Internal emails at Apple, Google, Intel and a number of other high-profile technology companies suggest organisations have been discussing potential anti-poaching agreements, with an apparent intention of dampening competition between ...
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Disney Interactive today unveiled its most ambitious gaming initiative ever, Disney Infinity. This all new game platform unlocks the freedom to create stories and play experiences starring beloved characters from The Walt Disney Company and ...
Disney has lifted the lid on a new video game/toy crossover that is set to challenge Skylanders. Disney Infinity is a video game that brings together characters from a mix of Disney/Pixar IP, including Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the ...
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Head of licensing Darran Garnham (left) and senior consumer products manager Sam Ferguson (right) reveal how they're growing the Moshi Monsters brand even further with Poppet. Why licence out the Poppet Moshi Monster in particular and ...
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One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that simulate organs or organisms, mind you; they ...
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To put clothes on their characters, computer graphic artists usually simulate cloth by creating a thin sheet, then adding some sort of texture. But that doesn’t work for knit sweaters. To make the image realistic, the computer has to ...
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Disney rocked the world this week by announcing it will acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion – AND release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015. The entertainment giant has come a very long way since its 1928 black and white Mickey Mouse film ...
US-based Crosse & Blackwell’s 4Kids range of canned pasta is being re-launched to target the GBP 10m pasta market. The revamped range, with updated packaging and new recipes for the existing seven line-up of pasta in tomato sauce, ...
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Luxo Jr. is Pixar's lamp mascot that you can see hopping around before your movie starts, has been made into a real life object. A replica of the Pixar lamp called Pinokio and was created by three students at Victoria University of ...
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Princes has added new lines to its Crosse & Blackwell 4Kids pasta range in the UK as it relaunches the brand. The UK food and drink group said it will take 4Kids into pasta meals with the launch of two products: pasta with sausages and ...
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And no, it's not that YouTube thing the mean boys did to their mum – it's a REAL scary Toy Story movie. Pixar have announced that this time next year, there will be a brand new TV special called "Toy Story of Terror!" The synopsis ...
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th1ng director Sylvain Chomet,best known for his Oscar-nominated feature films The Illusionist and The Triplets of Belleville,has directed a series of animated commercials for Lake District Cheese Company,which screen in cinemas across ...
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