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Paul Allen estate donates thousands of rare music, film and sci-fi artifacts to Seattle’s MoPOP

GeekWire

Items from the avid collector, who launched MoPOP as the Experience Music Project in 2000, span music, film and television and include such things as instruments, props, costumes, scripts, posters, handbills, illustrations and more. Complete alien creature suit from the 1979 film “Alien.”

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How do I delay getting my kid a smartphone? Doctor behind ‘Screenagers’ films offers advice

GeekWire

Now he knows his way around an iPhone and the internet better than I do, and I know that’s not exactly a good thing. The “Screenagers” films are available for viewing through events at schools, workplaces and elsewhere. “Henry didn’t have to wait! . Learn more about how to screen a movie here.

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Delivering film and TV content via the Internet

Galido

The term used for the delivery of film and TV content via the Internet is OTT, or over-the-top and does not require users to subscribe to traditional cable or satellite TV. As with everything else available on the Internet, one of many crucial aspects is maintaining OTT security strategies across all networks & devices.

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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

But despite its central role in Antarctic research, McMurdo is lacking something most scientists working at 21st-century laboratories take for granted: high-speed internet. If this latest effort to modernize Antarctica’s internet is a success, scientists say it would transform both research and daily life on the frozen continent. “It

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Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

The Verge

Bezos built Amazon up from a small online bookstore to the massive conglomerate with dealings in cloud computing, groceries, physical retail, personal electronics, TV and film production, video games, and more that the company is today. to found an internet-based bookstore. Shaw & Co.

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Arm’s cheap and flexible plastic microchip could create an ‘internet of everything’

The Verge

What makes PlasticARM and similar chips so special is their use of flexible components; in this case, metal-oxide thin-film transistors or TFTs. Arm says this will create a new “internet of everything,” with chips integrated into “more than a trillion inanimate objects over the next decade.”.

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Gorgeous New Short Film Shows Us What an Early Lunar Colony Would Actually Look Like

Gizmodo

Called Life Beyond Earth , the four-minute short film presents a realistic vision of a future lunar base and the sustainable habitats that could turn this long-sought goal into a reality. Read more.

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