Amazon Studios announced on Thursday that its untitled The Lord of the Rings original series will film its second season in the United Kingdom, moving away from New Zealand in an effort to expand its production footprint. RELATED: Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings Sets Premiere Date as Season 1 Wraps Filming “We want to thank… Read More »
reader comments 57 with 26 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’ve spent the past few weeks burning copious amounts of AWS compute time trying to invent an algorithm to parse Ars’ front-page story headlines to predict which ones will win an A/B test—and we learned… Read More »
Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. reader comments 63 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory when you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude… Read More »
Enlarge / Image released by Amazon when it announced a deal with United Launch Alliance to use launch vehicles for Project Kuiper. reader comments 11 with 10 posters participating Share this story Facebook has sold its small-satellite Internet division to Amazon and said that it has no plans to become an Internet service provider. Amazon and… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 73 with 58 posters participating Share this story Like most Internet-of-things (IoT) devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so, as the corporate behemoth says, users can “remove any… personal content from the applicable device(s)” before selling or discarding them. But researchers have… Read More »
reader comments 140 with 94 posters participating Share this story Amazon today announced a definitive agreement to buy MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) for $8.45 billion. Amazon said that MGM’s filmmaking prowess “complements the work of Amazon Studios, which has primarily focused on producing TV show programming.” Buying MGM would let Amazon add plenty of movies to its… Read More »
Enlarge / Amazon trailers backed into bays at a distribution center in Miami, Florida, in August 2019. reader comments 21 with 19 posters participating Share this story Amazon “seized and destroyed” over 2 million counterfeit products that sellers sent to Amazon warehouses in 2020 and “blocked more than 10 billion suspected bad listings before they… Read More »
Ken Jeong is currently set to star in a half-hour dramedy series in the works at Amazon, according to a new report from Deadline. MORE: HBO Releases First House of the Dragon Photos The series titled Shoot the Moon will follow Michael (Jeong), a son of Korean immigrants. While Michael feels like he’s achieved the American… Read More »
Borat Supplemental Reportings trailer teases never-before-seen footage Coming off from the critical success of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Amazon Prime Video has released the official trailer for the comedy sequel’s multi-part special titled Borat Supplemental Reportings. It features never-before-seen footage that was cut from Sasha Baron Cohen-led 2020 mockumentary film. The video also teases extended scenes… Read More »
Amazon’s Untitled The Boys spinoff adds three new leads On the heels of adding Lizzie Broadway and Jaz Sinclair to its cast, Amazon’s first spinoff of hit superhero series The Boys has expanded its lead cast with the additions of Maddie Phillips (Teenage Bounty Hunter), Shane Paul McGhie (Deputy), and Aimee Carrero (Young & Hungry), according to Deadline. Phillips,… Read More »