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Hear from the people behind Netflix’s success

Dataconomy

These lists provided a glimpse into the most-watched titles across film and television. How Netflix Uses Big Data to Drive Success Lauren Smith delved into the details of the report, emphasizing its importance at the Netflix What We Watched video. How popular were they? Featured image credit : Thibault Penin / Unsplash.

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As protests spread across the country, mobile video creates mosaic of violence and tool for change

GeekWire

Racism is not getting worse, it’s getting filmed,” actor Will Smith said in a talk show interview in 2016, the year millions of people watched recordings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling die at the hands of police officers. “I Manjoo noted that the officers responsible for George Floyd’s death knew they were being filmed.

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Fearing Government, Fearing Technology: the Ying and Yang

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Such fears gave rise to the Luddite movement , when humans smashed power looms creating cloth in the early 19th Century, and many science fiction stories ranging from Frankenstein to the 1927 film Metropolis to the computerphobia of the 1980s (“you’ll never get one of those damned computers on my desk.