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David Bloom is a Deadline contributor. All six major Hollywood studios and a raft of major tech firms have joined to solve compatibility and other issues with next-gen “cloud computing” tools they are increasingly using to create, collaborate on, distribute, protect and archive movies and other media. Dell, EMC, Rackspace and EVault are among the big tech firms taking part. The Entertainment Technology Center at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts will manage the joint standard-setting effort, called “Production in the Cloud.” Ex-Sony Pictures tech executive Ken Williams, now the ETC’s executive director and CEO, said the studios are trying to avoid another round of format wars, such as those that dogged Hollywood with Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD or VHS versus Betamax. Such format wars bring “uncertainty, inefficiency, and confusion to the marketplace, and (slow) product adoption and business growth for all players,” Williams said. “This effort will work to avoid those pitfalls in the evolution of production.” The same cloud-computing revolution that has powered the rise of consumer online services such as Google Apps, Dropbox and Spotify is also transforming high-end services used in Hollywood such as editing video, sharing it with post-production and visual-effects companies and distributing the finished products to various outlets. The initiative also will develop standard formats for archiving films and providing security among other core functions.

As a star of the new scripted TV show Hit the Floor, Taylour Paige has the opportunity to hang around tall, handsome hotties on a regular basis. Lucky girl, huh? That's one of the many perks of playing a basketball dance team member—she gets to chill with the boys that own the court. OK! TV caught up with Taylour Paige and got the deets on the topics you should know about before the show's big premiere. The actress says that the basketball boys are like big brothers to her. Would they be big brothers you want to set us up with, Taylour? She also dishes on her dance background, her feelings towards her character, and more! The show premieres on Monday, May 27th at 9 pm ET. Will you watch this new scripted show? Tweet @OKMagazine and leave a comment below. OK! News: Get Naomi Watts' Pretty Festival Look Photos: The Bling Ring: 7 Styles We Want to Steal! Watch: Get Kate Hudson's Chevron Mani Photo credit: Getty Images

VICENEZA, Italy (Reuters) - Italian Giovanni Visconti recorded his second stage win of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday to give his Movistar team their third straight victory and their fourth overall in the 2013 race.
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