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Comcast is spinning out Rotten Tomatoes and cable networks into a separate company
Comcast is spinning out Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango and a bunch of NBCUniversal (NBCU) cable networks into a separate company. That means USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel will soon have a new home. Comcast is hanging onto other NBCU operations, namely NBC, Peacock, film and TV studios, Telemundo and theme parks. Bravo is also sticking around to help keep feeding Peacock's ever-hungry reality TV maw. Comcast says the new entity will be a "tax-free spin-off" and the step is "expected to be accretive to revenue growth at Comcast and approximately neutral to Comcast's leverage position."
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The Morning After: The FCC wants to make AI-voiced robocalls illegal
AI-generated voices mimicking celebrities and politicians are making it harder for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight robocalls. FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel wants the commission to recognize calls that use AI-generated voices as artificial, making the use of voice cloning technologies in robocalls illegal. Under the FCC's Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), artificial voice or recording calls to residences are against the law. If AI-generated voice calls are recognized as illegal under the existing law, it'll give state attorneys general offices nationwide "new tools" to crack down on scammers. The FCC's proposal comes shortly after some New Hampshire residents received a call impersonating President Joe Biden, telling them not to vote in their state's primary.
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How Does ChatGPT Actually Work?
Comcast is one of the email service providers and you can log-in by using credentials such as username and password. However, while using it, many users face Comcast email, not working problems. Here we discussed How To Resolve Xfinity Comcast Email Not Working Problems easily by going through the steps. This article helps you to get rid of several issues associated with Xfinity Comcast Email Not Working Issues. Many of them might be first-time users of Comcast.
The transatlantic AI divide
Washington and Brussels are both preparing for a future dominated by artificial intelligence -- but first, they need to get out of each other's way. Tech regulators on both sides of the Atlantic hope to prevent a split on AI rules like one seen on data privacy, where regulators in Europe got out ahead of their U.S. counterparts and sparked all kinds of havoc that continue to threaten transatlantic data flows. "There is a lot of interest to avoid having segmented approaches," said Elham Tabassi, chief of staff in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. But regulators in the EU and U.S. are already taking different approaches to the multi-trillion-dollar transatlantic tech economy. The EU is plowing ahead with mandatory AI rules meant to safeguard privacy and civil rights while the U.S. focuses on voluntary guidelines.
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The Overwatch League returns with live events, but missing key sponsors
The impact of that lawsuit on the league's operations remains somewhat unclear. After the initial lawsuit was filed last summer, big-name sponsors like Coca-Cola, Kellogg's and State Farm paused their advertising partnerships with the Overwatch League. None of the companies plan to sponsor the league in 2022, they told The Post, though they did not comment if the decisions were due to the lawsuit. A spokesperson for Comcast, which owns the Philadelphia Fusion, said the communications company also doesn't intend to sponsor the league this season. Last season, Comcast's Xfinity was the official Internet service provider of the OWL.
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Comcast's AI-driven voice remote cuts through the glut of shows
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. With the rise of on-demand TV shows and movies, viewers have a dizzying array of entertainment options to explore. Cable provider Comcast has been helping customers navigate this expansive content landscape using AI via its Xfinity voice remote. The remote taps machine learning to help customers decide what to watch and when to watch it, providing users with a tailored at-home video experience, Comcast CTO Matthew Zelesko explained at VentureBeat's virtual Transform 2021 conference. "The content landscape has grown dramatically. And we realized that it was much harder for customers to determine even simple questions, like what to watch and where to watch it," Zelesko said.
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Comcast Using AI, Machine Learning and Automation to Meet COVID-19 Internet Demands
Investments in AI, machine learning and network capacity have helped Comcast meet unprecedented internet demands during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent interview, the company explained that its suite of AI and machine learning tools provides visibility of its entire network, enabling Comcast to quickly add capacity and troubleshoot issues before performance is impacted. Comcast recently told VentureBeat that its network traffic rose 32 percent in March at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. It also experienced a 36-percent increase in mobile data use over Wi-Fi on Xfinity mobile during that time. The company's network is accessible to more than 59 million homes in the U.S. through 800,000 miles of cable.
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As remote work exploded, Comcast turned to AI to keep the internet running
These kinds of mysteries used to require a lot of foresight and engineering work to deal with. But now, Comcast says it can use artificial intelligence to solve similar problems automatically. Prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, the company developed an AI system called Octave that can detect network anomalies and figure out how to address them. "It's not just automating what smart engineers can do. It's going to places where they just couldn't process that amount of information and come up with solutions quick enough to do what [Octave] does," says Tony Werner, Comcast's president of technology, product, and "Xperience."
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Is AI cybersecurity's salvation or its greatest threat?
If you're uncertain whether AI is the best or worst thing to ever happen to cybersecurity, you're in the same boat as experts watching the dawn of this new era with a mix of excitement and terror. AI's potential to automate security on a broader scale offers a welcome advantage in the short term. Yet unleashing a technology designed to eventually take humans out of the equation as much as possible naturally gives the industry some pause. There is an undercurrent of fear about the consequences if things run amok or attackers learn to make better use of the technology. "Everything you invent to defend yourself can also eventually be used against you," said Geert van der Linden, an executive vice president of cybersecurity for Capgemini.
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