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As Microsoftlayoffs continue to cast a shadow over many operations at the company, users are reporting mass outages this morning for Outlook and Hotmail. Login issues are the primary culprit, as users are experiencing problems accessing their email or connecting to Microsoft's servers.

Several thousand users are affected as Microsoft attempts to resolve the issue as soon as possible. While email outages aren't particularly common, they're generally a high-priority item for organizations like Microsoft to address, mainly because many of their employees rely on Hotmail and Outlook for communication.

Why Are Outlook and Hotmail Down? Microsoft is "Working" On A Fix

Microsoft has apparently "identified the issue" and is "continuing to deploy the fix" as many go without email this morning. The issue isn't fully widespread throughout all of Outlook and Hotmail thankfully, as many users are able to access their email without issue, especially outside of the United States.

The 1979 Atari 2600 game Video Chess has claimed another victim. After handily winning against ChapGPT in June of this year, the Atari 2600 managed to best Microsoft Copilot in a game of chess. As numerous publishers rush to develop the best and brightest "AI" tools, many of them are stumbling over each other, especially those that attempt to be advanced catch-all search engines sold as miracle serums.

Robert Caruso, a curious Citrix Engineer, managed to stage the contest and reported the bout on LinkedIn. After checking in with Copilot and ensuring that it could play chess, the AI was "brimming with confidence," a level of hubris that would ultimately lead to its downfall. Copilot even boasted that it could track the board better than ChatGPT, adding an extra level of confidence to the mix. After all that, it still lost against a retro champion.

How Is A 1979 Game Beating Modern AI? Elementary,...

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We are constantly making improvements behind the scenes to present the best original reporting and storytelling on the business of broadcasting, media, advertising and measurement to our readers.

Earlier this week, we made some changes to some of the tools that help deliver our articles to third-party partners, including Microsoft News and Google News, and some platforms that use our stories to train and develop their artificial intelligence tools, including Microsoft CoPilot.

These changes required an update to our RSS feed, which is used by some of our partners to ingest stories from our platform. A number of our readers also use one or more of our public RSS feeds to read our content within certain apps like Feedly, NewsBlur, Inoreader and built-in newsreaders offered by mail clients like Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook.

While most readers will automatically see the new RSS feed within their apps and services,...

The front of the New York Times building in New York City. (Photo by samchills on Flickr / Creative Commons image)

The New York Times has signed a multi-year agreement to license its editorial and lifestyle content to Amazon.

The deal will allow Amazon’s platforms to tap into news stories, recipes, sports columns and other content published across the New York Times and its various brands, including Nyt Cooking and The Athletic, the companies said on Thursday.

Amazon will leverage the Times editorial and lifestyle content to power its artificial intelligence solutions across a number of different products, including its Alexa-enabled smart speakers and screens.

Financial terms were not disclosed. The Times said it was the first licensing agreement to involve their editorial content being repurposed through artificial intelligence tools.

“The deal is consistent with our long-held principle that high-quality journalism is worth paying for,” Meredith Kopit Levien, the CEO of the Times,...

As part of its recent expansion towards incorporating AI in just about everything, Microsoft has announced a ‘Copilot for Gaming’, which aims to assist players across multiple genres of video games across a wide variety of tasks.

Ethical and accuracy related concerns aside, this is quite the strange move, and has not been taken kindly by content creators and netizens alike. Users have lashed out at Xbox, accusing them of undoing years of hard work put together by content creators in the form of AI-generated content.

Xbox’s Copilot For Gaming Initiative Kicks Off with A Mostly Negative Response Xbox’s Copilot for gaming in action | Image Credits: Xbox

Xbox has revealed an AI ‘gaming coach’ of sorts, which is set to improve player skills as well as guide them across a proper course while playing through multiple popular video game tiles – such as Minecraft, as depicted within the brief but informative official blog post.

Sunday Am: Refresh for chart and analysis… Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World came in slightly better on Saturday with $27.5M from what we saw last night; this is from the extra ticket sales that roll into Comscore overnight. Rivals firmly believe that we have the first $100M opener on hand for 2025’s domestic B.O., and Disney believes that as well. Global opening is at $192.4M which is roughly $2M higher than where Nancy and I spotted it.

