The confirmed death toll in the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history, has risen to 76, with nearly 1,300 names still remaining on an ad hoc list of missing individuals. The town of Paradise, which a firestorm overtook in a matter of hours on Nov. 8, is more or less totally destroyed.
Even though FilmStruck is going to shut down on November 29th, Criterion will not be shutting down its streaming channel. The company has confirmed that it will continue to entertain viewers as an independent streaming service due to be launched at some point in the spring of 2019.
The Criterion Collection team was highly regarded for restoring and providing access to rare and classic indie films in addition to other movies. Customers can get DVDs and Blu-rays of the titles in its collection but many prefer streaming more as they often cost $30 or more per single title.
It has now been confirmed that the team will continue on with that work with the Criterion Channel. It will launch as a standalone service in spring next year. It will pick up where the old service left off.
“We will continue with our guest programmer series, Adventures in Moviegoing. Our regular series like Art-House America, Split Screen, and Meet the Filmmakers, and our Ten Minutes or Less section will all live on, along with Tuesday’s Short + Feature and the Friday Night Double Feature, and of course our monthly fifteen-minute film school, Observations on Film Art,” says a post on the official blog.
This new service will be wholly owned and controlled by the Criterion Collection. They “hope” that the service will be available in the United States and Canada at launch with other territories being added to the list over time.
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If there’s one thing we can rely on Japan to provide us geeks with, it’s some very strange stuff. Take, for example, this action figure that transforms from a masked samurai warrior into a toilet. Yep. That’s what I said, there’s a Toilet Warrior action figure.
Of course the madness of Toywolf’s W-01 “Dirty Man” figure doesn’t just end there, no siree! This figure doesn’t just come with the typical action figure accessories like swords, but it comes with a roll of toilet paper, a plunger, and a pile of poo too! The latter is designed to fit perfectly under the squatting butt of the figure when in its warrior guise… or inside the bowl, when he’s feeling like a bathroom break.
The transformable figure also offers up the perfect spot for your other action figures to take a dump, and yes, we just got the answer to the question that nobody was looking for an answer to – superheroes poop too.
The bizarre figure stands about 4.75″ tall and should sell for about $70 when it starts to ship this December. You can find it for pre-order from a variety of importers, or over on eBay for about twice that price.
[via Toy People]
Real reality is pretty awful these days, but you can temporarily escape it with a PlayStation VR headset, and Jet just went live with this year’s Black Friday deals. And yes, they’re real.
The Hot Duck has arrested our attention for weeks now, but there’s a new bird captivating the internet this week: the Bedazzled Pigeon. And this bird with flair is already in high demand.
Huawei does have a voice assistant similar to Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant called Xiaoyi. It’s only available for the company’s smartphone owners in its home country of China. The company is now interested in offering a voice assistant to users outside China that can compete with others in the virtual assistant space. It’s working on such an assistant, according to CEO Richard Yu.
It would make sense for Huawei to offer a smart assistant to users outside China as well. It aims to be the top smartphone vendor globally in a couple of years and voice assistants are now common even on mid-range devices.
Richard Yu, Huawei’s consumer business CEO, told CNBC in an interview that Huawei is using its own voice assistant in China and that in the future, “we will also have our own outside of China.” It does, however, require time to build the artificial intelligence services before rolling them out.
This won’t mean that Huawei will give up on its partnerships with Amazon and Google. It’s pertinent to mention here that if Huawei does offer a voice assistant globally, that offering would be in direct competition with Alexa and Google Assistant respectively.
Yu didn’t provide a lot of details about this assistant that Huawei is building as yet. He didn’t say which languages it would support outside China and when we can expect it to arrive.
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The remains of more people were found Saturday in the decimated town of Paradise and in nearby Concow.
The president discussed the Mueller probe and more with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”
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