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Netflix switches from prestige pics to shredded zombies for its widest theatrical release yet

The Verge

That’s Netflix’s widest US release yet for one of its feature projects, and it positions the film and the company to capture summer theatergoers’ attention and dollars right as screens are beginning to reopen across the country, and newly vaccinated film fans feel comfortable enough to watch how they used to. This is why Warner Bros.’

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Hear from the people behind Netflix’s success

Dataconomy

It not only aligns with industry standards, such as Nielsen in the US but also facilitates straightforward comparisons with other streaming services. These lists provided a glimpse into the most-watched titles across film and television. Ted San Rosa explained that view hours serve as an effective and easily understandable metric.

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Microsoft reveals new campaign trailer for ‘Halo Infinite’ with open-ended approach to gameplay

GeekWire

The franchise as a whole has been notoriously dense for a while now, with dozens of novels, comics, and short films to its credit. Infinite, by comparison, is closer in spirit to the original 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved. 8 for Windows PC, Xbox Series X|S, and the Xbox Game Pass. Halo Infinite is planned for release on Dec.

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Cloak your photos with this AI privacy tool to fool facial recognition

The Verge

Named after the Guy Fawkes masks donned by revolutionaries in the V for Vendetta comic book and film , Fawkes uses artificial intelligence to subtly and almost imperceptibly alter your photos in order to trick facial recognition systems. Comparisons of uncloaked and cloaked faces using Fawkes. Image: SAND Lab, University of Chicago.

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Nest Cam (indoor) review: Google’s pretty little camera takes one step forward and three steps back

The Verge

With three hours of free event playback, you can see what went on without having to pay a monthly subscription fee (as long as you catch the alert within that three-hour window), and thanks to some local storage, the camera can record an hour’s worth of events if the internet goes down. But both cameras I tested had the same issue.

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Bringing books into the TikTok era: Amazon’s Kindle Vella and the rise of the new ‘story platforms’

GeekWire

Her experience is a window into the tech giant’s latest effort to rethink how people publish, buy, and read stories. The company helps authors leverage their stories for television, film and book publishing deals. Romance novelist Audrey Carlan, author of the Kindle Vella series, The Marriage Auction. . ’ ” she said.

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Runway AI Gen-2 makes text-to-video AI generator a reality

Dataconomy

The videos made by Gen-2 Runway AI are very outstanding in comparison to what is already on the market. Prompt: The late afternoon sun peeking through the window of a New York City loft Mode 2 (Text + Image to Video): Generate a video based on a driving image and a text prompt.

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