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  Technology Trends

  7 Ways Technology Has Changed Television

  Those of us of a certain age remember television as a fairly simple concept and the device that delivered the shows didn’t change much over the decades. You had a...

  By: Ariella Brown | Contributor

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  Personal Tech

  Technology and Music: From Records to Digital Recordings

  The music industry has undergone a major overhaul in the last 50 years – particularly the last 20. Here, longtime author and journalist John F. McMullen covers a brief...

  By: John F. McMullen

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  Cybersecurity

  The Persistence of Digital Rights Management

  Digital rights management arose from the advancement of the world wide web and digital media. Developing throughout the 1990s and into the following decades, DRM has...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Networking

  A Brief History of Web Development

  The rise of the internet within mainstream culture is largely correlated with its history as a visual medium. Like many other computer systems and applications, it took...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Tech Support

  Common Video Compression Artifacts to Watch Out For

  All visual media is compressed. The purpose of an electronic medium is to store information in a packageable format. Digital video’s quality, clarity and fidelity all...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Technology Trends

  5 Nature-Imitating Technologies

  There are many different ways that one can define art. But, above all else; art is artificial. And since its origins, art has always reflected or symbolized nature in...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Hardware

  Video Tech: Shifting Focus From High Resolution to High Frame Rate

  Have you ever wondered why British television used to look so different from American television? Or why some slow motion looks better (or smoother) than other slow...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Hardware

  Computers - The Universal Instrument?

  I used to play drums a lot. I never got that good, more or less starting around the age of 16, and stopping around the age of 30. But I like to say that I never really...

  By: Colyn Emery

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  Personal Tech

  Ditch Your Inbox? No-Email Initiatives and What They're For

  When email was new, it was something that offered us major improvements in our lives. The potential for quick and easy communication was simply amazing. The emerging...

  By: Justin Stoltzfus | Contributor, Reviewer

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  Technology Trends

  How Far is Your Data From Your Analytics? An Overview of the SVoD Analytics Landscape

  More consumers are beginning to opt for streaming content over traditional television. According to The Diffusion Group, last year alone the average American consumer...

  By: Manik Bambha

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  Personal Tech

  Eat This Tweet: Creating Life Cycles for Social Media Messages

  We’ve all heard a lot of lecturing about how information that goes out over the Internet or through wireless networks is hard to "get back" and how, in the...

  By: Justin Stoltzfus | Contributor, Reviewer

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  Personal Tech

  How to Cut the Cord - Illegally

  While there are plenty of ways to get TV and movies legally on your devices, there are some reasons why you might want to resort to getting illegal copies of them. Or,...

  By: David Delony | Contributor