WaterCooler

How much energy does AI use? According to the popular AI-powered answer engine Perplexity, ChatGPT or similar large-language models consume about 2.9 watt-hours per query. It also added that this (…)

Lately, it seems like the job of fact checkers (those in the media who uncover wrong or false information) is taking a beating even from the mainstream press. On May (…)

MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo returns to Rome from October 6 to 10, 2025. This year, nearly 500 projects from 81 countries were submitted to the Co-Production Market and Pitching (…)

By Mike Reynolds

October 11, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of NBC’s late-night show Saturday Night Live, but in recent weeks some industry insiders have been wondering if the show will (…)

The MIP Africa TV market opened on September 1, 2025 on a cool, sunny day in Cape Town, South Africa, where it is the end of winter. But it’ll be (…)

By Mike Reynolds — While the U.S. Television Critics Association (TCA) may not be having its twice-a-year press tours, at least its press members are actually watching TV enough to (…)

In 2025, 91 years after DuBose Hayward wrote Summertime and the Living is Easy (musically arranged by George Gershwin), summer has become a busy month, as VideoAge‘s August/September Issue (…)

The recent passing of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell at the age of 97 made VideoAge‘s Water Cooler think of the creativity of the scientists at the NASA Mission Control Center (…)

It seems that major sports in the U.S. are going through some significant changes.

Major League Baseball (MLB) welcomed Jen Pawol as its first female umpire. The Women’s National Basketball Association (…)

If analytics ruined the game of baseball, as a new book by sports reporter Scott Miller, Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will, tried to demonstrate, could analytics also (…)