Three new clips have been released from Up in the Air director Jason Reitman’s new pic Young Adult. Written by Diablo Cody (Juno), the film centers on an alcoholic young adult novelist who ventures back to her hometown in order to pursue her now-married high school boyfriend. Charlize Theron is already turning heads for her nasty performance, and the more I see of the film the more excited I am to see it. Reitman’s a fantastic storyteller and Cody’s script is said to be very, very dark.

Hit the jump to watch the clips. The film also stars Patton ... Read more »

Venture capital firm, with Facebook, SpaceX, Spotify investments, raise mega fund.

Venture capital firm Founders Fund has raised a fourth fund, totaling $625 million. Previous funds were raised in 2005, the year of the firm's inception, as well as in 2007 and 2010. Facebook's Peter Thiel and Sean Parker list among the partners of the San Francisco-based firm.

Founders Fund is well-known as one of the first investors in Facebook, Spotify, and many other high-profile companies.

And as the name would suggests, Founders Fund describes its philosophy to ventures as "founder-supportive," which translates to giving entrepreneurs space to develop their products and/or services without the intrusion of what Founders Fund representative Tobey Proskey calls, "adult supervision."

"From the beginning, we've alw ... Read more »

Julian Assange has credited his Australian upbringing with providing the motivation to launch WikiLeaks. However in a documentary aired in the UK on Tuesday night, he was been attacked by a British journalist and labelled an "extraordinarily dishonest man”.

JULIAN ASSANGE has credited his Australian upbringing with providing the motivation to launch WikiLeaks.

Mr Assange, who returns to Britain’s High Court next week for his appeal against extradition to Sweden, was speaking in a television documentary, WikiLeaks Secrets and Lies, which screened on Britain’s Channel Four on Tuesday night.

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Danish developer IO Interactive will release Hitman: Absolution in 2012, and then begin collaborating with Square Enix's just-announced Montreal studio on another entry in the franchise -- but that's not all.

With two studios on Hitman, IO has the opportunity to create a new IP, and studio head Niels Jorgensen tells Gamasutra that's exactly what the team will do. In a new interview, to be published in full on Gamasutra tomorrow, we learned part of IO will collaborate with Square Enix Montreal, and the rest will be developing a new property.

[UPDATE: A Square-Enix rep also told Gamasutra that additionally, IO "will roll onto another Hitman ... Read more »

Pete Naughton previews a new documentary on the internet's biggest social network, in which the BBC's Emily Maitlis meets 27 year-old Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.


it feels strange to call Mark Zuckerberg, the doe-eyed 27-year-old CEO and co-creator of Facebook, a business magnate – the phrase evokes pictures of hard-bitten, rough-handed men such as Henry Ford. But a magnate he is, with a net worth estimated at $17.5 billion (£11.2 billion) and a sphere of influence that currently extends to the 800-million-and-counting users of his social network.

According to information the Internet activist and 18-year-old programmer did a donation of 10.000 dollars to a foundation that helps the children and young women with disabilities and critical illnesses., - the foundation of the Canadian Avril Lavigne and his project R.O.C.K.S.  Respect, opportunities, options, knowledge and force in support of the children and young women who live with critical illnesses and disabilities.


With the years, Lavigne has taken his time to create conscience and I support charitable organizations of the whole world. Clearly reflexive in his paper like activist, Lavigne to do advantage of doing a difference of a world that he needs. As she says, " she Is in moments as these in on those that they must ... Read more »

NEW YORK Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the reconstruction of the World Trade Centre shows the city has finally turned the corner from the trauma of September 11, 2001.

Speaking five days before the 10th anniversary of the attacks, the mayor described lower Manhattan's resurrection as ''one of the greatest comeback stories in American history''.

Predictions that New York couldn't recover from the impact of the attacks had been proved wrong, he said.