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Todd Boehly-backed music company Gamma, which works with Usher and Snoop Dogg, raised $100M led by Alpha Wave Global, sources say at a $400M valuation (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Todd Boehly-Backed Home of Usher, Snoop’s Music Raises $100 Million
Gamma, a music company that works with Usher and Snoop Dogg, has raised more than $100 million from investors led by the New York investment group Alpha Wave Global.

Trump, Venting About Lawyer in His Criminal Trial, Seeks More Aggression (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/politics/trump-trial-todd-blanche.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240430/p23#a240430p23

Memo: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says the company plans to lay off 400 employees, or ~7% of its staff, as the "reality is that costs are still too high" (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/okta-to-lay-off-7percent-o…

Chuck Todd in 2018 in the Atlantic:
"Journalists need to speak up for their work [against attacks from the right]."
Chuck Todd in 2024 on MSNBC: [speaks up for journalists].
What happened in the many years between 2018 and 2024? Please discuss.

Chuck Todd: It’s Time for the Press to Fight Back
A nearly 50-year campaign of vilification, inspired by Fox News's Roger Ailes, has left many Americans distrustful of media outlets. Now, journalists need to speak up for their work.

Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $11.8B, vs. $11.7B est., driven by the growth of its Stores and Prime Video businesses (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazon-q1-2024-earnings-ad-revenue-prime…

Amazon Q1 Ad Revenue Leaps 24% to $11.8 Billion, Lifted by Prime Video
Amazon raked in $11.82 billion in ad revenue for Q1 2024, up 24%, fueled by its launch of ads by default in Prime Video.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Zoot Woman:
🎵 Taken It All
#NowPlaying #ZootWoman
https://open.spotify.com/track/2C1a9QRxNhNHJpOUKwwTnA
https://defected.bandcamp.com/track/taken-it-all-todd-edwards-soul-line-remix

NBC fired Ronna McDaniel. But TV news has a bigger pundit problem
by David Folkenflik
"Why should TV networks pay politicians at all?"
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1241228946/ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-chuck-todd-tv-pundits<…

Bucs head coach Todd Bowles on perceived lack of respect for his team: 'We're not trying to win the offseason'

https://www.cbssport…

Bucs head coach Todd Bowles on perceived lack of respect for his team: 'We're not trying to win the offseason'
The Bucs were mostly overlooked in the NFC South discussion last year, but won the division again anyway

Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $11.8B, vs. $11.7B est., driven by the growth of its Stores and Prime Video businesses (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazon-q1-2024-earnings-ad-revenue-prime…

Amazon Q1 Ad Revenue Leaps 24% to $11.8 Billion, Lifted by Prime Video
Amazon raked in $11.82 billion in ad revenue for Q1 2024, up 24%, fueled by its launch of ads by default in Prime Video.

Performance-Aligned LLMs for Generating Fast Code
Daniel Nichols, Pranav Polasam, Harshitha Menon, Aniruddha Marathe, Todd Gamblin, Abhinav Bhatele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18864

Performance-Aligned LLMs for Generating Fast Code
Optimizing scientific software is a difficult task because codebases are often large and complex, and performance can depend upon several factors including the algorithm, its implementation, and hardware among others. Causes of poor performance can originate from disparate sources and be difficult to diagnose. Recent years have seen a multitude of work that use large language models (LLMs) to assist in software development tasks. However, these tools are trained to model the distribution of cod…

Georgia TE’s Coach On Brock Bowers: 'He Checks All The Boxes' https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/georgia_tes_coach_on_brock_bowers_he_checks_all_the_boxes/s1_16460_40306273

Georgia TE’s Coach On Brock Bowers: 'He Checks All The Boxes'
“He is the most talented tight end that I have ever coached or seen in person. He checks all the boxes. Ball skills, athleticism, balance, body control, speed, quickness, physicality, toughness, competitive character—he has them all!” Todd Hartley, Assistant Head Coach, Tight Ends, Georgia Before rookie Brock Bowers starts dominating on the field for the Las Vegas Raiders, let’s see what his positional coach from the University of Georgia has to say about this future star to the Raider …

Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an "app creator" to let employees build generative AI-powered apps based on company data (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/amazon-q-adds-f…

Amazon Q adds feature to create AI apps using natural language
Amazon Q Apps was announced in preview Tuesday morning. (Amazon Image) Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural

Credibility is …credibility. ““There’s a reason why there are a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this, because many of our professional dealings with the R.N.C. over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination.””

