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Entries by Anish Ashok

6 Mar, 2015

Cast as Beast

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In Disney’s upcoming Beauty and the Beast live action remake, Stevens takes the role of the spellbound prince, opposite Emma Watson, who takes the role of Belle. Watson:

Could not be more happy that this man will be Beast!!! Welcome aboard

26 Mar, 2015

The Forger

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In the heist film directed by Philip Martin, Travolta plays the role of an art forger who must forge a painting by Claude Monet for a crime syndicate who plan to steal it from a museum, so he can secure an early release from prison. Co-starring Marcus Thomas, Abigail Spencer and Travis Aaron Wayde. On learning to paint:

I went to Hong Kong, and I studied with a famous instructor there, and then in the US with another gentleman. I had studied watercolour years ago because I loved Hopper, Edward Hopper, and my grandfather was a painter, and my brother paints. I  took it up as well. But I really wanted to understand what a forger might feel he has to do to duplicate that.

6 Mar, 2015

Documentary partnership

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Netflix announces they will partner with DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company for a series of documentaries. Netflix:

We will seek to develop and acquire documentaries and docuseries with partial focus on environmental and conservation themes.

Leaves The Daily Show

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After nine and half years, Bee leaves The Daily Show on Comedy Central. She plans to produce and host another show on TBS. TBS:

We are thrilled to have Sam join Jason at TBS and really make this a family affair. We actually have their kids coming in next week to pitch us animation.

Office 2016 Mac preview

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office_2016Microsoft releases the first public preview of Office 2016 for Mac OS X 10.10 users. The company plans to regularly release updates for the preview version so as to receive user feedback for software improvement and bug fixes. Users can share files across devices that run the software.

Office will focus now on cloud connectivity.We think we’ve done a good job of striking a balance that customers expect.Our internal tagline, and we are actually corny enough to say this in the hallways, is Unmistakably Office and optimized for the Mac.

Variety interview

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Vaughn talks about working with Nic Pizzolatto for season 2 of True Detective. The series of eight hour-long episodes focuses on a career criminal and three police officers who involve themselves in a conspiracy theory.

Nic is very unique because he writes literally every episode by himself. And it’s such adult storytelling. You investigate a specific culture and really climb in and explore it over a long period of time.

Announces Shield

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nvidia shieldNvidia announces the Shield Android console at GDC 2015. The device is for the living-room and not portable like its predecessor. At its core, it features the Maxwell architecture GPU, Tegra X1. It can play 4K content as well as seventh-generation console games , such as those for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The Shield features 16GB internal storage, 3GB ram, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, HDMI 2.0 and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. It retails for $200.

SHIELD will change the way we enjoy digital entertainment at home. It’s an incredibly powerful, efficient and advanced living room entertainment device. It’s the best Android TV experience. And it can transform into a serious gaming machine. It’s made to game.

MGS V limited edition console

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MGS5-PS4Sony announces a Playstation 4 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain limited edition console for Asia. The console color matches Snake’s red bionic arm and has a golden connector. The DualShock 4 controller is the same color as Snake’s gun and has the logo of his unit.

5 Mar, 2015

Announces Source 2

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Source 2Valve officially announces Source engine 2 at GDC 2015. The Company states that it is available for free to content developers, later this year. The engine includes next generation OpenGL support which is the competitor for Microsoft’s DirectX API in Windows games. This is to ensure that their upcoming Steambox devices, which run on Linux, have a strong API.

With Source 2, our focus is increasing creator productivity. Given how important user generated content is becoming, Source 2 is designed not for just the professional developer, but enabling gamers themselves to participate in the creation and development of their favorite games.

Announces Xbox One PC controller dongle

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Xbox-One-Dongle-For-PCMicrosoft announces Xbox One wireless dongle for Xbox One controllers for PC at GDC 2015. The device enables wireless connectivity for the controllers instead of USB. Pricing has not been set. The device will be released later this year. Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox:

The wireless devices you use on Xbox One will work on PC as well. We want to see that input isn’t a barrier. Gamers should be able to play the games they want to play.

