-aware descendants of…
Facebook Bans Ads From The Epoch Times
Facebook has banned advertising from The Epoch Times, the Falun Gong-related publication and conservative news outlet, as the social network struggles to implement a consistent political advertising policy. The New York Times reports: Facebook issued the ban on Friday after NBC News published a report this week that said The Epoch Times had obscured its connection to recent Facebook ads promoting…