Month: July 2024

Apple TV+ renews ‘Camp Snoopy’ kids series for season two

Apple Inc July 27, 2024 0

Apple TV+ on Thursday announced a season two for acclaimed kids and family series “Camp Snoopy,” based on the classic Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz and directed by Rob Boutilier (“The Snoopy Show,” “Snoopy in Space”). The complete first season of “Camp Snoopy” is now streaming globally on Apple TV+.

After discovering their troop is in danger of disbanding, Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts set off to immerse themselves in nature and the Great Outdoors, with the Beagle Scout Manual as their guide. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown and friends enjoy their summer at Camp Spring Lake, crossing paths with Snoopy as they experience hiking, swimming, sitting around campfires and everything summer camp and the outdoors have to offer.
Produced for Apple TV+ by Peanuts and WildBrain, “Camp Snoopy” is based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz and is directed by Rob Boutilier (“The Snoopy Show,” “Snoopy in Space”). Executive producers are Craig Schulz, Paige Braddock, Boutilier, Josh Scherba, Stephanie Betts and Logan McPherson.

“Camp Snoopy” joins an exciting slate of new offerings for kids and families on Apple TV+ this summer, featuring the second season of beloved animated series “Frog and Toad,” based on the Caldecott and Newbery Honor-winning books; animated adventure trilogy “WondLa,” based on the New York Times bestselling book series “The Search for WondLa” by Tony DiTerlizzi; highly anticipated kids and family series “Yo Gabba GabbaLand!” inspired by the hit, Emmy Award-nominated cultural phenomenon “Yo Gabba Gabba!”; “Me,” an elevated cinematic coming-of-age story from Barry L. Levy; and “Time Bandits,” starring Lisa Kudrow.

Award-winning all-age offerings now streaming globally on Apple TV+ include celebrated live-action animated hybrid special, “The Velveteen Rabbit,” Academy Award and BAFTA Award-winning animated short film “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” Oscar-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning animated film “Wolfwalkers,” BAFTA Award and Humanitas Prize-winning “El Deafo,” BAFTA Award-winning “Lovely Little Farm,” “Duck & Goose,” “Get Rolling With Otis,” Spin Master Entertainment’s “Sago Mini Friends,” GLAAD Media Award-nominated “Pinecone & Pony,” “Frog and Toad,” The Jim Henson Company’s Emmy Award-winning “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock,” “Harriet the Spy” and “Slumberkins,” Sesame Workshop’s “Helpsters,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt, HITRECORD and Bento Box Entertainment’s “Wolfboy and the Everything Factory,” Jack McBrayer and Angela C. Santomero’s Emmy Award-nominated “Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show,” Peanuts and WildBrain’s Emmy Award-nominated “Snoopy in Space,” “The Snoopy Show,” Scholastic’s “Eva the Owlet” and Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series “Stillwater.” Live-action offerings include Bonnie Hunt’s DGA and WGA Award-nominated “Amber Brown,” DGA Award-winning “Best Foot Forward,” “Surfside Girls,” WGA Award-winning “Life By Ella,” Sesame Workshop and Sinking Ship’s Emmy Award-winning “Ghostwriter,” Emmy Award and Environmental Media Association Award-winning “Jane” and Scholastic’s “Puppy Place.”

Also included are “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth,” the Emmy Award-winning television event based on the New York Times bestselling book and TIME Best Book of the Year by Oliver Jeffers, and specials from Peanuts and WildBrain including Emmy Award-nominated “Snoopy Presents: It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown,” “Snoopy Presents: Lucy’s School,” Humanitas and Emmy Award-nominated “Snoopy Presents: To Mom (and Dad), With Love,” “Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie,” “Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin,” Emmy Award-winning “Snoopy Presents: Who Are You, Charlie Brown?” and “Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne.”

Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 499 wins and 2,262 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and historic Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”

Via: Apple TV+

OpenAI debuts ‘SearchGPT’ AI-powered search engine

CompuScoop Staff July 26, 2024 0

We’re testing SearchGPT, a prototype of new search features designed to combine the strength of our AI models with information from the web to give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources. We’re launching to a small group of users and publishers to get feedback. While this prototype is temporary, we plan to integrate the best of these features directly into ChatGPT in the future. If you’re interested in trying the prototype, sign up for the waitlist.

A new way to search

Getting answers on the web can take a lot of effort, often requiring multiple attempts to get relevant results. We believe that by enhancing the conversational capabilities of our models with real-time information from the web, finding what you’re looking for can be faster and easier.

Designed to give you an answer

SearchGPT will quickly and directly respond to your questions with up-to-date information from the web while giving you clear links to relevant sources.

You’ll be able to ask follow-up questions, like you would in a conversation with a person, with the shared context building with each query.

Via: Open AI

Leagues Cup returns to MLS Season Pass on Apple TV on July 26

Apple Inc July 25, 2024 0

Leagues Cup returns to MLS Season Pass on Apple TV on July 26

The World Cup-style tournament features all 47 clubs from Major League Soccer and Liga MX in a monthlong tournament across North America

Leagues Cup, the first in-season club tournament in North America across all men’s professional sports, begins tomorrow, July 26, and MLS Season Pass will be the only place where fans can watch every match.

The World Cup-style, monthlong tournament features all 47 clubs from Major League Soccer and Mexico’s Liga MX. All clubs pause their regular seasons to participate in the tournament, which concludes with the top three teams receiving automatic bids to the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup. Leagues Cup includes 77 matches in stadiums across the U.S. and Canada, and fans in more than 100 countries and regions can enjoy all the action with an MLS Season Pass subscription.

