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Elon Musk is treating Twitter like a startup. The thing about startups is, most of them fail.At Twitter, as is typical at tech startups, Mr. Musk is making or has promised to make a great many changes quickly. This makes a lot of sense when a company is small and burning investor cash. Few operators in tech are as familiar with this well-worn playbook as Mr. Musk, who is almost unrivaled among entrepreneurs in the total market value of all the companies he has helmed or helped…

Xbox chief Phil Spencer has said he wants to talk about reviving the iconic StarCraft series following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Back in January, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard in a deal worth a reported £50billion. Despite investigations into the merger by industry bodies, Microsoft are still “very, very confident” the deal will go ahead. And Xbox chief Phil Spencer is already thinking about what he can do with Activision Blizzard’s large catalogue of IPs. Earlier this week, he confirmed…

Elon Musk’s proposal for a Twitter Inc. subscription program has reignited the debate over the issue of spam and fake accounts that was at the center of the billionaire’s effort to get out of buying the social-media company.In a series of tweets this week, Mr. Musk said the program would give subscribers priority in replies, mentions and search, among other features. Current verified users who want to retain that status would need to subscribe to the program within a 90-day period,…

Hours later, Axios reported that Twitter’s engineers have been instructed to examine the code base behind Vine ahead of a planned relaunch later this year. (Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) The news of a potential renaissance was welcomed with wariness by Sara Beykpour, who was the technical lead for the Android version of Vine.  “This code is 6+ years old. Some of it is 10+,” tweeted Beykpour, who originally wrote the blog announcing Vine’s arrival on Android. “You don’t want to look…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDwayne Johnson has said he “fought for years” to bring back Henry Cavill’s Superman to the DC Universe, in the name of fans. Cavill made his debut as the beloved superhero in 2013’s Man of Steel. He later reprised his role opposite Ben Affleck’s caped crusader in Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017).After DC’s newest Johnson-led film Black Adam teased…

| At Bleeding Cool we have a… very special relationship with Tony Harris I think it is fair to say. Whether concerning Fake Geek Girls or destroyed commission art. he is what some people would call "a character". And you never quite know what the co-creator of Ex Machina is going to do next. In 2010, Tony Harris and B. Clay Moore were to launch a creator-owned comic book series through DC Comics' Wildstorm Studios, called The Further Adventures of the Whistling Skull. And then DC Comics closed. Two years later, they had…

Canadian movie theater chain Cineplex Inc. has approached lenders to its bankrupt rival Cineworld Group PLC about reviving a potential merger with the U.K. company’s Regal Entertainment Group franchise, according to people familiar with the matter. Cineplex has started early talks with Cineworld’s lenders about taking over the company’s U.S.-based Regal movie theater chain and handing them debt and stock backed by the merged business in return, these people said. Canadian movie…

The new Chromecast with Google TV (HD) looks... just like the old Chromecast with Google TV (4K). Image: GoogleWe’ve all done it: try to get out of paying a ton for new hardware by buying something smaller and less expensive. Google’s new Chromecast with Google TV (HD) is for folks who can’t help but attempt to breathe new life into old hardware. It helps that it doesn’t cost more than $30.The Chromecast with Google TV (HD) is a dialed-down version of its predecessor, the Chromecast with Google TV (4K), which will remain…

| The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives is a new comic book series from DC Comics by Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Stokely launching in December, reviving the characters created by Neil Gaiman, Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones III  for Sandman's Seasons Of The Mists and who will probably pop up in Netflix's Sandman Season Two. Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine have been detectives for decades—and dead best friends even longer. But their investigation into a Thai American girl's disappearance from her Los Angeles home puts…

Intel Corp.’s Patrick Gelsinger might be Washington’s favorite chief executive right now. At the groundbreaking for a $20 billion-plus semiconductor-fabrication plant near Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, he was joined by legislators from both parties, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, and President Biden, a Democrat.“We’re going to build the most advanced stuff in the world, right here, in Ohio,” Mr. Gelsinger declared. “We put our chips on the…