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With the spread of COVID-19 comes the spread of misinformation. Google product YouTube is attempting to combat this, by adding fact-checking panels to videos the algorithm, and humans, deem related to the Coronavirus. First launched in Brazil and India last year, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki hopes the new tool will allow users to be moreContinue reading “YouTube Adding Fact-Checking Capabilities to Videos”

With the ever-rising popularity of online streaming services like Netflix, more and more people are tuning their TVs and Computers to original films created on the platforms. Until this upcoming awards season, movies were required to have a theatrical release for Oscar consideration. However, that is no longer. Beginning in 2021, streaming-only movies will beContinue reading “Movies No Longer Need to be Shown on the Big Screen to Win an Oscar”

Rideshare company and tech giant UBER has begun offering qualified drivers with free health screenings using remote Telemedicine technology. Partnering with healthcare service Ro, UBER and UBER Eats drivers will have their own free portal to use. Delivery service drivers are considered “essential workers” during the novel Coronavirus pandemic, as restaurants and other eateries closeContinue reading “UBER Begins Offering Drivers Access to Free Telemedicine”

It’s no surprise that the novel Coronavirus has changed the average human’s day-to-day life, and television is no exemption. With so called, “stay at home” orders the new normal, talent and technical crews alike need to adapt for the task of working remotely. In an age where everyone carries a camera around in their pocketContinue reading “THE TELEVISION ADAPTATION – How TV is coping with COVID-19”

With the Coronavirus presenting the challenge of remote learning, little used teleconferencing tool “Zoom” rose to the task. Schools and Universities all over the United States have turned to the software in order to provide continuing instruction to their students. However, multiple fatal security and privacy flaws have been discovered by hackers, students, and theContinue reading “ZOOM SECURITY RISK – Teleconferencing tool found to be leaking private data”

According to research published by the Nielsen Firm, 19% of media consumed on Television sets in the home come from OTT services; Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, etc. This is a 10% from one year ago, representing the massive influx of streamable content available to the average American user. New services are seemly launchedContinue reading “Streaming Wars: A Fifth of Cable”

Kwak Sin Ae’s “Parasite” made history at Sunday night’s Oscars. “Parasite” is the first Non-English, and South Korean movie, to take home a Best Picture award at the prestigious event. Throughout history, only 11 other Non-English films have ever been nominated by the Academy for the title. Director Bong Joon Ho stated via translator thatContinue reading ““Parasite” Makes History at the Academy Awards”

The United States suffered the largest lottery fraud of the modern era in early 2000. It wasn’t a Federal lottery, a State’s prize pool, or a roundtable work group’s bets; it was the McDonald’s Corporation’s Monopoly Game. Long story short, Ex-police officer turned security guard Jerome P. Jacobson and his associates netted over $24 MillionContinue reading “MCMILLIONS – “This story’s got everything; Revenge, Drugs, Greed… Ronald McDonald.””