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Streaming Services Are in for Some Big, Big Changes
4 days, 15 hours ago

Streaming Services Are in for Some Big, Big Changes

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. He added that the platform is “piloting new features” to allow users to interact with sports and TV shows “so they can indulge their obsessions in a way that’s fun, super simple, and all in one place.” The 2024 …

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Reading with Frontline | Frontline 40th Anniversary Edition
1 week ago

Reading with Frontline | Frontline 40th Anniversary Edition

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 04, 2025 16:42 IST - 4 MINS READ Dear Reader, The Frontline team closed 2024 with a special issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the magazine. To begin with, I was startled to discover the close association Frontline had with the great R. K. Narayan, who wrote a regular column, Table Talk, alongside the odd article and …

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Mailbag: ‘Future’ coverage brought up memories of the past
1 week, 2 days ago

Mailbag: ‘Future’ coverage brought up memories of the past

LA Times  

Cast and crew autographs from the 1985 film “Back to the Future” appear on a DeLorean outside the opening of the musical version at Segerstom Center for the Arts Dec. 29. The article, “Club’s cars travel to ‘Future’ show” in the Dec. 29 Daily Pilot & TimesOC covered the film and musical at Segerstrom pretty well with emphasis on the …

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Letters to the Editor: People who ban books are trying to exhaust us. Don’t give in
1 week, 3 days ago

Letters to the Editor: People who ban books are trying to exhaust us. Don’t give in

LA Times  

To the editor: Rule No. Educators are giving up to the constant noise around books that have anything that might be considered controversial. Please, educators, publishers, parents, libraries, book stores and the general concerned population: Continue the fight to keep important books on your shelves. To the editor: I can understand why certain parents wouldn’t want their young children to …

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Sheffield University invites applications for Rs 2.6 lakh scholarships
1 week, 5 days ago

Sheffield University invites applications for Rs 2.6 lakh scholarships

India Today  

The University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering is offering scholarships of up to Rs 2.67 lakh for international students starting undergraduate studies in September 2025. SCHOLARSHIP DETAILS AS PER GRADES A*AA: Euro 1,000 Euro 1,000 AAA: Euro 2,000 Euro 2,000 AAA*: Euro 3,000 ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD The University of Sheffield, located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK, is one of …

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Smart Cities Mission led to 22% rise in school enrolment, improved crime tracking: IIM-B studies
2 weeks ago

Smart Cities Mission led to 22% rise in school enrolment, improved crime tracking: IIM-B studies

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, Steps taken under the Smart Cities Mission have led to a 22 per cent increase in school enrolment in 19 cities and improved real-time tracking of criminal activities, according to two studies by the Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru. Smart Cities Mission led to 22% rise in school enrolment, improved crime tracking: IIM-B studies According to one of …

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Control Is The Eighth Free Game Epic Games Is Giving Away This Month: All You Need To Know
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Control Is The Eighth Free Game Epic Games Is Giving Away This Month: All You Need To Know

ABP News  

The Epic Games Store has added another gem to its holiday giveaway lineup, offering Remedy Entertainment’s critically acclaimed game Control as its eighth free mystery title. Epic's Holiday Season Giveaways December has become a highly anticipated period for Epic Games Store users, thanks to the platform’s tradition of releasing free games daily during the holiday season. While longtime Epic Games …

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The Show Must Go On: How Cinema Refuses to Fade to Black in India
2 weeks, 3 days ago

The Show Must Go On: How Cinema Refuses to Fade to Black in India

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 25, 2024 12:00 IST - 10 MINS READ Indian cinema began contemplating its own mortality exactly four decades ago, prompted into self-reflection by the seismic effects of the television and video revolution across the country. In the very first issue of 1984, Screen, that most respected trade and industry journal for decades, rhetorically asked whether the film …

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42 students to go on educational tour to Singapore for a week
2 weeks, 4 days ago

42 students to go on educational tour to Singapore for a week

The Hindu  

As many as 42 government school students of Class VI-IX, who have won in various activities, embarked on a five-day educational tour to Singapore on Monday. Addressing the media, School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said that education should be included in the State list. The Silver Jubilee celebration ‘Statue of Wisdom’, to mark the 25th anniversary of the installation …

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Congress blocking Warangal super specialty hospital works: Harish
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Congress blocking Warangal super specialty hospital works: Harish

Deccan Chronicle  

Warangal:Former minister and BRS leader T. Harish Rao on Monday claimed that the Congress government was deliberately stalling work, prevention the construction of the multi-super specialty hospital meant to transform Warangal into a health hub for north Telangana. Harish Rao said that the Congress was similarly delaying work on the proposed four multi-super speciality hospitals on the four corners of …

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'Absurd': Parents blast Texas school district that banned Bible for 'explicit' content
3 weeks, 1 day ago

'Absurd': Parents blast Texas school district that banned Bible for 'explicit' content

Raw Story  

A Texas school district has banned the Bible in response to a state law prohibiting schools from carrying "sexually explicit" material. The Christian Post reported Thursday that Canyon Independent School District Superintendent Darryl Flusche sent an email to parents informing them that the "full text" of the Bible would no longer be allowed in schools due to Texas House Bill …

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Delhi authority planning to turn community centres into libraries for students
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Delhi authority planning to turn community centres into libraries for students

India Today  

The Delhi Development Authority is launching a transformative initiative to convert under-utilized community centres across the city into modern libraries and reading rooms. The move comes in the wake of the tragic Rajendra Nagar flooding incident in July, which claimed three young lives at a private coaching centre's basement reading room. Spurred by the incident, Delhi's Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, …