Announces Titan X

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nvidia-titan-xNvidia announces Titan X at GDC 2015. The graphics card has a 12 GB frame buffer and eight billion transistors. The card features a green light at its core cooler unit. Jen-Hsun, CEO:

This GDC is about VR … it needs an amazing GPU. And so the problem that I’ve got is this. If I launched our next generation GPU two weeks from now, GDC 2015 would be a bust. Now that’s a legitimate problem—not just for me, that’s a legitimate problem for the world.

Shuts down Maxis

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The main Maxis studio at Emeryville, CA, is shut down by Electronic Arts. Maxis is the developer of games such as SimCity, Spore and many other games. Despite the shutdown, the Maxis brand lives on. The ‘in-development’ projects are to be taken care of by EA’s Redwood Shores. EA:

Today we are consolidating Maxis IP development to our studios in Redwood Shores, Salt Lake City, Helsinki and Melbourne locations as we close our Emeryville location

3 Mar, 2015

Mac OSX Photos app

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Apple releases Photos App on Mac OSX which fully replaces its current iPhoto app for photo editing. Photos enables a wide range of image manipulation features.

With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture.

Hands-on with Apple Photos for Mac

Releases Leap

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blackberry-leapBlackBerry releases a full touchscreen phone, Blackberry Leap. It’s on par with the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. The company plans to retail the device of $275 later this year Europe. The Company also teased an as-yet-unnamed smartphone with a curved display that wraps around the side, like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, and a slide-out keyboard. Asecond Porsche edition BlackBerry and another keyboard smartphone will be released. Company:

BlackBerry is going after the young career builder, someone looking to make a difference.

VR headset announcement

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Valve and HTC announce a virtual reality headset called Vive, which uses two 1200 x 1080 displays with a refresh rate at 90Hz, eliminating jitter achieving “photorealistic imagery” across a 360 degree field of vision. A pair of HTC-made wireless controllers for manipulating objects or shooting weapons through hand tracking will be included. The Steam VR base station will let users walk around the virtual space instead of using a controller. A pair of the base stations can track users’ physical location in spaces up to 15 feet by 15 feet. Vive comes out for developers in Q2 2015 and later in 2104 for consumers. HTC’s Peter Chou:

We believe that virtual reality will totally transform the way that we interact with the world. Virtual reality will become a mainstream technology for the rest of the world.

Android Pay announcement

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Android-PayGoogle announces Android Pay at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new feature is not a new product but a framework that allows secure payments support from other companies which works in physical stores and also apps. It also supports NFC and biometrics.

We are doing it in a way in which anybody else can build a payments service on top of Android. So, in places like China and Africa we hope that people will use Android Pay to build innovative services.

Android 5.1 update

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Spice announces Lollipop Android 5.1 update for its Android One mobile phone lineup, Spice Dream Uno H and Spice Dream Uno. Prashant Bindal, CEO, Spice Mobility:

In line with our brand promise Always the Latest, we are delighted to be the first player to release the Android Lollipop 5.1 update, exclusively for our Spice Dream Uno users in India.

Nintendo Character Guide

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mario colorPages are released from Nintendo’s Character Guide, showing various aspects of well-known characters, as well as color guides and official descriptons. For example, the Guide reveals that Yoshi’s full name is “T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas”, and that Mario’s overalls must be Pantone 293 while his cap is Pantone 485.

At first glance, the man we have come to know as “Mario” might appear to be a fairly easily defined character. Call him a madcap plumber who was born and raised in Brooklyn and seems to be forever in search of the oft-kidnapped Princess and you’d be right But you would also be leaving out a lot of the whole story. Let’s take a closer look at Mario.

23 Feb, 2015

Xbox One Title Update 21

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Title Update 21 is released for Minecraft on XBOX One . It comes with play improvements and bug fixes, such as Redstone fixes and a fix for the horses that disappear. There is also an increase limit on the Minecart,

Minecraft (Xbox360/PS3) - TITLE UPDATE 21 - RELEASED! + CHANGES/ADDITIONS