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Here's where to watch the 2023 Oscars and where you can stream all the Best Picture nominees

John Callaham — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:00:02 +0000

The 95th Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, will begin at 8 pm Eastern time on Sunday, March 12, but you can watch most of the Best Picture nominees at home or on your mobile device now. Read more...

Netflix has introduced a new feature in honor of the upcoming Oscar Awards

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:58:01 +0000

The 91st Academy Awards are just a few weeks away, and Netflix has rolled out an interesting new sidebar feature in light of the upcoming awards ceremony more commonly known as The Oscars. Read more...

'The Revenant' leaker arrested, faces three years in jail

Paul Hill — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:58:01 +0000

The FBI has arrested a Californian man for sharing "The Revenant" on piracy sites in December. He has agreed to plead guilty to copyright infringement which carries a maximum sentence of three years. Read more...

Microsoft nearly sweeps the Oscars with Bing predictions

Shreyas Gandhe — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:02:45 +0000

Microsoft released their predictions for the 2015 Academy Awards using the power of Cortana and Bing and nearly all of those have been correct with better success in top categories. Read more...

Bing and Cortana predict Oscar winners days ahead of event

Steven Parker — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has been on a bit of a roll lately with its prediction service at Bing, and now it is taking the bold step of naming the award winners before the ceremony even takes place. Read more...

Nokia US makes fun of Samsung for "blurry" Oscar selfies

John Callaham — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:43:04 +0000

Nokia's US branch is making fun, via Twitter, of Samsung's "blurry" photos that were taken by Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres during the Oscars on Sunday night. Read more...

Ellen's Oscar selfie breaks Twitter; sets a new retweet record (over 2 million and counting)

John Callaham — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 05:51:56 +0000

Twitter briefly went down on Sunday evening thanks to Ellen DeGeneres as the Oscar host posted an all-star selfie pick and racked up the most retweets in history, with over 2 million and counting. Read more...

Microsoft teams up with AP for Xbox 360-based Oscar coverage

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:22:50 +0000

Microsoft will team up with the Associated Press to offer Xbox 360 owners a live stream of the red carpet arrivals for the Academy Awards tonight, along with online polls and Xbox SmartGlass support. Read more...

Microsoft Research and Office team up to predict the 2013 Oscar winners

John Callaham — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:57:17 +0000

David Rothschild of Microsoft Research is working on formulas to predict the winners of the 2013 Academy Awards and his teamed up with Office on an Excel Oscar prediction app. Read more...

Apple airs new iPad TV commercial at the Oscars

Tom Warren — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:03:31 +0000

Apple added to the iPad hype on Sunday as it unveiled a new TV commercial during the Oscars awards. The commercial demonstrates most of what we have already seen and know about the iPad. It finishes... Read more...