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Engadget Podcast: MoviePass founder Stacy Spikes on the MovieCrash documentary

Engadget

In this episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss Copilot+ and the potential rise of Arm-based Windows systems, and we dive into the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop.


MoviePass, Take Two!

The New Yorker

Stacy Spikes, the C.E.O. of MoviePass, was buying popcorn at the Angelika Film Center the other day, before a screening of Darren Aronofsky's "The Whale." "I think it's incredible," Spikes said of the film, which he'd seen already. "You don't see overweight people, you don't see addiction, you don't see a broken heart the same way as you did before." He filled a cup with Diet Coke before making his way to Theatre 1, fourth row center. Spikes is a movie nerd who has dedicated a chunk of his career to helping theatres survive the age of smartphones and streaming.


The Morning After: Unlimited MoviePass part two

Engadget

Where were you when we defeated the robots? If you missed yesterday's Starcraft II stream, we'll fill you in on the details of DeepMind's latest gaming exploits. Also, MoviePass is ready to try unlimited tickets again, and we've got another new phone with (almost) no ports. Rise and fly, humans.DeepMind AI AlphaStar goes 10-1 against top'StarCraft II' pros After laying waste to the best Go players in the world, DeepMind has moved on to computer games. Its AI agent, named AlphaStar, managed to pick up 10 wins against StarCraft II pros TLO and MaNa in two separate five-game series that took place back in December.


MoviePass alternatives: Other services to get your fix of cinema tickets with a subscription

The Independent - Tech

It has not been a good week for MoviePass. And it's been a similarly tough one for its customers. The cinema ticket subscription service – which allows film fans to see a movie each day for a low subscription fee – has been hit by a whole raft of problems. Some have worried that MoviePass might soon not be around at all. And whatever happens to the company, the issues have started to hit. Users have had to struggle through the service going offline, and recent reports suggest that many films may soon be excluded from MoviePass in the future.


Using AI To Transform Hollywood's Marketing And Much More - TV[R]EV

#artificialintelligence

Entertainment companies are entering the Age of Data, where they'll have access to more information than ever about their products, their audiences and how to create, market and distribute one to the other. Now, those companies and their leadership have to be ready to embrace the coming huge opportunities, especially as data-driven competitors such as Netflix, MoviePass and Amazon transform the industry. That was one message this morning from Stephen F. DeAngelis, CEO and founder of AI provider Enterra Solutions, speaking before a group of Hollywood technology executives in Beverly Hills. He noted wryly that Hollywood has portrayed AI technologies in dark or at least complicated ways over the years, from the murderous HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the world-ending SkyNet in the Terminator films to the runaway AIs of Ex Machina and Her. We're quite a ways still from AI with that kind of power and autonomy, DeAngelis said, but he cautioned that people think of AI tools in overly limited ways.