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Amazon to add commercial breaks to Prime Video shows and movies

GeekWire

(Amazon Image) Amazon is ready to interrupt Prime Video programming to bring commercial breaks to its streaming shows and movies, the company announced Friday. billion acquisition of Hollywood studio MGM and the hefty price tag it paid to create the fantasy series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”

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Twitter wasn’t built for spoilers

The Verge

And it’s only grown as Twitter (and to a larger extent, the entire internet) has been around and entwined with the hype cycles of these movies. People excitedly talking about the biggest show or movie of the moment, right when it’s most relevant is exactly the kind of engagement these platforms want.

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Beam me up? TMZ says William Shatner will take Blue Origin suborbital space trip

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Kirk in the original “Star Trek” series and in a series of movies. The world’s richest individual also played a part in a Star Trek production: a cameo as an alien Starfleet officer that lasted several seconds in the movie “Star Trek Beyond.” That gives him at least one thing in common with Bezos.

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Ephemeral Relationships

Phil Windley

You don't have to identify yourself to the movie theater to watch a movie or log into some administrative system to sit in a restaurant and have a private conversation with friends. Tags: identity ssi privacy relationships. In real life, we do without identity systems for most things.

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Louis Vuitton’s $2,890 light-up speaker looks like something Thanos would steal

The Verge

Louis Vuitton has revealed its next foray into tech products: the $2,890 Horizon Light Up Speaker, which looks less like either a gadget or a piece of high fashion, and more like an artifact of untold cosmic power from the next Marvel movie. The Horizon features a three-inch subwoofer, two 0.75-inch and AirPlay 2 for wireless audio.

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Sony Pictures movies will stream first on Netflix instead of Starz

The Verge

The new deal sees Netflix replace Starz as Sony’s partner for the “pay one window” for what Deadline says is a “recording-setting price tag.” Netflix is committing to buying an unspecified minimum number of movies, however.

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How a Seattle investor, Univ. of Washington student and Amazon are linked by new documentary film

GeekWire

That experience taught Hall how investing in movies differs from his years investing in tech. One report put Amazon’s price tag for “Wildcat” around $20 million. PREVIOUSLY: Seattle investor who worked — and rocked — with Paul Allen goes viral with his cover of a grunge hit.

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