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The Cherry Orchard
Oscar-winning actor Helen Hunt is making her Royal Shakespeare Company debut in a new version of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in Stratford-upon-Avon, playing the aristocratic matriarch Madame Ranevskaya. She stars alongside Kenneth Branagh and Bill Pullman, a notable moment given her long admiration of the RSC’s work and of Branagh in particular, whose Henry V…
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Orbital Studios to relocate operations to Television City in Los Angeles
Virtual production company Orbital Studios has a new brick-and-mortar home. The producer whose credits include Netflix’s Nemesis and FX’s upcoming The Drop: A Snowfall Saga is setting up shop at Television City in Los Angeles. Established in 2020, Orbital Studios offers art teams, tools, software and pipelines aimed at making virtual production faster, leaner and…
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Samsung forecasts 1,800% profit surge as AI fuels South Korean memory chip boom
South Korean memory chip manufacturers are experiencing unprecedented financial growth as artificial intelligence infrastructure deployment accelerates globally. Samsung Electronics forecasts operating profits will surge
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SK Hynix plans $28bn US share listing amid AI memory boom
SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.
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Labour urged to reverse frozen student loan repayment threshold, MPs say
The Commons Treasury Select Committee has said the Labour government has a “moral obligation” to reverse its student loans policy, which the cross-party group of MPs described as “unfair” and amounting to “mis-selling”. The row centres on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s autumn Budget decision to freeze the earnings threshold for repaying Plan 2 student loans for…
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Xbox to cut 3,200 jobs and close four studios in major restructure
Microsoft’s Xbox division has announced what its CEO Asha Sharma called “the most significant restructure in Xbox history”, cutting 3,200 jobs and closing four studios — Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs. In a memo to staff, Sharma said the business was “not healthy”, operating at margins three to ten times…
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Orbital Studios to relocate operations to Television City lot
Orbital Studios has relocated its LED walls to Television City, the former CBS studio on Los Angeles’ Fairfax Avenue. The virtual production company moved its headquarters from the L.A. Arts District to the historic lot once home to “The Carol Burnett Show” and “The Price Is Right.” The move provides LED volume possibilities for Television…
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Fugazi confirm they never partnered with Vans on merchandise
An exec for the shoe company apologized after its collaboration with a streetwear brand, also named Fugazi, was confused for a partnership with the famously anti-consumerist punk band
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Vercel builds Eve and Sandbox to separate AI models from agents
“The reality is, when you’re optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance,” Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.
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Scottish firm aims to establish Tayside cider using Somerset methods
A growing craft cider-maker based in Tayside is taking on the might of the English region in a bid to put Scotland on the map claiming it is a ‘sleeping giant’ that is now waking up.