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HAND and Fabric Announce Roll-Out of HAND Talent IDs to Fabric Customers
HAND (Human & Digital), the global talent ID registry for efficient discoverability, royalty collection and revenue tracking of legal and natural persons, their digital replica... More
M&E Journal: AI Accelerating the M&E Content Supply Chain
Since there tends to be confusion and misunderstanding of what AI is and is not and how it relates to things like machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, let’s start ... More
M&E Journal: The Philosophy of Discoverability
Years ago, it was common to hear studio executives talk about their visions for an automated digital supply chain that would result in an individualised experience. They would r... More
WiTH March 8 Webinar Eyes 2024 Tech Trends
Women in Technology Hollywood (WiTH) is hosting a Connection Corner webinar March 8 bringing together experts in AI, robotics and more to discuss the technology trends worth keepin... More
Box Takes a Deep Dive on its AI Strategy, Future Plans
Box executives explored the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) principles, product philosophy and future plans on Feb. 21, during a “Box AI Overview” webinar. First, J... More
Gracenote: Most Best Picture Oscar Winners Share Traits
As the 96th Academy Awards on March 10 get closer, Gracenote decided to use its Video Descriptor metadata to see if the 136 movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar over the pas... More
Technicolor Explores the Intricacies of Animation, Rigging
Technicolor took a deep dive into animation and rigging on Feb. 20, during the third edition of its "Master Animation with Mikros" masterclass series dedicated to exploring the int... More
AI: A Very Useful Video Entertainment Tool Kit
Money was important in the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike, but just a skirmish … the long-term battle/discussion is intuitive/generative AI and the benefits it is going to deliver for stud... More
Turning to Community in Times of Crisis
Whether you’re down to scraping the muck at the bottom of the barrel — because you may have already scraped the bottom of the barrel mid-year — or you’re off to the races a... More
EIDR’s Kroon, WaveSeven’s Crosby Co-Author Metadata Paper
Richard Kroon, EIDR’s director of technical operations, and Cameron Crosby, partner with media and entertainment consulting firm WaveSeven, have co-authored a paper for the “Jo... More
Technicolor Explores the Creation of Environments With Unreal Engine
Technicolor took a deep dive into the art of crafting vast, breathtaking landscapes using Procedural Content Generation (PCG) tools in Epic Games’s Unreal Engine on Feb. 6, durin... More
Fortinet CEO: Company is Applying Gen AI Across Its Product Line
Fortinet has already started using generative artificial intelligence (AI) across its “entire product line,” according to Ken Xie, the company’s CEO. Applying Gen AI acros... More
Microsoft CEO Bullish on AI, Game Business After Adding Activision
As Microsoft expands its artificial intelligence (AI) across all parts of its business, Satya Nadella, the company’s CEO, gave an upbeat forecast for that technology and also its... More
SHI: How Companies Can Get Started on the Road to AI Success
Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating new opportunities for companies to innovate and grow but many organizations remain on the sidelines for now, some because they don’t know... More
Futuresource Analyst to Look Ahead at Feb. 29 ITS Localisation
James Duvall, principal analyst and head of entertainment for Futuresource Consulting, will offer attendees of the Feb. 29 ITS Localisation event in London a look ahead at 2024 and... More
Wasabi Acquires Curio AI from GrayMeta
Hot cloud storage FIRM Wasabi Technologies has acquired Curio AI from GrayMeta, the companies announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition includes both th... More
New MESA Podcast Explores AI with Prime Focus Technologies CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan
Media and entertainment companies are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) as skepticism of the technology declines in the sector, Ramki Sankaranarayanan, global CEO... More
EIDR Registers 3 Millionth ID
Less than five years after it launched, the EIDR registry added its one millionth record in September 2016. January 2019 saw the two millionth recorded. (more…)... More
MESA’s Winter M+E Journal Goes Live
The winter edition of the “M+E Journal,” published by MESA and geared toward senior media and entertainment executives who oversee their companies’ digital futures, is now av... More
CPS 2023: Experts Explore Impact of New Technologies
We are just really getting started on the journey of the power of computing. In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain, and extended reality (XR... More