Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy is an Amazon Original three-part docuseries now premiering exclusively on Prime Video. Stand-up comics remember the urban comedy explosion of Phat Tuesdays. In the words of Anthony Anderson, Tiffany Haddish, Steve Harvey, Regina King and more, Phat Tuesdays tells the unbelievable story of how one man, Guy Torry, moved mountains to launch an all-Black comedy… Read More »
reader comments 68 with 52 posters participating Share this story December has been a rough month for Amazon—at least for Amazon Web Services. The massively popular cloud computing platform suffered its third outage of the month Wednesday, affecting Slack, the Epic Games Store, and several other services. The AWS Service Health Dashboard shows the problem… Read More »
Enlarge / Illustration of an ABL RS1 rocket that will carry Amazon broadband satellites. reader comments 76 with 56 posters participating Share this story Amazon plans to launch its first prototype broadband satellites in Q4 2022, which would be nearly four years after SpaceX launched its first prototype Starlink satellites. “This morning, we filed an… Read More »
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. reader comments 40 with 30 posters participating Share this story Verizon has made a deal to use Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to add capacity to the Verizon cellular network and provide fixed-wireless Internet service in rural parts… Read More »
The cast of Amazon’s The Boys is getting a bit bigger, as Deadline is reporting that Frances Turner, Kristin Booth, and Jack Doolan have all joined the cast for the third season. RELATED: The Boys Spin-Off Series Ordered by Amazon, New Showrunners Set The trio of actors has all been cast in recurring roles for the… Read More »
Cruel Intentions is set to get the reboot treatment, as IMDb TV is developing an updated take on the cult classic, according to a recent report from Deadline. MORE: The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Checks into Hotel Oblivion for 2022 Return The upcoming reboot is reportedly set to take place in Washington, D.C, and will come… Read More »
Per Deadline, Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore is in talks to return to score Amazon’s highly anticipated Lord of the Rings series, which will debut September 2, 2022. Shore composed all three of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film as well as Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy. His work on the series earned Shore three Academy Awards: Best Score for Fellowship… Read More »
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is no longer set to star in Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith series alongside Donald Glover, who is the co-creator of the series and will executive produce as well as star in the show. RELATED: Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith Lands Glover & Waller-Bridge To Lead/Create The departure of Waller-Bridge from the upcoming streaming series comes… Read More »
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 »