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Turning to Community in Times of Crisis

Whether you’re down to scraping the muck at the bottom of the barrel — because you may have already scraped the bottom of the barrel mid-year — or you’re off to the races a... More

EIDR’s Kroon, WaveSeven’s Crosby Co-Author Metadata Paper

Richard Kroon, EIDR’s director of technical operations, and Cameron Crosby, partner with media and entertainment consulting firm WaveSeven, have co-authored a paper for the “Jo... More

Technicolor Explores the Creation of Environments With Unreal Engine

Technicolor took a deep dive into the art of crafting vast, breathtaking landscapes using Procedural Content Generation (PCG) tools in Epic Games’s Unreal Engine on Feb. 6, durin... More

Fortinet CEO: Company is Applying Gen AI Across Its Product Line

Fortinet has already started using generative artificial intelligence (AI) across its “entire product line,” according to Ken Xie, the company’s CEO. Applying Gen AI acros... More

Microsoft CEO Bullish on AI, Game Business After Adding Activision

As Microsoft expands its artificial intelligence (AI) across all parts of its business, Satya Nadella, the company’s CEO, gave an upbeat forecast for that technology and also its... More

SHI: How Companies Can Get Started on the Road to AI Success

Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating new opportunities for companies to innovate and grow but many organizations remain on the sidelines for now, some because they don’t know... More

Futuresource Analyst to Look Ahead at Feb. 29 ITS Localisation

James Duvall, principal analyst and head of entertainment for Futuresource Consulting, will offer attendees of the Feb. 29 ITS Localisation event in London a look ahead at 2024 and... More

Wasabi Acquires Curio AI from GrayMeta

Hot cloud storage FIRM Wasabi Technologies has acquired Curio AI from GrayMeta, the companies announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition includes both th... More

New MESA Podcast Explores AI with Prime Focus Technologies CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan

Media and entertainment companies are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) as skepticism of the technology declines in the sector, Ramki Sankaranarayanan, global CEO... More

EIDR Registers 3 Millionth ID

Less than five years after it launched, the EIDR registry added its one millionth record in September 2016. January 2019 saw the two millionth recorded. (more…)... More

MESA’s Winter M+E Journal Goes Live

The winter edition of the “M+E Journal,” published by MESA and geared toward senior media and entertainment executives who oversee their companies’ digital futures, is now av... More

CPS 2023: Experts Explore Impact of New Technologies

We are just really getting started on the journey of the power of computing. In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain, and extended reality (XR... More

Gracenote, MetaBroadcast to Optimize TV Audience Measurement in UK for Barb

Metadata management specialist MetaBroadcast and Nielsen’s Gracenote have been awarded a three-year contract renewal by UK audience measurement service Barb, to operate the compa... More

AWS Execs Tout Latest AI Innovations, Predict Continued GenAI Advances at Re:Invent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) executives used their keynotes at the 12th annual re:Invent conference, in Las Vegas, Nov. 28-30, to highlight the company’s latest artificial intellige... More

Resillion: How to ‘Bake Success’ Into Your Selection of the Right Third Parties

To achieve the best result when a company is undergoing a digital transformation (DT), it is important to have the relevant and necessary expertise available and on hand throughout... More

Baca, Hamilton, Hildebrandt Accept WiTH Leadership Awards

Women in Technology Hollywood (WiTH) named three winners of its annual Leadership Awards Nov. 3 at the SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit, honouring leaders and advocates for women... More

Veritone CEO: Company’s AI Solutions Continued to Gain Traction in Q3

Veritone continued to make progress on its artificial intelligence (AI) and overall strategy in the third quarter (ended Sept. 30), according to Ryan Steelberg, the company’s CEO... More

Industry Celebrates Emmy Wins for EIDR Creators

Coming into the 75th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmys, held Oct. 18 in Los Angeles, more than 2.8 million unique EIDR IDs had been created to date. After the ceremony, yo... More

Dec. 5 Content Protection Summit: Where Security and AI Collide

AI is invading every element of content workflows, from production through long-tail distribution, causing both a host of new ways for media and entertainment to get the job done, ... More

Box CEO: AI is Driving a ‘Generational Shift in How People Work’

Artificial intelligence (AI) is “driving a generational shift in how people work, and  we're seeing this already every single day,” Aaron Levie, Box CEO and co-founder, said O... More

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