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  • Thursday, Jul. 20, 2017
Amazon's new social network is looking a lot like Pinterest
This screen grab shows Amazon's new "social network," Amazon Spark, displayed on an iPhone. The service, which launched publicly Tuesday, July 18, 2017, and is only available to Prime members in Amazon's loyalty program, is aimed at hardcore Amazon users and encourages them to spend more money with the e-commerce giant. (Courtesy of Amazon via AP)
By Barbara Ortutay, Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Take Amazon Prime, mix it with Pinterest and add a dash of Instagram. The result is Amazon Spark , a new shopping-focused "social network" aimed at getting hardcore Amazon users to spend even more money with the e-commerce giant.

The service launched publicly on Tuesday on Amazon's iPhone app, although it's already chock full of posts, so the company has clearly been testing it for a while. It's only available to Prime members, who pay $99 a year for free shipping, streaming videos and other perks. An Android version is planned.

Like Pinterest, Spark lets users share photo-heavy posts about their interests, ideally those leading to shopping. "It's to learn more, to sell more and to connect to customers," said Bob Hetu, research director for retail at Gartner.

He noted that it's not intuitive to find Spark on the Amazon app, suggesting that the company is not pushing it hard — at least not yet.

To use it, go to the "programs More

  • Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2017
"Hawaii Five-0" signs 3 new stars in wake of cast departures
This combination photo shows actors Ian Anthony Dale, left, and Meaghan Rath, who will join Beulah Koale in the eighth season of the CBS series, "Hawaii Five-0." (AP Photo/File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

CBS says Ian Anthony Dale, Meaghan Rath and Beulah Koale are set to join the cast of "Hawaii Five-0" with its eighth season.

Wednesday's announcement followed the recent departures of original cast members Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, who exited the police drama after contract disputes.

Dale has had a recurring role on "Hawaii Five-0" as Adam Noshimuri since season two. This summer, he is starring in CBS' suspense thriller "Salvation."

Rath starred in the series "Being Human" and "Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life." Koale appears in the forthcoming feature "Thank You for Your Service."

Continuing "Hawaii Five-0" cast members include Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Chi McBride and Jorge Garcia. The new season begins Sept. 29.

 

  • Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2017
Forest Whitaker guest-stars in a multi-episode "Empire" arc
In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, actor Forest Whitaker poses for photographers at the "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" premiere in London. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

The Fox network says Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker will guest-star in a multi-episode arc on "Empire" this fall.

Whitaker will play "Uncle Eddie," a charismatic music mogul who long ago gave an unknown Lucious Lyon (series star Terrence Howard) his first radio airplay. Now, decades later, Eddie steps up for Lucious at a critical moment during his rehabilitation. A grateful Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) invites Eddie to produce a song in celebration of Empire Entertainment's 20th anniversary.

Whitaker's film credits include last year's "Arrival," ''Lee Daniels' The Butler" and "The Last King of Scotland," for which he won the Oscar for best actor as well as a Golden Globe award.

"Empire" returns for its new season Sept. 27.

  • Tuesday, Jul. 18, 2017
UK advertising watchdog to crack down on gender stereotypes
The Advertising Standards Authority's report on gender stereotypes in advertising
LONDON (AP) -- 

Britain's advertising watchdog says commercials depicting hapless husbands and housework-burdened moms may be bad for the nation's health.

The Advertising Standards Authority said Tuesday it would impose tighter regulation on what it called harmful gender stereotyping.

The regulator said a "tougher line" is needed on ads that feature stereotypical gender roles, including those which mock people for not conforming. Such ads restrict "the choices, aspirations and opportunities of children, young people and adults," it said.

The watchdog, which has previously banned ads for suggesting it was desirable for young women to be unhealthily thin, said it won't ban all stereotypes, such as women cleaning or men doing home improvement jobs.

But ads that depict a woman having sole responsibility for cleaning up the family's mess, or showing "a man trying and failing to undertake simple parental or household tasks," could be banned.

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  • Tuesday, Jul. 18, 2017
Facebook has plans to expand New Mexico data center
In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook reports financial results Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
By Susan Montoya Bryan
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- 

Facebook's plans for New Mexico now call for a half-billion-dollar investment and a data center that will span an area equal to 17 football fields.

Gov. Susana Martinez's office announced early Tuesday that the social media giant will be doubling its investment in the state with the planned expansion of its data center currently under construction near Los Lunas, a rural area just outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico's largest metropolitan area.

The governor praised the announcement, saying Facebook is among the state's key partners as it works to diversify its economy.

"New Mexico's powerful incentives are bringing more opportunities to our state — once again ahead of schedule with more jobs and investment than initially anticipated," the governor said in a statement.

The news comes as New Mexico looks to turn the corner after a crippling budget crisis that stemmed from a downturn in the oil and natural gas sectors and an More

  • Tuesday, Jul. 18, 2017
Photographer sues Procter & Gamble over copyright issues
The Procter & Gamble Co. headquarters building is shown, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
CINCINNATI (AP) -- 

A Cincinnati-area photographer is suing Procter & Gamble, saying the consumer products company didn't pay her for photos that appeared on Olay packaging worldwide.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Cincinnati by photographer Annette Navarro accuses Cincinnati-based P&G of copyright infringement.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the lawsuit accuses P&G of deliberately using photos by Navarro on products beyond an agreed upon period of three years and outside of North America. The lawsuit says the company specifically negotiated to use some images only in North America.