Chuck Todd Questions His Network, NBC News, Over Hiring of Former R.N.C. Chair
The extraordinary comments on “Meet the Press” revealed tensions in NBC’s news divisions over Ronna McDaniel, who recently stepped down as head of the Republican National Committee.

Sony hikes Crunchyroll's Mega Fan tier by $2 to $11.99/month and the Ultimate Fan tier by $1 to $15.99/month; Fan tier will remain unchanged at $7.99/month (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/crunchyroll-rai…

Crunchyroll Pricing: Anime Streamer Raises Prices for Top-Tier Plans
Crunchyroll, the Sony-owned anime streaming service, is raising prices for its two top tier packages in select countries.

Cowboys Re-Sign LB Damien Wilson https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_re_sign_lb_damien_wilson/s1_17039_40300566

Chuck Todd Elaborates On Why NBC Shouldn't Have Hired Ronna McDaniel (David Moye/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-todd-x-ronna-mcdaniel_n_660209a3e4b079ac3ef1ed54
http://www.memeorandum.com/240325/p85#a240325p85

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheZoeBallBreakfastShow
Todd Rundgren:
🎵 I Saw The Light
#ToddRundgren
#Bandcamp

Free Zero Bias and Infinite Divisibility
Larry Goldstein, Todd Kemp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19860 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19860…

Free Zero Bias and Infinite Divisibility
The (classical) zero bias is a transformation of centered, finite variance probability distributions, often expressed in terms of random variables $X\mapsto X^\ast$, characterized by the functional equation \[ E[Xf(X)] = σ^2 E[f'(X^\ast)] \quad \text{for all }\; f\in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}) \] where $σ^2$ is the variance of $X$. The zero bias distribution is always absolutely continuous, and supported on the convex hull of the support of $X$. It is related to Stein's method, and has many appli…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoseYourselfWith
Mia Doi Todd:
🎵 Under The Sun
#MiaDoiTodd
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Dss6dnVNEHiYEjEuqs1v3
https://miadoitodd.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-sun-1

OTW 159 – ME Treasure w/ Todd Whitestone
#MLB #FantasyBaseball #PitcherList

The rate of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and their relation to tidal disruption events
Joseph Callow, Or Graur, Peter Clark, Antonella Palmese, Jessica Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Segev BenZvi, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Enrique Gazta\~naga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Andrew Lambert, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Claire Poppett, Francisc…

The rate of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and their relation to tidal disruption events
Strong high-ionization iron coronal lines (CLs) are a rare phenomenon observed in galaxy and quasi-stellar object spectra that are thought to be created as a result of tidal disruption event (TDE) flares. To test whether these CLs are the result of TDE activity, we search for extreme coronal line emitting galaxies (ECLEs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), measure their rate, and compare it to TDE rates from the literature. We detect sufficiently strong CLs in 14 objects, doubling the numb…

Todd Rundgren の Nazz 時代の曲。彼の 3作目のアルバムにも収録されています。 ☞
--
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me
from the album "Something / Anything?" (1972)
2xLP Side D Track 4
( 音楽 / 音樂 / 音乐 / 음악 / music )
https://youtu.be/4gZrWGAXM_I

Current potential patches
Todd Elder, Allen H Boozer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17634 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17634

Current potential patches
A novel form of the current potential, a mathematical tool for the design of stellarators and stellarator coils, is developed. Specifically, these are current potentials with a finite-element-like basis, called \textit{current potential patches}. Current potential patches leverage the relationship between distributions of magnetic dipoles and current potentials to explore limits of the access properties of stellarator coil sets. An example calculation is shown using the Helically Symmetric Expe…

On NBC's Meet the Press, veteran anchor Chuck Todd criticized NBC News' decision to hire former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, saying she "has credibility issues" (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/busines

Chuck Todd Questions His Network, NBC News, Over Hiring of Former R.N.C. Chair
The extraordinary comments on “Meet the Press” revealed tensions in NBC’s news divisions over Ronna McDaniel, who recently stepped down as head of the Republican National Committee.

