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Samsung’s latest budget phones ask: is refresh rate more important than resolution?

The Verge

This year, budget phone buyers may be asking themselves that question: the OnePlus Nord N100 , Moto G50, and the new Samsung Galaxy F12 and M12 all refresh their screens 90 times per second (which is good!) If you had to choose: would you choose a sharper screen on your smartphone, or a smoother-scrolling one?

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The polarization of film budgets

Trends in the Living Networks

At Media 2010 Suzanne Stefanac pointed to Escape to City 17, a machinima movie that had been made with a budget of less than $500, mainly for the costumes. Expect both increasing film budgets at the top end, and lowering film budgets at the bottom end. It looks pretty good considering how little was spent.

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Tech News Roundup February 12

CTOvision

Machine-readable budget in a human-friendly format - GCN.com. IRS fighting for 2010 funding in 2017 - FCW.com. The president's 2017 budget request: Health and Human Services Department. The president's 2017 budget request: Defense Department. The president's 2017 budget request: Homeland Security Department.

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Give InKind raises more cash as social giving platform gains popularity amid pandemic

GeekWire

. “We had runway into 2021, but wanted to move quickly with the opportunities we have in front of us now, so this will allow us to grow our team and marketing budgets,” said Give InKind CEO Laura Malcolm. ” The closet competitor is Meal Train , a Burlington, VT company founded in 2010.

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- Tech Terror List 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Tech Terror 2010. We are at the end of this quite frightening year of the Great Recession 2010, and at the eve of another frightening Halloween filled with tiny goblins ringing the front door shouting “trick or treat”. Tablets were on my 2008 list, but are on my 2010 list for an entirely different reason. They’re everywhere.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010.

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‘Baby bond’ legislation aims to address wealth gaps in Washington state

GeekWire

The idea that “baby bonds” can help close such gaps was proposed in 2010 by economists Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr., In 2016, the median white family had more than ten times the wealth of the median black family, according a report by McKinsey & Co. and advanced by Sen.

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