For a B- CinemaScore MCU movie — a $100M opening? We’ll take it. Very good job, Disney.

Box office stat firm EntTelligence says 5.7M people went to see Captain America: Brave New World over the 3-day ($88.5M) off average ticket prices of $15.17 (general) and $18.60 (general Pdf). In regards to Saturday’s business, 51% of the crowd went to see Brave New World before 5Pm.

Brave New World‘s opening is the...

Four major generative AI chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI – did a shoddy job of summarizing the news, a study by the BBC found.

The organization fed content from its website to the services and then asked them questions about the news. More than half of the answers contained “significant inaccuracies” and distortions, the BBC said.

Examples of errors included Gemini incorrectly saying the UK’s National Health Service did not recommend vaping as an aid to quit smoking and ChatGPT and Copilot both wrongly indicating that politicians Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon were still in office. Perplexity also misquoted a BBC News report about the Middle East, saying Iran showed “restraint” and calling Israel’s actions “aggressive” – adjectives that did not appear in the initial news report.

“The price of AI’s extraordinary benefits must not be a world where people searching for answers are served distorted,...

As AI technology continues to become more advanced, the comic industry is taking steps to deal with its rapidly growing presence. The last few years have shaken many comic creators who are sounding the alarm bells over the potential threat that AI presents.

Artificial intelligence has boomed in popularity, from services such as ChatGPT to organizational tools like Copilot. It has even made its way into the art sphere with programs like Midjourney, Dall-e, and Stable Diffusion. Comic book professionals have been disturbed at the implications of AI and its potential to replace artists, and in Europe, creators are handling this issue in a variety of ways.

European Comic Publishers Take a Stand Against AI But Some See the Value of AI in Comic Creation

Per The Star, Europe's comic scene is at an inflection point when it comes to artificial intelligence. The European Union's copyright laws don't explicitly cover AI-generated art,...

Michael Strahan was on Good Morning America this week and was involved in a discussion that “creeped him out.” This was unusual for the former NFL Hall of Fame defensive star. He is usually able to talk about a variety of topics, and nothing bothers him too much.

However, here is what happened with Strahan on Good Morning America this week.

Michael Strahan Creeped Out During GMA Discussion

Michael Strahan participated in a discussion on Good Morning America with Trevor Ault. While discussing the new Microsoft AI companion, Copilot, the GMA hosts, including Michael, Robin Roberts, and George Stephanopoulos, were intrigued.

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Trevor said that Copilot was “designed to be emotionally intelligent” and might be “more human than anything we’ve ever seen before.” He said he was conversing with Copilot, and he told the AI he was tired. As a result, the AI asked him later if...

Following his stellar career in the NFL, Michael Strahan has become a fan favorite on Good Morning America.

He’s known for his days as an imposing defensive star with the New York Giants, often striking fear in his opponents’ hearts and minds.

He’s since moved on to a television career, joining Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos as the regular GMA co-anchors for the weekday episodes.

In addition, he appears on Sundays as an analyst with Fox NFL Sunday alongside co-stars, including Rob Gronkowski, Terry Bradshaw, and Howie Long.

It’s likely not often that something scares Michael on TV, although he recently reacted to one co-worker’s remarks that genuinely might have.

During an on-air discussion, he admitted that parts of what a co-star told him were “creeping [him] out.”

Michael told GMA co-star ‘you’re creeping me out’

During a GMA segment, Trevor Ault presented his story about...

The reaction of co-creator John Tobias, who played a major role in bringing the Mortal Kombat brand to where it is today, to a fan art produced by artificial intelligence is still palpable even in 2024. This sentiment is especially relevant in the current period, as artificial intelligence has developed and become incredibly powerful

A new era in AI began with OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in 2022. Today, there are many tools that can generate images, sounds, and videos, which naturally pose a potential threat to many industries. So, is this technology beneficial for the gaming world, or does it still need further development?

