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Newsletter Startup Substack Lays Off 14% of Staff, Citing Uncertain Macroeconomic Outlook

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIn another blow to the creator economy, Substack, a company that provides services for writers to offer paid newsletters, laid off 13 employees, about 14% of its headcount.CEO Chris Best told staffers of the layoffs in a memo, which he posted on Twitter. “Today’s the saddest day we’ve had at Substack,” he wrote.In the memo, Best said, “Our goal is to make Substack robust even in the toughest market conditions, and to set the company up for long-term success without relying on raising money — or, at least, doing so only on our time and our terms.”Some of Substack’s most popular newsletters are penned by Heather Cox Richardson, Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Noah Smith, Glenn Greenwald, Joseph Pompliano and Emily Oster.

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‘Pokémon Go’ Developer Niantic Laying Off 8% of Staff, Nixes Transformers Game and Other Projects

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNiantic, the augmented-reality games company behind “Pokémon Go,” is letting go about 8% of its workforce and has scrapped several game titles it had in development, including “Transformers: Heavy Metal.”The company is laying off 85-90 employees, Niantic CEO John Hanke said in a memo to staff Wednesday, which was first reported by Bloomberg. Niantic needs to “further streamline our operations in order to best position the company to weather any economic storms that may lie ahead,” Hanke wrote.In a statement, a Niantic spokesperson said, “We recently decided to stop production on some projects and reduce our workforce by about 8% to focus on our key priorities.

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Kevin Hart Is Diving Into the NFT and Metaverse Pool

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorKevin Hart is the latest celeb hopping on the NFT bandwagon. The popular actor-comedian-entrepreneur is looking to extend his brand to fans who get excited about non-fungible tokens — and he’s angling to make some extra bucks, too.Hart will plant his flag in the Web3 metaverse starting with next month’s premiere of Roku original “Confessions From the Hart,” a 30-minute animated anthology based on his Instagram IGTV series of the same name.“Confessions From the Hart” will launch exclusively on the Roku Channel on Wednesday, July 6 — Hart’s 43rd birthday — and reenacts moments from Hart’s life, as narrated by him.

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IF YOU fancy a large piece of chic French luxury then you’ll want to check out the new DS 7.

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Kerry Washington Bible-Inspired Thriller ‘The Prophecy’ Gets Audible Premiere Date, Adds David Oyelowo, Asa Butterfield, Steven Pasquale to Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor“The Prophecy,” Kerry Washington’s first foray into audio as an executive producer, is set to premiere next month on Audible with the actor starring in the modern-day spin on three Bible stories.Joining the cast are David Oyelowo (“Selma”), Asa Butterfield (“Sex Education”) and Steven Pasquale (“Rescue Me”), alongside Washington, Laurence Fishburne and Daniel Dae Kim. All eight episodes of “The Prophecy” will drop exclusively on Audible on July 28.In “The Prophecy,” when a series of unexplainable events happens simultaneously around the world, Dr.

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Comcast Launches SiriusXM Streaming App on Xfinity Devices

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSatellite radio is now on cable.For the first time, Comcast is making SiriusXM’s audio content — including Howard Stern’s popular talk show, 330-plus ad-free music channels, podcasts, sports talk, comedy, news and more — available to stream on the cable giant’s Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex and XClass TV platforms.To access SiriusXM content on Comcast, customers must have a SiriusXM subscription. Under the companies’ pact, Comcast customers are eligible to get a free three-month subscription offer for SiriusXM service.

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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 levels up to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 levels up this week as it races in to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart on digital downloads only.

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NBC Orders Prehistoric Series ‘Surviving Earth’

Selome Hailu NBC has ordered eight episodes of “Surviving Earth,” an unscripted series about how life not only survived during the cataclysmic events of the prehistoric era, but thrived. The series aims to find what lessons can be learned from past mass extinctions.“Surviving Earth” is co-produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio and UK indie production company Loud Minds.

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A24 Inks First-Look Deal With Malcolm Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries Podcast Company

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA24, the indie studio behind TV shows and movies like “Euphoria,” “Minari,” “Moonlight” and “Lady Bird,” signed a first-look deal with Pushkin Industries, Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg’s audio production company.Under the new deal, A24 has the right of first refusal to develop film and TV projects based on Pushkin’s intellectual property. The companies are already in development on “a few” projects including a documentary series based on Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia,” to be directed by filmmaker Morgan Neville.Pushkin Industries CEO Weisberg and president Gladwell will executive produce projects developed through the A24 pact.Pushkin Industries, founded in 2018, has produced several podcasts that have broken into the top 10 on Apple’s Top Podcasts chart, including Gladwell’s “Revisionist History,” as well as “Against the Rules,” “The Happiness Lab,” “Broken Record,” “Cautionary Tales,” “The Last Archive,” “Deep Cover,” “Lost Hills” and “A Slight Change of Plans.” Pushkin’s audiobooks include Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Netanyahus” by Joshua Cohen and Gladwell’s “Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon.” In “The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War,” Gladwell uses original interviews and archival footage tell the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard.In the years leading up to World War II, most military strategists saw the airplane as an afterthought.

