MoviePass has now gone back to offering its original monthly plan of unlimited movies per month, in the form of one 2D screening per day. MoviePass was decidedly a niche service for the first few years of its existence, thanks to its precipitously high price tag. That all changed in summer 2017, when MoviePass made the […]

In the race to continue building more sophisticated AI deep learning models, Facebook has a secret weapon: billions of images on Instagram. In research the company is presenting today at F8, Facebook details how it took what amounted to billions of public Instagram photos that had been annotated by users with hashtags and used that data […]

Prof Stephen Hawking’s final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar to our own. The theory resolves a cosmic paradox of the late physicist’s own making. It also points a way forward for astronomers to find evidence of the existence of parallel universes. The study was submitted to the Journal of […]

Amazon has a big middle finger today for all the affordable housing proponents out there. According to a Wednesday report in the New York Times, Amazon—Seattle’s largest employer with 45,000 staff in the city—has abruptly decided to halt a “huge” two-building, 7,000 employee expansion plan there after the City Council announced it was considering a new […]

Chinese and U.S. officials met face-to-face Thursday in an attempt to resolve a dispute over technology that has taken the world’s two largest economies the closest they’ve ever come to a trade war. A high-powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials aimed at defusing the tensions, though analysts say they appear […]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged Donald Trump not to walk away from an international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Guterres said there was a real risk of war if the 2015 agreement was not preserved. Mr Trump has been a strong critic of the accord, […]

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce isn’t yet “willing to make a blanket statement that everything other than Bitcoin is a security,” she said on Wednesday at the Medici conference in Los Angeles. Why it matters: SEC chairman Jay Clayton and Commissioner Mike Piowar have both said publicly they’ve yet to see any initial coin offerings that don’t […]

It may sound like baloney, but American meat maker Oscar Mayer has entered the cryptocurrency space – sort of. The company announced on Monday the unveiling of “Bacoin,” which it is calling “the first-ever cryptocurrency backed by the gold standard of Oscar Mayer Bacon.” With the initiative, Oscar Mayer is offering bacoins as a kind […]

How did an outlaw weed farmer from Oklahoma become a medical-marijuana grower in California and produce hundreds of pounds of premium estate-grown cannabis in a sustainable and environmentally conscious facility? Take an insider’s tour of THC Design’s massive indoor marijuana garden in the heart of Los Angeles and see just what it takes to grow […]

Art and culture implemented in community spaces through public art and cultural events can have a positive impact on community health in multiple ways. On Monday, April 23, a discussion about Art and Public Health wrapped up the third and final installment of a three-part Art and Culture Discussion Series co-hosted by New England Foundation for […]