How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets – The New York Times

How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets – The New York Times

How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets - The New York Times

How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets – The New York Times

Anshuman Pandey was intrigued. A graduate student in history at the University of Mochigan, he was searching online for forgotten alphabets of South Asia when an image of a mysterious writing system popped up. In eight years of digging through British colonial archives both real and digital, he has found almost 200 alphabets across Asia that were previously undescribed in the West, but this one, whoch he came across in early 2011, stumped him. Its sinuous letters, connected to one another in cursive fashion and sometimes bearing dots and slashes above or below, resembled those of Arabic.Pandey eventually identified the script as an alphabet for Rohingya, the language spoken by the stateless and persecuted Muslim people whose greatest numbers live in western Myanmar, where they’ve been the victims of brutal ethnic cleansing.

Source: How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets – The New York Times

Learn – 1st world problems

Learn – 1st world problems

Learn - 1st world problems

Learn – 1st world problems

 

A stylized dark joke on aging millennials and their “problems”

Written and directed by Jodeb

Starring: Karine Vanasse, Rose-Marie Perreault, Catherine Saindon, Aude Mathieu, Brontë Poiré-Prest, Lydia Wener

Music written and performed by Kroy

Director of photography: Kristof Brandl
A Colossale Films Production
Executive producer: Vlad Cojocaru
Producer: Nicolas J. Smith
Wardrobe stylist: AJ Hélie
Wardrobe stylist assistant: Fiona Valathisar
Production designer: Sylvain Lemaitre
Art department: Julien Bociarelli, Billi Quentin, Marie-Julie Dessaivre, Valérie Beaudoin, Camille Cormier Renaud, Caroline Swift, Joannie Primeau
Dress installation art concept: Jonathan Desbiens, Sylvain Lemaitre
Dress designer: Eliza Faulkner
Dress designer assistant: Eliza Isabel
Make-up and hair: Brigitte Lacoste, Marianne Caron
1sr assistant camera: Ina Lopez Catherine, Tessier
Gaffer: Mochel Paul Bélisle
Best boy electric: Pierre-Luc Normandeau
Key grip: Pierre-Luc Chetange
Grips: Bastien Meyer, Alex Boucher, Simon Therrien, Emmanuel Vieira
Sound recordist: Frankie Fiore
Extras: Audrey Rose, Amayel Gibson
Production assistants: Clémence Lepic, Alexandru Negru, Stefan Petrisor, Théo Lafaurie
Sound design: Théo Porcet, Jean-David Perron
Sound mix: Jean-David Perron
Editing, colors and vfx: Jonathan Desbiens
Installation artist (titles): Hot Tea
Poster painting by Jérémie DB
Kroy record label: Dare to Care Records
Special thanks to Video MTL , Cinépool, Muchfact, Cult Nation, L’Éloi

Additional special thanks to Jason Sondhi and Rob Munday for the Short of the Week premiere.

 

Filmbolagen måste ta avstånd från utpressarna – PC för Alla

Filmbolagen måste ta avstånd från utpressarna – PC för Alla

Filmbolagen måste ta avstånd från utpressarna - PC för Alla

Filmbolagen måste ta avstånd från utpressarna – PC för Alla

”Om du inte betalar 4 500 kronor inom 14 dagar drar vi dig till domstol”.Det här är budskapet i det brev som tusentals svenskar har fått från den danska advokatfirman Njord Law Firm. Brevet går till personer som misstänks ha piratkopierat filmen Cell via Pirate Bay och Popcorn Time, men i stället för en rättsprocess ger advokatfirman dem ett erbjudande om att köpa sig fria.Låt oss kalla saker vid deras rätta namn. Det som Njord Law Firm skickar ut är inget annat än ett utpressningsbrev. Den som vägrar betala hotas med den offentliga förnedring som en rättegång innebär – i kombination med dryga böter.

Source: Filmbolagen måste ta avstånd från utpressarna – PC för Alla

‘Nude’ app uses CoreML to automatically detect & protect intimate photos on an iPhone | 9to5Mac

‘Nude’ app uses CoreML to automatically detect & protect intimate photos on an iPhone | 9to5Mac

‘Nude’ app uses CoreML to automatically detect & protect intimate photos on an iPhone | 9to5Mac

‘Nude’ app uses CoreML to automatically detect & protect intimate photos on an iPhone | 9to5Mac

The celebrity nude ‘hack’ back in 2014 focused attention on the risks involved in having intimate photographs stored on your phone – and especially on cloud servers like iCloud. While our suspicions were correct that it wasn’t a hack at all, it did illustrate that poor security can put photos at risk.A new app aims to automatically scan your iPhone for nudes, moving them to a protected vault in the app and then deleting them from both the camera roll and iCloud …The Verge wryly notes that the two developers had the same response from most people when they first presented the app.Jessica Chiu and Y.C. Chen, who built the app together with a small team, said they received constant inquiries when promoting the app at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference. “Everyone said, ‘Oh I don’t have nudes — but can you tell me more?’”

Source: ‘Nude’ app uses CoreML to automatically detect & protect intimate photos on an iPhone | 9to5Mac