With the National Weather Service warning of (caps theirs) “Dangerous Life Threatening Flash Flooding across southern Santa Barbara county,” Montecito homeowner Ellen DeGeneres put her own exclamation point of sorts on the situation, posting a video of herself with a raging torrent just over her shoulder and in it remarked, “This stream next to our house never flows, ever. It’s probably about nine feet up. It could go another two feet up. We have horses ready to evacuate.”
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She wrote in the caption to the post, “Montecito is under mandatory evacuation. We are on higher ground so they...
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She wrote in the caption to the post, “Montecito is under mandatory evacuation. We are on higher ground so they...
- 1/10/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
San Francisco, March 29 (Ians) In a startling revelation, a report has claimed that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s foundation poured money into the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, including paying salaries of key employees. Politico reports that Schmidt had a close relationship with the president’s former science adviser, Eric Lander, and […]...
- 3/29/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
The life work of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” will be meticulously captured and catalogued in a new digital archive from leading tech company Otoy.
The multimedia Roddenberry Archive will produce everything from holographic and digital renderings of the famous Starship Enterprise vessel to TV and movie sets. The effort will be formally announced at the annual Star Trek convention Creation in Las Vegas this Friday, by the Roddenberry estate and artists Denise and Mike Okuda, Doug Drexler and Daren Dochterman.
The project will include key texts and documents from Roddenberry’s career, as well as images, blueprints and models. The archive will span the flagship “Star Trek” series, original films, and subsequent spinoffs. The immediate benefit of the archive will be the ability to generate NFTs from the collection for Trek diehards, as well as offer the public life-sized hologram installations that promise to be “indistinguishable from reality” via Light Field Lab.
The multimedia Roddenberry Archive will produce everything from holographic and digital renderings of the famous Starship Enterprise vessel to TV and movie sets. The effort will be formally announced at the annual Star Trek convention Creation in Las Vegas this Friday, by the Roddenberry estate and artists Denise and Mike Okuda, Doug Drexler and Daren Dochterman.
The project will include key texts and documents from Roddenberry’s career, as well as images, blueprints and models. The archive will span the flagship “Star Trek” series, original films, and subsequent spinoffs. The immediate benefit of the archive will be the ability to generate NFTs from the collection for Trek diehards, as well as offer the public life-sized hologram installations that promise to be “indistinguishable from reality” via Light Field Lab.
- 8/12/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Otoy, a technology company specializing in cloud graphics, has added digital artist Beeple to its advisory board.
In enlisting Beeple, Otoy — which already counts director J.J. Abrams, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich as board members — hopes to pave the future of digital content, including NFTs.
Few understand the confounding world as well as Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann. He helped spark the Nft, or non-fungible token, craze after he sold a photo collage titled “Everyday: The First 5,000 Days” for $69 million at auction house Christie’s in March.
Beeple referred to his decision to join Otoy’s advisory board as “a longtime partnership made formal.” He says the company’s technology has been “integral” to his work creating NFTs and plans to use his seat to continue expanding the digital art space.
As part of the collaboration, Beeple is working with Rndr,...
In enlisting Beeple, Otoy — which already counts director J.J. Abrams, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich as board members — hopes to pave the future of digital content, including NFTs.
Few understand the confounding world as well as Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann. He helped spark the Nft, or non-fungible token, craze after he sold a photo collage titled “Everyday: The First 5,000 Days” for $69 million at auction house Christie’s in March.
Beeple referred to his decision to join Otoy’s advisory board as “a longtime partnership made formal.” He says the company’s technology has been “integral” to his work creating NFTs and plans to use his seat to continue expanding the digital art space.
As part of the collaboration, Beeple is working with Rndr,...
- 5/18/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, joined by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Friday signed a bill requiring internet providers to offer broadband access to low-income families for no more than $15 a month. Higher-speed plans are capped at $20.
“Internet service is an essential service. Now. you need a broadband service if you are going to be able to get an education, to access government services, to contact your family,” Cuomo said at an event at the Northland Workforce Training Center in Buffalo. He was joined by Schmidt, who chairs a state commission on technology as the state reopens.
Many internet providers have voluntarily put in discount plans to help households in need during the pandemic. But this is a mandate, which has passed the State legislature and is part of the recently approved budget. The move may “limit the profit of some of these big corporations,” Cuomo said, “but trust me...
“Internet service is an essential service. Now. you need a broadband service if you are going to be able to get an education, to access government services, to contact your family,” Cuomo said at an event at the Northland Workforce Training Center in Buffalo. He was joined by Schmidt, who chairs a state commission on technology as the state reopens.
Many internet providers have voluntarily put in discount plans to help households in need during the pandemic. But this is a mandate, which has passed the State legislature and is part of the recently approved budget. The move may “limit the profit of some of these big corporations,” Cuomo said, “but trust me...
