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Last November, AWS announced a new product called Amazon Sumerian, a toolkit and platform for developers to build “mixed reality” apps — that is, using virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D — without needing to have any specialised programming or graphics skills. And today, after running the service in a private beta for the last several months, Sumerian is now generally available. In addition to being able to build a mixed reality app, you can also deploy it without writing custom code, Amazon i says. The web-based editor also integrates with Amazon Lex for natural language and AI, Polly to...

This summer, enjoy select encore screenings from the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of Live in HD cinema presentations. The screenings are presented on Wednesdays throughout June and July, beginning on June 20. Don’t miss this opportunity to relive thrilling performances captured live from the stage of the Met. IN THEATERS JUN 20 The Met: Live in HD Madama Butterfly Anthony Minghella’s breathtaking production has thrilled audiences ever since its premiere in 2006. One of the world’s foremost Butterflys, soprano Kristine Opolais, takes on the title role, and Roberto Alagna sings Pinkerton, the naval officer who breaks Butterfly’s heart.Karel Mark Chichon...

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887-1986). Bach's Concerto in C - Op 8 No 6 for her early work. Amherst Saxophone Quartet's Eubie Dubie and Jazzentials of Bach's Toccata and Funk and Choral in D minor for her New York and Lake George years. And R Carlos Nakai's Echoes of Time and Native Flute Ensemble's Summoning Winds for her New Mexico years.

I just watched the video, so now no one else has to. This video is groundbreaking in the coverage it's getting. After appearing on Saturday Night Live doing a bit as the actor and real person Donald Glover (Not related) and a musical spot as his "counter ego" (Yeah, right) "Childish Gambino" this guy put his new video on Youtube and the hits have been coming fast and hard. This is the guy who is playing Lando Calrissian in the new Solo movie, and he's Troy on Community. He was in some other stuff too, so I'm sure you've seen...

The venerable photo-sharing website will for the first time since 2005 be run by a photography-focused company. Here's what'll change and what won't.

Gun porn.

What is Pence doing?! One of the best selfies of all time...

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You’ve surely gotten the memo by now. As a fan of The Twilight Zone, you’re supposed to be head over heels for Black Mirror. I wish I could join the chorus. I don’t mean the show is without merit. It’s well-produced, acted and directed. It has some intriguing storylines. But it’s no Twilight Zone for the 21st century. Sure, it’s an anthology with fantasy/sci-fi touches. But it’s also incredibly pessimistic...Yes, TZ had its share of downbeat endings (hello, Henry Bemis). And it’s true that Serling didn’t shrink from showing us the dark side of human nature (“The Shelter” and “The...

In the run-up to presidential elections, the Kremlin arguably had more to gain from letting the comedy about Stalin appear in theaters than from imposing another ban - Which begs the question: What did they fear would happen if they released “The Death of Stalin”? In their appeal to Culture Minister Medinsky, cultural figures accused the film of “lampooning the history of our country” and “blackening the memory of our citizens who conquered fascism.” The action of the film, however, takes place in 1953 and makes no mention of the war — The only people who could actually take offense...

Intriquing story of AA Milne, Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.

Bloody Chicago Published on Jan 13, 2018 Attention: YouTube adds, these videos 1-10, along with the trailer should not have adds in them, these videos are being done specifically to call attention to the Violence in Chicago, I do not want to make money off of this ongoing tragedy Period…….. Thank You The Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood is home to white city park, the parkway gardens projects, and has the most violent block, O Block. One positive thing this neighborhood has going for it, is New Beginnings Church and Pastor Corey Brooks and his youth organization Project Hood. What this...

It is an honor to be here tonight as the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award. As surely almost everyone here well knows, DeMille’s last—and his most successful—film was The Ten Commandments. This 1956 epic is a motion picture classic and one of the most popular films of all time. In the “opening card,” the words of DeMille himself read, “Our modern world defined God as a 'religious complex' and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter, came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood drenched, bitter world – no...

Oprah’s speech was hollow, cliche-ridden, and did nothing to truly address Hollywood’s YEARS of complicity to sexual harassment culture. Please don’t underestimate Americans nor American women - plenty of whom watch Oprah yet still turned out in droves for Trump. She is a good often underrated actress though, in films. More than a business mogul and talk show host for sure. But the primary Democrat threat to Trump? NO. Her speech as a launching pad of a new era? NO. More like the last gasps (or final hurrah) of an old one. She's not going anywhere, but what I sensed...

CFP Championship 2018 live stream: Early Predictions for Alabama vs. Georgia. Alabama Vs. Georgia: 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship Game Odds And Expert Picks. The 2017 college football season comes to an exciting conclusion on Jan. 8, in Atlanta, Georgia, when the College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship pairs the University of Alabama Crimson Tide against the University of Georgia Bulldogs. The teams officially booked their ticket to Atlanta on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2018, as each won their Playoff Semifinal, the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual and Allstate Sugar Bowl games, respectively. Critics would hate...

Written by Jolie and Ung, First They Killed My Father is Cambodia’s official entry for this year’s Academy Awards Foreign Language Film race. Jolie, who has dual citizenship in America and Cambodia, was selected by the government to represent the Southeast Asian country — which is remarkable considering she is a Western woman. The Netflix film is about Cambodian author and human rights activist Ung’s life under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge, the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. The film is the adaptation of Ung’s memoir about surviving the deadly...

It’s not as if Angelina Jolie hasn’t proved her worth as a writer-director before now. Following on from the Bosnian war drama "In the Land of Blood and Honey," and "Unbroken’s" harrowing account of life in a second World War prisoner-of-war camp, Jolie’s fourth narrative feature, confirms her as an exquisite craftswoman and an artist capable of tackling geopolitical complexities. "First They Killed My Father," the official Cambodian selection for the Academy Awards, is based on the memoir of the same name by Loung Ung, whom Jolie befriended in 2002 after the actor became a goodwill ambassador for the UN....

Unfolding beneath skies the color and density of damp concrete, “Loveless,” the fifth feature from the Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (after his notable 2014 drama, “Leviathan”), uses a toxic marriage to paint a larger portrait of decay, dereliction and moral detachment. And oh, his gaze is pitiless. Set in Moscow in the autumn of 2012, the picture sits on the screen with an almost physical weight, its heaviness as much to do with the bleakly beautiful visuals and painstaking pacing as the bitter divorce at its center. Boris and Zhenya (Alexey Rozin and Maryana Spivak) loathe each other, their vitriol...

Beautiful view of the Berlin skyline during the fireworks heralding 2018

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