Mortal Kombat Co-Creator John Tobias’ Reaction to AI Generated Fan Art Still Applies

In 2022, a designer used AI tools to generate Mortal Kombat‘s popular character, Scorpion, and shared the results on social media. Using the inputs ‘Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion, intricate fire and desert details,’ the...

Microsoft recently announced the integration of its own artificial intelligence, named Copilot, with games like Minecraft. The company’s demo showcased the Xbox AI’s ability to guide the player towards the next goal, acting as a tutorial or guidance feature.

Many users expressed dissatisfaction with this new feature on X, arguing that games should not provide assistance during gameplay. Most users compared this to a Wiki, a resource for games where you can find answers when you become stuck.

Minecraft Has Reached a New Level of Gameplay Thanks to the Xbox AI Minecraft can now use Copilot from Microsoft to actively help the player.

One of the go-to games that Microsoft has used over the years to introduce new technology that involves gaming is Minecraft. This sandbox has added many new features that make the experience more immersive and diverse. After Mojang was acquired by the owners of Xbox,...

A coalition of eight daily newspapers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, expanding a growing front in the legal battle over the unauthorized use of articles to power artificial intelligence technology.

The lawsuit, filed in New York federal court on Tuesday, is at least the fourth complaint brought against the Sam Altman-led firm over copyright issues associated with training the automated chatbots that have vaulted the company to a multibillion-dollar valuation and sparked rivals to pour troves of cash into competing technology. It argues that thousands of their articles were used to train the AI systems that power ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and other products that now effectively compete against them.

The publishers — The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register and St. Paul Pioneer Press — are all owned by investment firm Alden Global Capital.

New Delhi, Sep 13 (Ians) Enterprise software major Salesforce on Wednesday announced the new AI-powered platform “Einstein 1” for customer companies that will give them the ability to safely connect any data to build AI-powered apps with low-code and deliver entirely new Crm experiences.

The company also said that the new Einstein 1 Data Cloud is natively integrated with the Einstein 1 Platform, so customers can connect any data to create a unified profile of their customers and infuse AI, automation, and analytics into every customer experience.

“Now, with Data Cloud and Einstein AI native on the Einstein 1 Platform, companies can easily create AI-powered apps and workflows that supercharge productivity, reduce costs, and deliver amazing customer experiences,” Parker Harris, Co-Founder and Cto, Salesforce, said in a statement.

Salesforce also announced that every customer with Enterprise Edition or above can now get started with Data Cloud at no cost.

Customers can start ingesting, harmonising, and...

San Francisco, Aug 12 (Ians) Microsoft is bringing generative AI to frontline field workers by incorporating its Copilot AI assistant into its field services platform, which not only streamlines workflows but also allows supervisors to see what technicians are doing on the job.

Copilot will be added to the Dynamics 365 service, which will be used by field workers such as cable technicians and electricians, as well as a wide range of other jobs in facilities, manufacturing and healthcare, according to The Verge.

When using Copilot, service requests sent via Outlook will automatically pre-populate information, such as how many times the same customer has requested service in the past.

Supervisors can review work orders before distributing them to field workers.

These work orders will also recommend specific people for the job based on their travel time, availability, and skill set by fall this year, according to the report.

According to Lili Cheng,...

New Delhi, Aug 12 (Ians) After iOS and Android, Microsoft has now announced to shut down its digital assistant Cortana app on Windows 11.

While Cortana in Windows as a standalone app is deprecated, the support for Cortana in Teams mobile, Microsoft Teams display, and Microsoft Teams Rooms will end in the fall of 2023.

“Cortana in Outlook mobile will continue to be available. We understand this may affect the way you work, but there are new and exciting ways you can get help with your tasks, calendar, email, and more,” The company said in an update.

Cortana originally started as a digital assistant in Windows Phone, and was later integrated into Windows, with support for voice commands, reminders, and the ability to open applications.

However, Cortana struggled to compete with its rivals like Alexa or Google Assistant.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admitted in 2019 that Cortana had fallen behind competitors.

Three years ago,...

San Francisco, July 21 (Ians) Microsoft-owned open-source software platform GitHub has announced that the Copilot Chat is now available as a “limited” public beta for all business users on Visual Studio and Vs Code.