Donald Trump arrives in court for hush money hearing as deadline looms to pay $454m fraud trial bond – live
As the hearing kicked off, Judge Juan Merchan started by recapping Donald Trump’s arguments.
Trump’s attorneys claim that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg did not share evidence in a timely manner, and have asked Merchan to either delay the case by at least 90 days, or throw it out altogether.
Merchan noted Trump attorney Todd Blanche filed a motion that accuse…

Dallas Cowboys sign free agent linebacker Damien Wilson https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_sign_free_agent_linebacker_damien_wilson/s1_17236_40300457

Dallas Cowboys sign free agent linebacker Damien Wilson
The Dallas Cowboys are bringing linebacker Damien Wilson back to the squad for the 2024 season, according to ESPN’s Todd Archer. Wilson became a free agent in March after signing to the active roster to end the 2023 regular season. He didn’t play in a game for the Cowboys in 2023, but provided depth on the practice squad, then the active roster. The Cowboys originally drafted Wilson with a fourth-round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft. He played out his rookie contract, before signing deals with …

Chuck Todd calls out NBC News' hiring of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel (Nick Robertson/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4552592-chuck-todd-calls-out-nbc-news-hiring-of-former-rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240324/p18#a240324p18

Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/expedia-group…

Expedia Group cutbacks will impact 1,500 roles this year, more than 8% of workforce
Expedia Group expects about 1,500 roles to be impacted by cutbacks under an operational review announced in an internal memo.

You wonder how long Lester Holt can avoid commenting on this.
From: @…
https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/112156993646529799

NBCUniversal hikes Peacock Premium with ads price by $2 to $7.99/month and Peacock Premium Plus price by $2 to $13.99/month, the second price hike in two years (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/peacock-price-increase-j…

Peacock Price Increase: New Streaming Pricing Starts in July 2024
NBCUniversal is raising the price of Peacock this summer, coming one year after the streamer's last fee hike.

I had a fun conversation with Todd Bishop of GeekWire about visionOS and Apple Vision Pro:
Todd, near the close of our conversation: "We haven't talked before, and so maybe you're just always like this, but you seem really excited about this."
Me: "I am really excited about this, yeah. I'm glad it shows through!"

GeekWire Podcast: Apple Vision Pro, a developer’s take; Detecting and defusing AI deepfakes
First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro,

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02310 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Linear response for intermittent maps with critical point
We consider a two-parameter family of maps $T_{α, β}: [0,1] \to [0,1]$ with a neutral fixed point and a non-flat critical point. Building on a cone technique due to Baladi and Todd, we show that for a class of $L^q$ observables $ϕ: [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ the bivariate map $(α, β) \mapsto \int_0^1 ϕ\, dμ_{α,β}$, where $μ_{α, β}$ denotes the invariant SRB measure, is differentiable in a certain parameter region, and establish a formula for its directional derivative.

Just listened to Todd Conklin’s podcast about a new book out this summer on measuring safety by Sydney Decker and Georgina Poole called “Random Noise”. Controversial and interesting topic. https://overcast.fm/ tF0AO6nvE

#NowPlaying Remember that time Todd Trainer’s Italian greyhound Uffizi was on Animal Planet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWrVQTlonc

sorry

A Sociotechnical Readiness Level Framework for the Development of Advanced Nuclear Technologies
Aditi Verma, Todd Allen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18204 ht…

A Sociotechnical Readiness Level Framework for the Development of Advanced Nuclear Technologies
The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) scale was initially developed by NASA in the 1970s and is now widely used in space, nuclear, and other complex technology sectors in the US and beyond. The TRL scale is particularly useful for determining where extrapolation of untested sub-systems or features could produce technical risk, cause expensive redesigns, or act as a roadblock to technology development. In this paper, we propose the development of a sociotechnical readiness level (SRL), premised o…

Jordan Richter und Ricardo Evangelho von Hit Point Press stellen das Setting bei Todd Kenreck vor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbCjUrNQvS8

Todd Rundgren の Nazz 時代の曲。彼の 3作目のアルバムにも収録されています。 ☞
--
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me
from the album "Something / Anything?" (1972)
2xLP Side D Track 4
( 音楽 / 音樂 / 音乐 / 음악 / music )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZrWGAXM_I&feature=y…