The upcoming tournament is the second in a historic 10-year partnership between Apple and Major League Soccer. Over 1.3 million fans attended Leagues Cup matches in its inaugural year, 2023, when Inter Miami CF defeated Nashville SC to become the first-ever Leagues Cup champions. Lionel Messi, who made his MLS debut for Inter Miami during last year’s Leagues Cup, was awarded Best Player and Top Scorer with a tournament-best 10 goals.

“I’m really looking forward to the kickoff of Leagues Cup,” said Columbus Crew’s Cucho Hernández. “It’s always going to be exciting winning titles with this club — we are in a very positive dynamic as a group, want to achieve things, and will give it our all in every game. It will also be exciting for fans who can enjoy watching teams from farther away that they may not have been able to see live.”

“Leagues Cup matchups are fun and entertaining for both players and fans, and I’m excited to play against teams from Liga MX,” said LAFC’s Denis Bouanga. “The tournament is a great opportunity to win a trophy, and we’re always trying to win more trophies at LAFC.”

“For me, it’s all about competition — that’s nonnegotiable,” said Tigres UANL’s André-Pierre Gignac. “It’s been great to see the growth of Leagues Cup, and I’m excited to compete.”

“It’s an honor to compete with MLS in Leagues Cup, which is a beautiful tournament,” said CF Monterrey’s Germán Berterame. “I’m looking forward to the matches and hope that this time will be in favor of LMX!”

How to Watch on MLS Season Pass

MLS Season Pass will feature every live Leagues Cup match all in one place, with no blackouts. Matches will be available in English, Spanish, or French where available. Subscribers get exclusive on-demand content and the most expansive and accessible programming lineup ever, including Leagues Cup Countdown and Leagues Cup Wrap-Up in English, and Leagues Cup La Previa and Leagues Cup El Resumen in Spanish.

Fans can watch up to four simultaneous matches at once with Multiview on Apple TV 4K devices and on iPad, so they never have to miss a minute of the action.¹ And with the new Catch Up feature, viewers who tune in for a match after kickoff can watch all the key moments before joining live, helping them enjoy the match even more.² Once Catch Up is selected, fans are immersed in a series of key plays — which have been automatically selected — including goals, penalty kicks, red cards, and certain shots and saves. Once each key play ends, users are automatically taken to the next play and can seamlessly skip between plays at any time.

MLS Season Pass is available through the Apple TV app on Apple devices, smart TVs, streaming devices, set-top boxes, and game consoles, as well as on the web at tv.apple.com. Fans can also access MLS Season Pass from the Apple TV app on Apple Vision Pro, where they can watch games alongside other apps in their physical space; within an Environment, so the screen feels 100 feet wide; and in Spatial Audio for an even more immersive viewing experience.

Apple Sports Keeps Fans Up to Speed

For a deeper look at Leagues Cup stats and standings, iPhone users can follow the action with Apple Sports, a free app for iPhone that gives sports fans a simple and fast way to stay up to speed on the teams and leagues they love. Users can easily navigate between scores and upcoming games; explore play-by-play information, team stats, lineup details, and live betting odds; and tap to go to the Apple TV app to watch live games from Apple and connected streaming apps.³ Apple Sports also seamlessly syncs with favorites selected within the My Sports experience, including in the Apple TV app and Apple News.

More Ways to Celebrate Leagues Cup

Apple Music will introduce player warmup playlists to celebrate select matches throughout Leagues Cup. The Leagues Cup anthem, “Nuestros Colores,” is available to all Apple Music listeners within the MLS Season Pass dedicated space. Select MLS and Liga MX Club playlists will also refresh with the latest top hits.

The fan favorite Offside with Taylor Twellman on Apple Podcasts will launch dedicated episodes unpacking major plays, news, and storylines of Leagues Cup. Hosted by MLS Season Pass lead analyst Taylor Twellman, the podcast is the perfect companion to all the MLS action and features athletes, coaches, and executives from global professional soccer, and high-profile guests. The weekly show is available for free on Apple Podcasts.

For even more on the latest action from around the league, fans can start every week with Twellman’s Takes on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, YouTube, and TikTok.

In Apple Maps, fans can explore a new Guide to every stadium where MLS clubs play to learn more about the history, unique features, and supporter traditions of the 30 stadiums at the epicenter of soccer culture in North America. Maps is also launching brand-new Guides from MLS and Liga MX players in English and Spanish, including Inter Miami’s Benjamin Cremaschi, Columbus Crew’s Cucho Hernández, Monterrey’s Brandon Vázquez, and Guadalajara’s Antonio “Pollo” Briseño, featuring their favorite spots in the cities where they play.

Multiview is supported on iPad (7th generation) or later.
The new Catch Up feature requires users to update to the latest software on Apple devices and update the Apple TV app on all other devices, including smart TVs, streaming devices, set-top boxes, and game consoles.
Apple Sports is free to download, and is available for all iPhone models running iOS 17.2 or later.

Apple launches Apple Maps on the web in beta

Apple Inc July 24, 2024 0

On Wednesday, Apple Maps on the web debuted in public beta form (as Apple Maps itself should’ve been launched back in 2012), allowing users around the world to access Maps directly from their browser (availability varies depending on region).

Now, users can get driving and walking directions; find great places and useful information including photos, hours, ratings, and reviews; take actions like ordering food directly from the Maps place card; and browse curated Guides to discover places to eat, shop, and explore in cities around the world. Additional features, including Look Around, will be available in the coming months.

All developers, including those using MapKit JS, can also link out to Maps on the web, so their users can get driving directions, see detailed place information, and more.

Maps on the web is currently available in English, and is compatible with Safari and Chrome on Mac and iPad, as well as Chrome and Edge on Windows PCs. Support for additional languages, browsers, and platforms will be expanded over time.