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In a world where a reality TV star has been elected president of the US, it seems increasingly believable that a culture where everyone is always being filmed, always able to share their most intimate moments at the push of a button, is coming. Consumer drones have exploded in popularity in recent years. These flying…
Image wrap box Free blurb with Takeaway Another week, another news site raising venture capital. Make that two. Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei’s new business and politics venture raised a $10 million series A from Lerer Hippeau Ventures and NBC. Cheddar, a video news network, raised $10 million more from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital and…
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America woke up Wednesday as two nations. One jubilant, hopeful, validated. The other filled with fear, pessimism, abject horror. And both staring at an uncertain future in light of the vast chasm now revealed by this election. For many, the unexpected elevation of an insurgent Donald J. Trump has shaken their very concept of these…
Hey! Hi! Remember me? We went to high school together. But it doesn’t really matter how we know each other. All that matters is that I’m apparently a racist now. I bet you didn’t think I was racist back then. Remember when we worked on that Great Gatbsy rap together in eleventh grade English class?…
Hide CM floating unit Never Give Up CreditIllustration by Andy Rementer Barrier Status: ‘none’ If I could say one thing to the young people of today, it would be this: Never give up. Keep trying and pushing and struggling, even if you don’t know what your goal is or why you would want to achieve…
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Using Microservices to Encode and Publish Videos at The New York Times Video publishing at The Times is growingFor the past 10 years, the video publishing lifecycle at The New York Times has relied on vendors and in-house hardware solutions. With our growing investment in video journalism over the past couple of years, we’ve found…
Politics Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Donald J. Trump on Thursday in Selma, N.C. In Florida, he told a reporter, “I’m on message. I’m not playing around.” Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Donald J. Trump is not sleeping much these days. Aboard his gold-plated…
Romance is part of the essential fabric of the comic book movie. Where would Christopher Reeve’s Superman have been without Margot Kidder’s vivacious Lois Lane in the Richard Donner and Richard Lester films – the flawed, human counterweight to the tedious perfection of everyone’s favorite big blue alien boy scout? Would the early Sam Raimi…