'Our bosses owe you an apology': NBC anchor bashes network on air for hiring former RNC chair (Savannah Kuchar/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/24/chuck-todd-criticizes-nbc-ronna-mcdaniel/73085835007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240324/p24#a240324p24

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #GameplayWithBabyQueen
Todd Masten:
🎵 Age of Empires II - Tazer
#ToddMasten
https://open.spotify.com/track/5IhthjsKUOZ46ii6CeLt3I

Now up: Todd Haywood: he was here last week: https://social.treehouse.systems/@egallager/111892256620248628

‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief
“We are slowed down by those who think of themselves as grownups and believe decarbonisation at the speed the climate community calls for is unrealistic,” said Todd Stern,
who served as a special envoy for climate change under Barack Obama, and helped negotiate the 2015 Paris agreement.
“They say that we need to slow down, that what is being proposed [in cuts to greenhouse gas emissions] is u…

YouTube Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total so far (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q1-2024-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1235982528/

YouTube Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 21% to $8 Billion
YouTube keeps eating up more share of the advertising pie: The video giant posted $8 billion in ad sales for the first quarter of 2024, up 21%.

The Solar Neighborhood LI: A Variability Survey of Nearby M Dwarfs with Planets from Months to Decades with TESS and the CTIO/SMARTS 0.9 m
Aman Kar, Todd J. Henry, Andrew C. Couperus, Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, Wei-Chun Jao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14121

The Solar Neighborhood LI: A Variability Survey of Nearby M Dwarfs with Planets from Months to Decades with TESS and the CTIO/SMARTS 0.9 m
We present the optical photometric variability of 32 planet-hosting M dwarfs within 25 parsecs over timescales of months to decades. The primary goal of this project, ATLAS -- A Trail to Life Around Stars, is to follow the trail to life by revealing nearby M dwarfs with planets that are also "quiet", which may make them more amiable to habitability. There are 69 reported exoplanets orbiting the 32 stars discussed here, providing a rich sample of worlds for which environmental evaluations are ne…

More than Just Statistical Recurrence: Human and Machine Unsupervised Learning of M\=aori Word Segmentation across Morphological Processes
Ashvini Varatharaj, Simon Todd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14444

More than Just Statistical Recurrence: Human and Machine Unsupervised Learning of Māori Word Segmentation across Morphological Processes
Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders (NMS)are able to segment Māori words in a highlysimilar way to fluent speakers (Panther et al.,2024). This ability is assumed to derive through the identification and extraction of statistically recurrent forms. We examine this assumption by asking how NMS segmentations compare to those produced by Morfessor, an unsupervised machine learning model that operates based on statistical recurrence, across words formed by a variety of morphological processes. Both …

Haberman claiming that he "appeared to nod off a few times" and reiterating that when he did, she could see "his mouth going slack and his head drooping onto his chest."
Trump's lead defense attorney, Todd Blanche, "passed him notes for several minutes," she added, "before Mr. Trump appeared to jolt awake and notice them."
Sleepy Don
I’m so sleepy, yeah,
I’m so sleepy, yeah,
I could lay my head on a piece of lead
…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11148 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The Todd-Coxeter Algorithm for Semigroups and Monoids
In this paper we provide an account of the Todd-Coxeter algorithm for computing congruences on semigroups and monoids. We also give a novel description of an analogue for semigroups of the so-called Felsch strategy from the Todd-Coxeter algorithm for groups.

Q&A: Todd Young talks chips, pipelines and Trump (Dave Bangert/Based in Lafayette, Indiana)
https://www.basedinlafayette.com/p/q-and-a-todd-young-talks-chips-pipelines
http://www.memeorandum.com/240319/p102#a240319p102

YouTube Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total so far (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q1-2024-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1235982528/

YouTube Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 21% to $8 Billion
YouTube keeps eating up more share of the advertising pie: The video giant posted $8 billion in ad sales for the first quarter of 2024, up 21%.

