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Film Friday: This was the first picture taken on a Leica Camera

October 10, 2021
Barnack built three Ur-Leicas between 1913 and 1914 (Pic: Leitz AG) In 1913, Oskar Barnack, an inventor and visionary who worked in the microscope department at Ernst Leitz, captured the first photograph with the Ur-Leica, the first 35mm still camera that would go on to define the Leica brand. Stephen Dowling, founder of KosmoFoto, has written up an article detailing the history behind the…
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GamingNews

Video games are risky, expensive, and a really good business

October 8, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Making video games is an exercise in cognitive dissonance. It is a hit-driven business where you can never know how consumers will respond. And yet you have…
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The DeanBeat: Twitch hack exposes more industry secrets

October 8, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Perhaps the lesson of the leak of a trove Twitch‘s data, source code, and internal tools is that we can expect this to happen to just about everybody in the industry. And one of these days, perhaps we won’t have any secrets left. This week, hackers disclosed that they had…
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Algolia: Only 26% of retailers use AI-optimized search

October 8, 2021
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Four in five (79%) retailers have little or no personalization or recommendation functionality on their commerce site, and only 26% noted the use of AI to…
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Meet the Woman Behind the Photos for James Bond’s ‘No Time To Die’

October 8, 2021
Nicola Dove shares what it is like to be the official photographer for major feature films, specifically for the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die. For many, this might sound like a dream job: working with famous actors and on amazing locations, shooting incredible stories, and having work seen all over the world. That is exactly what Dove, a film stills photographer originally from New…
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MobileNews

Latest Apple Arcade games for iPhone, Mac, Apple TV [New: iOS hit Crossy Road]

October 8, 2021
Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly with over 200 games now in the library. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. New for 10/8: The latest release on Apple Arcade is the hugely popular Crossy Road. You can learn more about and download all the new games by heading to the Arcade tab in the App…
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