- 4/16/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Major corporations, celebrities and other prominent figures signed on to a two-page ad opposing “any discriminatory legislation or measures” that restrict eligible voters from having “an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot.”
Netflix, UTA, CAA and ViacomCBS were among the media and entertainment companies to sign the ad, which comes amid concerns over the impact of voting legislation in Georgia, Texas and other states. Also signing were tech companies including Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit and Salesforce, as well as live event businesses Live Nation Entertainment and Jazz Lincoln Center.
The ad featured the headline, “We stand for democracy.” “Voting is the lifeblood of our democracy and we call upon all Americans to join us in taking a nonpartisan stand for this most basic and fundamental right of all Americans.”
Among the individuals who signed the ad was James Murdoch, the CEO of Lupa Systems. His brother,...
Netflix, UTA, CAA and ViacomCBS were among the media and entertainment companies to sign the ad, which comes amid concerns over the impact of voting legislation in Georgia, Texas and other states. Also signing were tech companies including Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit and Salesforce, as well as live event businesses Live Nation Entertainment and Jazz Lincoln Center.
The ad featured the headline, “We stand for democracy.” “Voting is the lifeblood of our democracy and we call upon all Americans to join us in taking a nonpartisan stand for this most basic and fundamental right of all Americans.”
Among the individuals who signed the ad was James Murdoch, the CEO of Lupa Systems. His brother,...
- 4/14/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
In a now very crowded field of Democrats, Joe Biden’s third run for the White House has the deepest pocketed Hollywood donor to the ex-Vice President’s boss putting his money on the table.
Big time Barack Obama supporters Jeffrey Katzenberg and wife Marilyn are now officially co-chairing the May 8 at the Beverly Hills home of former Ambassador to Spain and HBO exec James Costos and his partner and ex-White House interior designer Michael Smith.
“Expect there will be a huge turnout for this L.A. event,” Andy Spahn, President of Gonring, Spahn and Associates and Katzenberg’s long time political advisor, told Deadline. The firm is assisting with next month’s event.
Coming off today’s long anticipated announcement by Biden that he truly is in the 2020 race to retire Donald Trump, the move by the ex-DreamWorks Animation chief is about as much of a surprise as...
Big time Barack Obama supporters Jeffrey Katzenberg and wife Marilyn are now officially co-chairing the May 8 at the Beverly Hills home of former Ambassador to Spain and HBO exec James Costos and his partner and ex-White House interior designer Michael Smith.
“Expect there will be a huge turnout for this L.A. event,” Andy Spahn, President of Gonring, Spahn and Associates and Katzenberg’s long time political advisor, told Deadline. The firm is assisting with next month’s event.
Coming off today’s long anticipated announcement by Biden that he truly is in the 2020 race to retire Donald Trump, the move by the ex-DreamWorks Animation chief is about as much of a surprise as...
- 4/25/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen threatened to sue CNBC to get his boss higher placement on the cable network’s list of top business leaders after Cohen’s efforts to rig the polling failed, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Cohen threatened to sue on the dubious legal grounds of “ignoring the will of the people,” WSJ reported, which may explain why the news network did not respond to the threat, and why Trump did not sue, according to the report.
CNBC declined to comment.
The kerfuffle erupted when Trump failed to break into the Top 100 finalists on CNBC’s ranking of people who it determined had the most profound impact on business and finance since 1989, which was the year CNBC went live.
To put this list in perspective, it was curated by a panel CNBC deemed experts on the topic and included an online poll to “guide...
Cohen threatened to sue on the dubious legal grounds of “ignoring the will of the people,” WSJ reported, which may explain why the news network did not respond to the threat, and why Trump did not sue, according to the report.
CNBC declined to comment.
The kerfuffle erupted when Trump failed to break into the Top 100 finalists on CNBC’s ranking of people who it determined had the most profound impact on business and finance since 1989, which was the year CNBC went live.
To put this list in perspective, it was curated by a panel CNBC deemed experts on the topic and included an online poll to “guide...
- 1/21/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to employees saying the technology giant has fired 48 people over the past two years for sexual harassment, including 13 “senior managers and above,” none of whom collected an exit package.
The companywide message comes in response to a blockbuster New York Times story, detailing how Google handed Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a $90 million exit package and lauded him even as it kept silent about allegations of sexual misconduct.
Rubin was one of three executives who were accused of sexual misconduct over the past decade that Google protected, the Times reported. In two instances, the executives were ousted — but paid millions of dollars as they walked out the door. A third executive remained in a highly compensated post at the company.
Through a spokesman, Rubin said he voluntarily left Google and denied engaging in misconduct.
Pichai said he found the account “difficult to read,...