“This new evolution turns GitHub Copilot into a context-aware conversational assistant right in the Ide, allowing developers to execute some of the most complex tasks with simple prompts,” the company said in a blogpost on Thursday.

“Every developer on your team, from the least to the most experienced, will be able to build entire applications or debug vast arrays of code in a matter of minutes instead of a matter of days.” According to the company, the Copilot Chat is contextually aware of the code a developer has typed, what error messages are shown, and it’s deeply embedded into the integrated development environment (Ide).

Key features of the GitHub Copilot Chat include providing real-time guidance tailored to specific coding challenges,...

New Delhi, July 19 (Ians) Microsoft has announced the pricing for its AI-infused Copilot for Microsoft 365, which will cost $30 per user per month for business accounts.

“Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available for commercial customers for $30 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers when broadly available,” Microsoft said in a blogpost on Tuesday.

According to the company, the Microsoft 365 Copilot is built on the company’s trusted and comprehensive approach to enterprise-grade security, privacy, identity, compliance and responsible AI, making it enterprise-ready.

The Gpt-4-powered suite of tools will let businesses generate Office content using natural-language text prompts.

“Copilot jump-starts your creativity in Word, analyses data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarises meetings in Teams — whether you attended or not — and so much more,” Microsoft said.

In May, the tech giant announced the expansion of its Microsoft 365 Copilot paid Early...

San Francisco, July 19 (Ians) Tech giant Microsoft has introduced Bing Chat Enterprise which delivers artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chat for work.

Bing Chat Enterprise is rolling out in preview which means that more than 160 million people already have access, the company said in a blogpost on Tuesday.

It offers organisations AI-powered chat for work with commercial data protection. With Bing Chat Enterprise, user and business data — received and sent — are protected and will not leak outside the organisation.

“Chat data is not saved, and Microsoft has no eyes-on access– which means no one can view your data. And, your data is not used to train the models,” the tech giant explained.

“Whether researching industry insights, analysing data, or looking for inspiration, Bing Chat Enterprise gives people access to better answers, greater efficiency and new ways to be creative.”

Just like Bing Chat, Bing Chat Enterprise is grounded in web data and provides complete,...

San Francisco, June 22 (Ians) Microsoft has announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer that can solve impactful problems that even the most powerful supercomputers cannot.

To build the quantum supercomputer, Microsoft said that it “will follow a similar path as classical supercomputers did in the 20th century. From vacuum tubes to transistors, to integrated circuits, advances in underlying technology will enable scale and impact”.

According to the company, quantum hardware will fall into one of the three categories of Quantum Computing Implementation Levels, which include Level 1 — Foundational (Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum); Level 2 — Resilient (reliable logical qubits); and Level 3 — Scale (Quantum supercomputers).

Presently, Microsoft has achieved the first milestone towards a quantum supercomputer.

“We can now create and control Majorana quasiparticles. With this achievement, we’re well on our way to engineering a new hardware-protected qubit. With it, we can then engineer reliable logical qubits to reach the Resilient...

San Francisco, May 20 (Ians) Apple has reportedly restricted the internal use of AI chatbot ChatGPT and GitHub’s Copilot over concerns that its confidential data may end up with developers who trained the AI models on user data.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the iPhone maker is “concerned workers could release confidential data as it develops its own similar technology”.

Apple has restricted the use of ChatGPT and other external AI tools for some employees “as it develops its own similar technology,” according to a document reviewed by WSJ.

The tech giant is developing its own generative AI models but didn’t expand on what they may be used for, according to the report.

In March, The New York Times reported that multiple teams at Apple, including the one working on Siri, are experimenting with language-generating AI.

ChatGPT is reportedly on the list of restricted software at Apple for months.

Bengaluru, April 27 (Ians) Microsoft-owned open source software platform GitHub on Thursday announced Kyle Daigle as Chief Operating Officer (COO), the companys first since 2021.

Daigle is currently VP, Strategy and Chief of Staff to the CEO, working closely with CEO Thomas Dohmke.

“Today, more than 100 million developers rely on GitHub and we’re rapidly building the complete developer platform, secure at every step and powered by AI through the advancements of GitHub Copilot and the vision we’ve shared for Copilot X,” said Daigle.

