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The foundation for electronic television didn't come from a mega-corporation, but from a 14-year-old farm boy named Philo Farnsworth. In 1921, while driving a…
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Motorola engineer Martin Cooper explicitly credited the communicators used by Captain Kirk and his crew in the original 1960s Star Trek television series as…
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What is the actual technical purpose of all those tiny white dots painted on the faces of actors filming CGI movie scenes?
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Capturing vibrant hues required practically roasting the actors alive. The early color film process was so notoriously insensitive to light that studios had…
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What completely ordinary human flaw is deliberately added to flawless CGI faces in modern cinema?
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Netflix's revolutionary recommendation algorithm was famously defeated by the movie Napoleon Dynamite, which was so incredibly polarizing that the code simply…
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