Category: Media & Entertainment

  • Excitement mounts over AST SpaceMobile launch

    Many shareholders of AST SpaceMobile stock are beside themselves with anticipation of a spectacular rise in their holdings. Of course, there is the small challenge of launching the key five satellites that make up the very first portion of what will be a mega-constellation of approaching 90 satellites. The mission is to send and receive…

  • Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone | Dan Brooks

    The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to write our own future Writing about the assassination of President John F Kennedy for Rolling Stone in 1983, 20 years after the shooting, the novelist Don DeLillo remarked: “Europeans and Middle Easterners are notoriously prone to believe in…

  • Research: 47% of US familiar with AI tech

    Parks Associates research in partnership with Adeia reveals 47 per cent of US internet households report familiarity with at least one AI technology, such as tools like ChatGPT or AI-powered image editors like Lensa. The Rise of AI: Consumer Perspectives notes that 40 per cent of US internet households regularly use an AI tool for…

  • Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone | Dan Brooks

    The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to write our own future Writing about the assassination of President John F Kennedy for Rolling Stone in 1983, 20 years after the shooting, the novelist Don DeLillo remarked: “Europeans and Middle Easterners are notoriously prone to believe in…

  • Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone | Dan Brooks

    The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to write our own future Writing about the assassination of President John F Kennedy for Rolling Stone in 1983, 20 years after the shooting, the novelist Don DeLillo remarked: “Europeans and Middle Easterners are notoriously prone to believe in…

  • Report: YouTube nears 10% of total TV usage in US

    Nielsen’s The Gauge report for June shows 40.3 per cent of time spent watching TV in the US in June was attributable to streaming. Pure-play streamers like Netflix and YouTube saw the most benefit from a big streaming month. Time spent watching YouTube on television was up 4.2 per cent in June to push the…

  • Half a million households cancelled BBC licence fee last year

    Corporation faces stark challenge as it struggles to reach younger audiences who are watching Netflix and YouTube Strictly should be less competitive but will continue, BBC director general says Half a million households cancelled their licence fee last year as the BBC struggled to connect with younger audiences drifting away to Netflix and YouTube. The…

  • Half a million households cancelled BBC licence fee last year

    Corporation faces stark challenge as it struggles to reach younger audiences who are watching Netflix and YouTube Strictly should be less competitive but will continue, BBC director general says Half a million households cancelled their licence fee last year as the BBC struggled to connect with younger audiences drifting away to Netflix and YouTube. The…

  • Half a million households cancelled BBC licence fee last year

    Corporation faces stark challenge as it struggles to reach younger audiences who are watching Netflix and YouTube Strictly should be less competitive but will continue, BBC director general says Half a million households cancelled their licence fee last year as the BBC struggled to connect with younger audiences drifting away to Netflix and YouTube. The…

  • Half a million households cancelled BBC licence fee last year

    Corporation faces stark challenge as it struggles to reach younger audiences who are watching Netflix and YouTube Strictly should be less competitive but will continue, BBC director general says Half a million households cancelled their licence fee last year as the BBC struggled to connect with younger audiences drifting away to Netflix and YouTube. The…