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Netflix thinks games matter more than buying movie studios

The Verge

million paid memberships in the second quarter of 2021 over its 1 million guidance forecast, even while it lost some 400,000 paid net adds. It plans to develop games for mobile first, though other formats may be considered down the line. The company said that it added 1.5

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Hating work is having a moment

Vox

Importantly, the pandemic — as well as government social safety nets like extended unemployment benefits — gave people the time, distance, and perspective to reevaluate the place of work in their lives. Groups on Reddit are also using the platform to mobilize.

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Will technology harm or help young people’s brains? A highly nuanced debate

Trends in the Living Networks

They lack deep-thinking capabilities; they lack face-to-face social skills; they depend in unhealthy ways on the internet and mobile devices to function. Tiffany Shlain, director of the film Connected and founder of the Webby Awards. In sum, the changes in behavior and cognition among the young are generally negative outcomes.

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Identity Relationship Management Market to Exceed $50 Billion by 2020

CTOvision

Identity services must be in place regardless of sector — retail, finance, insurance, healthcare, government, cloud service, education — in order to extend business reach via social, mobile, cloud, and the Internet of Things. ForgeRock estimates that every Internet-connected thing (PC, tablet, mobile phone, car, refrigerator, TV etc.)

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Award for Cultural Institution : Harvard Film Archive by Huncwot. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Net Art : 150 years of Nature by IBM Research AI - Northeastern University. Webby Award for Television & Film : Give Her A Break - Oscars by Mojo Supermarket. NoA; LEGO Droid Orchestra by LEGO Company.

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What ‘The Social Dilemma’ misunderstands about social networks

The Verge

Blending talking-head interviews with some well known Silicon Valley apostates and fictional, after-school special-style dramatizations of what happens when Johnny and Janey scroll through feeds all day, the film presents itself as an urgent warning about our modern condition. the film is ridiculous? And yet despite all that.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

This philosophy inspired her to found Teazl , a mobile learning platform that helps companies educate their employees. In the 1990s, she led change and innovation for massive market growth in mobile devices at Nokia and was instrumental in instituting futures thinking at the company. Location: Sydney, Australia. Anne-Marie Dahl.

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