Monthly Archives: November 2022

Disenchanted’s first trailer looks like all of Disney’s evil witch stories rolled into one

Amy Adams as Giselle in Disenchanted. | Disney While Enchanted was a surprisingly inspired riff on the studio’s archetypical princess fairytales, Disenchanted, director Adam Shankman’s upcoming sequel to the movie, looks like a straightforward redux of Disney’s recent stories about witches fiddling with reality in its first trailer. Disenchanted continues the tale of Giselle Philip…

King Ranch will be the site of the largest carbon capture project yet

Signage is displayed outside of Occidental Petroleum Corp. offices in Carlsbad, New Mexico, US, on Friday, September 11th, 2020. Oil giant Occidental announced an enormous escalation of its plans to take planet-heating carbon dioxide out of the air. It signed a lease agreement on 106,000 acres in Kleberg County, Texas, where it would build up…

U.S. Copyright Office Backtracks on Registration of Partially AI-Generated Work

On October 28, Kristina Kashtanova, an artist and artificial intelligence (AI) consultant and researcher, received notice from the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) that the registration for the first issue of her partially AI-generated graphic novel, Zarya Of The Dawn, may be canceled. A month earlier, on September 15, the USCO issued a registration for Kashtanova’s…

Federal Circuit Says Patent Incorporated by Reference Does Not Invalidate Finjan’s Asserted Patents

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today ruled in a precedential decision that the definition of a claim term in a patent incorporated by reference into the patents at issue does not dictate the definition of claims in the asserted patents. The CAFC thus reversed the district court’s claim construction and…

Twitter restricts staff from policing content violations ahead of US midterms

Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) A few months ago, Twitter promised to take its role in preserving election integrity seriously, saying that “[p]eople deserve to trust the election conversations and content they encounter on Twitter.” Now, in the middle of Brazil’s presidential election and just ahead of the US midterms, the majority…

Charter raises base Internet to $80 a month; price hikes to hit 9.5M users

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Maksym Kapliuk) Charter is raising prices on Spectrum home Internet service by $5 a month starting today, a company spokesperson confirmed to Ars. Standalone broadband prices are rising to $79.99 a month for 300Mbps download speeds, $99.99 a month for 500Mbps, and $119.99 a month for 1Gbps. 300Mbps is the…