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Alcon buys Village Roadshow's library of 108 films for $417.5M, following Village Roadshow's bankruptcy in March; the library generates an estimated $50M/year (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/village-roadshow-acquis…

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group’s Film Library Acquired By Alcon For $417M+
Village Roadshow Film Library Acquired By Alcon

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Are your internal feelings of direction aligned with compass north and 360° ? My first childhood sense was based on the front of the house I lived in, looking east. When I later learned about north I had to imagine lots of those little "front views" posted like icons in the overall north-based world I could only logically imagine in my hea…

Packers trying out WR Bo Melton at CB following release of Jaire Alexander https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-trying-out-wr-bo-melton-at-cb-following-release-of-jaire-alexander

Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-betting-n…

Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned ...

Optimal alignment of Lorentz orientation and generalization to matrix Lie groups
Congzhou M Sha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14994 https://

Optimal alignment of Lorentz orientation and generalization to matrix Lie groups
There exist elegant methods of aligning point clouds in $\mathbb R^3$. Unfortunately, these methods rely on the positive definite property of the Euclidean metric, and do not easily extend to the indefinite Minkowski metric. In this paper, we propose two solutions to the following problem: given inertial reference frames $A$ and $B$, and given (possibly noisy) measurements of a set of 4-vectors $\{v_i\}$ made in those reference frames with components $\{v_{A,i}\}$ and $\{v_{B,i}\}$, find the op…

https://apnews.com/article/iran-whatsapp-meta-israel-d9e6fe43280123c9963802e6f10ac8d1
Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country’s public to remove the messaging app WhatsApp from their smart phones, alleging without offering any evidence the app gathered user information to send to Israel. WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, which means a service provider in the middle can't read messages. WhatsApp says it does not track users' precise location and does not track personal messages. Iran had banned WhatsApp in 2022 following mass protests. It lifted the ban …

Accretion of Dark Energy Candidates Following Redshift Parametrization Type Equation of State : Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
Promila Biswas, Sukanya Dutta, Ritabrata Biswas, Farook Rahaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11173

Accretion of Dark Energy Candidates Following Redshift Parametrization Type Equation of State : Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
In this article, accretion of particular dark energy candidates is studied. These dark energy models possess equation of state dependent on redshift and some free parameters. Central gravitating object for this accretion model is chosen to be the Kehagias Sfetsos black hole sitting in Horava Gravity. Four special redshift parametrization models, viz. Chevallier-Polarski-Linder, Jassal-Bagala-Padmanabhan, Barboza-Alcaniz and Barboza-Alcaniz-Zhu-Silva are picked to study different accretion prope…

Dr. Alejandra Sanchez-Franks notes: "The author’s conclusions refer to the European climate 200 years after an AMOC change and do not describe what will happen to European temperatures and sea ice in the years and decades following an AMOC collapse.
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How Warm-Glow Alters the Usability of Technology
Antonios Saravanos (New York University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14720 https://ar…

How Warm-Glow Alters the Usability of Technology
As technology increasingly aligns with users' personal values, traditional models of usability, focused on functionality and specifically effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction, may not fully capture how people perceive and evaluate it. This study investigates how the warm-glow phenomenon, the positive feeling associated with doing good, shapes perceived usability. An experimental approach was taken in which participants evaluated a hypothetical technology under conditions designed to evok…

Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Scale AI Picks New CEO as Alexandr Wang Set to Join Meta After Investment
Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta Platforms Inc., according to two people familiar with the matter.