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Roku Adds Eight Free Local NBC News Channels

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRoku is thinking local: In the streaming platform’s first local news programming pact, Roku is adding eight NBC local news channels to the Roku Channel — available to stream live for free.Through the partnership, NBCUniversal Local will bring local news channels from its owned-and-operated NBC stations in eight major U.S. markets — New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas/Fort Worth, Washington, D.C., Hartford, Conn., and South Florida — to the Roku Channel.

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Mukesh Ambani Resigns as Reliance Jio Infocomm Director, Son Akash Appointed Chair

Mukesh Ambani has resigned as director of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, the digital arm of giant Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries. His son Akash Ambani, formerly a non-executive director, has been appointed as the chair of the Reliance Jio Infocomm board of directors.Pankaj Mohan Pawar has been appointed managing director of the company and Raminder Singh Gujral and K.V. Chowdary, as additional directors, for five years, subject to shareholder approval.Reliance Jio is the market leader in India’s telecoms space and the company’s Jio Platforms, where Facebook, Google, Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners are investors, operates streaming services JioTV and JioCinema.

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Millions of Brits would feel embarrassed if others saw their internet search history

Millions of Brits would be embarrassed if others saw their internet search history, for fear of looking silly, stupid – or naughty.A study of 2,000 adults found 17% would feel ashamed if friends and family knew what they looked up online, with 40% of those worrying about sharing the daft thoughts they have.A further four in ten don’t want others to see their inappropriate history, while 37% say it reveals a side of them they don’t want to share.Others would be left red-faced if people knew of their mental health struggles (26%), their lack of knowledge (25%), or their physical problems (15%).Exactly half of those who don’t want to share their internet habits would be most shy about showing their parents.A spokesman for ExpressVPN, which commissioned the research, said: “The internet has become our best friend, but it’s important that we treat it with care.“Our research shows a large part of the country is more open with the internet than they are their own family, for one reason or the other.“People deserve privacy online – including from snooping corporations – and so shouldn’t have to deal with the worry of having their search history exposed.”While parents ranked as the people Brits would be most embarrassed about seeing their unfiltered search history, partners followed closely behind for 40%.The research, carried out by OnePoll.com, revealed 38% would be most embarrassed if their friends saw what they had searched for online – with colleagues following behind on 20%.Among the most common topics the nation would rather search for, as opposed to asking their friends or family, include finding out the meaning of certain words, or wanting to know weight or height conversions (30% respectively).And a fifth would rather

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Endemol Shine India CEO Abhishek Rege To Step Down After 15 Years At Company

Endemol Shine India CEO Abhishek Rege is leaving his post after 15 years with the company. The exec will work closely with his successor, who has yet to be named, during the transition. Rege joined Endemol in 2007 as Head of Commercial and Legal, and was elevated to Chief Operating Officer in 2012, then CEO in 2017. Named one of Asia’s Most Promising Business leaders, he has been pivotal in the company’s growth, leveraging comprehensive markets and industry knowledge while building a high-performance team.

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'ER's' Mary Mara dead at 61; actress drowned while swimming in New York river

Actress Mary Mara "drowned while swimming" and died on Sunday, June 26 in the St. Lawrence River in New York. She was 61.

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‘The Old Man’ Renewed For Season 2 At FX

Jeff Bridges is staying off the grid after FX renewed The Old Man for a second season.

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NBC to Raise Money for Ukraine With Primetime Special Featuring Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Selome Hailu To raise funds and awareness for the war in Ukraine, NBC will air primetime special “Ukraine: Answering the Call” featuring an address from president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on July 3 at 7 p.m.“Ukraine: Answering the Call” aims to respond to previous comments from Zelenskyy, who has challenged Americans to speak up about the war. The hour-long special will also feature appearances from José Andrés, Jon Batiste, Kristen Bell, Brandi Carlile, Brian Cox, Jeff Daniels, Vera Farmiga, Lena Headey, Alicia Keys, Simu Liu, Julianne Moore, Brad Paisley and Rosie Perez.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Reveals Comic-Con TV Lineup: ‘House Of Dragon’, ‘Riverdale’, ‘The Sandman’ & More

Warner Bros. Discovery has revealed its lineup for this year’s San Diego Comic-Con which runs July 21-24.