The Morning After: Apple TV+ is the primary streaming service to win a Best Picture Oscar | Engadget

Almost exactly three years after it launched, Apple TV+ has claimed the Best Picture Oscar for a streaming service with CODA. In one other historic second, Troy Kotsur turned the primary Deaf male actor to win an Oscar. Apple paid $25 million for the distribution rights to the movie, which had a restricted theatrical run and is at present streaming on Apple TV+.

It beat Netflix’s favourite within the class, The Power of the Dog, which picked up Best Director for Jane Campion. And whereas Netflix registered a file 27 nominations for this 12 months’s Oscars, shedding out to Apple for arguably the largest prize most likely smarts after years of campaigning for its films and reveals.

— Mat Smith

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The present can’t compete with trendy sci-fi TV.

Many, a few years within the making, the attention-grabbing parts of Halo are considerably outweighed by the present’s simplistic writing, stiff appearing and generally dodgy particular results. If it got here out in 2015, after we, it might have been extra spectacular. But with and different reveals like , there’s a number of premium sci-fi TV to get into — and that’s earlier than we even contact all of the myriad Star Trek reveals filling up Paramount+, the house of Halo.

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The pill will reportedly characteristic a brand new chip and MagSafe charging.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman expects Apple will launch its next-generation iPad Pro someday this fall. Gurman anticipates the brand new pill will characteristic MagSafe charging and Apple’s long-rumored however as but unannounced .

Apple solely simply up to date the iPad Pro final 12 months, including 5G, Thunderbolt connectivity and its first-generation Apple Silicon system-on-a-chip. Details on the M2 stay sparse, nevertheless it has reportedly gone into manufacturing.

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The extension ends a long-running spat with metropolis regulators.

Following a years-long dispute with town’s transit regulator, Uber has earned a 30-month license to proceed working in London. Transport for London (TfL) mentioned the journey hailing service had been granted a London personal rent car operator’s license” for a interval of two and a half years.”

Uber’s dispute with TfL dates again to 2017 when the company mentioned the corporate wasn’t “fit and proper” to function within the metropolis and revoked its taxi license. Among different points, TfL mentioned Uber had didn’t correctly conduct driver background checks and report critical felony offenses.

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The former worker estimates “a minimum of $200 million each year.”

In an essay revealed on the whistleblower platform Lioness, former Microsoft supervisor Yasser Elabd alleged Microsoft fired him after he alerted management to a office the place many repeatedly engaged in bribery. He additional alleges that makes an attempt to escalate his considerations resulted in retaliation inside Microsoft and eventual termination from his function.

Elabd claims in his essay that he labored for Microsoft between 1998 and 2018 and had oversight right into a “business investment fund ” — basically a slush fund to “cement longer-term deals” within the Middle East and Africa. But he grew suspicious of surprising funds to seemingly unqualified companions.

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The assortment is supposed to doc the historical past of the conflict.

Ukraine’s Ministry for Digital Transformation has launched an NFT assortment to assist fund its navy. The mission was first introduced in early March, however the NFT assortment of illustrations by Ukrainian and worldwide artists, known as “Meta History Museum of War,” is now reside. The assortment is supposed to be an “NFT museum” documenting the historical past of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The assortment at present contains 54 NFTs documenting the occasions of the primary three days of the conflict.

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