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Everyone’s worried about Mark Zuckerberg controlling the next currency, but I’m more concerned about a crypto Cambridge Analytica. Today Facebook announced Libra, its forthcoming stablecoin designed to let you shop and send money overseas with almost zero transaction fees. Immediately, critics started harping about the dangers of centralizing control of tomorrow’s money in the hands…

via The real risk of Facebook’s Libra coin is crooked developers — TechCrunch

Everyone’s worried about Mark Zuckerberg controlling the next currency, but I’m more concerned about a crypto Cambridge Analytica. Today Facebook announced Libra, its forthcoming stablecoin designed to let you shop and send money overseas with almost zero transaction fees. Immediately, critics started harping about the dangers of centralizing control of tomorrow’s money in the hands…

via The real risk of Facebook’s Libra coin is crooked developers — TechCrunch

After a year of teasing out Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Niantic (the company behind Pokémon GO) and WB Games have at long last announced an official release date for the game: June 21st. The news came this evening at a press event held just outside of Universal Studios’ Wizarding World (where else?). Though details were…

via Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will launch on June 21st — TechCrunch

“I will ensure that the senior management of this company, starting with me, owns this.” The post Universal boss Sir Lucian Grainge: ‘We owe our artists answers’ over 2008 fire that destroyed masters appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

via Universal boss Sir Lucian Grainge: ‘We owe our artists answers’ over 2008 fire that destroyed masters — Music Business Worldwide

New stats from the NMPA, analyzed by MBW, reveal some surprising commercial facts The post How much money is the US music publishing industry making? A billion dollars more than it was 4 years ago. appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

via How much money is the US music publishing industry making? A billion dollars more than it was 4 years ago. — Music Business Worldwide

Before the arrival of John Smith and the rest of the English settlers, Pocahontas already has a dilemma to deal with: her father Powhatan returns from a lengthy war against a rival tribe and lets her know that Kocoum, a mighty warrior, has asked permission to marry her. Pocahontas is not exactly thrilled with this […]

via Pocahontas “Just Around the Riverbend” (1995) — Film Music Central

The M7 is now back from its latest repair attempt in Leica, and I have shot a couple of test films to re-check the focus calibration and metering. So far, it looks promising. The metering is now usable at ISO 400, and ISO 1600 looks ok down to about 1/8th second (a huge improvement from […]

via Back to film? — Transient Eye