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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

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Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. However , the CEO kept mute about the whole process the following year due to how tumultuous it was for the company. Canal+ acquires Nollywood studio ROK from IROKOtv to grow African film.

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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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iOS gains new emoji, Showtime joins a pricier Paramount+, and Instagram launches Channels

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If you’re wondering about Greg’s status, not to worry — he’s due to return from a well-deserved parental leave in a month and change. With those administrative bits out of the way, let’s get on with Week in Review. (If Is the tech jobs market as bad as it seems? His top-level observation?

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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

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Yury Roa, SRE technical program manager at ADL Digital Labs in Bogota, Colombia. One of the primary issues these women faced throughout their careers is a feeling of isolation due to their underrepresentation. Rona Chong, software engineer at Grove Collaborative. Ana Medina, senior chaos engineer at Gremlin. Feeling isolated.

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Scopio aims to turn hematology into remote work with $50M C round

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Once samples are scanned in the lab, they could be reviewed by hematologists working from anywhere. For instance, some papers argue, the manual review of samples doesn’t often add much to doctors’ diagnostic dataset. You can zoom around in one of the images here. Image Credits: Scopio.

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Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices

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Now, a startup called Deepdub is capitalizing on the growing demand for localized content by automating parts of the dubbing process using AI technology. Deepdub also became the first company to dub an entire feature-length film into Latin American Spanish utilizing AI voices (“ Every Time I Die “).

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As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits

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According to an official Yahoo statement, due to an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China, Yahoo’s suite of services will no longer be accessible from mainland China” as of the start of the month. Films that might have found a release window in the country are failing to make it to market, for example.

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