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Dreamworks owner On Thursday, Comcast made it official and bought DreamWorks Animation (DWA) for a hefty $3.8 billion, bringing to a close a Hollywood saga that began back in the early 1990s when Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the chairman of Disney, was unceremoniously fired by his boss Michael Eisner. Fueled with ambition, rage, and a desire to trounce Disney,...

What is carried interest Last week, Congress showed that it still had a few surprises up its sleeve for the current session. In a shocking twist, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin announced they had reached an agreement on the Inflation Reduction Act, a scaled-back version of the Build Back Better plan that would address everything from healthcare...

Gay oreos The latest piece of work from award-winning filmmaker Alice Wu (The Half Of It, Saving Face) is a short film about coming out. We meet a young man who appears to be stumbling through his coming-out process to his parents. But there’s a twist that extends this story from the traditional coming-out story to illustrate a larger...

Tinder match grouppereztechcrunch In a call with investors on Wednesday, Match Group announced cuts to 8% of its global workforce, and expanded on its 2023 Tinder road map, detailing plans to right the ship at the dating giant. “It’s been pretty clear since I joined last May that I wasn’t happy with the Tinder roadmap,” Match CEO Bernard...

Tiffany dover You may not know who Tiffany Dover is, but a small faction of Americans are obsessed with her. In late 2020, a rumor started circulating online that Tiffany Dover, a nurse in Tennessee, had died after receiving her COVID-19 vaccination shot. But none of that was true: Despite any claims otherwise, Dover is very much alive. And Brandy...

Christo, the conceptual artist famous for his massive, ephemeral installations around the world, died Sunday of natural causes in New York City. He was 84. Christo and his wife and artistic partner, Jeanne-Claude, used both natural and manmade monuments as their canvas, wrapping existing structures in fabric to give them new life on a massive scale. Christo and...

Locusts in south africa In May 2022, the largest locust infestation in a quarter century descended on South Africa’s Eastern Cape, stripping 19,305 square miles of grazing land. With another swarm predicted for September (the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere), farmers in the vast 65,238-square-mile province have joined with researchers to introduce a high-tech innovation—a software...

Top go fund me campaigns GoFundMe is a decade old and celebrating its prowess at separating you from your dollars on behalf of good causes—or at least causes that sound good. (30 Marathons in 30 Countries Before I Turn 30, anyone?) The platform’s fundraising-fu is eye-opening, pulling in annual funds comparable to the GDP of countries like Guinea-Bissau...

Wind turbine prototype feet tall megawatts The type of wind turbine you’re used to seeing in stock photos of wind farms is called a horizontal axis wind turbine (or, HAWT). But there is another form of wind power, called a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT), in which the blades rotate on an axis perpendicular to Earth’s surface. This...

Web design google Starting and running a business—especially in this day and age when having an online presence is important—is no small feat. It’s no longer simply about coming up with and executing a killer business plan and doing what you do best. Once you factor in creating and maintaining a polished website, running ads, and creating social media content,...