He will oversee GitHub’s work to scale the company as it turns to a remote-first approach. GitHub now has more than 3,000 employees.

“I’ll be investing in our culture and business strategy, in who we are and how we work, and how we share that with the world,” said Daigle.

The open source developer platform has reached 100 million members globally, and is growing fast in...

New Delhi, April 26 (Ians) Professional social networking platform LinkedIn now has 100 million members in India, up 19 per cent year-on-year, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella has informed.

The Microsoft-owned LinkedIn saw record engagement in the March quarter as more than 930 million members globally now turn to the professional social network to connect, learn, sell and get hired.

“Member growth accelerated for the seventh consecutive quarter as we expanded to new audiences. We now have 100 million members in India, up 19 per cent,” Nadella said during the company’s Q3 2023 earnings call late on Tuesday.

As Gen Z enters the workforce, “We saw 73 per cent year-over-year increase in the number of student sign-ups,” Nadella added.

LinkedIn Talent Solutions continues to help hirers connect to job seekers and professionals to build the skills they need to access opportunity.

“Our hiring business took share for the third consecutive quarter. The excitement around AI is...

New Delhi, April 21 (Ians) Microsoft has announced “Copilot for Viva”, along with the introduction of “Viva Glint”, to help organisations create a more engaged and productive workforce.

Viva is Microsoft’s employee experience platform, which integrates goals, staff communications, learning, workplace analytics, and feedback.

Copilot in Microsoft Viva will begin rolling out to customers later in 2023, while the company will start to roll out Viva Glint to customers in July 2023.

With Copilot, Microsoft Viva takes advantage of next-generation AI to accelerate this new performance equation, where engagement and productivity together lead to better business outcomes and success.

Other than Viva Glint, Copilot is being introduced in Viva Goals, Viva Engage, Viva Learning, Viva Topics and more.

Viva Glint is a survey tool that helps measure and improve employee engagement.

Moreover, “Viva Goals” simplifies goal setting by assisting leaders through the process of generating objectives and key results (OKRs), as well...

San Francisco, April 7 (Ians) Microsoft has announced that it is adding its new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “Microsoft 365 Copilot” assistant to OneNote.

“As your notetaking partner, Copilot uses your prompts to draft plans, generate ideas, create lists, organise information, and more. Copilot can transform existing text by summarising, rewriting, formatting, and adding visual context,” said Greg Mace, a product manager for OneNote.

Moreover, the company said that this tool combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with users’ data from the Microsoft Graph — notes, calendars, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and more — and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn their words into a powerful productivity tool.

All of this is done in accordance with the company’s existing enterprise data security and privacy commitments.

Further, users can also ask the AI assistant to create a plan for an event or generate topics and talking points for meetings in OneNote.

However,...

Skylar Astin as Todd and Marcia Gay Harden as Margaret in ‘So Help Me Todd’ episode 15

A hacker turns to Margaret for help on CBS’s So Help Me Todd season one episode 15. Directed by Jay Karas from a script by Steven Paul Martinez, episode 15 will air on Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden stars as Margaret Wright, Skylar Astin plays Todd Wright, and Tristen J. Winger is Lyle. Madeline Wise plays Allison, Inga Schlingmann is Susan, and Rosa Arredondo stars as Francey.

Episode 15 guest stars include Laila Robins and Genea Charpentier.

“Ivan the Terrible” Plot: Margaret represents a gifted 17-year-old hacker charged with releasing classified defense documents and faces off against her college nemesis. Also, Todd is tasked with babysitting the teen hacker for the duration of the trial.

Season 1 Episode 1 Preview Season 1 Episode 2 “Co-Pilot” Preview Season 1 Episode 3 “Second Second Change” Preview Season 1 Episode...

Duo are behind Dominik Moll’s ’The Night of the 12th’

Haut et Court’s Carole Scotta and Barbara Letellier were named best producers of the year at the 16th annual edition of France’s Academy of Film Arts & Sciences’ Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize held on Monday night (February 14) in Paris.

