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“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination –

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Three hundred years after the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and seven hundred years after the death of Ramon Llull, Jonathan Gray looks at how their early visions of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.

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“Invisible Little Worms”: Athanasius Kircher’s Study of the Plague –

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Living through the devastating Italian plague of 1656, the great polymath Athanasius Kircher turned his ever-enquiring mind to the then mysterious disease, becoming possibly the first to view infected blood through a microscope. While his subsequent theories of spontaneous generation and "universal sperm" were easily debunked, Kircher's investigation can be seen as an important early step to understanding contagion, and perhaps even the very first articulation of germ theory. John Glassie explores.

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This Person Does Not Exist

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This Person Does Not Exist

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Why Less Megapixels Can Sometimes Be More

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The number of things I have learned, unlearned, and relearned all over again along the road from hobbyist to professional photographer would require something of a short novella to recount in their entirety. So today, I want to share just one of them. Before I start, I’ll mention the usual disclaimer that this discussion is based on my own experience, my own style of shooting, my own clients, and my own peculiar set of tastes. So, since no two photographers are the same, no single piece of advice can ever be one size fits all.

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Why Less Megapixels Can Sometimes Be More

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The number of things I have learned, unlearned, and relearned all over again along the road from hobbyist to professional photographer would require something of a short novella to recount in their entirety. So today, I want to share just one of them. Before I start, I’ll mention the usual disclaimer that this discussion is based on my own experience, my own style of shooting, my own clients, and my own peculiar set of tastes. So, since no two photographers are the same, no single piece of advice can ever be one size fits all.

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Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts-Hughes and the Eidophone –

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Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts-Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images, which until recently were thought to be lost.

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How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play

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Not long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are interested in an American politician’s ruthless ascendance to…

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How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play

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Not long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are interested in an American politician’s ruthless ascendance to…

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High Dynamic Range in Live TV Production - 2019 FA Cup Trials - BBC R&D

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Storage Modernization With PCIe and NVMe

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As higher resolutions become the norm, changes in storage are needed.

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La figure et le fond: Film de science ou récit d'aventures ? Les origines du cinéma sous la mer

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RESUME  : La constitution d’une science de la mer a lieu alors que se développent de nouvelles techniques d’exploration du mond

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The evolution of video, from technicolor to streaming to 4K

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When we watch a Facebook video on our smartphone or a CGI-drenched film on Netflix, we often overlook the tremendous progress that's been made in the fields of filmmaking an

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La figure et le fond: Louis Boutan et la photographie sous-marine (1886 - 1900)

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‘Il en est du naturaliste     comme du chasseur ; ce n’est pas dans un tiré que l’on parvient à trouver du gibier. Celui qui es

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La figure et le fond: Louis Boutan et la photographie sous-marine (1886 - 1900)

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‘Il en est du naturaliste     comme du chasseur ; ce n’est pas dans un tiré que l’on parvient à trouver du gibier. Celui qui es

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La figure et le fond: Louis Boutan et la photographie sous-marine (1886 - 1900)

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‘Il en est du naturaliste     comme du chasseur ; ce n’est pas dans un tiré que l’on parvient à trouver du gibier. Celui qui es

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The Telephonoscope (1879) –

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Device imagined in a Punch cartoon from 1879, predicting the advent of video chat more than 100 years before Skype.

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Der erste freischwimmende Taucher der Welt: Hans Hass: Der junge Mann und das Meer - Wissen - Tagesspiegel

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Naturfilmpionier, Tauchgeräte-Erfinder, Aktivist und Sexsymbol. Heute wäre Hans Hass 100 Jahre alt geworden.