Rotational Spectrum and First Interstellar Detection of 2-Methoxyethanol Using ALMA Observations of NGC 6334I
Zachary T. P. Fried, Samer J. El-Abd, Brian M. Hays, Gabi Wenzel, Alex N. Byrne, Laurent Margul\`es, Roman A. Motiyenko, Steven T. Shipman, Maria P. Horne, Jes K. J{\o}rgensen, Crystal L. Brogan, Todd R. Hunter, Anthony J. Remijan, Andrew Lipnicky, Ryan A. Loomis, Brett A. McGuire

Rotational Spectrum and First Interstellar Detection of 2-Methoxyethanol Using ALMA Observations of NGC 6334I
We use both chirped-pulse Fourier transform and frequency modulated absorption spectroscopy to study the rotational spectrum of 2-methoxyethanol in several frequency regions ranging from 8.7-500 GHz. The resulting rotational parameters permitted a search for this molecule in Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations toward the massive protocluster NGC 6334I as well as source B of the low-mass protostellar system IRAS 16293-2422. 25 rotational transitions are observed in t…

Jerry Jones: Cowboys ‘Keenly Interested’ In Ezekiel Elliott Reunion https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_jones_cowboys_keenly_interested_in_ezekiel_elliott_reunion/s1_17039_40291086

Jerry Jones: Cowboys ‘Keenly Interested’ In Ezekiel Elliott Reunion
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told reporters on Friday that they are “keenly interested in seeing what the future might look like” with free agent RB Ezekiel Elliott.  “First of all, the draft’s not over and that’s a thought,” Jones said, via Todd Archer of ESPN.com. “And it was a long time before a running back was taken in today’s draft. But we also are keenly interested in seeing what the future might look like with Zeke.” Based on what he saw from Elliott late last season, …

Q&A: Todd Young talks chips, pipelines and Trump (Dave Bangert/Based in Lafayette, Indiana)
https://www.basedinlafayette.com/p/q-and-a-todd-young-talks-chips-pipelines
http://www.memeorandum.com/240319/p102#a240319p102

YouTube Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total so far (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q1-2024-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1235982528/

YouTube Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 21% to $8 Billion
YouTube keeps eating up more share of the advertising pie: The video giant posted $8 billion in ad sales for the first quarter of 2024, up 21%.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #GameplayWithBabyQueen
Todd Masten:
🎵 Age of Empires II - Tazer
#ToddMasten
https://open.spotify.com/track/5IhthjsKUOZ46ii6CeLt3I

YouTube Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total so far (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q1-2024-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1235982528/

YouTube Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 21% to $8 Billion
YouTube keeps eating up more share of the advertising pie: The video giant posted $8 billion in ad sales for the first quarter of 2024, up 21%.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsRaveForever
The Todd Terry Project:
🎵 Bango (To The Batmobile)
#TheToddTerryProject
https://open.spotify.com/track/5n2yBIOI6gzamzDOzWNDPz
https://stevetosi.bandcamp.com/track/the-todd-terry-project-bango-to-the-batmobile-steve-tosi-rework

Cowboys Officially Pick Up LB Micah Parsons’ Fifth-Year Option https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_officially_pick_up_lb_micah_parsons_fifth_year_option/s1_17039_40277716

Final(?) pink card: Todd Haywood of Concord (constituent of Rep. Hicks) with testimony... uh... that sounded in favor, I guess?

I enjoyed my conversation with Todd Bishop of GeekWire about why we at @… are jumping head-first into spatial computing:
htt…

Apple Vision Pro: Why one longtime software shop is jumping head-first into spatial computing
For Seattle's Omni Group, the Apple Vision Pro launch continues a longstanding tradition of making the leap to new Apple platforms.

Apple launches Apple Sports, a free app offering scores and stats for the NBA, Premier League, and more, in the US, Canada, and the UK, on iOS 17.2 or later (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/apple-sports-app-free-sco…

Apple Sports Free App Provides Real-Time Scores, Links to Apple TV
The free Apple Sports app is designed to fire scores and stats to your iPhone as quickly as possible -- and to drive tune-in of games on Apple TV.

Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial is underway
Judge: Jury can be told about Trump’s affair, but not that wife was pregnant


New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said that jurors can be told about the former president’s past affair with a Playboy model,
but not that Donald Trump’s wife was pregnant at the time.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued that the details of Trump’s affair with #Karen

Live updates: Jury selection to begin soon in Trump’s N.Y. hush money trial
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial has begun. He is charged with falsifying business records connected to a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.

