Female student: What about all the sounds you hear in some silent movies? Like, you know, er…a loud sound when somebody falls down or something? Male professor: OK, you're talking about a soundtrack added much later, which has, over time, become part of the film we know. But this...
Turing devised a method for determining whether a computer has intelligence, which he called the imitation game but has become more commonly known as theTuring test. This test evaluates a computer's ability to convince interrogators that its responses to their questions were...
In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll learn from two entrepreneurs who weaved their story into everything they do.
1:43:23-1:51:56:Movies? Sure, we do this too! Graeme and Chloe watched a horror movie calledMeander, a movie Chloe called “Cube’s much more boring cousin, Tube.” We also talk in a spoiler-free way aboutConfess, Fletch(and boy if you were to tell me this was the point where...
And you said 1934 and you were wrong. Superman first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June 1938. The character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and originally he wasn't a hero but a villain – the bad guy – but he was ...
Animated videos play well even at average-to-low bitrates, whereas action movies or videos with dynamic adjustments typically encode at higher bitrates to enhance the quality. Blocking artifacts, also called pixelations, are formed by an encoding obstruction, which negatively impacts quality during ...
When making movies, the team is able to use the wide palette of theDigital Cinema P3 color spaceto create gorgeous teals, oranges and violets. But then comes time to make these movies work on TV. In order to do that, that team essentially "dumbs down" the image, removing dynamic range...
Amazon achieved several milestones. It launched an affiliate program to increase its reach in 1996 and opened its first remote distribution center in 1997. In 1998, Amazon made its first acquisition -- Internet Movie Database (IMDb) -- a website that provides information about movies and TV sh...
Fort Mifflin, which was originally called Fort Island Battery, was commissioned in 1771. It was also known as Mud Island Fort because it sits on Mud Island (also known as Deep Water Island) on the Delaware River near the Philadelphia International Airport. During the American Revolutionary War...
but also to gain unprecedented insight into viewing habits and preferences. It uses that data to inform everything from the design of its user experience to the development of first-run shows and movies at in-house studios. That’s digital transformation in action: taking advantage of available...