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The $6.5m canyon: it's the most expensive photograph ever – but it's like a hackneyed poster in a posh hotel | Art and design | The Guardian

The $6.5m canyon: it's the most expensive photograph ever – but it's like a hackneyed poster in a posh hotel | Art and design | The Guardian : Photography is not an art. It is a technology. We have no excuse to ignore this obvious fact in the age of digital cameras, when the most beguiling high-definition images and effects are available to millions. My iPad can take panoramic views that are gorgeous to look at. Does that make me an artist? No, it just makes my tablet one hell of a device.
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BuzzFeed Video’s Ze Frank, Screenwriter John August at Code/Media | Re/code

BuzzFeed Video’s Ze Frank, Screenwriter John August at Code/Media | Re/code The company generates nearly a billion video views a month, but just 5 percent of them take place at BuzzFeed.com. That fact comes from BuzzFeed video boss Ze Frank, and it’s one of many provocative ideas he shared with the audience last week at  Code/Media , Re/code’s two-day media + tech event.
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Clay Christensen On Disruption Theory, Apple - Business Insider

Clay Christensen On Disruption Theory, Apple - Business Insider : Clay Christensen: Yes. Everybody else thinks that it's absolutely crazy. But I think I'll be right. I have made an observation that relates to this. It is as follows: Many of society's most important and vexing problems were created by unnamed people in the past who decided unilaterally to combine things that should be separate and to separate�things that should be together.
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An explosion of 'event series' on TV

An explosion of 'event series' on TV : ��Just a few years ago, both projects would have been classified as miniseries. But the format has been rebranded. Now these two and many of TV's most ambitious upcoming projects are tagged "event series." What is that, you may ask? Event series are close-ended stories generally told over 10 installments or less. They're big-ticket packages that channels can heavily promote. "We use the 'event' label to make people take notice," says Robert Greenblatt, NBC entertainment chairman. " 'Miniseries' doesn't register with people. It's archaic. We want to make things feel bigger." NBC is currently running The Slap, a sophisticated eight-part limited series with a prestige ensemble that includes Peter Sarsgaard, Uma Thurman, Zachary Quinto, Brian Cox, and Thandie Newton. That's part of the appeal of event series. They can attract more distinguished casts because they don...
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The 10 Best Gadgets And Gizmos We Saw At Toy Fair 2015 | Popular Science

The 10 Best Gadgets And Gizmos We Saw At Toy Fair 2015 | Popular Science Every year, the North American International Toy Fair hosts more than a thousand toy makers, distributors, and major retailers in New York City. And that makes for a super fun weekend. The staff of  Popular Science  have scoured the 2015 Toy Fair showroom over the course of three days to select the 10 products that stand out above the crowd. Whether it’s an affordable virtual reality headset or a classic kit of building blocks, we were there to determine whether they're worth your attention. Here are our favorites.
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bcg.perspectives - Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy

bcg.perspectives - Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy We define e-friction as the factors that can inhibit consumers, businesses, and others from fully participating in the national—and the international—Internet economy. The BCG e-Friction Index assesses 55 indicators of friction that inhibit Internet use. We have grouped them into four components: infrastructure-related friction that limits basic access; industry sources and individual sources that affect the ability of companies and consumers to engage in online transactions; and information-related friction that involves the availability of, and access to, online content. (See Exhibit 1.) No economy is entirely frictionless, of course, and sources of friction evolve over time, but a hypothetical country that comes out on top on all 55 friction indicators in our index today would score 0; one that ranks last across the board would score 100. We scored actual countries against these baselines. With an e-friction score of 1...
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What Should the New MAU Be? | Re/code

What Should the New MAU Be? | Re/code : he simple explanation: The bulk of these four million people were not actually using Twitter. They were counted as part of a feature in the iPhone’s Safari Web browser that automatically pulled Twitter data whether the user was reading it or not. After the iOS 8 update, that automatic data collection was halted, and the people who were originally counted as “active” disappeared from the pot.
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Google executives explain why the MBA approach to building things is 'stupid' | VentureBeat | Business | by Gregory Ferenstein