'Our bosses owe you an apology': Todd slams NBC's McDaniel hire during Welker MTP segment (Kelly Garrity/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/24/ronna-mcdaniel-roils-nbc-i-think-our-bosses-owe-you-an-apology-00148719
http://www.memeorandum.com/240324/p14#a240324p14

Nelson Peltz backs Bob Iger, saying his proxy fight is with Disney's board for botching "its most important job, CEO succession, by installing Bob Chapek" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/disney-nelso…

Nelson Peltz Backs Bob Iger, Says Proxy Fight Is About the Board
Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management says Disney's board, not Bob Iger, is the problem.

Final(?) pink card: Todd Haywood of Concord (constituent of Rep. Hicks) with testimony... uh... that sounded in favor, I guess?

Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial is underway
Judge: Jury can be told about Trump’s affair, but not that wife was pregnant


New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said that jurors can be told about the former president’s past affair with a Playboy model,
but not that Donald Trump’s wife was pregnant at the time.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued that the details of Trump’s affair with #Karen

Live updates: Jury selection to begin soon in Trump’s N.Y. hush money trial
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial has begun. He is charged with falsifying business records connected to a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.

Apple launches Apple Sports, a free app offering scores and stats for the NBA, Premier League, and more, in the US, Canada, and the UK, on iOS 17.2 or later (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/apple-sports-app-free-sco…

Apple Sports Free App Provides Real-Time Scores, Links to Apple TV
The free Apple Sports app is designed to fire scores and stats to your iPhone as quickly as possible -- and to drive tune-in of games on Apple TV.

Cowboys fill overlooked coaching staff void ahead of 2024 NFL free agency period https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_fill_overlooked_coaching_staff_void_ahead_of_2024_nfl_free_agency_p…

Cowboys fill overlooked coaching staff void ahead of 2024 NFL free agency period
The Dallas Cowboys are making a hire for their coaching staff but this time, they're changing it up. In this occasion, they're adding to the offensive side of the ball after Mike Zimmer's defensive staff stole the spotlight in the aftermath of Dan Quinn's departure. Per ESPN's Todd Archer, the Cowboys have hired former Boston College offensive coordinator Steve Shimko as an offensive assistant only weeks removed from the start of free agency.  Shimko spent three years in Boston College before …

Roku reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $984.4M, vs. $968.2M est., and warns of a "challenging" environment for media and entertainment in 2024; ROKU drops 14% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/roku-q4-2023-earni…

Roku Q4 2023: Stock Drops on Challenging Media & Entertainment Outlook
Roku Q4 2023 earnings came in above expectations but warned of a "challenging" environment for media and entertainment spending for the rest of 2024.

Pinterest plans to release its first streaming show with Tastemade on February 23 for free on Tastemade's channel and apps, featuring QR codes of shoppable Pins (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Pinterest Premieres 'Deliciously Entertaining' From Tastemade
Pinterest's first streaming show, "Deliciously Entertaining," produced with Tastemade, is aimed at inspiring users to engage with the platform.

Cowboys fill overlooked coaching staff void ahead of 2024 NFL free agency period https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_fill_overlooked_coaching_staff_void_ahead_of_2024_nfl_free_agency_p…

Cowboys fill overlooked coaching staff void ahead of 2024 NFL free agency period
The Dallas Cowboys are making a hire for their coaching staff but this time, they're changing it up. In this occasion, they're adding to the offensive side of the ball after Mike Zimmer's defensive staff stole the spotlight in the aftermath of Dan Quinn's departure. Per ESPN's Todd Archer, the Cowboys have hired former Boston College offensive coordinator Steve Shimko as an offensive assistant only weeks removed from the start of free agency.  Shimko spent three years in Boston College before …

TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/tiktok-axs-concer…

TikTok Teams With AXS to Let Certified Artists Sell Concert Tickets
TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events.

A consultant sues Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, alleging he is owed "several million dollars" for work he did for the company's $370M Redbox deal (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Sued Over Redbox Deal
A consultant sued Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, alleging he is owed several million dollars for work he did for the Redbox acquisition.

Pornhub blocks access to users in Texas, after a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law last week requiring porn sites to institute age-verification measures (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-…

Pornhub Blocked in Texas
Pornhub blocked access to users in Texas, amid a legal battle with the state's attorney general over an age-verification law.

