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Netflix built an army of servers to stream TV—now it’s powering games

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A little over a decade ago, Netflix decided to take streaming into its own hands: Instead of relying on commercial content delivery services, the streamer built its own servers from scratch, and gave them away to internet service providers. based internet providers in 2012. It can serve about 500,000 simultaneous streams.

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ChatGPT Starts Blocking Studio Ghibli-Style Images After Trend Goes Viral

Futurism

Right after OpenAI debuted its new GPT-4o image generation capabilities , tech bros flooded the internet with AI-made cartoons and memes imitating the style of the iconic Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. Many have uploaded personal photos to be redrawn into a still from a Ghibli movie. Then came the minor setback in the plot.

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Unfriended is the quintessential movie about the internet age

Digital Trends

The 2015 laptop thriller Unfriended is not just an ingenious horror movie but also an essential portrait of the 21st century.

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A new internet standard called L4S aims to lower latency, bring more speed to the web

TechSpot

For most people with decent Internet connection speeds, latency isn't usually that big of an issue. Trying to stream your favorite movie or play that critical match in Fortnite can be an exercise is futility if there's a lot of latency (or lag) disrupting the experience. until it is. Read Entire Article

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Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps

The Verge

Researchers based out of Australia’s Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities say they’ve set a new internet speed record of 44.2 It’s unlikely that you’re going to be downloading games or streaming movies over a 44.2 Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge. Tbps connection anytime soon, however.

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Netflix is turning viral Thanksgiving Mom tweet into a movie

The Verge

Perhaps most notably, Zola turned viral Twitter thread #TheStory into a surprisingly good feature-length movie. Variety notes that the pair have become minor internet celebrities, with over 150,000 followers on Twitter between them. The Thanksgiving Text is the latest example of a film drawing inspiration from viral online content.

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Researchers achieve record Internet speed of 44.2 Tbps using existing infrastructure

TechSpot

According to Science Daily, that’s fast enough to download 1,000 high definition movies “in a split second” and is a new world record for a single optical fiber with a single chip source.

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