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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

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Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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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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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

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Yury Roa, SRE technical program manager at ADL Digital Labs in Bogota, Colombia. One of the primary issues these women faced throughout their careers is a feeling of isolation due to their underrepresentation. “I think that there is a network effect where we know other women and we try to bring them in and we expand on that.

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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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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

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The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. . I wasn’t a technology person.

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Deploy a Clojure web application to AWS using Terraform

CircleCI

Then change the Dockerfile in the film ratings web application project to read like so: FROM openjdk:8u181-alpine3.8 COPY target/film-ratings.jar film-ratings.jar EXPOSE 3000 RUN chmod +x wait-for-it.sh wait-for-it.sh --timeout=90 $DB_HOST:5432 -- java -jar film-ratings.jar"]. Feel free to review the code at your leisure.

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Maximizing Network Metadata Value

Kentik

Making Flow Records a Force for Good on Your Network. As highlighted in the film “Zero Dark Thirty,” for example, the CIA used mobile phone call records to understand the existence, relationships, and movement of key Al Qaeda players, and eventually put those pieces together to effect the capture of Osama bin Laden.

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