Filing: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2023 compensation package was worth $49.7M, up 26.5% from the year prior, with $23.1M in stock awards (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/warner-bros-…

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav 2023 Pay Package Rises to $50M
David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, had a 2023 pay package worth $49.7 million, up 26.5% from the year prior.

Netflix won't report subscriber numbers or Average Revenue per Membership starting in Q1 2025, saying time spent is its "best proxy for customer satisfaction" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Netflix Will Stop Reporting Subscribers Numbers Starting in 2025
Netflix will no longer report subscriber numbers -- which has been a key metric for streaming services for years -- beginning with the first quarter of 2025.

Mike Gallagher Won't Seek Reelection After Refusal To Impeach Homeland Security Chief (Todd Richmond/Associated Press)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-gallagher-retirement_n_65c7db59e4b0fb721d614f76

Mike Gallagher Won't Seek Reelection After Refusal To Impeach Homeland Security Chief
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher says he won't run for a fifth term in Congress.

Taylor Swift's music returns to TikTok, ahead of her next album due out on April 19, after UMG pulled her songs as part of an ongoing dispute with TikTok (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/taylor-swift-songs-return-…

Taylor Swift Songs Return to TikTok
Taylor Swift's songs are back on TikTok after a 10-week hiatus amid a licensing dispute between the app and Universal Music Group.

Disney says Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour broke Disney records with 4.6M views after three days, the top music film ever on Disney ; Disney reportedly paid $75M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/taylor-swift-er…

Taylor Swift: Eras Tour Breaks Disney+ Record: Most-Streamed Music Film
Taylor Swift has set a new record with the premiere of her "Eras Tour" concert film on Disney+.

Hollywood analysts and marketers say any potential upside from a TikTok ban would be lessened by the loss of the app's marketing power for new movies and shows (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/tiktok-ban-help-or-…

Would TikTok Ban Help or Hurt Hollywood?
If TikTok is effectively banned in the U.S., would that be a net positive or negative for Hollywood?

Expedia says CEO Peter Kern will step down after four years in the role and names its president for business, Ariane Gorin, as CEO, effective May 13, 2024 (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/expedia-ceo-

Expedia CEO Peter Kern to step down later this year, replaced by longtime exec Ariane Gorin
Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern speaks at the company’s Explore 23: Connect conference in Seattle last year. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Expedia Group CEO

WGA East says 26 of the 50 NowThis members represented by the union have been laid off; an internal memo says no additional layoffs are planned (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/nowthis-news-layoffs-1235912770/

NowThis Layoffs: Half of News Staff Laid Off, Union Says
Half of the editorial team of NowThis, a social media-focused news company, has been laid off, according to the union representing the staffers.

YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/mrbeast-prime-video-reali…

MrBeast 'Beast Games' Prime Video Reality Show Offers $5 Million Prize
MrBeast's Prime Video reality-competition show 'Beast Games' promises a $5 million cash prize -- the largest single payout ever in TV history.

YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M subscribers, up from 5M in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M channels receiving ad revenue share (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-tv-number-subs…

How Many YouTube TV Subscribers? Service Tops 8 Million Subscribers
YouTube TV, Google's internet pay-TV service, now has more than 8 million subscribers, according to the video giant.

TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/tiktok-axs-concer…

TikTok Teams With AXS to Let Certified Artists Sell Concert Tickets
TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events.

Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/vimeo-philip-moyer-ceo-1235961046…

Vimeo Hires Google Cloud AI Exec Philip Moyer as CEO
Vimeo named Philip Moyer, a top Google Cloud exec overseeing AI applied engineering and business development, as CEO and member of its board.

Filing: Amazon spending on content rose 14% YoY to $18.9B in 2023 despite Hollywood strikes (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazon-content-spending-2023-tv-movies-music-1235895129/

Amazon Content Spending 2023 Rose 14% to $18.9B for TV, Film and Music
Amazon's total video and music expense last year was $18.9 billion, representing a 14% increase over 2022.

Memo: SiriusXM plans to cut ~160 jobs, or ~3% of its workforce, after laying off 475 employees, or ~8% of its workforce, in March 2023 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/siriusxm-layoffs-160-employees-1235908020/…

SiriusXM to Lay Off 160 Staffers, About 3% of Workforce
SiriusXM is eliminating about 160 jobs, a layoff affecting just under 3% of the satellite radio and audio streamer's workforce.

