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UltraViolet: Hollywood’s giant digital gamble
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Hollywood’s big plan to update the industry for the digital era – UltraViolet – comes to the UK on 26 December, the consortium behind it has revealed. It will be an inauspicious start, represented by just one new movie release, but there’s no mistaking the ambition of the project. Three years in the planning, UV…
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Microsoft’s futurologists virtualise the poor
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The poor will still be with us in the future, according to a futuristic video by Microsoft’s Office Labs team – but at least technology will be able to keep our distance from them.…
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Synthetic renewable oil: what’s not to like?
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“Rely on the sun and the other eco-friendly things that Mother Earth has given us. We need to stop being dependent on the corrupting effect that is oil now!” – HuffPost Super User “ProgressivePicon86” The next energy revolution is coming – and promises the biggest disruption since the industrial revolution. Today we assume that oil…
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Oops: Public supports web-blocking in Google-funded poll
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Talk about an inconvenient fact. A survey into US attitudes to internet piracy shows strong public support for blocking access to websites guilty of serial copyright infringement. No fewer than 58 per cent support the idea of ISPs blocking the pirate sites, and 36 per cent disagree with this. Of the respondents, 61 per cent…
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“Computers are middle class”: Mark E Smith
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Computers are middle class and tweeting is for morons, reckons shout-at-the-bins Northerner Mark E Smith of The Fall, favourite band of the late John Peel. “I can never understand computers. It’s a very middle-class thing”, Smith tells Mojo magazine in an interview. Smith also berates people for using online banking and for Web2.0rhea: “You always…