Google executives explain why the MBA approach to building things is 'stupid' | VentureBeat | Business | by Gregory Ferenstein : The point, as both Rosenberg and Eric Schmidt learned, was that Google prefers to design for the unexpected and work with engineers in an iterative fashion. If managers don’t leave room for the unplanned, they can never be pleasantly surprised.
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Google I/O 2015 Set For May 28-29, Tickets To Be Sold Lottery-Style Again | TechCrunch

Google I/O 2015 Set For May 28-29, Tickets To Be Sold Lottery-Style Again | TechCrunch Google has just announced the first details for Google I/0 2015: The conference itself will run from May 28-29. As always, it’ll take place at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Registration for tickets will open on March 17th at 9:00 a.m. PDT and run for two days. There’s no rush to get in early, though, because… Google will pick the people who will “receive the opportunity to purchase one ticket” at random.
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Twitter mourns death of @NFL films founder, #EdSabol http://ow.ly/IR65B

Twitter Twitter mourns death of @ NFL films founder, # EdSabol http:// ow.ly/IR65B  
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UEFA and the European Union: From Confrontation to Co-operation?

UEFA and the European Union: From Confrontation to Co ... This article investigates the relationship between UEFA, as European football’s governing body, and the EU. It assesses the evolution of UEFA as a football governing body since the Bosman ruling (1995) until current initiatives such as the rules on locally-trained players (2005-2006). The paper traces the evolution of UEFA’s reactions to the increasing involvement of EU institutions in football matters, with special focus on the regulation of the players’ market. It is argued that UEFA’s attitude towards the EU has changed in the last ten years. Whilst the EU was seen as a threat for UEFA in 1995, it is now considered a ‘long term strategic partner’. Two main reasons can be identified for UEFA’s evolution. First and foremost, UEFA has been forced to accept the primacy of European law and its application to the activities of football organisations. UEFA has had no option but to adapt to the ...
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Probe of Hollywood-Euro Pay TV contracts: What happens next? • The Register

Probe of Hollywood-Euro Pay TV contracts: What happens next? • The Register : Here at Faultline we’re not so high-minded as to agree with the EU on that score and think that promoting competition within a given country is more important right now. We think that local providers would proliferate if they had access to content, and that the inflection point of Over The Top video delivery is an ideal moment in the industry for this to happen.
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DARPA robot can learn tasks from Youtube video and a neural net can understand video 20 times faster than a human

Shared from Zite   Shared from Zite:   DARPA robot can learn tasks from Youtube video and a neural net can understand video 20 times faster than a human Next Big Future - A startup called Clarifai is offering a service that uses deep learning to understand video. The company says its software can rapidly analyze video clips to recognize 10,000 different objects or types of scene. In a demo given last week at a conference on deep learning, Clarifai's cofounder and CEO Matthew Zeiler uploaded a clip that included footage of a varied alpine landscape. The software created a timeline with graph lines summarizing when different objects or types of scene were detected. It showed exactly when "snow" and "mountains" occurred individually and together. The software can analyze video f...
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Forbes’ mission is to deliver information on the people, ideas and technologies changing the world to our community of affluent busi ness decision maker s. What distinguishes Forbes from other media brands is our exceptional access to the world’s most powerful people—the game changers and disruptors who are advancing industries across the globe. Through our unique platform of print, digital and mobile products, Forbes is changing the way content is created, distributed, consumed and shared. Since 1917, Forbes magazine has provided the world’s affluent business leaders with strategic insight and information. In the past two years we have produced an unbroken string of agenda-setting cover stories celebrating the people changing the world for the better: Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Sean Parker to Jeff Bezos, Christine Lagarde, Jack Dorsey and more. Forbes magazine is the audience leader in the business category and has seen the only newsstand growth in the category, up 4.3%.* Click abo...
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