Memo: Paramount starts layoffs to reduce costs; sources say ~800 employees, or an estimated 3% of its headcount, are getting cut across all divisions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/paramount-global-layoffs-ceo-bakish-…

Paramount Global Layoffs Are Underway: Read CEO Bakish Memo to Staff
Paramount Global, amid a swirl of M&A discussions, is laying off about 800 employees worldwide as it looks to trim costs.

Apple Q1: revenue of Services, which includes Apple TV and Apple Music, rose 11% YoY to a record $23.1B, and installed base crossed 2.2B active devices (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/apple-fiscal-q1-2…

Apple Services Revenue Hits New Record in Year-End 2023 Quarter
Apple turned in another record quarter in its services business, as strong iPhone 15 sales boosted total revenue in the last three months of 2023.

Pornhub blocks access to users in Texas, after a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law last week requiring porn sites to institute age-verification measures (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-…

Pornhub Blocked in Texas
Pornhub blocked access to users in Texas, amid a legal battle with the state's attorney general over an age-verification law.

Memo: AWS plans to cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/amazon-web-s

Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group
AWS is cutting several hundred jobs on its sales, marketing and services group, and a few hundred jobs on its physical stores tech team.

The FCC votes to make cable and satellite TV providers show the total cost of services, including fees for TV station signals and regional sports programming (Todd Shields/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Cable, Satellite-TV Firms to Show Single Price, No Hidden Fees Under FCC Rule
Cable and satellite-TV providers will need to make sure bills and ads clearly display a total price for video subscribers, including extra fees that can amount to hundreds of dollars a year, under a rule adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission.

Paramount is shutting down Showtime's streaming service on April 30, after it integrated Showtime's programming into the top-tier Paramount plan in June 2023 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/showtime-str…

Showtime App Shutting Down at the End of April
After nearly nine years, Showtime's streaming apps are fading to black after its programming has been integrated into Paramount+.

Paramount is shutting down Showtime's streaming service on April 30, after it integrated Showtime's programming into the top-tier Paramount plan in June 2023 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/showtime-str…

Showtime App Shutting Down at the End of April
After nearly nine years, Showtime's streaming apps are fading to black after its programming has been integrated into Paramount+.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's letter to shareholders: Prime Video now reaches 200M monthly viewers, and streaming TV advertising is growing quickly (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazo…

Amazon Prime Video Reaches More Than 200 Million Monthly Viewers
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy put a new number on Prime Video's audience, saying the premium video service has more than 200 million monthly viewers.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's letter to shareholders: Prime Video now reaches 200M monthly viewers, and streaming TV advertising is growing quickly (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazo…

Amazon Prime Video Reaches More Than 200 Million Monthly Viewers
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy put a new number on Prime Video's audience, saying the premium video service has more than 200 million monthly viewers.

Warner Bros. Discovery renews its multiyear agreement with movie distributor GKids to extend Max's exclusive US streaming rights for Studio Ghibli films (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/boy-and-the-he…

'The Boy and the Heron' Streaming on Max Under Studio Ghibli Renewal
Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning "The Boy and the Heron" is streaming to Max in the U.S. under an exclusive deal renewal for Studio Ghibli films.

CBS News Digital staffers form a union with WGA East; WGA East also represents workers at CBS News and won a first collective bargaining agreement at MSNBC (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/cbs-news-digital-union-wga-ea…

CBS News Digital Workers Form Union, Demand Voluntary Recognition
CBS News Digital editorial staff members voted to unionize with WGA East for the purpose of collective bargaining.

Disney announces that Jay Ong, who led the Marvel Games team for nearly a decade, will now lead the global games licensing business across all franchises (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/disn…

Disney Games Hires Ray Gresko, Promotes Jay Ong to Global Licensing
Disney Games hired ex-Blizzard exec Ray Gresko to lead its development with Epic, and promoted Marvel Games' Jay Ong to oversee global licensing.

Disney announces that Jay Ong, who led the Marvel Games team for nearly a decade, will now lead the global games licensing business across all franchises (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/disn…

Disney Games Hires Ray Gresko, Promotes Jay Ong to Global Licensing
Disney Games hired ex-Blizzard exec Ray Gresko to lead its development with Epic, and promoted Marvel Games' Jay Ong to oversee global licensing.