P&G declined to comment on the lawsuit.

Court documents say Navarro photographs models whose images have appeared on packaging for numerous brands, and her photos have dominated packaging for P&G's Olay beauty brand for 14 years.

 

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  • Monday, Jul. 17, 2017
Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau dies at 89
In this Nov. 2, 2009, file photo, Martin Landau, left, and Eva Marie Saint, who were fellow cast members in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film "North by Northwest," pose together at the premiere of the film "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles. Landau died Saturday, July 15, 2017, of unexpected complications during a short stay at UCLA Medical Center, his publicist Dick Guttman said. He was 89. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
By Daisy Nguyen
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Martin Landau, the chameleon-like actor who gained fame as the crafty master of disguise in the 1960s TV show "Mission: Impossible," then capped a long and versatile career with an Oscar for his poignant portrayal of aging horror movie star Bela Lugosi in 1994's "Ed Wood," has died. He was 89.

Landau died Saturday of unexpected complications during a short stay at UCLA Medical Center, his publicist Dick Guttman said.

"Mission: Impossible," which also starred Landau's wife, Barbara Bain, became an immediate hit upon its debut in 1966. It remained on the air until 1973, but Landau and Bain left at the end of the show's third season amid a financial dispute with the producers. They starred in the British-made sci-fi series "Space: 1999" from 1975 to 1977.

Landau might have been a superstar but for a role he didn't play — the pointy-eared starship Enterprise science officer, Mr. Spock. "Star Trek" creator Gene Rodenberry had offered him More

  • Sunday, Jul. 16, 2017
Who's next: Jodie Whittaker 1st female star of "Doctor Who"
In this file photo dated Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, British actress Jodie Whittaker, who starred in TV series Broadchurch, arrives for South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2014, held at the Dorchester hotel in central London. (FILE Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
By Jill Lawless
LONDON (AP) -- 

British actress Jodie Whittaker was announced Sunday as the next star of the long-running science fiction series "Doctor Who" — the first woman to take a role that has been played by a dozen men over six decades.

Whittaker, best known for playing the mother of a murdered boy in detective drama "Broadchurch," will replace Scottish actor Peter Capaldi at the end of the year, the BBC said.

Whittaker is the 13th official incarnation of the Doctor, a galaxy-hopping Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in the Tardis, a time machine shaped like an old-fashioned British police telephone booth.

In a testament to the place "Doctor Who" holds in Britain's cultural life, the revelation was made on live television after the Wimbledon men's tennis final. A film clip showed a mysterious hooded figure — revealed to be Whittaker — walking through the woods.

"Doctor Who" ran from 1963 to 1989, and was revived to acclaim in 2005. Its More

  • Saturday, Jul. 15, 2017
Disney fans get look at "Incredibles 2," "Wreck-It Ralph 2"
n this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, John Lasseter arrives at the world premiere of "Wreck-It Ralph" at El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- 

When it comes to Disney, they like to keep it in the family, whether it's getting a football team's worth of original Disney princesses to cameo in "Wreck-It Ralph 2," reuniting "The Incredibles" fourteen years after the original film hit theaters, or securing a new director for "Toy Story 4."

John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, led a confetti, joke and song-filled presentation of the upcoming animation slate for the studio Friday at the star-studded biannual fan convention D23 in Anaheim, just steps from Disneyland with appearances of people from Kristen Bell to Samuel L. Jackson.

Sporting his signature Disney-themed Hawaiian shirt (this time with "Inside Out" characters) Lasseter, who was also identified as a "former Jungle Cruise Skipper," announced that he would no longer be directing "Toy Story 4." The job is going to "Inside Out" screenwriter Josh Cooley, who was previously going to More

  • Friday, Jul. 14, 2017
Coroner: "The Walking Dead" stuntman dies after on-set fall
In this image released by AMC, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, standing left, and kneeling from left, Danai Gurira, Michael Cudlitz, Andrew Lincoln and Sonequa Martin-Green appear in a scene from "The Walking Dead." (Gene Page/AMC via AP
ATLANTA (AP) -- 

A stuntman for "The Walking Dead" has died after falling on the Georgia set of the hit television show. It's the first on-set death in the U.S. in nearly three years.

John Bernecker, 33, died about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at an Atlanta hospital after falling on the show's set in Senoia, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of Atlanta, Coweta County Coroner Richard Hawk said Friday.

Bernecker died from blunt force trauma and his death is considered accidental, Hawk said.

"The Walking Dead," the often-gory AMC show based on a comic series about people fighting to survive a zombie apocalypse, is filming its eighth season.

Phone and email messages left for AMC representatives were not immediately returned Friday.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation, agency spokesman Michael D'Aquino said in an email Friday.

Bernecker's passing is the first on-set death More

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