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As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits

TechCrunch

TechCrunch held events in China as recently as 2019 , following several years of hosting conferences in the country’s hardware capital, Shenzhen. Films that might have found a release window in the country are failing to make it to market, for example. How quickly things change.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

TechCrunch

Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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Qiara is a new home security service for the French market

TechCrunch

You can also enable a privacy shutter when you’re at home so that the security camera isn’t filming your family. If there is a power or network failure, Qiara can still protect your home thanks to Sigfox network support. All modules work with batteries except the security camera.

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10G Challenge Winners Leverage Power of Multi-Gigabit Network

CableLabs

On behalf of the cable industry, we launched the first-ever 10G Challenge , asking innovators to imagine technologies that the emerging 10G network will make possible. Live Category Winner: Xennial Digital is creating the future of medical simulation training using the reliability of the 10G broadband network.

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Remember Stasi spying to understand the GDPR

The Parallax

East Germany’s Ministerium für Staatssicherheit—”Ministry for State Security” in English, “Stasi” for short—employed a network of civilian informers to spy on the communications and even inside the residences of its subjects, to enforce conformity with that communist regime. The Stasi would not have approved of that. Click to view slideshow.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

More machine learnings I (that is, thine co-author Devin) was at SIGGRAPH this last week, where AI, despite being a bogeyman in the film and TV industry right now, was in full force as both a tool and research subject. This is neuroscience for AI and AI for neuroscience.

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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

TechCrunch

You need hardware, you need real expertise in speaking, and it simply is not built for the mainstream. But quite why you’d need some of those sorts of content in an audio form vs text is one question to ponder. “To create good audio content with today’s options, the bar is very high. ” What about monetization? .

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