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The fourth season of Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive premieres on Friday, March 11. It’s just one week before the 2022 world championship’s inaugural event, the Bahrain Grand Prix, races at Sakhir. Drive to Survive, openly cited as the…

Master Chief’s first season of television won’t be his last. The Halo series on Paramount Plus will get a second season, even though its first doesn’t air for another month, Paramount announced on Tuesday. The show’s second season may be…

Kojima Productions is headed west, with plans to open a new studio in California. This new studio will focus on some of creator Hideo Kojima’s other favorite mediums, namely TV, film, and music. While Kojima Productions Japan will continue to…

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have signed a massive new deal with ViacomCBS that will keep the show on the air for the foreseeable future and see the production of several new movies exclusively for Paramount Plus,…

Square Enix’s PlayStation role-playing game Final Fantasy 9 is being adapted into an animated series aimed at kids, producer and distributor Cyber Group Studios announced Tuesday. The Final Fantasy 9 animated series is described as “an adventure animation series primarily…

The World of Darkness — the gaming universe created by White Wolf publishing for the cult-favorite tabletop RPG series Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and many others — might be stepping out into the light of TV and movies…

Enterprise content management (ECM) platforms that have historically been employed to manage files are, thanks to the rise of AI, about to evolve into central repositories for keeping track of relationships between a much wider range of types of data….

In September, Amazon-owned Ring announced that it would bring end-to-end video encryption to its lineup of home security devices. While the company already encrypted videos in storage and during transmission, end-to-end encryption secures videos on-device, preventing third parties without special…

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today announced the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, an organization that will coordinate and oversee national AI policy initiatives for the United States government. “The Office is…

In June, the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) division of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) revealed the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing (AV TEST), a program that provides an online, public-facing forum for sharing automated…

At the all-virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today, Intel subsidiary Mobileye announced four new locations where it plans to test its autonomous vehicle technologies. In a briefing with reporters, Mobileye cofounder Amnon Shashua revealed that Mobileye’s vehicles began driving autonomously…