The duo are notably behind Dominik Moll’s investigative drama The Night Of The 12th, which has been sweeping awards season in France, winning the Best Film Lumiere Award and nominated for 10 César awards.

A swanky gala dinner celebrated the winning pair along with the finalists for the prize,...

New Delhi, Jan 26 (Ians) Microsoft-owned open source developer platform GitHub has reached 100 million members globally, and is growing fast in India too where it has crossed 10 million developers on the platform.

This makes the country the second largest developer community on GitHub, behind the US.

In 2015, almost a third of developers on GitHub were from North America.

Today, some of the fastest-growing regions are far away from the US, for example, in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.

“In India alone, more than 10 million developers use GitHub to build software. And in Brazil, over 3 million new developers use GitHub,” the company said.

If this user growth continues, GitHub predicts that users in India will match the current US GitHub developer population by 2025.

“This global exchange of ideas is helping democratise who a developer is, what they work on, and where they live. Developers today are committing code, contributing documentation,...

The first season of The Flight Attendant was one of 2020’s most talked-about TV series, and it was rewarded with nine Emmy Award nominations the following year. Kaley Cuoco was one of those nominees, both as a producer and as the show’s star. The role of Cassie was an unexpected one from Cuoco, who made […]

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‘The Rig’ First Look

Up top is your first look at Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming series The Rig, which shot in Scotland this year. The show stars Iain Glen, Emily Hampshire and Martin Compston as the crew of the Kinloch Bravo oil rig stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea. When they are due to be collected and return to the mainland a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through, cutting them off from the outside world. The series was created by David Macpherson and directed by John Strickland; Amazon will release in 2022.

German Oscar submissions

German Films has named the shortlist for its International Oscar submission this year, with 10 titles in contention. A nine-member committee will watch each picture and select the film that will go forward to the Academy. The 10 movies are: Copilot (Die Welt Wird Eine Andere Sein) – dir. Anne Zohra Berrached...

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom, as with most other fandoms, people have relationships they want to see happen. Shipping is a big part of fandom for some people, and often some of the most popular relationships are between characters that never get together officially in the canon. In the MCU, Steve and Natasha are both shipped in a variety of relationships since they are main and popular characters, and it’s also very common for them to be shipped together romantically.

Related: 5 MCU Couples Everyone Loved (& 5 That Were Just Annoying)

However, some fans really enjoy their friendship and see them more as friends. Both of these interpretations for their relationship make a lot of sense, and there are good reasons why they should remain friends as well as reasons they’d make a great romantic couple.

The distributor has also picked up a SXSW drama.

Eve Gabereau’s Modern Films has acquired UK and Ireland rights to three dramas set to screen at the Berlinale’s Summer Special and a title first seen at SXSW.

The London-based firm has picked up Memory Box, directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, from The Playtime Group; Anna Zohra Berrached’s Copilot from The Match Factory; and Jacqueline Lentzou’s Moon, 66 Questions from Luxbox

Modern Films has also added Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife to its release slate, following its debut at SXSW, in a deal with Memento International.

The Berlin Film Festival has revealed 12 titles from 16 countries that will compete in the festival’s Encounters strand, including Denis Côté’s “Social Hygiene” from Canada, Alice Diop’s “We” from France, and Fern Silva’s “Rock Bottom Riser” from the U.S.

The selections also take in “As I Want” (Egypt/France/Norway/Palestine) by Samaher Alqadi; “Azor” (Switzerland/France/Argentina) by Andreas Fontana; “The Beta Test” (U.S./U.K.) by Jim Cummings, Pj McCabe; and “Bloodsuckers (Germany) by Julian Radlmaier.

Also competing will be “The Girl and the Spider” (Switzerland) by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher; “District Terminal” (Iran/Germany) by Bardia Yadegari, Ehsan Mirhosseini; “Moon, 66 Questions” (Greece/France) by Jacqueline Lentzou; “The Scary of Sixty-First” (U.S.) by Dasha Nekrasova; and “Taste” (Vietnam/Singapore/France/Thailand/Germany/Taiwan) by Lê Bảo.

The Encounters strand supports new or innovative voices in cinema. A jury will choose winners for best film,...