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Lionsgate is licensing a proprietary cloud tech platform from Ateliere Creative Technologies to help manage the studio’s content library and distribution of assets to streaming services. They’re keeping the financial terms of the deal under wraps. Lionsgate will deploy Ateliere Connect media supply chain platform to serve as the content hub for the studio’s 17,000-plus film and TV title library, spanning blockbuster brands and franchises including John Wick, “The Hunger Games,” The Twilight Saga, “Dirty Dancing,”…

Right on the heels of ending support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, Microsoft is now preparing to push Windows users off of another operating system. As spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Microsoft has added a disclaimer to its Windows 10 download pages warning consumers that licenses will no longer be available as of January 31, 2023. “January 31, 2023 will be the last day this Windows 10 download is offered for sale,” explains the disclaimer on Microsoft’s website. “Windows 10 will remain supported with security…

Virgin Orbit is set to make the first ever space flight from UK soil, after the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approved a "historic" first launch license from Spaceport Cornwell. With that in hand, the company plans to launch nine satellites from a LauncherOne rocket aboard its "Cosmic Girl" Boeing 747 aircraft in January next year.  Virgin Orbit first announced plans to launch from a site at Cornwall Airport Newquay four years ago, so the launch has been many years in the making. The first flight was originally scheduled…

Activision Blizzard said on Thursday it would suspend most Blizzard game services in mainland China once its current licensing agreements with NetEase end in January.Blizzard Entertainment said it was unable to reach a deal with the Chinese Internet and gaming giant that was "consistent with Blizzard's operating principles and commitments to players and employees."Hangzhou-based NetEase said in a Chinese statement that it was unable to agree on key terms of cooperation and added, in a second statement in English, that the…

Denver officials estimate that 25,000 multi-unit rental properties in the city and county, including apartment complexes, will need newly-required residential rental licenses by the impending deadline of Jan. 1, 2023 — less than eight weeks away. Only 392 multi-unit properties had secured them, as of Nov. 10. The Department of Excise and Licenses has received 893 applications so far. “We are still a long ways” from the goal, spokesperson Eric Escudero said. The massive shortfall isn’t going to lead to a rash of fines come…

New York regulators want people who were affected by marijuana criminalization to get the first licenses to sell recreational pot in the state, an effort to redress what they see as the harms of the drug war and to prevent large companies from dominating the market.New York isn’t the first state to try to give priority to people previously arrested for drug crimes, many of whom are racial minorities, when approving licenses for recreational marijuana sales. But advocates said those efforts have often been co-opted by…

Last week, the moving and rental company U-Haul started sending out letters to customers alerting them about a recent data breach. Bleeping Computer reports that U-Haul discovered the breach earlier this summer. The company found that attackers hacked a search tool that contained the names and driver’s license information of customers. U-Haul data breach exposes customer info According to U-Haul, an investigation began on July 12 following the discovery of the breach. On August 12, the U-Haul investigators…

China search engine giant Baidu Inc said on Monday it has obtained permits to operate fully driverless robotaxi services on open roads from two Chinese cities, the first of their kind in the country. The permits, awarded by the southwestern municipality of Chongqing and the central city of Wuhan, allow commercial robotaxis to offer rides to the public without human safety drivers in the car. They come into effect on Monday. Baidu said they marked a "turning point" in China's policy-making towards autonomous driving.…

Baidu is also in talks with local governments in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, to secure licenses within a year to test fully-driverless and unpaid robotaxis in those cities, according to Wei.BEIJING - China search engine giant Baidu Inc said on Monday it has obtained permits to operate fully driverless robotaxi services on open roads from two Chinese cities, the first of their kind in the country.The permits, awarded by the southwestern municipality of Chongqing and the central city of Wuhan, allow commercial…

Netflix is preparing its ad-supported tier, which many thought would never come. But its coming by the end of this year. Aside from getting ads to serve to this tier, Netflix also needs to get its content ready for this tier.What do I mean by that? Well, Netflix’s licenses are all dependent on the shows being shown without any ads. That means that shows it has licensed from Sony, Warner Bros. Discovery, Universal and others, will need to have the terms adjusted to show ads. Otherwise, Netflix could lose out on a lot of…