The companywide message comes in response to a blockbuster New York Times story, detailing how Google handed Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a $90 million exit package and lauded him even as it kept silent about allegations of sexual misconduct.
Rubin was one of three executives who were accused of sexual misconduct over the past decade that Google protected, the Times reported. In two instances, the executives were ousted — but paid millions of dollars as they walked out the door. A third executive remained in a highly compensated post at the company.
Through a spokesman, Rubin said he voluntarily left Google and denied engaging in misconduct.
Pichai said he found the account “difficult to read,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
Sun Valley, Idaho -- Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt sat down unexpectedly Thursday for 75 minutes with a dozen journalists to give their impressions on the state of the technology community and Google's place in it.
In a relaxed discussion, the trio fielded questions about Yahoo, Microsoft and their relationships to Google. The discussion was unusual because Allen & Company, which organizes and runs the Sun Valley Media Conference in this remote corner of Idaho, allows for journalists to ask occasional questions. But a 75-minute press conference is very much the oddity. Moreover, most of the moguls gathered here have studiously avoided answering anything substantive about their dealmaking plans when accosted by journos.
The trio of Google execs also used the opportunity to talk about the inroads the company is making with its own branded mobile phone as a replacement for the iPhone, as well as the Chinese market and how they're treated there -- and even Google's inhouse educational programs and the salaries and potential of teachers.
But first they had a few words about Bill Gates' company.
"Microsoft has a long history of having deals that look quite good and end up looking not so good when you look at the fine print," Schmidt said of Microsoft's dealings with and to acquire Yahoo.
"We took the position that the world is better off with an independent Yahoo!"
Currently, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and president Sue Decker have been trying to structure a deal with Microsoft, but everything has been in limbo as Yahoo investors like Carl Icahn have stirred the waters with demands for board control. The initial pact was negated by Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who thought the price of $37 a share was too high. So, that too has been a contract point.
Google stepped in to create a deal for advertising, not necessarily a search engine, which had been conjectured.
Schmidt and Page said Google's deal was agreed upon nearly a month ago, but the company is still waiting for regulatory confirmation that could take another two or three months.
"I think it's very hard for people on the outside to know where we are," Schmidt said. "I think that's the right thing for all."
Co-founder Brin breathlessly joined Page and Schmidt about half an hour into the interview. Brin had been riding a bicycle and said he had a flat.
In his remarks, Brin was very emotional about the need for good teachers and schools in the U.S. He was responding indirectly to New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein's earlier presentation about the state of education in the country.
"Another important factor that nobody talks about is teachers' salaries," Brin said. "Teachers are among the lowest paid professionals. At Google, we've been paying our teachers 25 per cent more, but even with that, they're among the lowest paid employees. I think it's really important to have a living wage for teachers."...
In a relaxed discussion, the trio fielded questions about Yahoo, Microsoft and their relationships to Google. The discussion was unusual because Allen & Company, which organizes and runs the Sun Valley Media Conference in this remote corner of Idaho, allows for journalists to ask occasional questions. But a 75-minute press conference is very much the oddity. Moreover, most of the moguls gathered here have studiously avoided answering anything substantive about their dealmaking plans when accosted by journos.
The trio of Google execs also used the opportunity to talk about the inroads the company is making with its own branded mobile phone as a replacement for the iPhone, as well as the Chinese market and how they're treated there -- and even Google's inhouse educational programs and the salaries and potential of teachers.
But first they had a few words about Bill Gates' company.
"Microsoft has a long history of having deals that look quite good and end up looking not so good when you look at the fine print," Schmidt said of Microsoft's dealings with and to acquire Yahoo.
"We took the position that the world is better off with an independent Yahoo!"
Currently, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and president Sue Decker have been trying to structure a deal with Microsoft, but everything has been in limbo as Yahoo investors like Carl Icahn have stirred the waters with demands for board control. The initial pact was negated by Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who thought the price of $37 a share was too high. So, that too has been a contract point.
Google stepped in to create a deal for advertising, not necessarily a search engine, which had been conjectured.
Schmidt and Page said Google's deal was agreed upon nearly a month ago, but the company is still waiting for regulatory confirmation that could take another two or three months.
"I think it's very hard for people on the outside to know where we are," Schmidt said. "I think that's the right thing for all."
Co-founder Brin breathlessly joined Page and Schmidt about half an hour into the interview. Brin had been riding a bicycle and said he had a flat.
In his remarks, Brin was very emotional about the need for good teachers and schools in the U.S. He was responding indirectly to New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein's earlier presentation about the state of education in the country.
"Another important factor that nobody talks about is teachers' salaries," Brin said. "Teachers are among the lowest paid professionals. At Google, we've been paying our teachers 25 per cent more, but even with that, they're among the lowest paid employees. I think it's really important to have a living wage for teachers."...
- 7/11/2008
- by By Dan Cox
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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