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Atomic-backed Jumpcut uses data to advance diversity in film

TechCrunch

Set in India, his script garnered some interest from producers, but no one took the plunge to fund a film by a first-time Indian director. Now, films featuring diverse casts are gaining traction – this year, Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color, and only the second woman ever, to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

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Netflix acquires its first games studio, “Oxenfree” developer Night School

TechCrunch

A screenshot from Night School Studio game “Oxenfree” Night School Studio , the independent game developer known for narrative-driven titles like “Oxenfree,” announced today it has been acquired by Netflix. This makes it the first games studio the streaming giant has purchased.

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Avail rolls out its AI summarization tool to help Hollywood execs keep up with script coverage

TechCrunch

Avail is tackling one of the many time-consuming tasks in film and TV development: script coverage. The new ChatGPT-powered summarization tool is designed to summarize scripts and books within minutes, producing detailed summaries, loglines, synopses, character breakdowns and tonal assessments.

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Wonder Dynamics raises $2.5M seed to equip indie filmmakers with AI-powered VFX

TechCrunch

Practically every film production these days needs some kind of visual effects work, but independent creators often lack the cash or expertise to get that top-shelf CG. The company has its origins in 2017, after Sheridan and Todorovic met on the set of Rodrigo Garcia’s film Last Days in the Desert. million to make it happen.

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Zepotha is huge on TikTok, but it’s no Goncharov

TechCrunch

The seminal 1987 horror film “Zepotha” is back on TikTok. Reaction videos to the film’s gory forest scenes dominate user feeds. In another video, she recommended bringing up Zepotha “every time a film bro mocks you” to gaslight them into believing that the movie is real. Her original video has 7.6 million views.

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History of Computer Graphics – 1950s to 2010s

The Crazy Programmer

So, the development of computer graphics started in the early 1950s, when projects like Whirlwind and Sage developed the Cathode Ray Tube which was used to display visual graphics and a light pen was used as an input device to write on the board. In the late 1960s, IBM also started its development in this field of computer graphics.

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Stretchable Gold Film for Electronics

CTOvision

By Kimberly Kelly Stretchable Gold Film. While researchers from all over the world have been working with different kinds of stretchable conductors, it was the University of Michigan that first came up with a solution to the elastic conductor problem, a stretchable gold film. To hear more about the Gold Nano-particle Film, click here.

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