Netflix just announced its plans to turn Cixin Liu’s “Three-Body Problem” trilogy into an original science fiction series. The show will be executive produced and written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (the “Game of Thrones” showrunners signed a multi-year deal with Netflix last year that is reportedly worth more than $200 million), along with Alexander…
HBO Max, the WarnerMedia-owned streaming service that launched in May, announced today that it has made a series commitment to an untitled TV show tied to the movie “The Batman” (currently scheduled for release in 2021). The show will be set in the Gotham City police department, with a creative team that includes Matt Reeves,…
Mark Mills is the author of the book, “Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era,” and is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, and a partner in Cottonwood Venture Partners, an energy-tech venture fund. An epic number of citizens are video-conferencing to work in these…
Video game publisher and developer Ubisoft confirms that it is making a movie about seniors playing esports. The film is being developed with the co-writers and co-directors of Amy Schumer’s 2018 comedy, I Feel Pretty. It’s one of several TV and movie projects that Ubisoft is working on. A new article by The Hollywood Reporter…
In Part 6 of our multiverse series, we discuss the business opportunities and compliance challenges of virtual economies Fictional portrayals of virtual worlds such as “Ready Player One” and “The Matrix” typically portray the physical and virtual worlds as distinct realms siloed from each other. Characters escape a dystopian, impoverished physical realm and enter a…
A new report suggests Sony is struggling to keep the manufacturing cost of the PS5 under $450. Sourcing DRAM and NAND flash memory are proving problematic due to competing demand from the mobile-phone industry. Consumers could bear the brunt of this part scarcity if Sony opts to bump up the retail price of the PS5.…
TC Video 18 hours Most work in biology relies on a handful of common tests and equipment, but you rarely find them outside dedicated labs. Feles wants to make these tests accessible to people who don’t have those resources with its desktop biolab. It has a centrifuge, spectrometer, incubator, thermocycler, refrigerator and more, all in…
Do you want to be the highly-paid CEO of a hospital/“health” system? Do you need to pay for a new $356 million medical campus? Master this how-to guide and you’ll be on your way. STEP 1: Have the local university use eminent domain to seize acreage for a huge campus and then sell that acreage…
More than 12,000 attendees gathered this week in San Diego to discuss all things containers, Kubernetes and cloud-native at KubeCon. Kubernetes, the container orchestration tool, turned five this year, and the technology appears to be reaching a maturity phase where it accelerates beyond early adopters to reach a more mainstream group of larger business users.…
If you work for someone else, you likely know the drill: in comes that annual email reminding you that it’s time for unconscious bias or sexual harassment training, and if you could please finish up this mandatory module by this date, that would be terrific. The email — not to mention the programming itself —…
