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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

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Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. However , the CEO kept mute about the whole process the following year due to how tumultuous it was for the company. Canal+ acquires Nollywood studio ROK from IROKOtv to grow African film.

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

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After all, we in the information management and technology industry have talked at length about unstructured data since “Big Data” was big news more than a decade ago. Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc.

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Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

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The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. Enso allows pipelines to be reviewed, versioned and deployed using a standard computer science toolset. Wojciech Danilo and Sylwia Brodacka are well-acquainted with the struggle.

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As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits

TechCrunch

According to an official Yahoo statement, due to an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China, Yahoo’s suite of services will no longer be accessible from mainland China” as of the start of the month. Films that might have found a release window in the country are failing to make it to market, for example.

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Book Reviews For Fellow Techies

taos

First Published: October 25, 2013, By Ross Oliver, Taos Technical Consultant I read a lot of books. But very few are what would be considered “high tech” topics. I read a lot of history, history of technology, medicine, aviation, economics, and psychology.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As far as other types of foundation models go, recent work by Gary Marcus and Reid Southern has shown that you can use Midjourney (text-to-image) to generate images from Star Wars , The Simpsons , Super Mario Brothers , and many other films. It’s an interesting piece that I commend to you, but one that makes me uncomfortable. joined Flickr.

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Video Streaming App Development

Mobilunity

This technology is used for the data transmission in real time so that the user does not need to download anything. But the difference is that live streaming platforms use the Internet for the data delivering and give the capability to stop, rewind and even record the video if necessary. Set the technical stack precisely.

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