Month: February 2021

Avatar: The Last Airbender fans are getting new animated movies and series

Fans of the ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender‘ and ‘The Legend of Korra‘ (including yours truly) just recieved a surprise piece of awesome news today: Nickelodeon is making an animated movie to replace the godawful live action one. Production begins this year. Better yet, Nickeloden is creating a whole new studio dedicated to expanding the universe.

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Australia passes news bargaining code that will require digital platforms like Google and Facebook to pay local media outlets and publishers for their content (Daniel Van Boom/CNET)

Daniel Van Boom / CNET: Australia passes news bargaining code that will require digital platforms like Google and Facebook to pay local media outlets and publishers for their content  —  Australia on Wednesday passed a new media law that had generated noisy pushback from internet giants Google and Facebook … Australia passes news bargaining code

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Microsoft announces industry cloud packages for financial services, available in March, and for manufacturing and nonprofits, available in June (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)

Cherlynn Low / Engadget: Microsoft announces industry cloud packages for financial services, available in March, and for manufacturing and nonprofits, available in June  —  new Industry Cloud service with a suite of tools for the healthcare sector last year and unveiling a Retail-specific version in January, Microsoft is ready to introduce more areas of focus.

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Study Finds Use of Video Boosts Learning

A meta-study has found that the use of pre-recorded video can lead to “small improvements” in learning and replacing existing content with videos can result in “strong” learning benefits. The work, published by the American Educational Research Association, was undertaken by a team of researchers from Australian Catholic University and the University of Queensland. Study

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Everything to know about Paramount Plus, ViacomCBS’s new version of CBS All Access

In just over a week, CBS All Access will become Paramount Plus, a rebranded version of the streaming service launching on March 4th. Paramount Plus will use combined franchises and assets from Viacom and CBS (who remerged in 2019) to offer more than 20,000 episodes of television and films from a number of networks. These

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GameStop shares closed up nearly 104% on Wednesday, halting twice for volatility; GameStop said on Tuesday its CFO will resign; stock up 80%+ after hours (Maggie Fitzgerald/CNBC)

Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: GameStop shares closed up nearly 104% on Wednesday, halting twice for volatility; GameStop said on Tuesday its CFO will resign; stock up 80%+ after hours  —  – GameStop announced Tuesday that its chief financial officer Jim Bell will resign on March 26.  — Sources familiar … GameStop shares closed up nearly

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Motor-Driven Movement Modernizes POV Toy

Just as we are driven today to watch gifs that get better with every loop, people 100+ years ago entertained themselves with various persistence of vision toys that used the power of optical illusions to make still images come to life. [jollifactory] recently recreated one of the first POV devices — the phenakistoscope — into

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Optimism, which plans to help scale the Ethereum blockchain with a Layer 2 protocol, raises $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Michael McSweeney/The Block)

Michael McSweeney / The Block: Optimism, which plans to help scale the Ethereum blockchain with a Layer 2 protocol, raises $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz  —  Optimism, a startup focused on the scalability of the Ethereum blockchain network, has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Optimism, which

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Nvidia made $5 billion during a GPU shortage and expects to do it again in Q1

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia has shared its Q4 2021 earnings, and despite the company’s GPUs being in extremely low supply, it didn’t seem to hurt how much money the company made. In fact, it reported a record $5 billion in revenue, which is up 61 percent year-over-year. What’s more impressive is

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Watch the trailer for the Rugrats reboot headed to Paramount Plus

Image: Nickelodeon A Rugrats reboot is headed to the new streaming service Paramount Plus this spring, ViacomCBS announced today. The show is described as a “reimagining of the classic ‘90s hit,” and you can see a preview of the new CG-animated style in this trailer: But even though the animation might look different, many of

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Nickelodeon creates Avatar Studios to create new Avatar, Legend of Korra content

Photo: Nickelodeon ViacomCBS has announced a new studio based entirely around Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Avatar Studios will create “original content spanning animated series and movies,” according to a press release. Avatar and Korra original creators, Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, are joining Nickelodeon as co-chief creative officers of Avatar

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FCC reveals that for its 5G licenses auction, Verizon spent the most of any carrier with $45.5B, followed by AT&T with $23.4B, and T-Mobile with $9.3B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: FCC reveals that for its 5G licenses auction, Verizon spent the most of any carrier with $45.5B, followed by AT&T with $23.4B, and T-Mobile with $9.3B  —  – AT&T is second at $23 billion in bids, followed by T-Mobile  — FCC releases results of so-called C-band airwaves sale FCC reveals that for its 5G

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