Frame by Frame: Grading the Sintel Trailer
Fifty-two seconds of dragon-hunting footage make a perfect colour-grading exercise.
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CITY HALL
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The Synth Bars That Only Open After Midnight
No sign, no website, no door staff. Just a stairwell, a modular rig and a crowd that knows the knock.
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Photo Essay: Rooftop Antenna Farms
Dishes, sector antennas and homemade masts sprouting above the old tenements.
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The Right-to-Repair Scorecard for Street Hardware
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Which phones, scooters and payment terminals can actually be fixed? Someone finally scored them.
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Note: Why We Stopped Using Tracking Pixels
We turned off every analytics script. Traffic did not collapse. Our consciences improved.
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The Facial Recognition Ban, One Year On
The cameras came down. The data sharing agreements did not.
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Lab-Grown Skewers Hit the Night Markets
Cultivated meat arrived at the street stalls before the regulations did.
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Transcript: City Council Hearing on Drone Deliveries
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Four hours of testimony on noise, cameras and who owns the sky.
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Codec Shootout on Ten Seconds of Test Footage
Same clip, five encoders, one very picky jury.