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Atomic-backed Jumpcut uses data to advance diversity in film

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Set in India, his script garnered some interest from producers, but no one took the plunge to fund a film by a first-time Indian director. Now, films featuring diverse casts are gaining traction – this year, Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color, and only the second woman ever, to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). It’s hard to imagine a string of words in the English language less sexy than, “mobile virtual network operator.”

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Papercup raises $20M for AI that automatically dubs videos

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Dubbing is a lucrative market, with Verified Market Research predicting that film dubbing services alone could generate $3.6 Founded in 2017 by Shemen and Jiameng Gao, Papercup offers an AI-powered dubbing solution that identities human voices in a target film or show and generates dubs in a new language. billion annually by 2027.

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

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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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Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt

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It requires a multifaceted approach to fight against homogeneous networks, deceptive warm intros and the basic need for more fluency across different demographics. 1 box office films that have grossed more than $4.23 Ensuring financial inclusion is complicated. Just part of Kevin Hart’s impressive Hollywood CV includes eleven No.

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3 Lessons in Network Visibility from the A-List

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The network can be host to multiple performance killers. They can appear out of nowhere halfway through the film or remain a complete mystery until behind-the-scenes footage reveals the masked […]. The post 3 Lessons in Network Visibility from the A-List appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

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The networks made online — either through the rise of meme culture or Substack spice — can be a competitive advantage in the world of investment, as two new funds this week showed us. Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson on ‘the conversation no one has during an upmarket’ Internet is the new Miami.

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