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‘National effort required to prevent the knowledge inside Indian libraries from disintegrating’
3 weeks, 4 days ago

‘National effort required to prevent the knowledge inside Indian libraries from disintegrating’

The Hindu  

After his 20-minute long talk at the Underline Center in Bengaluru, Carl Malamud, technologist and public domain advocate who took on the Indian government to make the building codes accessible, gets addressed as the ‘original internet pirate.’ “I’m not a pirate,” he corrects, and explains why. In the years 2012 and 2013, Malamud bought over 18,000 Indian Standards from the …

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Demolition of Delhi Public Library: Land grabbers must be dealt with iron hand, says SC
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Demolition of Delhi Public Library: Land grabbers must be dealt with iron hand, says SC

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, "Land grabbers must be dealt with iron hand," the Supreme Court on Monday said, as it promised to "go deep to find the truth" on how a century-old building housing a public library at Karol Bagh was demolished. Demolition of Delhi Public Library: Land grabbers must be dealt with iron hand, says SC A bench of Justices Surya …

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Access to libraries as critical element of social justice
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Access to libraries as critical element of social justice

The Hindu  

The midmorning sun beats down on the 40-odd people alighting from a bus and fanning across the quiet interiors of the Mythic Society library housed in the Daly Memorial Hall on Nrupathunga Road, a gorgeous heritage building constructed in 1917. “The idea is to voice the concerns of building public institutions like libraries, which would be more heard, seen and …

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OTT services see growth in AVoD as cost-sensitive audiences savour free content
3 weeks, 5 days ago

OTT services see growth in AVoD as cost-sensitive audiences savour free content

Live Mint  

Video-streaming platforms that are building hybrid models - a combination of subscription offerings and advertising-backed content - are seeing their free content make up a substantial chunk of viewership, anything between 50 and 90%, according to media industry experts. “AVoD content typically garners significantly higher viewership compared to SVoD content, primarily due to its free accessibility and lower barrier to …

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Book of a lifetime: Come to Mecca by Farrukh Dhondy
4 weeks ago

Book of a lifetime: Come to Mecca by Farrukh Dhondy

The Independent  

The population of Norwich in the early Eighties was not ethnically diverse. The two who would become my best friends were from the kinds of families I longed to infiltrate – Rachel’s was eccentric and feral in the way of impoverished, titled families, while Annabel’s was solidly bourgeois, a species of rural Sloane. That all changed the day I came …

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Recently discovered Mozart piece played in Asia
4 weeks ago

Recently discovered Mozart piece played in Asia

China Daily  

Lanner stages the first performance of the Milan Variations at the Shanghai Tower on the same day. Eduard Lanner, director of Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz, Austria, played the Milan Variations on the 119th floor of the 632-meter-high Shanghai Tower. "The Shanghai Tower is the tallest skyscraper in China and we believe the performance of this newly found Mozart …

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Gaza’s libraries will rise from the ashes
4 weeks ago

Gaza’s libraries will rise from the ashes

Al Jazeera  

I was five years old when I entered the Maghazi Library for the first time. The visits to the Maghazi Library would instill in me a love for books that profoundly influenced my life. The Edward Said Library – the first English-language library in Gaza, created in the aftermath of the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza, which also destroyed libraries …

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Recently discovered Mozart piece played in Asia
4 weeks ago

Recently discovered Mozart piece played in Asia

China Daily  

By Zhang Kun in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2024-12-14 10:12 Lanner stages the first performance of the Milan Variations at the Shanghai Tower on the same day. Eduard Lanner, director of Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz, Austria, played the Milan Variations on the 119th floor of the 632-meter-high Shanghai Tower. "The Shanghai Tower is the tallest skyscraper …

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Writers Guild demands studios stop tech companies from training AI on their work
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Writers Guild demands studios stop tech companies from training AI on their work

LA Times  

Writers Guild of America this week sent a letter to major Hollywood studios asking them to take action against tech companies that are using writers’ work to train AI tools without their permission. “The studios, as copyright holders of works written by WGA members, have done nothing to stop this theft,” the guild’s leadership said in a letter. The studios’ …

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"Booksellers save lives": James Patterson plays Santa to hundreds of bookstore employees nationwide
1 month ago

"Booksellers save lives": James Patterson plays Santa to hundreds of bookstore employees nationwide

Salon  

James Patterson has given 600 booksellers $500 holiday bonuses just in time for the holiday season. This year, bookstore staffers at stores like Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco's City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa are all at the center of Patterson's initiative, ABC News reported. I’m happy to be able to acknowledge them …

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‘One Nation, One Subscription’ to be launched on January 1
1 month ago

‘One Nation, One Subscription’ to be launched on January 1

Hindustan Times  

At least 18 million students from all government-funded institutions of higher education, including IITs, across the country, will have free access to at least 30 high-end academic journals published globally from January 1. Addressing a press conference, the government’s principal scientific advisor AK Sood said at least 13,400 international journals covering science, technology, engineering, medicine, mathematics, management, social sciences and …

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One Nation, One Subscription to be launched on January 1; nearly 1.8 crore students to benefit
1 month ago

One Nation, One Subscription to be launched on January 1; nearly 1.8 crore students to benefit

Hindustan Times  

About 1.8 crore students from state-funded higher education institutions, including universities and IITs, will have access to research papers published in top journals across the world from January 1 as part of the government's 'One Nation, One Subscription' initiative. Addressing a press conference, the government's Principal Scientific Advisor AK Sood said more than 13,400 international journals covering science, technology, engineering, …

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